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Casual footwear fell 13.1% in 2020 | Spaniards to emerge from Covid-19 by 2022 | UFG to expand its brand portfolio | Hotter Shoes boosts outdoor, active models | Nice Footwear improves profitability | CCC Q2 sales up by 41% | Zalando boosts its robot fleet | Allbirds valued up to $2.2bn | Stella remains cautiously optimistic | Europe, U.S. defuse trade dispute | Micam sets dates for 2022
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Zalando launches Connected Retail in Italy
Zalando is launching its Connected Retail program in Italy, offering a reduced commission until the end of the year to the physical retailers that wish to join its online marketplace. Like in 12 countries where this service is already available, the goods will be ordered through Zalando’s website and delivered ...
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Pajar opens its first store in the U.S.
Pajar, a Canadian family-owned fashion brand born in Montreal in 1963 and known for its footwear and outerwear, opened its first brick-and-mortar retail store in the U.S. The 2,500-square-foot shop is located in the heart of New York City at 114 Wooster Street in SoHo. It features roughly 300 footwear, ...
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Sabu and Zusa enter a partnership
Sabu, a German retail cooperative, and Zusa, a Swiss footwear buying group, have agreed on a strategic partnership scheduled to start next year. The parties expect that the collaboration will lead to significant synergies in many activities, reduce costs and further improve the services for their members in both countries. ...
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ArticleZalando more than triples its fleet of Magazino robots
Zalando has ordered 20 order picking robots specifically designed for the footwear industry from the German start-up Magazino. Zalando, which has invested in Magazino, initially bought two of the robots called Toru in 2018, before increasing the fleet by an additional six in 2019. Once the latest robots are fully ...
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Moscow introduces a new lockdown
Due to the rapid increase in Covid-19 cases in Russia, Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, decided to introduce an 11-day lockdown from Oct. 28. Restriction includes all non-essential stores, schools and businesses. Non-vaccinated people over the age of 60 will not be allowed to leave their homes. The country’s president, Vladimir ...
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ArticleAllbirds valued up to $2.2bn in IPO
Allbirds, the loss-making, B Corporation certified Californian brand of footwear and apparel, has set a price range of $12.00 to $14.00 dollars per share for its initial public offering (IPO), valuing the company up to $2.2 billion. The company applied to list its Class A common stock on The Nasdaq ...
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ArticleStella remains ‘cautiously optimistic’ for the remainder of 2021
The Hong Kong-based footwear manufacturer and retailer Stella International has posted a 27.5 percent year-over-year increase in third quarter revenues to $439.3 million. The quarter marked a slowdown from the first half, due to a tougher comparative basis. In the first nine months of the year, the top line grew ...
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VF raises FY outlook although supply chain strains cap Q2 sales growth
VF Corp. improved its guidance for this year’s revenues to $12.0 billion from $11.8 billion despite an operating environment that was more challenging than expected in the second quarter. The overall quarterly revenues of the group - which owns brands such as Vans, The North Face, Timberland, Icebreaker, Smartwool and ...
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ArticleCasual footwear market fell by 13.1% in 2020
According to a study conducted by Shoe Intelligence in collaboration with Sporting Goods Intelligence, the branded casual footwear market fell by 13.1 percent in terms of invoiced dollars to an estimated level of $18.33 billion in 2020 due to the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on retailing and demand. ...
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Gallery Fashion & Shoes and Gallery Shoes & Fashion change names
The trade fair organizer Igedo Company is changing the name of Gallery Fashion & Shoes to Fashn Rooms from the edition scheduled from Jan. 27 to 31, 2022. Meanwhile, Gallery Shoes & Fashion will become Shoes Düsseldorf from the edition to be held from March 6 to 8. The events ...
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Lumberjack targets sales of €32 mn in 2021
Lumberjack, the Italian brand of casual footwear owned by the Turkish firm FLO, expects to finish 2021 with sales of €32 million, up by 28 percent from a year earlier. Next year, the target is to achieve sales of more than €40 million by expanding the client base to over ...
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Kering sales up 12.6% in Q3
Kering’s revenues rose by 12.6 percent year-over-year in the third quarter to €4,188 million, with comparable sales up by 12.2 percent. Comparable revenues grew by 10.0 percent against the third quarter of 2019. Comparable revenues generated by the group’s directly-operated stores climbed by 12.0 percent from the third quarter of ...
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ArticleCCC Q2 sales up by 41%
The Polish footwear and apparel group CCC said that in the second quarter ended in July it posted record quarterly sales of 2,048 million zloty (€444.4m-$517.7m), up 41 percent from a year earlier. Compared with the second quarter of 2019, the top line was up by 5 percent. The group ...
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Keen reorganizes German sales team
Ralph Hermann, so far Keen’s representative in Baden-Württemberg with his agency “Die Berg Agenten”, will be Keen’s new country manager for Germany. Baden-Württemberg as well as Bavaria will be taken over from fall/winter 2022 by the agency Frotscher, which also looks after brands such as Havaianas, CMP, Inuovo and Hoff ...
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U.K. retailers call for human rights law to protect supply factory workers
More than 35 retailers, manufacturers and investors including Primark and Asos have demanded the British government make human rights and environmental checks on their global supply chains mandatory by law. In a letter, the group said the Covid-19 crisis highlighted the “fragility of global supply chains” and the vulnerabilities faced ...
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Crocs has two new SVPs
Crocs has hired Lori Foglia as senior vice president and chief product and merchandising officer. Foglia brings nearly 25 years of product, merchandising and retail experience to the company. She previously worked at Victoria’s Secret, where she spent nearly five years overseeing product merchandising for more than 1,000 stores, as ...
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ArticleCrocs posts an Ebit margin of over 32% on higher sales
Performing better than what analysts had estimated, Crocs reported a sales increase of 73.0 percent in the third quarter to a record level of $625.9 million, with a gain of 72.2 percent on a constant-currency basis. The company posted an exceptionally high operating margin of 32.2 percent, up from 19.9 ...
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ArticleEurope, U.S. reach a deal defusing their trade dispute
The U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Austria and the U.S. have reached an agreement under which the European countries will drop their national digital services taxes as they prepare to implement a new global corporate tax defined through the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). A two-year transition period for ...
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JD Sports buys Greek firm Cosmos Sport
JD Sports Fashion, the UK retailer of sports, fashion and outdoor brands, has acquired 80 percent of Cosmos Sport. No financial details were released. Based in Crete, Greece, Cosmos was founded in 1982 by Fragiskos Tsiknakis. Prior to the purchase, Cosmos was 70 percent owned by the Tsiknakis family with ...
