All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 38
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Louboutin has won a court case against “Women against Islamisation,”...
Louboutin has won a court case against “Women against Islamisation,” a Belgian anti-Islam campaign group. Activists must remove all posters featuring the stilettos of the luxury footwear designer after a court in Antwerp ruled in the company's favor on Oct. 14. The poster showed the legs of Anke Van Dermeersch, ...
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The Italian shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici, continues to lobby for...
The Italian shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici, continues to lobby for the inclusion of strict origin labelling guidelines in the European Union's legislative package on product safety and market surveillance, and proposes to extend them to cover sales over the internet. Arturo Venanzi, vice president of Assocalzaturifici, told delegates at a ...
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Cleto Sagripanti, president of the Italian shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici...
Cleto Sagripanti, president of the Italian shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici (formerly Anci), has become the president of Fiamp, an Italian industry federation that groups various associations dealing with shoes, handbags, eyewear, jewelry, furs and other personal fashion accessories. Fabio Aromatici, managing director of Assocalzaturifici, will act as secretary general of ...
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Airwair lodged a copyright infringement lawsuit against Chinese Laundry in...
Airwair lodged a copyright infringement lawsuit against Chinese Laundry in California on Sept. 18. It alleges infringement of certain designs registered for Dr. Martens shoes in the country.
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), the public policy...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), the public policy and political voice of the apparel and footwear industry in the U.S., has just released the thirteenth edition of the AAFA Restricted Substances List (RSL), in conjunction with the International Product Safety & Restricted Substances Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, on ...
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Skechers has lost a court case started in April 2013...
Skechers has lost a court case started in April 2013 against Cortina in Düsseldorf. The U.S. company alleged that some models of the Belgian-based trading company were infringing on one of its registered designs and its trade model in the Twinkle Toe range. On July 5, the Regional Court of ...
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Gilberto Ballin, who runs the family business Moda di Fausto...
Gilberto Ballin, who runs the family business Moda di Fausto in the Venice region, is the new president of the Young Entrepreneurs group of Assocalzaturifici (former Anci), taking the place of Enrico Paniccia. Ballin joined the company in 1998 after working at major footwear companies abroad, including Ecco in Denmark. ...
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LVMH has announced that it will not appeal the fine...
LVMH has announced that it will not appeal the fine imposed by market regulators over the stake it built in its rival Hermès International. The French Financial Markets Authority (AFM) fined LVMH €8 million, on June 25, saying the company had breached disclosure requirements while quietly building its stake in ...
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Footwear Distributors of America (FDRA), the powerful American trade association,...
Footwear Distributors of America (FDRA), the powerful American trade association, has agreed to represent the National Shoe Retailers Association (NSRA) in Washington, allowing the U.S. footwear industry to speak with a single voice. The NSRA federates more than 8,000 independent shoe retailers with annual sales of $7.2 billion.
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Manufacturers in the Spanish town of Elda, near Alicante, have...
Manufacturers in the Spanish town of Elda, near Alicante, have registered a 20 percent growth in orders from high-end fashion brands in the last four years, according to the Spanish Footwear Industry Federation (FICE). Prada, Gucci, Jimmy Choo and Christian Louboutin have been ordering more shoes from Elda. The town ...
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OutDry Technology has filed a patent infringement suit against Geox...
OutDry Technology has filed a patent infringement suit against Geox in the U.S., requesting a temporary injunction against its line of Amphibiox shoes and monetary compensation for damages suffered by OutDry, which is a subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear since three years ago. The lawsuit, which is being reviewed by the ...
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Skechers has announced that its public accounting firm, BDO USA,...
Skechers has announced that its public accounting firm, BDO USA, has completed a re-audit of the company's consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years ended Dec. 31, 2012 and 2011, and that no adjustments or changes have been made to those statements or related notes, except for updates with respect ...
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Matt Priest, president of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of...
Matt Priest, president of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA), addressed 20 members of the European Parliament last week about the U.S. footwear industry and the need for lower import tariffs. His speech was part of a round-table discussion about the recently started discussions on a free trade ...
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Footwear designers, manufacturers and brand-owners in Singapore now have at...
Footwear designers, manufacturers and brand-owners in Singapore now have at their disposal a center where they can produce prototypes and upgrade their skills. The Minister of State for Trade and Industry, Teo Ser Luck, inaugurated the new Bronx Creative & Design Centre on July 16. Located in the Natural Cool ...
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Gilberto Ballin is the new president of the group of...
Gilberto Ballin is the new president of the group of young entrepreneurs within Assocalzaturifici, which draws together around 180 members below the age of 40. Ballin, 38, is at the helm of Moda di Fausto and has previously held the same role at Acrib, the association of the shoe companies ...
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Tax authorities in the northern Italian city of Bergamo have...
Tax authorities in the northern Italian city of Bergamo have shut down the Myfashiondream.com e-commerce platform, which was selling more than 65,000 fashion products including handbags, shoes, belts and eyewear, after a judge signed a seizure order because of its criminal trading activities and the import of counterfeit products to ...
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The National Shoe Retailers Association (NSRA) of the U.S. has...
The National Shoe Retailers Association (NSRA) of the U.S. has formed a strategic partnership with National Shoe Travelers (NST), which works to improve the abilities and well-being of traveling sales representatives in the footwear industry, to develop education programs for footwear sales representatives and membership programs beneficial to both. NSRA, ...
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Geox has announced a restructuring program involving the layoff of...
Geox has announced a restructuring program involving the layoff of 90 of its 545 employees at its offices at Biadene di Montebelluna, following the company's previously reported 20.4 percent sales decline in the first quarter of this year. Geox is justifying the move with the fall in demand in Italy, ...
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The China-Africa Business Council (CABC) and the China-Africa Development Fund have decided to set up a...
The China-Africa Business Council (CABC) and the China-Africa Development Fund have decided to set up a $1 billion fund to boost China's commercial ventures in Africa, particularly in the footwear and textile sectors. The CABC represents more than 550 Chinese companies in Africa while the China-Africa Development Fund is China's largest private equity fund focusing on ...
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The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) salutes the...
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) salutes the introduction on July 17 of H.R. 2708, the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB), which will reduce or suspend duties on certain products, including footwear, that are not produced by U.S. companies, thereby lowering costs for both U.S. companies and consumers. FDRA ...
