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Palladium opened two new stores in London at the start...
Palladium opened two new stores in London at the start of this year. One of the stores is based in the shopping center Westfield Stratford City, near the Olympic stadium. The second store is located in the pop-up shopping center Boxpark Shoreditch in East London. Boxpark Shoreditch will be open ...
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Researchers in Turkey reveal in a new study that local...
Researchers in Turkey reveal in a new study that local women there consider having seven-centimeter heels in their shoes as a classic look. Younger women among them, however, in the 25-40 year group, prefer higher heels, between 9 and 11 centimeters. According to Meltem Toker and Cicek Dalgic, who conducted ...
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PPR will move to new headquarters in the premises of...
PPR will move to new headquarters in the premises of the former Laennec hospital, in the elegant seventh district of Paris, as reported by Allianz Real Estate, which has rented all of the offices of the “Laennec operation” to the French multinational group. The renovation of the historic landmark, to ...
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Hans Jürg Keller will leave his position as joint managing...
Hans Jürg Keller will leave his position as joint managing director of Peter Kaiser by the end of his current contract in March 2013 at the latest. His successor in the position, Marcus Ewig, comes from Porsche. Keller has been responsible for finance at the German company since 1994. Marc ...
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Groupe Royer is introducing a new line of sneakers licensed...
Groupe Royer is introducing a new line of sneakers licensed by Freegun, a brand of underwear and other types of clothing. Presented at the Expo Riva Schuh fair last month, the line includes pumps, vulcanized shoes and fluorescent pumps that light up in the dark.
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Pentland Group has made a sizeable investment, for an undisclosed...
Pentland Group has made a sizeable investment, for an undisclosed amount, in a brand of folding women's ballet pumps, Butterfly Twists. The English brand is sold in 14 countries including the U.S. and France. In its leading market, Japan, it is sold in about 2,000 boutiques. The brand is set ...
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Nordstrom plans to open its first full flagship store in...
Nordstrom plans to open its first full flagship store in New York City in 2018. The company hopes to break ground on the 285,000-square-foot, seven-story department store in early 2013. Extell Development Company will be building the flagship. The store will be located in a skyscraper on 57th Street on ...
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Falc has opened its own sales office and showroom for...
Falc has opened its own sales office and showroom for the Brazilian market in São Paulo. Its inauguration coincided with the opening of its first store in Brazil for its Naturino brand, in connection with the big Francal shoe fair in the city. Located in the residential district of Pinheiros, ...
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Interesting numbers from Expo Riva Schuh
The 78th edition of Expo Riva Schuh closed with 10,686 visitors, practically the same as the 10,711 visitors counted one year ago. Running on June 16-19 near Lake Garda, the world's biggest trade fair for low- and medium-priced footwear hosted 1,230 exhibitors, up slightly from 1,211 a year ago, on ...
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Payless ShoeSource is expanding its offerings of women's footwear in...
Payless ShoeSource is expanding its offerings of women's footwear in wide widths and in sizes above 10 U.S., where many footwear retailers stop. The chain has always sold some women's shoes in sizes 11, 12 and 13 and in wide widths, but this summer it has expanded the footwear available, ...
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Euro Sko rationalizes its Swedish operations further
Euro Sko Norge, the leading shoe retailing group in Norway, has bought 14 of the 26 shoe shops of Skokanonen, a Swedish chain of low-priced shoe shops that went into bankruptcy proceedings on May 14. It has also acquired the registered name of the company, which it acquired in two ...
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Enrico Fabi, one of the founders of Italy's Fabi Shoes,...
Enrico Fabi, one of the founders of Italy's Fabi Shoes, died a few days ago after falling ill on the beach in the seaside resort of Civitanova Marche, on the Adriatic coast. Local media said he died before a medical team could reach him. He was 78. He founded Fabi ...
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The second edition of Expo Riva Schuh India, which ran...
The second edition of Expo Riva Schuh India, which ran on July 5-7 in New Delhi, showed a highly encouraging 16.2 percent increase in attendance to a total of 3,795 dealers. A press release attributed the success to promotion efforts in India's key regions for retailing, but it also noted ...
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Messe Düsseldorf, which organizes the simultaneous GDS and Global Shoes...
Messe Düsseldorf, which organizes the simultaneous GDS and Global Shoes fairs in its hometown, is said to be polling potential candidates for a Chinese shoe show, competing with the Chinese project of Micam (see previous issue). If Messe Düsseldorf gets enough support, the show will likely be held in the ...
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Honegger Gaspare, the representative of Messe Düsseldorf in Italy, is...
Honegger Gaspare, the representative of Messe Düsseldorf in Italy, is organizing a so-called “Temporary Shoeroom Suite 9” for 40 exclusive Italian shoe brands during the Order Days for the fashion sector in Düsseldorf next July 28-30. Area Forte, Attilio Giusti Leombruni, Norma J. Baker, Kallisté, Kartell and Voile Blanche will ...
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Dr. Martens is for sale
Three equity funds – Electra Partners, Pamplona Capital Management and Warburg Pincus – are said to be interested in making bids of up to £200 million for Dr. Martens, the British footwear brand owned by the Griggs family through a company called Airwear International. Company officials could not be reached ...
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Vans will organize a sequel to its “Downtown Showdown” grassroots...
Vans will organize a sequel to its “Downtown Showdown” grassroots events in Amsterdam next month. This skateboarding event has already taken place in Hamburg, Turin, London and now Amsterdam. Vans opened a shop-in-shop in the basement of the Slam City Skates store in London four months ago. Additionally, Vans opened ...
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Nilson Group is still largest in Sweden, despite drop in sales
Despite poor sales, NilsonGroup remains the largest company in the Swedish shoe retail sector. According to Skomagazinet, the retailer's revenues dropped by a total of 1.6 percent in 2011, which was mainly a result of a 2.7 percent drop in the company's Swedish retail stores. Sales in the rest ...
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Louis Vuitton is planning to open a series of dedicated...
Louis Vuitton is planning to open a series of dedicated shoe salons at premium luxury department stores around the world. The first of them is due to be inaugurated next September inside the new shoe floor that is currently being renovated and expanded at Saks Fifth Avenue's flagship store in ...
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Euroshoes, the new up-and-coming shoe fair in Moscow, has decided...
Euroshoes, the new up-and-coming shoe fair in Moscow, has decided to stage a special new session on Sept. 25-27 for about 30 brands, led by Wortmann and Rieker, which have sponsored the fair from the beginning. This is in addition to the dates of its main show on Aug. 22-25. ...
