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Sharon Stone has resigned as president of the Stride Rite...
Sharon Stone has resigned as president of the Stride Rite Children's Group, which was taken over by Wolverine Worldwide along with other properties last October. She is returning to the toy industry, acting as chief executive of Build-a-Bear Workshop. Wolverine is looking for her replacement.
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Stella will open more stores in Paris
Stella International Holdings, which makes shoes for brands such as Prada and LVMH's Givenchy brand, plans to open two more stores in Paris by the end of this year, prior to expanding to other locations in Europe. The company, which was founded in Taiwan in 1982, originally to produce women's ...
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Tamaris started this month as official sponsor of the Mercedes...
Tamaris started this month as official sponsor of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Berlin for four seasons. The Wortmann brand was represented with its logo on the official tent of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at the Brandenburger Tor and hostesses wore models from the current collection. The label ...
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LVMH, too, had an uptick in the second quarter
Like at Kering, the second quarter was better than the first one for LVMH as compared to a year ago, but the growth rate is much lower than the double-digit increases of former years, due in part to the slowdown in Chinese consumption.On an organic basis, LVMH's sales rose by ...
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Positive results at Kering
The market for luxury products remains in robust shape, judging from the performance of the Gucci brand in the second quarter, as it delivered an increase of 4.1 percent in comparable sales and a jump in operating profits. Gucci's sales advanced by 1.0 percent in reported terms to reach €889 ...
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Kering, known until recently as PPR, has set up an...
Kering, known until recently as PPR, has set up an advisory group to advance its sustainability strategy. The external members of the new Sustainability Technical Advisory Group (STAG) include Dr Holly Dublin, director of strategies at The B Team; John Elkington, co-founder and executive chairman at Volans; and Michael Wells, ...
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Prada is opening a portion of its new mega-store in...
Prada is opening a portion of its new mega-store in Milan's Galleria, which is due to cover almost 4,200 square meters of floor space. Meanwhile, Prada has opened its first free-standing store in the Shinsaibashi area of Osaka, spanning over 1,500 m² on five floors.
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Macintosh posts a loss but online sales grow
Macintosh Retail Group posted sales of €379.6 million in the first half of 2013, down from €423.4 million a year ago. The extremely cold spring resulted in a sharp decrease in seasonal footwear sales and the consequent fall in the turnover at the company's brick-and-mortar shoe retail chains. Online sales ...
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Görtz looks for new investors
The brothers Ludwig, Friedrich and Thomas Görtz, who are the sole owners of the 140-year-old German retail group bearing their family's name, have set up a separate company that may serve as an investment vehicle for new shareholders. Based in Berlin, this company is called Görtz Beteiligungsgesellschaft and is run ...
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Vivarte is going through rough times
Vivarte, which represents more than one-quarter of the French shoe retail market through André, Minelli and other banners, is not doing well. The company admitted a few days ago that it was in default of its loan covenants with the bankers, but denied a report in the French press, which ...
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New generation rises up the rank at LVMH
LVMH has appointed Delphine Arnault, 38, as deputy general manager of its flagship brand, Louis Vuitton, effective in September. In her new role, she will be responsible for all product-related activities of the brand, reporting to Vuitton's chief executive, Michael Burke, with whom she has already worked at Christian Dior.Her ...
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Garvalin Group of Spain, which has a global license for...
Garvalin Group of Spain, which has a global license for children's shoes under the Michael Kors and Stuart Weitzman brand names through an American subsidiary, Synclaire Brands, will distribute the corresponding lines in Europe, the Middle East and Russia through another affiliated company, Big Line SL, starting with the spring/summer ...
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Groupe Kindy, the French group that owns GBB, has signed...
Groupe Kindy, the French group that owns GBB, has signed a licensing contract with Groupe Zannier for children's shoes under its IKKS brand name. In addition to its own GBB brand, the company markets a Ramdam by GBB line and the licensed Catimini line.
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Italy's Fratelli Rossetti is said to be looking for an...
Italy's Fratelli Rossetti is said to be looking for an external investor to help develop its foreign expansion faster
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Who's Next, the French fashion exhibition that now integrates the...
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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Flip Flop is opening its fourth European mono-brand store in...
Flip Flop is opening its fourth European mono-brand store in in Münster, Germany, after opening stores in Amsterdam, Berlin and Cologne. The German brand, which is owned by Bernd Hummel, is currently developing a franchise program for Scandinavia and is searching for international agents.
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Highline United Europe, the European subsidiary of Highline United Holdings,...
Highline United Europe, the European subsidiary of Highline United Holdings, engaged the company Top Shop for the distribution of its brands in Greece and Cyprus. First deliveries of the brands Julian Hakes, Nylo, Luxury Rebel and Ash will start from spring/summer 2014.
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Traditional German shoe retailers enjoyed a sales increase in real...
Traditional German shoe retailers enjoyed a sales increase in real terms of 18 percent in April year-on-year, followed by a 6 percent decline in May, according to the Institut für Handelsforschung in Cologne. As a result, shoe retail sales for the first five months of 2012 were down by 7 ...
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Spartoo, the French online shoe shop, has drawn a portrait...
Spartoo, the French online shoe shop, has drawn a portrait of its European women clients for the second consecutive year. The result is a diversified range of tastes and habits across the continent. French women tend to like classic footwear and ballerinas, with a preference for bright colors like red, ...
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Toms hits ten million donated pairs
Toms has been donating one pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair sold since the company's creation, in 2006. The California-based shoe company has announced that it has now reached the landmark achievement of 10 million pairs given away to children in need around the world ...
