All Trade fairs & conferences articles – Page 30

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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 ...

  • Short stops

    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.

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    The 34th edition of Ayakkabi, the Turkish fair for shoes,...

    2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

    The 34th edition of Ayakkabi, the Turkish fair for shoes, bags and accessories, will be held in Izmir on June 20-23. It had been previously scheduled to run from May 31 to June 3, as reported last autumn in our International Calendar of Shoe Fairs. The return to a former ...

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    After cancelling the March edition of Point of Shoes, the organizers...

    2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

    After cancelling the March edition of Point of Shoes, the organizers of the trade show in Pirmasens, ISC Germany, have announced its final end and plans to work with another firm have been dropped.  

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    A new annual fair has been launched in Iraq by...

    2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

    A new annual fair has been launched in Iraq by Expo Time, a company that has organized important fairs in Iraq as well as Libya. Called Erbil Leather & Shoes Exhibition, it will be held in the city of Erbil on June 27-30, presenting some 200 national and international companies. ...

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    The organizers of the Asia Pacific Leather Fair in Hong...

    2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

    The organizers of the Asia Pacific Leather Fair in Hong Kong said that the latest edition of the annual fair, which took place on March 25-27, saw increased numbers of visitors from new Asian markets such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and India, which are enjoying a surge in consumer spending, ...

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    The board of directors of Pitti Immagine, which met on March...

    2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

    The board of directors of Pitti Immagine, which met on March 22 under the chairmanship of Gaetano Marzotto, has decided that the starting date for the next winter edition of the Italian trade show will be Jan. 8 and that similar dates will be scheduled through 2015 to avoid conflicts with other ...

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    The number of domestic buyers at last month's Sapica show...

    2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

    The number of domestic buyers at last month's Sapica show in León increased by 12 percent to 9,813 as compared to a year ago, but apparently they ordered fewer pairs of sandals because of relatively mild weather conditions. The Mexican shoe show also welcomed 517 buyers from abroad, 28 percent ...