All Trade fairs & conferences articles – Page 30

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    Empreintes, the ten-year-old convention on brand building in Bordeaux, will...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Empreintes, the ten-year-old convention on brand building in Bordeaux, will not be held as planned on Oct. 24-25 because of an insufficient number of registrations and other reasons

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    Kurt Geiger and the London College of Fashion (LCF) have...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Kurt Geiger and the London College of Fashion (LCF) have raised more than $500,000 at the inaugural Fashion Matters gala in support of Cordwainers, LCF's footwear-specialist school. The event took place at Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London, on Sept. 6, and was hosted by ...

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    The latest edition of Cuir à Paris, the Parisian leather...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    The latest edition of Cuir à Paris, the Parisian leather and fur trade show, held on Sept. 17-19, saw the number of visitors increase by 21.5 percent and that of exhibitors by 8 percent compared with the September 2012 edition. The stand surface area was increased by 23 percent. The ...

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    Momad Metropolis, the new fair held in Madrid last Sept....

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Momad Metropolis, the new fair held in Madrid last Sept. 6-8, welcomed a total of 17,423 buyers, 11 percent of whom came from abroad. Organized by Ifema, it put together for the first time the former Modacalzado + Iberpiel with Simm, an international fashion fair, accommodating a total of 1,300 ...

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    CIFF, the Danish fashion fair in Copenhagen, reports a drop...

    2013-09-11T00:00:00Z

    CIFF, the Danish fashion fair in Copenhagen, reports a drop of about 10 percent in the number of visitors at its show last month, down to 20,123 people. The organizers attribute the decline to tighter rules for registration and point out that the number of foreign visitors went up by ...

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    The GDS shoe fair opened today with a total of...

    2013-09-11T00:00:00Z

    The GDS shoe fair opened today with a total of 800 exhibitors. Another 330 exhibitors are partecipating in the Global Shoes fair, which started one day before the GDS in response to a request for more time for making purchasing decisions. New exhibitors at the GDS are Talbot Runhof, Liu Jo ...

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    More than 1,600 exhibitors – a little more than in...

    2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

    More than 1,600 exhibitors – a little more than in previous editions – will show their collections on a total area of more than 68,000 square meters at TheMicam in Milan on Sept. 15-18. The fair will feature a new “Foot Rocker” initiative, in collaboration with Rolling Stone, the famous ...

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    Mosshoes has appointed Tatyana Ozimuk as its new executive director...

    2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

    Mosshoes has appointed Tatyana Ozimuk as its new executive director and Yulia Koroleva as the Moscow shoe exhibition's sales director, following the recently reported departure of Nasim Mustafaev after 15 years with the organizing company. Both Ozimuk and Koroleva have more than 20 years of experience in exhibitions, working ...

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    +++ The Brandery, the fashion fair in Barcelona, has cancelled...

    2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

    +++ The Brandery, the fashion fair in Barcelona, has cancelled again its next session, which had been scheduled for Sept. 13-15 +++

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    The European shoe industry federation, CEC, will probably decide at...

    2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

    The European shoe industry federation, CEC, will probably decide at next September's Micam fair in Milan on the location of the 2014 World Footwear Congress.  Paris and Mexico are the main candidates. Jean-Pierre Renaudin, the French industry veteran who was officially elected president of the European body last month, is ...

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    Pitti Uomo, where many companies continue to present their new...

    2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

    Pitti Uomo, where many companies continue to present their new shoe collections, has reported stable attendance at last month's session in Florence. A 4.5 percent increase in the number of foreign buyers, up to 7,700, compensated for a slight drop to 10,400 people among Italian visitors, as compared to 10,600 ...

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    Expo Riva Schuh India confirmed its relevance for the third...

    2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

    Expo Riva Schuh India confirmed its relevance for the third time, recording an 18 percent increase to 4,477 in the number of visitors at its latest session in New Delhi on July 4-6. They included top buyers from foreign chains such as Bata, H&M, Inditex and Vivarte, as well as ...

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    Expo Riva Schuh continues to grow, in spite of the...

    2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

    Expo Riva Schuh continues to grow, in spite of the general economic woes. Its 80th edition, which was celebrated at Riva del Garda on June 15-18 with various entertaining musical shows, was visited by 10,850 people, 1.5 percent more than one year ago. The organizers remarked the strong presence at ...

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    Who's Next, the French fashion exhibition that now integrates the...

    2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

    Who's Next, the French fashion exhibition that now integrates the former footwear offerings of Mess Around and Première Classe, reported a total of 44,502 at its latest session, which took place immediately after the Berlin Fashion Week. Of those, 27,872 came from France and 17,372 from abroad. One year ago, ...

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    Bestseller, the Danish group that owns J. Lindeberg, Jack &...

    2013-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Bestseller, the Danish group that owns J. Lindeberg, Jack & Jones, Selected, Vero Moda and other brands, will have a huge stand of 6,000 square meters at the next Bread & Butter show, taking place in Berlin on July 2-4. Observers are wondering whether the organizers of the young fashion ...

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    Ron Fromm, chairman of Brown Shoe Company, has been designated...

    2013-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Ron Fromm, chairman of Brown Shoe Company, has been designated as the new president of Ffany, the long-standing shoe show in New York, after the planned retirement at the end of 2014 of Joe Moore, who has led it for many years. Fromm will start to get involved in the ...

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    GDS, the shoe trade show in Düsseldorf, has redesigned its...

    2013-05-28T00:00:00Z

    GDS, the shoe trade show in Düsseldorf, has redesigned its online presence. The newly designed website offers visitors up-to-date information by means of announcements, trade fair reports, picture galleries and interviews. The English version of the website was aligned with the new look as well. 

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    The Hub is the latest trade event for young fashion...

    2013-05-28T00:00:00Z

    The Hub is the latest trade event for young fashion to hit the Asian scene, after the launch of Novomania in Shanghai in 2010 and Chic Young Blood in Beijing the following year. The first Asian edition of The Hub will take place in Hong Kong, which is regarded as ...

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    Who's Next, the French fashion fair, will have, for the...

    2013-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Who's Next, the French fashion fair, will have, for the first time, a space exclusively dedicated to shoe companies at its next session on July 6-9, in cooperation with the French Federation of the Footwear Industry (FFC), which will promote the event internationally. The space will host about 250 shoe ...

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    Metropolis will be the name of the new fair that...

    2013-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Metropolis will be the name of the new fair that will group for the first time the Spanish shoe and leathergoods exhibition, Modacalzado+Iberpiel, and the Spanish Fashion Week (SIMM), in Madrid next Sept. 6-8.