All Trade fairs & conferences articles – Page 18

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    ANWR Now, one of the in-houses fair of the ANWR...

    2016-05-24T00:00:00Z

    ANWR Now, one of the in-houses fair of the ANWR Group, attracted only about 100 visitors from 70 retailers at its last edition who came over to Mainhausen on Apr. 12 to place orders for the next autumn/winter season from the 140 exhibiting brands. It was the last fair for ...

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    Foowear Friends is experiencing an increasing number of entries from...

    2016-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Footwear Friends is experiencing an increasing number of entries from young designers and entrepreneurs for its annual Footwear Friends Awards. The 9th edition of the awards will be held in London on Oct. 19. It will be sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, Micro-Pak, Philip Meltzer, the BFA/FN Platform ...

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    Lineapelle has announced the new dates for the September edition...

    2016-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Lineapelle has announced the new dates for the September edition of the trade show. The event will be held at Fieramilano Rho two weeks later than usual, on Sept. 20-22, instead of Sept. 7-9, as previously announced. The new timing will overlap with Milano Moda Donna, the woman collection fashion ...

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    The 31st edition of the India International Leather Fair (IILF),...

    2016-04-07T00:00:00Z

    The 31st edition of the India International Leather Fair (IILF), which took place in Chennai on Feb. 1-3, saw 12,556 registered business visitors, up 9.6 percent from the previous year. Among them, there were 637 foreign visitors from 66 countries, marking an increase of 69.86 percent. The number of exhibitors ...

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    ANWR reported 555 visits from 240 companies at its Fashion...

    2016-04-07T00:00:00Z

    ANWR reported 555 visits from 240 companies at its Fashion Days in-house fair on March 16-17. This was down from 610 individuals and 260 companies a year ago, when the show lasted three days.

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    Buyers made more than 1,500 daily visits to the Moda...

    2016-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Buyers made more than 1,500 daily visits to the Moda Made in Italy show in Munich on March 13-15, or 17 percent more than a year ago. More than 330 brands showed their samples at the fair, or 6.4 percent more than at its last edition. The trade show is ...

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    Ifema, the organizer of the restyled Momad Shoes exhibition in...

    2016-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Ifema, the organizer of the restyled Momad Shoes exhibition in Madrid on March 4-6, says it met its expectations with a total of nearly 5,500 visitors, ten percent of whom came from four countries outside Spain. Out of them, 45 percent came from Portugal, followed by Italy, France and Germany. ...

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    For the first time, the European Confederation of the Footwear...

    2016-03-18T00:00:00Z

    For the first time, the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) is organizing a trade show at the Ritz Carlton Hotel of Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, on April 5. It will be part of a two-day trade mission conducted under the slogan “European Footwear: More than Fashion” with ...

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    Messe Düsseldorf has decided to change the sequence of days...

    2016-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Messe Düsseldorf has decided to change the sequence of days for the GDS and Tag it! fairs. Responding to a request by visiting retailers, who consider Friday to be an important day of business at their own stores, the show will run from Tuesday to Thursday for its next two ...

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    The number of foreign buyers reached a record of more...

    2016-03-18T00:00:00Z

    The number of foreign buyers reached a record of more 2,000 at the Couromoda fair in São Paulo this past Jan. 10-14, highlighting a growing interest in Brazilian shoes, especially after the devaluation of the Brazilian real. The total number of visitors at the show fell by around 5 percent. ...

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    Skechers USA was honored as Brand of the Year for...

    2016-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Skechers USA was honored as Brand of the Year for the second year in a row at the 2016 Footwear Industry Awards. The brand was also named Ladies Brand of the Year, and received other honors including the Platinum Shoe Award and Personality of the Year. The annual awards ceremony ...

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    Tommaso Cancellara, general manager of the Italian shoe industry association...

    2016-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Tommaso Cancellara, general manager of the Italian shoe industry association (Assocalzaturifici), and Claude Paquin, designated to become the next president of the French Footwear Federation, are among the participants in the second edition of the Global Footwear Retail Conference (GFRC), scheduled to take place in Hong Kong on March 31, ...

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    Describing it as a sign of a possible recovery, Assocalzaturifici...

    2016-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Describing it as a sign of a possible recovery, Assocalzaturifici reports an encouraging 1.8 percent increase in the number of visitors at its recent edition of theMicam as compared to a year ago. With a total of 32,703 registered visitors, attendance at the fair was also 6 percent higher than ...

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    Lineapelle welcomed a total of 21,715 visitors at its latest...

    2016-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Lineapelle welcomed a total of 21,715 visitors at its latest session in Milan, or 8 percent more than a year ago. Foreign visitors rose by 14 percent to 11,946, with notable increases of 15 percent from Germany, 23 percent from the U.K., 17 percent from Portugal, 25 percent from Turkey ...

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    The Pitti Uomo fair in Florence, which serves as an...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The Pitti Uomo fair in Florence, which serves as an early showcase for men's wear as well as footwear, recorded a further increase in the number of visitors at its 89th edition last month. They were about 23,000, or 5 percent more than in January 2015. One-third of them came ...

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    Expo Riva Schuh was in a lively mood last month....

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Expo Riva Schuh was in a lively mood last month. At 13,104, the total number of visitors was 4.4 percent higher than a year earlier, and many of them were first-comers. The business climate was positive. Several visitors praised the rising quality level of the collections. A total of 1,408 ...

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    A couple of days prior to this week's edition in...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    A couple of days prior to this week's edition in Düsseldorf, the GDS trade show introduced a digital marketplace for brands exhibiting at the fair. The “GDS 365” website is being launched in cooperation with a Berlin-based B2B platform for shoes and accessories, We Want Shoes, which offers an interactive platform ...

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    Moda Made in Italy, the shoe show organized by Assocalzaturifici...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Moda Made in Italy, the shoe show organized by Assocalzaturifici in Munich, will start a little sooner than planned in September. It will run on Sept. 9-11, at the same time as Essenz, instead of a previously set schedule of Sept. 11-13. This should allow the same buyers to visit ...

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    The January 2016 edition of Who's Next-Première Classe, which was...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The January 2016 edition of Who's Next-Première Classe, which was held in Paris on Jan. 22-25, suffered from a 16 percent decline in the number of visitors as compared to the January 2015 edition. Figures came as no surprise. The organizers of the event had foreseen a troubled edition, due ...

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    With 15,200 daily passages through its turnstiles, the number of...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    With 15,200 daily passages through its turnstiles, the number of visitors at the GDS fair held in Düsseldorf earlier this week was reportedly down by about 7 percent from a year ago. About 44 percent of them came from outside Germany. A total of 800 brands exhibited at the trade ...