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Highlighting the malaise of the department store business in the...
Highlighting the malaise of the department store business in the U.S., Barneys New York has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors, complaining about declining consumer traffic and rising rents. After obtaining $218 million from two financial institutions to pay two loans and cover its costs, the upscale ...
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Deichmann re-opened its store on Neuhause Strasse, in the center...
Deichmann re-opened its store on Neuhause Strasse, in the center of Munich, on Aug. 8. This store replaces the store on Kaufinger Strasse and, at 2,300 square meters, is the biggest flagship in Deichmann's domestic market. Deichmann has been selling its products in the Bavarian capital for 34 years and currently has 10 stores ...
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Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at...
Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at its London head office in Camden, many of them in the marketing department. The last set of interim results, which the online retailer released in March, showed a drop of 87 percent in its pre-tax profits. The company has been ...
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Alibaba has launched an English-language website for its Tmall Global...
Alibaba has launched an English-language website for its Tmall Global marketplace aimed at merchants. Tmall Global, an extension of Tmall, hosts foreign brands that look to sell to Chinese consumers. The recent move is meant to double the number of international brands on the platform, from the current 20,000 to ...
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Working with a local partner, Berkemann has opened two stores...
Working with a local partner, Berkemann has opened two stores in Taipei
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Snipes, a subsidiary of Deichmann, recently opened its tenth French...
Snipes, a subsidiary of Deichmann, recently opened its tenth French store at the Parly 2 shopping center, in the suburbs of Paris. The retailer opened its first French store in the summer of 2018, at the Créteil Soleil shopping center, while the first store in the inner city area of ...
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Zalando is planning to stop handling returns in-house in its...
Zalando is planning to stop handling returns in-house in its logistic centers in Erfurt, Lahr and Mönchengladbach, whose management is reportedly being outsourced
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Vans has signed a lease to step into a space...
Vans has signed a lease to step into a space in Oxford Street, London, which was previously occupied by Miss Selfridges, according to reports in the Evening Standard. The new Vans flagship store will therefore be located close to the Nike flagship store. The new Vans shop is expected to ...
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Timberland plans to open between 25 and 30 new directly...
Timberland plans to open between 25 and 30 new directly owned and franchised stores in Europe
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After a beta test in France that began a year...
After a beta test in France that began a year ago, Google is taking its Shopping Actions experience to the U.S. With this application, customers are able to buy products online from a brand or a retailer through their own Google account, without registering for the service and without leaving ...
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After the opening of its ninth store in Turin, the...
After the opening of its ninth store in Turin, the Italian PittaRosso chain has launched its first private label footwear collection, called P Essential, for the current spring/summer season, which includes models for everyday life, ballerinas and sandals
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Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has...
Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has announced that his company should be delivering packages with drones “within months.” Speaking at Re:Mars – the e-tail behemoth's conference on machine learning, automation, robotics and space, held on June 4-7 in Las Vegas – Wilke said that Amazon's latest ...
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Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first...
Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first French monobrand store at the end of July. As reported by fashionnetwork.com, the 50-square-meter shop will be located in Paris' Marais district, at 12 rue du Temple.
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Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because...
Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because it is losing about 20-30 million transactions per year, which equals about €1 billion in sales, due to a lack of stock in its own warehouses. Zalando is already working with more than 1,000 shops in Germany, but wants to ...
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In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram...
In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram has launched its own internet retail account internationally under @shop. Its own team recommends products such as shoes, handbags and pullovers, tracking trends and posting their pictures on its social media platform, which is owned by Facebook, just like its ...
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The second and last Chinese replica of 10 Corso Como,...
The second and last Chinese replica of 10 Corso Como, the Milanese luxury concept store, opened by the Trendy Group in Shanghai in 2013, will close its doors next month. A more recent replica in Beijing was shut down in 2017.
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24 Sèvres, the e-commerce site owned by LVMH, has shortened...
24 Sèvres, the e-commerce site owned by LVMH, has shortened its name into “24S.” The site was previously named after Paris' rue de Sèvres, where Le Bon Marché, LVMH's high-end department store, is located. The website was launched two years ago. It sells around 150 brands of clothing, accessories and ...
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After a beta test in France that began a year...
After a beta test in France that began a year ago, Google is taking its Shopping Actions experience to the U.S. With this application, customers are able to buy products online from a brand or a retailer through their own Google account, without registering for the service and without leaving ...
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Two years after the closure of Colette in Paris, a...
Two years after the closure of Colette in Paris, a similar destination store for shoes in Antwerp, Coccodrillo, is closing its doors after 36 years in operation. Quoting one of its founders, Geert Bruloot, Footwear News gives this interesting explanation for the decision: “Fashion has been in a state of ...
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Amazon has faced a backlash in India after sneakers, yoga...
Amazon has faced a backlash in India after sneakers, yoga mats, rugs and other items emblazoned with images of Hindu gods, or other sacred Hindu symbols, were spotted on the retailer's U.S. e-commerce site. A large number of Twitter users backed a call for a boycott, making #BoycottAmazon India's top ...
