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Lloyd Shoes is setting up a new and modern logistic...
Lloyd Shoes is setting up a new and modern logistic center at its headquarters in Sulingen. The automated warehouse will have a capacity for 50,000 cartons. The complex is being installed by an Austrian company, TGW Logistics.
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Gabor says it recorded a two-digit increase in total sales...
Gabor says it recorded a two-digit increase in total sales in 2011. Its Camel Active and Snipe brands grew by 13 percent to €65 million in 2011, and the number of pairs sold under these two brands grew by 3 percent to 1.4 million. Domestic sales and export sales each ...
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The Jones Group has reported revenues for the fourth quarter...
The Jones Group has reported revenues for the fourth quarter of $894 million, slightly up from $874 million in the year-earlier period. The company, which owns Nine West and many other properties, said sales were lower than expected due to a highly promotional retail environment and a slowdown in replenishment ...
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Fila is working with two of its retailers, one in...
Fila is working with two of its retailers, one in the U.K. and one in Sweden, to revive the Trailblazer shoe, which was a big seller in the 1990s. Footpatrol, based in London, and Sneakers and Stuff of Sweden will offer the co-branded shoe, which uses the old style as ...
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François Fillon, the prime minister of France, visited a few...
François Fillon, the prime minister of France, visited a few days ago the Mephisto factory in Sarrebourg, in the eastern part of the country. He praised Mephisto for demonstrating that French companies could make products that have high demand overseas. Mephisto exports 80 percent of its production, with customers in ...
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The Spanish National Footwear Industry Federation, Fice, organized its Shoes...
The Spanish National Footwear Industry Federation, Fice, organized its Shoes From Spain event in Tokyo on Feb. 1-2. Twelve Spanish footwear brands attended the event, which is put together by Fice along with Icex, the country's export promotion agency, and the commercial section of Spain's embassy in Japan. In 2011, ...
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Tod’s sales were higher than expected
Tod's booked a 13.5 percent increase in 2011 sales to €893.7 million thanks to strong growth in North America and Asia, beating market expectations of a turnover of only €886 million. At constant currency rates, sales were up by 13.6 percent. The company expects to release “excellent” full-year earnings figures ...
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Vagabond will be exhibiting in Shanghai at the Novomania trade...
Vagabond will be exhibiting in Shanghai at the Novomania trade show in March in order to search for retailers in the Chinese market. In Europe, the company aims to expand the shop-in-shop concept, which is working very well in Scandinavia and Finland. Many new shop-in-shops were opened in Scandinavia and ...
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Stuart Weitzman is putting out a more exclusive and expensive...
Stuart Weitzman is putting out a more exclusive and expensive line of shoes and accessories for fall/winter 2012-13. Called SW1, it has been designed in cooperation with Alvaro Gonzalez, a former designer of Jimmy Choo. It will be sold at Selfridges and other similar locations.
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Messe Düsseldorf is making it easier for visitors to GDS...
Messe Düsseldorf is making it easier for visitors to GDS and Global Shoes to keep in touch, paper-free. A new service allows customers to present their visitor IDs to be scanned, and the exhibitor can see all previously stored data to get to know them. The QR code on all ...
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Is Dr. Martens for sale?
About 10 years ago, the R. Griggs Group, which owns the rights to the famous British brand of German origin, strongly denied a rumor about the sale of Dr. Martens, although at least one of our subscribers had been approached to sound out the feasibility of such a transaction. Most ...
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Lloyd Shoes has recruited a sales director for France, who...
Lloyd Shoes has recruited a sales director for France, who is setting up a sales network in the country. The man is Jacky Bellemin. He has previously worked for other important brands such as Geox and Replay.
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TWC-L'Amy will develop and distribute prescription and sun eyewear under...
TWC-L'Amy will develop and distribute prescription and sun eyewear under the Bally brand name. The products will make their first appearance at Silmo, the French eyewear fair in October, and be available worldwide by the end of the year. Bally did not have an eyewear licensee before (more in ...
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Employees get a piece of Dansko
Dansko, the American supplier of Danish-type clogs and other premium comfort footwear based in Pennsylvania, is now entirely owned by its employees. It recently completed a transaction whereby all company shares – including those of the founders, Amanda “Mandy” Cabot and Peter Kjellerup – were redeemed, and are now held ...
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Vans has decided to go direct on the Danish market....
Vans has decided to go direct on the Danish market. The brand's distribution contract with Bonvita is coming to an end after many years with the fall/winter 2012-13 season.
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Twenty-four million Zappos customers were told to reset their password...
Twenty-four million Zappos customers were told to reset their password last month when hackers accessed the online retailer's site, possibly gaining access to personal information including names, postal addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of their credit card numbers. Full credit card numbers were not accessible. ...
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Crocs is strengthening the management at its European office in...
Crocs is strengthening the management at its European office in the Netherlands with three new senior managers. Besides Ann Chan, who has already been reported as joining the operation as European retail manager, Adrian Holloway will act as chief financial officer of Crocs Europe, and Michael Marshall-Clarke as marketing director. ...
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LVMH and Hermès: No crisis for luxury goods
That's what Bernard Arnault, president and chief executive of LVMH, said in presenting the quarterly and annual results of his group, adding his confidence in another set of positive figures for 2012. He also insisted that he had no intention of taking the control of Hermès, a company in which ...
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Nobrand has signed several new distribution contracts for the sales...
Nobrand has signed several new distribution contracts for the sales of its products in other markets. Wilson Exports will distribute the brand from this season on in the U.K. and is also presenting Nobrand's product line in a showroom in London. In Canada, a new distribution contract was signed recently ...
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A. Testoni has inaugurated a concept store in the Mandarin...
A. Testoni has inaugurated a concept store in the Mandarin Plaza of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine
