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Prada has launched a new web store in China for...
Prada has launched a new web store in China for its various product lines, featuring a personal adviser. The goods can be paid for through Alypay or WeChat, and they can be picked up at a store. The move is part of the group's belated investment in e-commerce, which is ...
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Gabor Shoes has launched an online marketplace in collaboration with...
Gabor Shoes has launched an online marketplace in collaboration with selected retail partners in Germany. The platform allows them to avoid the expense of creating their own online shops, while benefiting from the growing online sales traffic. Gabor provides the infrastructure for the marketplace, including high-quality images and product information, ...
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Ricosta is the latest company to have signed-up for the...
Ricosta is the latest company to have signed-up for the enterprise resource planning portal offered by ANWR and Sabu. The German children's shoe company said that customers will receive invoices via the system from January 2018. Invoices will be transmitted electronically to an independent service provider, Raw. Retailers can apply ...
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Zalando has launched a new customer service program, Zalando Plus,...
Zalando has launched a new customer service program, Zalando Plus, in Germany, after conducting a test this summer, to handle returns. Hermes picks up the products that customers want to return to Zalando at the customer's desired location, i.e. their home or their workplace. Customers can choose a time slot ...
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Hunter has opened its first stand-alone store in North America....
Hunter has opened its first stand-alone store in North America. The 2,800-square-foot store is located at the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto, Canada. The store marks Hunter's third stand-alone store globally. To celebrate the opening, Hunter has released a limited-edition backpack in Canada's red and white national colors, called the ...
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Many e-tailers announced record sales in Europe during last week's...
Many e-tailers announced record sales in Europe during last week's Black Friday promotion. Zalando clicked more than 2,000 orders per minute, clearly up from 1,500 order per minute a year ago. It won over more than 100,000 new customers for the shopping event.
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The ANWR Group has introduced Risk Check, a new consulting...
The ANWR Group has introduced Risk Check, a new consulting tool for shoe retailers that identifies business risks and suggests ways to counteract them. The analysis ranges from key financial figures to personnel planning and market presence to checking the online capability of inventory management and related logistics processes. Together ...
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Birkenstock opened its first company-owned mono-brand store in the U.K....
Birkenstock opened its first company-owned mono-brand store in the U.K. on Nov. 16. The store is located on Neal Street in London's Covent Garden. A New York store is also in the cards in the near future. The company's new store in London is about 60 square meters and features ...
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Tanya Heath, the Paris-based brand of women's shoes with interchangeable...
Tanya Heath, the Paris-based brand of women's shoes with interchangeable heels, has opened its first boutique in the Middle East, located on rue Ghandour El Saad in Beiruth
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Eureka, the Portuguese footwear brand, has opened its fifth store...
Eureka, the Portuguese footwear brand, has opened its fifth store abroad in the second one in Germany in Frankfurt's Oppenheimer Landstrasse
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Chaussea is entering the Italian market. The French shoe retailer...
Chaussea is entering the Italian market. The French shoe retailer has just inaugurated its first Italian store at the Globo shopping mall in Busnago, northeast of Milan. It will be followed by a second shop in Silvi Marina, near Teramo, then a third one in Bussolengo, near Verona, and a ...
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Vagabond recently opened its fourth company-owned store in Germany. The Swedish shoe...
Vagabond recently opened its fourth company-owned store in Germany. The Swedish shoe brand, which has over 39 mono-brand stores worldwide, most of them in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, works also with some 2,000 retailers in 42 countries. Its global sales grew last year to €74.7 million from €73.6 million in 2015.
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Sergio Rossi has developed a new store concept for its...
Sergio Rossi has developed a new store concept for its store in Paris' rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and others in Tokyo and elsewhere. It will also be applied next year to its flagship stores in Rome and Milan, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the brand.
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Leiser continues to shut down stores as its tries to...
Leiser continues to shut down stores as its tries to get out of insolvency proceedings. One of them is the Leiser store on Berlin's Friedrichstrasse, which has been patronized by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other high-caliber politicians. Another one is the big Schuh Eisner store on Hamburg's Mönchenbergstrasse, which ...
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Lacoste's management has reportedly indicated its intention to dedicate a...
Lacoste's management has reportedly indicated its intention to dedicate a whole wall to its footwear and other accessories in its stores, starting with new locations in London, Paris and Los Angeles. The footwear range will be expanded. Licensed by Pentland Brands, the Lacoste footwear collection has represented about one-quarter of ...
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Santoni registered a 10 percent sales increase in the first...
Santoni registered a 10 percent sales increase in the first half of the year, driven by the positive performance of Europe and the U.S., its key markets. The company posted a 7 percent increase in 2016, with annual revenues reaching €75 million last year. The company has recently presented the ...
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Marc Shoes has opened a directly operated store of 100...
Marc Shoes has opened a directly operated store of 100 square meters in Berlin, where customers can order a shoe that is not available in their sizes for delivery the next day. The store also offers models from the 1885 styled by Berkemann collection of clogs and pumps. Meanwhile, retailers ...
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Kurt Geiger posted a 12 percent sales increase to £330...
Kurt Geiger posted a 12 percent sales increase to £330 million (€368.1m-$432.9m) for the financial year ended on Jan. 28, with same-store sale rising by 11 percent. E-commerce went up by 26 percent, representing 23 percent of the total turnover. Sales of luxury sneakers jumped by 48 percent. Ebitda advanced by ...
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Beating analysts' estimates, LVMH reported a strong 14 percent increase...
Beating analysts' estimates, LVMH reported a strong 14 percent increase in total revenues to €30.1 billion for the first nine months of this year, with organic growth of 12 percent. In particular, its fashion and leathergoods division grew by 14 percent on an organic basis and by 21 percent including ...
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The German-based GMS buying group recorded a 2 percent increase...
The German-based GMS buying group recorded a 2 percent increase in retail sales to €273 million in the third quarter of 201. Positive business developments in France and the Netherlands and a strengthening in the home market of Germany underpinned the results. At the end of the third quarter, GMS ...
