All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 35
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U.S. President Barack Obama has expressed his intention to appoint...
U.S. President Barack Obama has expressed his intention to appoint Matthew Rubel to an additional term as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Rubel, president and chief executive of Collective Brands from 2005 to 2011, has served as chairman, president and chief executive for various ...
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Skechers has announced the preliminary approval of the court of...
Skechers has announced the preliminary approval of the court of its settlement of a lawsuit launched by some shareholders over the consequences of its allegedly false advertising of its Shape-Up range of toning shoes. The complaining parties have requested payment of up to $350,000 for attorneys' fees and other expenses. ...
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Almost 6,500 pairs of counterfeit Nike and Converse sports shoes...
Almost 6,500 pairs of counterfeit Nike and Converse sports shoes were seized at the Puces de Saint-Ouen flea market, in the north of Paris, at the beginning of October. In addition to the 6,270 pairs of fake Nike and 150 pairs of fake Converse the police, accompanied by two employees ...
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Guccio Gucci, the great-grandson of the Gucci founder of the...
Guccio Gucci, the great-grandson of the Gucci founder of the same name, has been arrested for alleged fraud worth €800,000. The entrepreneur's company Esperienza, which created the “To be G” handbag range, filed for bankruptcy in December 2013. Mr. Gucci is accused of removing €800,000 in cash and assets from ...
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Crocs has been sued by U.S.A. Dawgs, a family-owned company...
Crocs has been sued by U.S.A. Dawgs, a family-owned company in Las Vegas that has been making clogs with EVA soles since 2006. Requesting a jury trial on the issue, the anti-trust complaint alleges that Crocs has been misleading consumers for more than a decade into believing that its “Croslite” ...
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LVMH and Google have announced the end of a series...
LVMH and Google have announced the end of a series of lawsuits that began in 2003, when Louis Vuitton first challenged the American company's practice of selling brand names as search words to advertisers. It argued that this system was promoting the sale of counterfeit products over the internet. The ...
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Antonio Brown, a young American designer of luxury sneakers, has...
Antonio Brown, a young American designer of luxury sneakers, has filed suit against LVMH in New York for alleged trademark infringement of its LVL XIII shoes. He claims that Vuitton has been marketing shoes that are confusingly similar to his models by placing metal nameplates across the toe boxes of ...
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The much-awaited free trade agreement between the European Union and...
The much-awaited free trade agreement between the European Union and Vietnam could be signed as early as next month, said José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, during a recent visit to Vietnam. In the past year, Vietnam's total footwear exports rose by 15 percent to nearly $8 billion. ...
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Skechers has filed a suit against a shoe retail chain...
Skechers has filed a suit against a shoe retail chain based in San Francisco, DB Shoe Company, for allegd infringement of seven design patents utilized in its GOwalk line
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Mexico intends to impose duties of 25 to 30 percent...
Mexico intends to impose duties of 25 to 30 percent on shoes imported from China and other countries with which it doesn't have a free trade agreement. The country is also reducing the number of entry points for the importation of shoes and the inspection of the cargoes, in order ...
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The nearly 13,500 employees of the German shoe industry are...
The nearly 13,500 employees of the German shoe industry are requesting a 6 percent increase in wages, starting Oct. 1, after previously obtained increases of 2.2 percent in January 2013 and 1.4 percent in March. Represented by their trade association, HDS/L, their employers find their requests much too high. The ...
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Francisco Más Verdú from the department of economics at the...
Francisco Más Verdú from the department of economics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and Timoteo de la Fuente from the European Commission's enterprise and industry directorate general have joined three Spanish footwear brands and a supplier of adhesives on the new board of directors of Inescop, the Spanish footwear ...
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Pentland Brands welcomed the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and...
Pentland Brands welcomed the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, to its global headquarters in London on July 25. The visit by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat party leaders was part of an exercise to see examples of flourishing British businesses. Pentland is a third-generation ...
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The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) and TÜV...
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) and TÜV Süd, the German-based firm specialized in safety testing, have released the Global Footwear Product Safety Guide. The manual, which is claimed to be the first of its kind, covers chemical and physical testing requirements and suggests certain protocols for the ...
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The Wenzhou Shoes Industry Association signed a collaboration agreement with...
The Wenzhou Shoes Industry Association signed a collaboration agreement with Messe Düsseldorf during the recent edition of Tagit!, the new sourcing fair organized at the same time as the GDS. The association brought a delegation of 80 firms to the show, representing the second-largest group from China after that of ...
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The government of the Dominican Republic is sponsoring a program...
The government of the Dominican Republic is sponsoring a program for the free training of 5,000 people to work at new shoe factories being set up in the country, starting in the first quarter of 2015. This is part of a plan to create 400,000 new jobs in the country ...
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Fitflop and Flip Flop have settled a long-standing trademark dispute...
Fitflop and Flip Flop have settled a long-standing trademark dispute in Germany, allowing both brands to coexist in the global shoe market. German court authorities have confirmed the registration of Bernd Hummel's Flip Flop brand, but Fitflop's German subsidiary, Fitwear, will be able to market its own line under the ...
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The Spanish shoe industry association, Fice, and the nation's association...
The Spanish shoe industry association, Fice, and the nation's association of components manufacturers, AEC, have signed a new labor agreement with the unions, leading them to cancel a previously planned strike. Aside from new clauses on flexible schedules and other issues, the new contract calls for wage increases of 1.0 ...
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The British Footwear Association (BFA) has announced the appointment of...
The British Footwear Association (BFA) has announced the appointment of Jenna Aarons to the new role of events manager, effective June 30. She joins the BFA from her current role of head of marketing and press for Beyond Retro Vintage Clothing. Aarons will take over the management, communication strategy and ...
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The Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA), the largest...
The Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA), the largest footwear trade association in the U.S., has released a comprehensive Footwear Production Code of Conduct. The code was created to establish a common, baseline code to help drive uniformity within the footwear industry. FDRA members make up for more than ...
