All Trade fairs & conferences articles – Page 31

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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 ...

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    The latest edition of Euro Shoes Premiere Collection, the shoe...

    2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

    The latest edition of Euro Shoes Premiere Collection, the shoe show held in Moscow on Feb. 19-22, attracted a total of 6,500 visitors according to the organizers, who pointed out that the figure was certified by a German and an international verification institute. More than 400 brands were shown on ...

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    Counterfeits were detected at ten different stands during this year's...

    2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

    Counterfeits were detected at ten different stands during this year's Global Shoes trade show, which took place at the same time as the GDS show in Düsseldorf last March. Both fairs are organized by Messe Düsseldorf. Customs investigators confiscated 437 shoe samples, 237 of them were found at one single stand. Three ...

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    The organizers of Essenz, a new shoe fair in the...

    2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

    The organizers of Essenz, a new shoe fair in the Munich Order Center (MOC), have decided to shorten its duration from three to two days and run it on Sept. 22-23, immediately after the GDS fair in Düsseldorf (Sept. 11-13) and theMicam (Sept. 15-19) in Milan. The organizers have positioned ...

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    UBM Asia has acquired a controlling stake of 60 percent...

    2013-03-25T00:00:00Z

    UBM Asia has acquired a controlling stake of 60 percent in Novomania, a Chinese young fashion show that resembles in many ways Bread & Butter in Berlin. Based in Hong Kong, UBM Asia is the Asian subsidiary of United Business Media (UBM) of the U.K. and has 12 agencies in ...

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    Ferragamo announces the new exhibition “The Amazing Shoemaker - Fairy...

    2013-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Ferragamo announces the new exhibition “The Amazing Shoemaker - Fairy tales and legends about shoes and shoemakers,” an exploration of the role of shoes in collective imagination. Curated by Stefania Ricci, Sergio Risaliti and Luca Scarlini, the event will be hosted at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence, from Apr. ...