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After launching its first private label for women, called Franz...
After launching its first private label for women, called Franz Ferdinand, in September 2018 – in time for the spring/summer 2019 season – Schuhe24, the online marketplace for independent shoe retailers, has now opened its first brick-and-mortar store in Germany. The new Franz Ferdinand store is company-owned and located in the city ...
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Kat Maconie has opened her first store, ten years after...
Kat Maconie has opened her first store, ten years after launching her eponymous brand, in 2009. The first concept store of the British footwear designer is located in London, in the busy neighborhood of Bermondsey, best known for its converted warehouse buildings. The store's interior, designed by Emma Larsson Revitt, ...
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Payless ShoeSource has hired the investment bank PJ Solomon to...
Payless ShoeSource has hired the investment bank PJ Solomon to evaluate strategic options, including a sale or a restructuring program, said Reuters, citing sources close to the matter. The move comes less than 18 months after the American discount retail chain emerged from bankruptcy proceedings. As part of the debt ...
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Mirapodo, a German online store for footwear that belongs to the...
Mirapodo, a German online store for footwear that belongs to the Otto Group, will launch two new private brands of shoes for the spring/summer 2019 season. Mirapodo's first private brand, called Jolana & Fenena, launched in spring 2017 with 55 models. It has since been expanded to more than 250 models. ...
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Manolo Blahnik will open his first store in Paris in...
Manolo Blahnik will open his first store in Paris in September on rue Malpensier, on the west side of the Palais Royal
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Vivarte, the mother company of a number of French retailers...
Vivarte, the mother company of a number of French retailers including La Halle, Caroll and Minelli, is being heavily affected by the yellow vests protests. Patrick Puy, Vivarte's chief executive, said in an interview with Europe 1, a French radio channel, on Jan. 30, that the loss in turnover for ...
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Sergio Rossi has signed a long-term lease with Thor Equities...
Sergio Rossi has signed a long-term lease with Thor Equities Group for some 2,000 square feet of retail space at 680 Madison Avenue in New York. The ground floor space has 25 feet of frontage on Madison Avenue.
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Treds, a multi-brand footwear retailer in the U.K. (not to...
Treds, a multi-brand footwear retailer in the U.K. (not to be confused with the U.S. maker of rubber footwear), has been placed in administration, a legal procedure similar to bankruptcy protection in the U.S. For now, Treds' 21 stores, e-tail site and staff of 165 will be carrying out business ...
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Ricosta has announced its decision to withdraw from the direct...
Ricosta has announced its decision to withdraw from the direct distribution of its products to Amazon, starting with the next autumn/winter collection. The German children's footwear specialist says it want to strengthen its retail partners, supporting their omni-channel activities and enabling better planning. The company said the move follows the ...
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Etos, Brandt Software-Produkte and Ariston Informatik, in cooperation with the...
Etos, Brandt Software-Produkte and Ariston Informatik, in cooperation with the German Shoe and Leathergoods Industry Association (HDS/L), are about to launch a joint project: the “SPOCC – Single Point of Content and Communication” platform. The SPOCC was created in May 2018 as an alliance between industry representatives and technology partners. ...
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Eram, the French footwear retailer, is testing a new service...
Eram, the French footwear retailer, is testing a new service of home delivery. The pilot project, in partnership with Shopopop, is being tested in Nantes, a city with a population of around 300,000 in the western part of the country. The service is offered in cases in which the customer ...
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Starting on Dec. 11, Zalando has been giving its German...
Starting on Dec. 11, Zalando has been giving its German customers the option to pay for the products they order on their iPhones with Apple Pay. It has also begun to test a “Smart Doorbell” and “Smart Doorlock” technology with the Belgian Post Office. The technology allows customers to open ...
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Schuhe24 is entering the Swiss market. The online shoe retail...
Schuhe24 is entering the Swiss market. The online shoe retail portal that was created four years ago by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer and former member of ANWR's supervisory board, has signed a cooperation agreement with Digitec Galaxus, the leading online retailer from Switzerland. According to Digitec Galaxus, it ...
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After launching its Google Shopping Actions in the U.S. in...
After launching its Google Shopping Actions in the U.S. in March, Google is reportedly planning to launch its marketplace also in Europe next year, starting with a beta test that has started France with big retailers like Auchan, Carrefour, Boulanger, Darty and Fnac
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Görtz, the big German shoe retailer, is asking suppliers to...
Görtz, the big German shoe retailer, is asking suppliers to grant it a 2.5% discount on its purchases, according to Schuhkurier, to make up for a sales decline this year due to a difficult market situation
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Liebeskind, the German brand of clothing, handbags, shoes and other...
Liebeskind, the German brand of clothing, handbags, shoes and other accessories, opened its first shop-in-shop for its Copenhagen shoe label in Antwerp at the beginning of December. The so-called “Your Premium Store” presents the shoe collections of Liebeskind's Copenhagen label over 15 square meters. An additional five to ten shop-in-shops ...
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El Corte Inglés has entered a wide-ranging cooperation with the...
El Corte Inglés has entered a wide-ranging cooperation with the Alibaba Group, covering cloud computing, trading, logistics and smart payments. The Spanish department store chain, which is a major player in the domestic sporting goods market, will have access to Alibaba's software solutions for large data analysis and customer relationship ...
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Rolf Schäfer, a local entrepreneur specializing in sheepskin trading, has...
Rolf Schäfer, a local entrepreneur specializing in sheepskin trading, has obtained the authorization of Pirmasens' city council to set up a “Schuhstadt Pirmasens” (Pirmasens Shoe City) in the center of the German town, where many shoe companies are based. The €12 million project involves the construction of a new shopping ...
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Zalando plans to raise the number of its factory outlets...
Zalando plans to raise the number of its factory outlets in Germany from five to 11 by 2020
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Adidas and Nike were among the 237 brands that generated...
Adidas and Nike were among the 237 brands that generated sales of more than 100 million yuan renmimbi (€12.6m-$14.4m) at Alibaba's Single's Day consumption festival on Nov. 11. New Balance was also a winner with 60,000 pairs of shoes ordered during a pre-sales program. Overall, consumers placed orders for a ...
