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    Red Wing Shoes continues its expansion in Germany with the...

    2019-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Red Wing Shoes continues its expansion in Germany with the opening of two new stores in Dusseldorf and Berlin. The Minnesota-based shoe producer plans to open a third store in Leipzig in October. As a result, Red Wing will have a presence in 14 major cities in Europe. Germany has ...

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    With the opening of three new stores in September, the...

    2019-09-14T00:00:00Z

    With the opening of three new stores in September, the Rezet Sneaker Store chain now has seven shops in Denmark. There is a new stand-alone shop in Aalborg, a dedicated Rezet space inside the main Magasin Du Nord department store in Copenhagen and another stand-alone shop in the Magasin du ...

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    After entering the Swiss market in December 2018, Schuhe24 is now...

    2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

    After entering the Swiss market in December 2018, Schuhe24 is now expanding its product offer there. The online shoe retail portal – created four years ago by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer and former member of ANWR's supervisory board – signed a cooperation agreement with Digitec Galaxus, the leading online retailer from Switzerland, ...

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    Saks Fifth Avenue is continuing the refurbishment of its flagship...

    2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

    Saks Fifth Avenue is continuing the refurbishment of its flagship store in Manhattan with a new, 8,000-square-foot department for luxury men's shoes. Located on the sixth floor, the department offers sneakers, casual footwear and dress shoes from more than 60 luxury brands, 15 of which are making their debut. They ...

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    The Shoepassion group, a multichannel shoe retailer based in Berlin...

    2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

    The Shoepassion group, a multichannel shoe retailer based in Berlin that owns the Heinrich Dinkelacker brand of traditional high-end men's shoes with “budapester” construction, is testing a new hybrid retail concept to combine the advantages of online and brick-and-mortar stores. The group has opened a pilot store at the Bikini shopping ...

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    Bata Italy has launched a new e-commerce website. The launch...

    2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

    Bata Italy has launched a new e-commerce website. The launch is part of the retailer's digital growth and omni-channel transformation. The new e-commerce solution enables order management, advanced search and real-time stock visibility, among other features. Customers are offered a click-and-collect service and can manage returns via the new site.

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    It has been one and a half years since Sabu,...

    2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

    It has been one and a half years since Sabu, the German voluntary group of independent shoe retailers, introduced its electronic invoice portal together with the ANWR group from Mainhausen near Frankfurt. The company has now completed an interim evaluation. For some years now, RAW, the archiving specialist and technology partner for interconnected groups, ...

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    Laduca, the New York-based dance shoe brand, is opening a...

    2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

    Laduca, the New York-based dance shoe brand, is opening a flagship store in London – its first in the U.K. – at 37 Drury Lane, Covent Garden

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    Highlighting the malaise of the department store business in the...

    2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2019-07-17T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2019-07-17T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2019-07-17T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2019-07-17T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2019-07-17T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2019-07-17T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    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 ...