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A.F. Vandevorst has announced that it will discontinue its ready-to-wear...
A.F. Vandevorst has announced that it will discontinue its ready-to-wear line to concentrate on shoes. The founders and designers of the 20-year-old Belgian fashion label, An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx, said they will now focus on more extensive footwear collections, with a strong focus on craftsmanship, and on apparel capsule ...
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Joya has launched its first limited edition of 365 pairs...
Joya has launched its first limited edition of 365 pairs of women's shoes and 365 pairs of men's shoes, being sold by only ten dealers, to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The Swiss company is currently sold at 1,200 stores, with dealers in Russia, Greece and Kuwait joining the distribution network ...
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Colombia has suspended a 35 percent tariff surcharge on shoe...
Colombia has suspended a 35 percent tariff surcharge on shoe imports from the Mercosur region. Columbia is currently an associated country of the trade bloc. The Brazilian Footwear Manufacturers Association (Abicalçados) welcomed the decision by Colombia's Ministry of Commerce to end the Colombian Decree 1744. Brazil exported to Colombia around ...
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Kangaroos rapidly sold out a limited edition of 252 pairs...
Kangaroos rapidly sold out a limited edition of 252 pairs of shoes based on a model developed with Sapato, a well-known sneaker store in Kassel, Germany
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The Italian shoe industry’s recovery picked up in Q2
The Italian footwear industry's revenues rose by an estimated 2.9 percent in the first half of this year while its production grew by 0.9 percent. The data marked a significant improvement compared with the whole of 2016, when production rose by only 0.3 percent in value and dropped by 2.0 ...
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Cambodia's footwear and garment workers have won an 11 percent...
Cambodia's footwear and garment workers have won an 11 percent increase in monthly wages to top off an 180 percent increase in pay over six years. Trade union representatives, government officials and footwear and garment workers recently agreed that from the start of 2018, the minimum salary will rise from ...
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Sterling Footwear in the U.S. has been fined $1.57 million...
Sterling Footwear in the U.S. has been fined $1.57 million in unpaid duties plus interest for “grossly negligent” product misclassification. The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled in favour of the U.S. government, finding that the shoe importer incorrectly classified 337 of 363 entries of footwear between 2007 and 2009. ...
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Sports shoes lift German shoe exports
The latest federal trade statistics show a huge 25.1 percent increase in Germany's shoe exports to €2.79 billion for the first five months of this year as compared to the same period a year ago, when they went up by 11 percent. However, industry officials indicated that the boom in ...
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Portuguese exports go up in value and volume
Shoe exports from Portugal rose by 6.4 percent in value and 7.0 percent in volume during the first half of 2017, going up to a level of 43 million pairs worth €960 million for the period. They are now covering 152 countries around the world.If the positive trend is confirmed ...
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German retailers are embracing omni-channel
Pushed by the competition from pure players in the online space like Amazon and Zalando and by the new digital services offered by the two biggest cooperatives of independent shoes retailers, ANWR and Sabu, multi-channel retailers have gained a share of 25 percent in the German online market for shoes, ...
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Dr. Martens is offering a full refund or a replacement...
Dr. Martens is offering a full refund or a replacement for a certain number of products from its Vegan range, made at a factory in Vietnam, that were sold until recently in North America as well as in some European countries, China, Australia and New Zealand. The products in question ...
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Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global...
Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global meat and leather empire around JBS, has been put in jail in Brasilia on charges of graft and other serious crimes. A Brazilian Supreme Court judge suspended the immunity that had been granted to the businessman in a plea bargain ...
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Bangladesh has its first shoe show and big ambitions
The shoe and leathergoods industry of Bangladesh is organizing the country's first footwear trade show in November while the Bangladeshi government is considering the launch of a major program to promote the growth of the sector, which has been scoring encouraging advances on the export front in recent years.Bangladesh's footwear ...
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Abicalçados, the Brazilian footwear industry association, has conducted an in-depth...
Abicalçados, the Brazilian footwear industry association, has conducted an in-depth study on the footwear market in Russia, in collaboration with Apex, Brazil's export promotions agency. Abicalçados values the Russian footwear market at $10 billion in 2016, and 75 percent of the shoes sold in the country are imported from abroad. ...
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A district court judge in Oregon has let a lawsuit...
A district court judge in Oregon has let a lawsuit by Adidas against Skechers over its Stan Smith shoe go to trial, denying a request by Skechers to overrule the claims. He has accepted most of the claims, though not all of them. In the case, Adidas sued Skechers in ...
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Vietnam's National Wage Council has decided to raise the minimum...
Vietnam's National Wage Council has decided to raise the minimum wage in the country by 6.5 percent in 2018, representing the smallest increase in 11 years. It will grow to the equivalent of between US$121 and US$175 depending on the region. Vietnam's Labor Confederation had requested an increase of 13.3 ...
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Cleto Sagripanti was unanimously re-elected to a second two-year term...
Cleto Sagripanti was unanimously re-elected to a second two-year term as president of the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) at its general assembly in Venice on June 29. The Italian entrepreneur, who previously headed up the Italian shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici, wants to continue to promote the digitalization ...
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Politecnico Calzaturiero in Padua, Italy, has recently hosted a group...
Politecnico Calzaturiero in Padua, Italy, has recently hosted a group of 14 designers and footwear technicians from five European countries for a two-week pilot training in luxury footwear manufacturing. The program was made possible by the High End Shoe (HES) project, funded by EU's Erasmus+. Participants from Italy, France, Spain, ...
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Luxury companies can block online sales. This is emerging in...
Luxury companies can block online sales. This is emerging in the unfolding of the dispute between the German unit of Coty, the U.S. maker of beauty products, and Parfümerie Akzente, Coty's distributing partner in Germany, which sells Coty's products on e-commerce sites including Amazon against Coty's wishes. Coty had asked ...
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Assomac, the Italian association of manufacturers of footwear, leather goods...
Assomac, the Italian association of manufacturers of footwear, leather goods and tanning technologies, has opened the first Italian-Vietnamese Technology Center in Vietnam. The primary objective of the center is to further develop the local footwear industry. Meanwhile, the center features a complete line of Italian machinery and equipment for footwear ...
