All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 13-14 – Page 3
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Easier shoe exports to Japan and Canada from the EU
Leaders of the European Union and Japan signed an agreement in principle on July 6 for a free trade agreement (FTA) that would create the world's largest economic zone, representing about 30 percent of the world's GDP.and 40 percent of world trade.The European Commission had been discussing an FTA with ...
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Spanish producers expect good business in Japan
The announcement of the agreement with Japan is particularly good news for shoe exporters from Italy, Spain and other European countries. It coincided with the organization of the latest Shoes from Spain exhibition in Tokyo, where the number of participating firms went up by 20 percent to 30, as compared ...
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Brexit could favor EU labels of origin
The impending departure of Britain from the European Union could pave the way for the introduction of compulsory “Made In” labels on the continent. The Italian footwear manufacturers' association, Assocalzaturifici, sent a delegation to the European Parliament in Brussels at the end of May to lobby for the initiative in ...
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The Brantano chain in the U.K. has closed its remaining...
The Brantano chain in the U.K. has closed its remaining 69 stores, resulting in the dismissal of about 900 employees. The shoe retail chain went into administration, a form of bankruptcy, on March 22. Alteri, the chain's private equity owners, has said the company suffered from the sharp fall in ...
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Marcato Capital Management has issued an ultimatum to Deckers Brand...
Marcato Capital Management has issued an ultimatum to Deckers Brand to sell itself at an attractive valuation or face a battle to oust the entire board of directors. An activist investor from San Francisco, Marcato said in a letter in June that that it was concerned about what it called ...
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Birkenstock launches a travelling store, physically and digitally
Birkenstock has added a new twist to the notion of pop-up stores by launching a “ship-around-the-world” that consists of a big wooden box. The Birkenstock Box is basically a freight container that has been converted into an unusual upmarket retail space. Retail partners can adopt it temporarily, furnishing the interior ...
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Birkenstock has opened a factory outlet store near its manufacturing...
Birkenstock has opened a factory outlet store near its manufacturing site in Görlitz, Germany, covering 200 square meters
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Birkenstock organized for the first time a special two-day event...
Birkenstock organized for the first time a special two-day event for buyers in the Tuileries Gardens during the recent Paris Fashion Week. It also exhibited at the Seek and Premium shows during the recent Berlin Fashion Week. It has confirmed its participation in the new German trade show, Gallery Shoes, ...
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The French Vivarte group has sold Kookaï, a big chain...
The French Vivarte group has sold Kookaï, a big chain of discount apparel shops, to an Australian company, Magi, that runs 39 Kookaï shops in its country. Vivarte's top management says it plans to examine any offers for two others of its assets – the André chain of shoe shops ...
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The high-end footwear manufacturing cluster near Venice is scoring better...
The high-end footwear manufacturing cluster near Venice is scoring better than the rest of Italy, judging from the figures announced by Acrib, the association grouping shoe manufacturers located along the Brenta River. Their turnover grew last year by 6.2 percent, rising for the first time above the €2 billion threshold. ...
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Zalando and Bestseller United, a Danish clothing group, have entered...
Zalando and Bestseller United, a Danish clothing group, have entered into a joint venture agreement for the shared ownership of FashionTrade.com, the online fashion marketplace founded by Bestseller in 2015. Zalando enters into the joint venture with a capital increase at FashionTrade, which will boost the growth of the B2B ...
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Berluti is expanding into e-commerce. The Italian-French fashion firm owned...
Berluti is expanding into e-commerce. The Italian-French fashion firm owned by LVMH unveiled its new online store during the recent Men's Fashion Week in Paris. Berluti was founded in 1895 as an elite men's shoe cobbler. Since 2011, it has expanded its range to include luxury menswear, leathergoods and accessories ...
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German buyers dominate at a quiet Berlin Fashion Week
An increased number of trade shows were organized during the Berlin Fashion Week that took place from July 4-6, including a couple of children's wear shows, but only some of them dealt with sports brands. Visitor figures were not published. They were more than 200,000 at the winter edition of ...
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Toms opened a pop-up store in the center of Berlin...
Toms opened a pop-up store in the center of Berlin in March, and it will remain open until the end of September. Toms EMEA, with headquarters in Amsterdam, does not plan to open any other mono-brand stores in Germany. It currently sells its products to roughly 750 doors in the ...
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Bernd Hillen, the seasoned former executive of Birkenstock and Berkemann,...
Bernd Hillen, the seasoned former executive of Birkenstock and Berkemann, is adding the distribution in Germany and Austria of Simple Shoes and the Samuel Hubbard collection of “ridiculously comfortable” shoes from the U.S., to the previously announced distribution of Blundstone. As previously reported, he is now running Central Trade Germany, ...
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LK Bennett is in turnaround mode
Red ink had continued to mount in the annual accounts at LK Bennett before Darren Topp, the former head of BHS, took the helm last September and implemented a refocus of the business. Yet, while operating losses at the British luxury shoe retail chain rose to £4.5 million (€5.1m-$5.8m) in the ...
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Deckers Brands' licensing deal with BBC International for Teva children's...
Deckers Brands' licensing deal with BBC International for Teva children's shoes will be terminated at the end of this year, according to Footwear News. Product development, production and distribution will be brought in-house.
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Giannico has chosen Roveda, the footwear manufacturer based in Parabiago,...
Giannico has chosen Roveda, the footwear manufacturer based in Parabiago, near Milan, to make its shoes. Roveda, owned by Chanel, will make Giannico's shoes starting with its spring/summer 2018 collection. The Giannico shoe brand was launched by Nicolò Beretta in 2013. Its first collection was presented at the fashion weeks ...
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Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue...
Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue that took over the German Kaufhof chain, has opened the first of a series of European Saks Off department stores in Düsseldorf. Covering 3,500 square meters on four floors, it offers closeouts by more than 700 brands of apparel, footwear, ...
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Ugg Australia's parent company, Deckers Outdoor Corp., is suing Gap...
Ugg Australia's parent company, Deckers Outdoor Corp., is suing Gap for alleged trade dress and patent infringement. According to the lawsuit, which was filed by Deckers in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on July 5, Gap is sued for unfair competition, trade dress infringement and ...
