All Short stops articles – Page 149
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German shoe retailers suffered a nominal 3% drop in their...
German shoe retailers suffered a nominal 3% drop in their sales last December, as compared to the same month one year earlier, contributing to a decline of 2 percent for the full year, but with the average price going down, sales were more or less flat in terms of volume ...
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Colombia’s shoe exports remained relatively stable at about $24.5 million...
Colombia’s shoe exports remained relatively stable at about $24.5 million last year, but those to the USA grew by about 53 percent thanks to the new Andean Pact
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Celerating its 150th anniversary, Louis Vuitton has opened its largest...
Celerating its 150th anniversary, Louis Vuitton has opened its largest global store on a prestigious 1,200-square-meter location in New York, on the corner between Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, but its expanded Parisian flagship will be bigger
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IVEX, the export promotion institute of the Spanish region of...
IVEX, the export promotion institute of the Spanish region of Valencia, has set up a new service, called Ivemark, to facilitate the registration of brands and designs by the local companies, also in China, protecting them from illegal copies.
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Esprit is re-launching a network of stores in the USA,...
Esprit is re-launching a network of stores in the USA, following its recent change of ownership, starting with a unit in New York’s Greenwich Village that takes the place of a former Emporio Armani
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Wolverine World Wide promotes James Zwieres as general counsel and...
Wolverine World Wide promotes James Zwieres as general counsel and assistant secretary, replacing Blake Krueger who has been appointed as president of the company’s CAT footwear group
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In an unusual gesture intended to cope with the present...
In an unusual gesture intended to cope with the present financial difficulties of German shoe retailers, the Ariston Nord West Ring buying group is giving its members up to 60 days to pay for private label merchandise, and that goes also for its Quick Schuh franchisees
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Tachon and Labelle, the two French shoe companies which has...
Tachon and Labelle, the two French shoe companies which has come under Portuguese ownership, have hired Franck Sirota, a former executive of Minelli, as product development manager for all their collections
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Vicini showed a new Fashion Sport line of highly colored...
Vicini showed a new Fashion Sport line of highly colored unisex sneakers at the recent Pitti Uomo show in Florence
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Liz Claiborne has licensed Eastman Group of New York for...
Liz Claiborne has licensed Eastman Group of New York for its first line of men’s shoes
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Rieker has launched a new children’s footwear line, and so...
Rieker has launched a new children’s footwear line, and so has Mephisto under its sporty new Allrounder brand
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Tim Parker, who left as CEO of the Clarks group...
Tim Parker, who left as CEO of the Clarks group in 2002 and is now running Kwik-Fit, has been appointed to the board of directors of Boots plc, the large British drugstore chain
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Spain’s Calzados Paredes launches a new line of work boots...
Spain’s Calzados Paredes launches a new line of work boots with a Sympatex membrane and an ultralight shock-absorbing toe in polyurethane
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Deichmann, the large German discount shoe retailer, has been offering...
Deichmann, the large German discount shoe retailer, has been offering since Jan. 12 a third pair free of charge for every two discounted pairs bought in its German stores
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The Walking Company, a bankrupt US chain of shoe shops...
The Walking Company, a bankrupt US chain of shoe shops specializing in comfort shoes, has been acquired by Big Dog, a US retailer with 194 stores, at a price of $15 million
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Massimo Donda, who is also the current president of CEDDEC,...
Massimo Donda, who is also the current president of CEDDEC, the Europeans shoe retailers’ federation, has been re-elected as chairman of Federcalzatura, the Italian shoe retailers’ association, with 81% of the votes
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Francesco De Marco, the Swiss agent of Sixty Group’s Miss...
Francesco De Marco, the Swiss agent of Sixty Group’s Miss Sixty, Energy and Killah Babe brands, is taking on board also Wortmann’s More & More and Luigi Caprini lines
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Rodolfo Zengarini adds a global license for men’s shoes under...
Rodolfo Zengarini adds a global license for men’s shoes under the name of Alessandro Dell’Acqua, the Italian apparel designer, starting with the next Fall/Winter season
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German retailers suffered declines of 10% in revenues and 9%...
German retailers suffered declines of 10% in revenues and 9% in pairage during the month of November, as compared to the same month one year ago
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Brown Shoe Co. reports a 0.2% drop in same-store sales...
Brown Shoe Co. reports a 0.2% drop in same-store sales for its Famous Footwear chain in December, but its Naturalizer chain did 2.1% better than a year ago
