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Staged in a black and white setting at the top...
Staged in a black and white setting at the top of Milan's Pirelli skyscraper, this time the Micam Awards went to A&Y Marka of Turkey and to an Italian retailer, Cappelletto. A&Y runs a total of 218 shoe and fashion shops in Turkey and Lebanon under seven different banners including ...
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Macy's plans to set up what it is calling the...
Macy's plans to set up what it is calling the world's largest shoe floor at its store in New York City. The 63,000-square-foot space will offer more than 300,000 pairs of shoes and including luxury shoe shops and a designer shoe salon. The department store plans will expand the current ...
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Sarenza, the main competitor of Spartoo in France, is planning...
Sarenza, the main competitor of Spartoo in France, is planning to enter the Polish market shortly, while launching a new e-commerce platform - Sarenza.eu - that would cover all the European markets for which it doesn't have a dedicated website. Somewhat like Spartoo, Sarenza reports a 60 percent increase in ...
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Zalando is widening the range of products sold on its...
Zalando is widening the range of products sold on its website once more by adding home textiles and accessories, including the branded offerings in this segment of fashion brands such as Escada, Esprit, Joop! and Tom Tailor. This section of the Berlin-based e-commerce portal, which started off with shoes in ...
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Payless ShoeSource is expanding in Asia with new stores opening...
Payless ShoeSource is expanding in Asia with new stores opening this year in Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. Emart, a unit of Shinsegae Group of Seoul, will work with Payless to open stores in Korea, and Central Marketing Group, owned by Central Group of Bangkok, will introduce Payless to Thailand and ...
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Kangnai, the Chinese footwear brand, has a big year in...
Kangnai, the Chinese footwear brand, has a big year in 2011. It made 11 million pairs of high- and medium-end shoes and opened 3,000 stores, some own retail and some franchises. It started its expansion outside China with some of the stores, and for the year reports a 47 percent ...
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Yoox, the big Italian online fashion retailer, is said to...
Yoox, the big Italian online fashion retailer, is said to be about to announce the launch of a dedicated online shop for shoes
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Gucci has opened its third store in Brazil inside the...
Gucci has opened its third store in Brazil inside the Citade Jardim shopping center of São Paulo
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Breuninger, the German department store chain, is planning to expand...
Breuninger, the German department store chain, is planning to expand the shoe section of its flagship store in Stuttgart to some 2,000 m², according to the magazine Textilwirtschaft
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Salvatore Ferragamo is opening a store in San Diego, California...
Salvatore Ferragamo is opening a store in San Diego, California
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Prada continues to invest in new stores while opening a...
Prada continues to invest in new stores while opening a revamped and expanded flagship store in Paris. Located on the prestigious Faubourg Saint-Honoré, near Hermès, the latter is being reopened on 1,900 square meters after two years of reconstruction. In the U.S., the brand has opened a 700-m² store in ...
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Coolway has opened its first flagship store in Scandinavia, setting...
Coolway has opened its first flagship store in Scandinavia, setting up on Karl Johans Gate 13, a pedestrian shopping street in Oslo. The brand has been developed by the Mayordomo family of Spain, working with Marius Furomo. If it proves to be a success, more stores are planned in Stockholm ...
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El Naturalista has embarked on its project with El Corte...
El Naturalista has embarked on its project with El Corte Inglés, opening its first shop-in-shop in the chain's department store in Bilbao. Thanks to new initiatives such as this, the Spanish footwear brand hopes to report 17 percent growth this year; last year it grew by 12 percent.
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Sperry Top-Sider's first New York store opened on Feb. 1...
Sperry Top-Sider's first New York store opened on Feb. 1 in the city's Flatiron District. In keeping with the brand's nautical flavor, the 1,700-square-foot store has a boathouse-like area where customers can check out the inventory stock. The store sells 100 styles of shoes for men, women and children.
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The Italian brand Loriblu aims to open 10 mono-brand stores...
The Italian brand Loriblu aims to open 10 mono-brand stores in Italy and abroad this year, which will add to the eight existing stores, four of which are in Italy
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Clarks has opened its 14th location in India, an outlet...
Clarks has opened its 14th location in India, an outlet store in the Inorbit Mall in Hyderabad. It opened all 14 stores in the last year, and plans to continue the fast expansion with 20 new stores in India per year, with a goal of having 100 in the next ...
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Belle International opened 2,983 new retail locations in mainland China...
Belle International opened 2,983 new retail locations in mainland China last year, 1,100 of them in the fourth quarter. That brings the total number in mainland China to 14,950 outlets, all directly run by the Hong Kong footwear group. Most of them, 10,270, are dedicated to footwear, while the others ...
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Aldo has its sights set on France. The Canadian footwear...
Aldo has its sights set on France. The Canadian footwear and accessories retailer opened two stores in France in late 2011 – one in La Défense, west of Paris, and one on Rue de Rivoli in the capital. It plans to speed up its development and to have 50 shops ...
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Ghetz, distributor of Anatomic Gel shoes from Brazil for Europe...
Ghetz, distributor of Anatomic Gel shoes from Brazil for Europe and the U.S., got orders for 2,500 pairs from British in the two months leading up to Christmas through its new online shop. It plans to repeat the operation in the U.S. during the second half of 2012.
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Hermès has opened a shop for its Asian-inspired brand, Shang...
Hermès has opened a shop for its Asian-inspired brand, Shang Xia, on the Rue de Sèvres in Paris, opposite its local Hermès flagship store in the shopping neighborhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It is only the second store for the brand, with the first one having been opened already in Shanghai. It ...
