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The Mexican parliament still has to vote on this measure,...
The Mexican parliament still has to vote on this measure, but the Mexican government has no plans to renege on its decision to eliminate quotas and duties on imports of Chinese shoes as of Dec. 11. Chinese footwear currently incurs duties of 70 percent in Mexico. Bruno Ferrari, Mexico's finance ...
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Zalando plans to start an interesting new partnership program by...
Zalando plans to start an interesting new partnership program by the end of this year, allowing retailers and brands to position and commercialize their brands independently on its platform. Apart from the logistics, Zalando will handle services such as payment processing, order confirmations and dispatch confirmations for clients, invoicing, returns ...
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J.B. Martin starts new initiatives
J.B. Martin has come up with a higher-priced line of shoes, called J. B. Martin Signature, for spring-summer 2012. Made at factories in Italy and Spain, the styles are about 30 percent more expensive than those of the regular line, which is made in Bulgaria, Portugal and Spain. The French ...
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The Industry and Trade Ministry of Vietnam says that in...
The Industry and Trade Ministry of Vietnam says that in the first half of this year, the country exported $7.4 billion worth of products to the EU, 49 percent more than in the same period last year. The EU accounted for 17.5 percent of Vietnam's total exports. Footwear sold to ...
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The Italian luxury leather shoemaker Santoni is hand-crafting leather straps...
The Italian luxury leather shoemaker Santoni is hand-crafting leather straps for watches by the Swiss brand IWC Schaffhausen. The straps go on all styles of the Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days watch, and come in black as well as two shades of brown with an exclusive patina processed by Santoni. They ...
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HDS introduces softer WMS guidelines
In the framework of this year's GDS, the federation of the German footwear industry, HDS, presented new guidelines for its width measurement system for children's shoes, WMS, which were introduced at the end of June. The WMS license, which is given to shoe manufacturers that comply with its standards and ...
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Gucci's management and workers have signed a new three-year labor...
Gucci's management and workers have signed a new three-year labor contract based on merit. The deal introduces a system of variable wages for the Italian companies Guccio Gucci and Gucci Logistica based on the achievement of certain targets by individuals and teams, resulting in a company bonus that can exceed ...
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Gucci is set to inaugurate the Gucci Museum on Sept....
Gucci is set to inaugurate the Gucci Museum on Sept. 26 in Florence to mark the 90th anniversary of the brand. It will be located in Palazzo della Mercanzia, the ancient palace on the central Piazza della Signoria that housed Gucci's design bureau before it was transferred to Rome in ...
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The shoeshine stand goes upscale with John Lobb's new kiosk...
The shoeshine stand goes upscale with John Lobb's new kiosk in the Mark hotel, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Certified polishers at the Mark Shine will use John Lobb brand brushes, cloth, wax and polish to take care of the shoes of hotel guests, businessmen and neighborhood residents. ...
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More international visitors search for new suppliers at GDS
GDS and Global Shoes, the two international shoe trade fairs held a little earlier than usual on Sept. 7- 9 in Düsseldorf, attracted just under 24,000 trade visitors this year, down from 28,600 visitors last year. Compared with the GDS fair in March this year, visitor numbers decreased by 4 ...
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Rockport's subsidiary in France is now run by Thierry Roger,...
Rockport's subsidiary in France is now run by Thierry Roger, replacing Patrick Blary, who has left the group. He previously worked at Intersport France and then at Wolverine World Wide, where he was responsible for sales in France of the Hush Puppies and Cushe brands.
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The National Health Service of the U.K. has forbidden hospital...
The National Health Service of the U.K. has forbidden hospital workers from wearing Crocs or similar rubber clogs while working, having found numerous instances of sharp objects penetrating their soles. The Telegraph reported that the U.K. is just the latest of many countries, including the U.S., Canada, Sweden and Austria, ...
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Overland Shoes, the global licensee for G-Star Raw footwear, is...
Overland Shoes, the global licensee for G-Star Raw footwear, is going to try to expand the brand in the North American market through a new distribution partnership with Contest Footwear group. Along with sales into the U.S. and Canada, G-Raw plans to revise its pricing structure, amp up its marketing ...
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Flip Flop plans to open more mono-brand stores in Germany...
Flip Flop plans to open more mono-brand stores in Germany and Switzerland. Store openings are planned in Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt and Zurich. The company already has mono-brand stores in Amsterdam and Berlin. It has about 200 clients in Germany, adding 30 in the first half of this year. In order ...
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Spain's Lottusse opens its first mono-brand store in Germany this...
Spain's Lottusse opens its first mono-brand store in Germany this year in October. It will be taking over the 130-square-meter store of the haberdasher Strathmann in the Kasernenstrasse. CB Richard Ellis supported Lottusse as facilitator. Lottusse plans to open more stores in Germany, in Frankfurt and Munich, at the beginning ...
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The first-ever SA Shoe Expo started Thursday in Johannesburg, South...
The first-ever SA Shoe Expo started Thursday in Johannesburg, South Africa, and ran through Saturday, Sept. 17. The show brought together 75 to 85 exhibitors from South Africa, Mozambique and abroad to show their footwear to industry professionals and the public. Some of the exhibitors include Zipz SA, a South ...
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Genesco reflects on furthering European expansion
After the acquisition in June of Schuh, the highly profitable British retailer of young fashion footwear, Genesco has started considering furthering its expansion in Europe, which it sees as a region offering growth opportunities.Genesco, the American retail group operating Journeys and other formats, bought Schuh for £125 million (€144.8m-$19.8m), less ...
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Two engineering researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison...
Two engineering researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have developed a new in-shoe technology that can generate electrical energy as people walk. An insert for shoes uses the thermodynamic power that is generated with each step a person takes; they think that eventually a two-hour walk could charge ...
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Twenty-two Dutch shoe retailers have teamed up to form an...
Twenty-two Dutch shoe retailers have teamed up to form an online store, www.topshoe.nl, which went live earlier this month. The retailers are members of the ANWR buying group and together run 35 stores. Their focus varies, from high-end dressy footwear to children's shoes, so that their joint online assortment is ...
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Short stops
The second Hermès store in Rome, due to open in...
The second Hermès store in Rome, due to open in via di Campo Marzio on Sept. 20, will measure only 100 m² and will concentrate on men's products
