All Retail articles – Page 48

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    Deichmann to sell Adidas, Nike

    2020-03-24T14:34:00Z

    Europe’s largest shoe retailer, Deichmann, will be selling shoes, accessories and sports apparel from Adidas and Nike. The items will be available from Deichmann’s online store and from certain of the German shoe retailer’s brick-and-mortar stores. Deichmann is launching sports apparel in its stores with an influencer campaign featuring various ...

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    Gabor expands shop concept

    2020-03-24T14:34:00Z

    Gabor has expanded its current shop concept with a rear wall module designed to display Gabor ‘s sneaker collection. It has already been implemented at a retailer in Celle, which has been operating a Gabor shop-in-shop since 2006. The new, flexible module displays 15 sneakers in a typical side view ...

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    Covid-19 case at Zalando

    2020-03-24T14:32:00Z

    An employee at Zalando has tested positive for coronavirus and is staying home under self-imposed quarantine. The European e-tailer has since sought to determine who at its headquarters in Berlin, Germany, came into contact with the infected employee over the previous 14 days. It has asked those staff members to ...

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    Designer Brands closes all U.S. stores

    2020-03-24T11:10:00Z

    Designer Brands, the American shoe retailing group previously called DSW, managed to significantly narrow its net loss in the fourth quarter. However, this good performance might be short-lived, as the group announced that it has closed all its stores in the U.S. from March 17 until further notice, due to ...

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    After Europe, the U.S. shuts down at retail

    2020-03-24T11:08:00Z

    In the last few days, major shoe retail chains in the U.S. have announced a temporary closure of their stores because of the coronavirus epidemic, while continuing to pay the store personnel. Shoe Carnival, which is set to report its latest results later this week, said on March 19 that ...

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    Vans has opened a store at 214 Oxford Street in...

    2019-12-22T00:00:00Z

    Vans has opened a store at 214 Oxford Street in London, its largest European store. The 4,714-square-foot flagship store, in a space previously occupied by Miss Selfridges, offers a wide selection of footwear, clothing and accessories for men, women and kids, as well as Vans' surf and pro-skate ranges. The ...

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    Brunate has opened a 50-square-meter store in Hamburg

    2019-12-22T00:00:00Z

    Brunate has opened a 50-square-meter store in Hamburg

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    ARKK Copenhagen opened its new flagship store on 90 square...

    2019-12-22T00:00:00Z

    ARKK Copenhagen opened its new flagship store on 90 square meters on Østergade 1, in Copenhagen, on Dec. 6. The brand of casual footwear has kept a concept of customer engagement that it had introduced with its earlier pop-up shops. Consumers can design their own sneakers in the ARKKitecht Studio. ...

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    GMS, the German voluntary group of shoe retailers, announced at...

    2019-12-22T00:00:00Z

    GMS, the German voluntary group of shoe retailers, announced at its annual general meeting that it will continue to focus on family-run shoe and sporting goods retailers in 2020. GMS has reported that sales in 2019 were stable from the previous year. In that time, it has welcomed 121 new ...

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    Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, has...

    2019-12-22T00:00:00Z

    Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, has been relaunched. The German buying group has updated its platform with a new design, several new functions and better compatibility with smartphones and tablets. Check-out has been simplified, the website's loading time has been cut and search engine structures have ...

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    The Spanish shoe designer Manolo Blahnik has closed his only...

    2019-12-22T00:00:00Z

    The Spanish shoe designer Manolo Blahnik has closed his only standalone store in New York, situated on West 54th Street, but it will have a new one at 717 Madison Avenue soon, according to Footwear News. The original store was opened in 1982 and Carrie Bradshaw, the main character of ...

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    Famous Footwear, the brand owned by Caleres, opened a flagship...

    2019-12-22T00:00:00Z

    Famous Footwear, the brand owned by Caleres, opened a flagship store in Herald Square in New York City on Nov. 15. It is the largest of the chain's 32 stores in greater New York, with its 8,400 square feet divided over two floors, one of which is devoted entirely to ...

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    Zalando has launched its Zalando Lounge concept in the Czech...

    2019-12-22T00:00:00Z

    Zalando has launched its Zalando Lounge concept in the Czech Republic, a market that the e-tailer entered in the summer of 2018. Zalando Lounge, which has more than 25 million members in 14 European countries already, offers discounts of up to 75 percent on a selection of shoes, clothing and ...

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    OluKai is opening two directly owned stores in Hawaii...

    2019-12-22T00:00:00Z

    OluKai is opening two directly owned stores in Hawaii

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    Overcube, the new multi-brand e-commerce operation launched by the Portuguese...

    2019-12-22T00:00:00Z

    Overcube, the new multi-brand e-commerce operation launched by the Portuguese Kyaia group in March 2018, has opened its first physical store in Lisbon's central Avenida da Liberdade. Customers can try some of the shoes and place orders online at a kiosk for any of the brands offered through the online ...

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    Schuhaus Kay, the German shoe retailer from northern Germany, has...

    2019-12-22T00:00:00Z

    Schuhaus Kay, the German shoe retailer from northern Germany, has been taken over by a Berlin-based investment company called Goal. The local court of Hamburg granted an application for self-administration on Nov. 26. The executive board of Schuhhaus Kay reports that all of the company's shares have been sold to ...

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    Louis Vuitton's store at 17-20 New Bond Street in London...

    2019-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Louis Vuitton's store at 17-20 New Bond Street in London has reopened after 14 months of renovations

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    After a successful pilot project last year with three pop-up...

    2019-11-16T00:00:00Z

    After a successful pilot project last year with three pop-up stores in major Canadian shopping malls, Manitobah Mukluks, the indigenous shoe brand from Winnipeg, Manitoba, is launching an aggressive retail expansion in Canada, raising the number of stores to 18. Manitobah Mukluks was founded in 2008 by Sean McCormick, an ...

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    Collaborating with three emerging designers – Helen Kirkum, Alex Nash...

    2019-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Collaborating with three emerging designers – Helen Kirkum, Alex Nash and Shun Hirose – to reimagine its Campus 80 sneaker as part of its MakerLab program, Adidas launched a limited edition of the products through an interesting and engaging auction, where the consumer rather than the brand set the price. ...

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    Dielmann, the German shoe retailer based in Darmstadt, has restructured...

    2019-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Dielmann, the German shoe retailer based in Darmstadt, has restructured its purchasing and the positioning of its private brands. Daniela Ritter, responsible for purchasing in women's shoes since 2016, left the company in October. She previously worked at SPM Shoetrade and Modepark Röther. Sonja Bolten, who has been managing Dielmann's ...