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    Chaussea’s parent buys Pataugas

    2023-11-21T14:32:00Z

    VGM Holding, which owns the French footwear retailer Chaussea, has bought the footwear brand Pataugas from the Hopps Group. No financial details were released. Created in the Basque region of France in 1950, Pataugas is particularly well-known in France for its comfortable walking shoes with rubber soles. The brand was ...

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    San Marina goes into liquidation

    2023-02-20T16:54:00Z

    The French footwear retailer San Marina has been put into compulsory liquidation by a Marseille-based commercial court, leading to some 650 job losses in 163 stores. On Feb. 20, the court stated that no serious relaunch project had been put forward and that it had ordered the company to immediately ...

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    San Marina placed into receivership

    2022-09-26T08:29:00Z

    The French footwear retailer San Marina was placed under controlled administration, or receivership, on Sept. 22 at its request by a Marseille-based commercial court. San Marina employs 673 people in 163 stores in France. The so-called observation period of the receivership is set to last until March 23, 2023, ...

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    Vivarte sells Minelli to the owners of San Marina

    2021-10-04T08:11:00Z

    The ailing French retailer Vivarte has sold its footwear and accessories brand Minelli to the businessmen Stéphane Collaert and Laurent Portella, who run the footwear brand San Marina. Collaert was involved in the purchase of San Marina, in February 2020, from Vivarte. Created in 1973, Minelli had been part of ...

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    Vivarte in exclusive talks to sell Minelli

    2021-06-29T07:20:00Z

    Vivarte has entered exclusive talks to sell its footwear and accessories brand Minelli to the businessmen Stéphane Collaert and Laurent Portella , who run the footwear brand San Marina . Collaert was involved in the purchase of San Marina, in February 2020, from Vivarte. Created in ...

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    Vivarte confirms sale of San Marina

    2020-03-26T08:10:00Z

    Reaching the probable end of its slimming-down process, the French Vivarte group has confirmed the sale of its San Marina chain of shoe shops and of a logistics subsidiary, SMC Services , to two French entrepreneurs, Thierry Le Guénic and Stéphane Collaert , and an investment firm, Société d’Investissement Grimonprez ...