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Tod's is selling a new line of six shoes in...
Tod's is selling a new line of six shoes in its stores and over the internet under its new Heroes and Dreams project for the current spring/summer season. The program is inspired by the high values of former and present celebrities, starting with Muhammad Ali.
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More managers are leaving Rohde. This time it's Mirko Ostendörfer...
More managers are leaving Rohde. This time it's Mirko Ostendörfer and Daniel Tibroni, and they are quitting at their own wish. A former manager of Marc Shoes, Ostendörfer had been appointed sales manager of Rohde after obtaining excellent results as product manager for Rohde's licensed Daniel Hechter collection. He is ...
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Peter Kaiser launched its own online shop prior to the...
Peter Kaiser launched its own online shop prior to the GDS trade show, in order to promote the brand online. The entire range of Peter Kaiser products will be available on the company's website, including a selection of bags. POS integration is offered to specialist retailers and orders are then ...
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Improved performance for Swedish retailer
Claiming market share increases in footwear as well as accessories, the Swedish-based Venue Retail Group has confirmed its turnaround by reporting a pre-tax profit of 16.7 million kronor (€1.9m-$2.5m) for the second quarter ended on Feb. 29, up from SEK 13.0 million in the same period a year before. Total ...
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Milan's town hall is ready to study the possibility of...
Milan's town hall is ready to study the possibility of partially privatizing Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, a covered shopping arcade built at the end of the 19th century in the heart of the city, next to the famous cathedral. Fondazione Altagamma, an association grouping luxury brands including Tod's and Salvatore ...
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Laura Lendrum has quit her position as head of Gucci...
Laura Lendrum has quit her position as head of Gucci for the Americas
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The new year has started well for German shoe retailers....
The new year has started well for German shoe retailers. They enjoyed sales increases of 3 percent at current prices and 1 percent at constant prices during the month of February, as compared to one year ago, in spite of strong increases in the year-ago period. For the first two ...
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The French shoe industry and market are holding up well
The consumption of footwear declined by only 0.7 percent to an estimated €8.6 billion in France last year as the market held up better overall than in Germany, Italy and other neighboring countries in spite of poor weather conditions in the second half. End-of-season sales and other off-price promotions grew ...
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Le Monde, the French newspaper, recently reported that thousands of...
Le Monde, the French newspaper, recently reported that thousands of children in the Italian region of Campania have been working to help support their families during the recent economic turmoil. The paper reported that 54,000 children left school between 2005 and 2009, and that they have been working up to ...
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Fratelli Rossetti reopened its flagship store in Milan's Via Montenapoleone...
Fratelli Rossetti reopened its flagship store in Milan's Via Montenapoleone after a refurbishment that lasted six weeks. The group introduced a new concept designed by the French architect François Muracciole that will be rolled out in all its 27 directly operated stores. The new format aims to improve the product ...
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The French group Longchamp has opened its first store in...
The French group Longchamp has opened its first store in Milan. The shop is located in Via della Spiga and has a section dedicated to footwear, a product range that the group aims to develop along with ready-to-wear. Longchamp has 236 stores and 1,800 wholesale clients and plans to expand ...
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Mellow Yellow has opened its first Japanese store in the...
Mellow Yellow has opened its first Japanese store in the Omotesando district of Tokyo. A Japanese actress and the 2006 Miss Universe, Chibana Kurara, participated in the inauguration.
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The federation of the German footwear industry, HDS, invites industry...
The federation of the German footwear industry, HDS, invites industry professionals to a symposium on May 10 at the German Weather Service in Offenbach near Frankfurt. Subjects of the conference are the changes and challenges the industry is facing. The factors of success of the shoe and leathergoods industry today ...
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Expo Riva Schuh has a new website, www.exporivaschuh.it, as part...
Expo Riva Schuh has a new website, www.exporivaschuh.it, as part of its efforts to give the fair's image a facelift before the next edition, being held June 16-19. The organizers want to emphasize its renewed commitment to supporting visitors, exhibitors and everyone else involved in the event through comprehensive, customized ...
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Zalando opens an outlet, enters new markets
The online retailer of shoes and other products has opened its first permanent brick-and-mortar store, after launching a pop-up store for its first Zalando branded collection of shoes and clothing that closed down after only four days. The new structure is a 1,000-square-meter outlet store where it is selling clothing, ...
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Padders recently invested in its e-commerce site and managed to...
Padders recently invested in its e-commerce site and managed to increase internet sales by 55 percent in 2011 compared with the previous year. The website has been restructured from a mail-order based system to an electronic and web-based system. Padders, market leader for comfort shoes in the U.K., recorded a ...
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ECCO strengthens its organization
The supervisory board of the Danish footwear group has decided to make some major changes in ECCO's management structure, with effect from July 1, to optimize its organization. Notably, the company's sales operations will be streamlined as its three regional sales organizations in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), North ...
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More information from Deichmann
Deichmann has provided us with the information that it has published in some of the markets where it operates, complementing the data already given about the global activities of the big German retail group. Among other things, it plans to start up a new warehouse in the Netherlands this year ...
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A momentous jury-free trial has started in a U.S. court...
A momentous jury-free trial has started in a U.S. court in New York between Gucci and Guess, the American sportswear company. Footwear News, which is covering the proceedings, reports that Guess' footwear licensee, Mark Fisher, has been challenged to explain the similarity between Guess' Melrose sneaker and one of Gucci's ...
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The Council for Leather Exports in India says that in...
The Council for Leather Exports in India says that in the first nine months of the financial year (April-December 2011), the industry exported $3.6 billion worth of leather products, a 31.1 percent increase from the same period the year before. At constant currencies, the increase was 35.4 percent. Germany was ...
