All Corporate articles – Page 58
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A small Italian brand of women's shoes, Paolo Simonini, suffered...
A small Italian brand of women's shoes, Paolo Simonini, suffered the destruction of its factory near Viareggio in Tuscany by a fire during the night of June 4. Nobody was injured. A report in leatherbiz.com says that a fire destroyed also the leather chemicals factory of Veco at Monticello Conte ...
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Berluti celebrated earlier this week the start of construction work...
Berluti celebrated earlier this week the start of construction work on a new factory of 20,000 square meters in the Italian city of Ferrara to make its high-end shoes. It will employ 290 persons compared with 150 at the present factory. It should become operational in mid-2014 and it may ...
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Gimmi Baldinini, founder of the shoe company that bears his...
Gimmi Baldinini, founder of the shoe company that bears his name, is said to be interested in acquiring a majority stake in the Rimini airport on the Adriatic coast because it has helped his company and others in the Marche region to build up a strong business in Russia. Baldinini's ...
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Paco Gil, the Spanish shoe brand from Alicante, has filed...
Paco Gil, the Spanish shoe brand from Alicante, has filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors. The 31-year-old family-owned company, which has about 20 employees and designs and subcontracts the production of its shoes in Spain, is looking for ways to reorganize its business. Company officials are blaming the economic and ...
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Gant and Hamm Market Solutions have signed an international licensing...
Gant and Hamm Market Solutions have signed an international licensing agreement, to be effective from January 2014. Hamm will develop and design men's, women's and children's shoes under the Gant brand name, taking care of their production and international distribution. The first collection will be for spring/summer 2014. It will be ...
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Responding to increased demand for its products, Gabor is extending...
Responding to increased demand for its products, Gabor is extending its production capacities in Slovakia and Portugal, where 90 percent of its shoes are still manufactured. It is investing a seven-digit amount to amplify its production and logistic facilities at Banovce in Slovakia by the end of this year. Gabor manufactures shoes ...
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Kavat has decided to stop manufacturing shoes in Sweden. Its...
Kavat has decided to stop manufacturing shoes in Sweden. Its local factory, which employs ten people for the manufacture of prototypes and special orders, is being closed down, and operations will be concentrated on the company's plant in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Meanwhile, Kavat is entering the Chinese and Japanese markets, from which ...
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Monge has chosen to open its first showroom ever in...
Monge has chosen to open its first showroom ever in Palma de Mallorca . The Spanish brand of men's shoes was founded in 2012 by Pedro Monge, a former executive at Camper, one of Mallorca's most famous footwear brands, but the designer waited until April 2013 before opening his own ...
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Veja will launch its ecological footwear collection in Brazil under...
Veja will launch its ecological footwear collection in Brazil under the name “Vert,” the French word for green. The French company produces its shoes in Brazil, using wild Amazonian rubber and eco-tanned leather created with vegetable extracts such as acacia. However, it cannot use the Veja brand name in Brazil ...
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New investors have refinanced the sales operations of Blenzo, a...
New investors have refinanced the sales operations of Blenzo, a Dutch company specializing in the sale of indoor slippers, mules and outdoor shoes that had been has been declared bankrupt by a local court last February. The new owners have made a non-exclusive agreement with Intermedium Shoes to help the ...
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Huajian, a big Chinese footwear manufacturer, has committed to spending...
Huajian, a big Chinese footwear manufacturer, has committed to spending $2 billion to set up a “shoe city” on the outskirts of Addis Ababa within a decade. According to the British daily The Guardian, Huajian's ambition is to turn Ethiopia into a global hub for the shoe industry, supplying the ...
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CMH Consulting, Management and Handel, a company based in Kufstein,...
CMH Consulting, Management and Handel, a company based in Kufstein, Austria, has become the licensee for Superga in Germany and Austria, where the brand has been sold lately directly by its parent company in Turin, Basicnet. CMH has hired two new agents to represent the brand – Adventure Modeagentur for ...
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Brown Shoe Company, the big American shoe retailer that owns...
Brown Shoe Company, the big American shoe retailer that owns the Famous Footwear chain of shoe shops, had bought a brand of hiking shoes, Nevados, Avia and some other brands in February 2011 through the acquisition of American Sports Goods for $145 million. Eight months later, it sold one of ...
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Aldo confirms that its wholesale division, Aldo Product Services, has...
Aldo confirms that its wholesale division, Aldo Product Services, has signed a global licensing agreement for Shellys, the iconic British label of young fashion footwear, as reported in Drapers. An official of the company points out that it will not use the brand for sales in its Aldo and Call ...
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Amazonas, the big Brazilian supplier of soles, adhesives and other...
Amazonas, the big Brazilian supplier of soles, adhesives and other components and chemicals for rubber sandals and other products, has decided to build a factory in Argentina, with an investment of US$8.5 million. Located at Las Flores near Buenos Aires, it is planned to generate a monthly turnover at full ...
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Ruco Line has moved its Milan showroom to 27, via...
Ruco Line has moved its Milan showroom to 27, via Montenapoleone. The Italian shoe company has also established a Japanese sales subsidiary in the Namikidori section of Tokyo. The same building houses the third Japanese store of Ruco Line.
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Dosenbach-Ochsner, the large Swiss sporting goods and shoe retailer owned...
Dosenbach-Ochsner, the large Swiss sporting goods and shoe retailer owned by Deichmann that holds a European license for the Fila brand, has signed a distribution contract with Footwear International Distribution, a subsidiary of the Dutch Unlimited Sports Group (USG) group, for the sale of Fila branded lifestyle footwear in the same territory ...
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Birkenstock has signed a centralized settlement contract with the German...
Birkenstock has signed a centralized settlement contract with the German buying group Sabu. At the beginning of March, Birkenstock already signed a centralized settlement contract with a larger buying group, ANWR.
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Meisi/Fritz Keyl, a German company that has been manufacturing comfort...
Meisi/Fritz Keyl, a German company that has been manufacturing comfort shoes for women at a factory in Rinteln, has gone into insolvency. Its president, Kurt G. Hermann, was quoted by Shoez magazine as saying that it sales increases in the Russian and Japanese markets were not compensating a drop in ...
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R.G. Barry has integrated the operations of its former China-based...
R.G. Barry has integrated the operations of its former China-based sourcing agent into its Baggallini business unit. The integration is due to bring to R.G. Barry the expertise of this privately-owned sourcing entity in all phases of development, sourcing and supply for its handbags. As part of the transaction, R.G. ...
