All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 39
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Weyco Group has been accused of buying footwear from suppliers...
Weyco Group has been accused of buying footwear from suppliers linked to a Chinese jail where prisoners are subject to inhumane treatment for failing to meet production targets. The U.S.-based group, which designs and markets shoes under the Florsheim, Nunn Bush and Stacy Adams brands, said that it was investigating ...
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A group of 47 members of the U.S. Congress, including...
A group of 47 members of the U.S. Congress, including 15 senators sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, asking for passage of a free trade agreement that would end tariffs on shoe imports in 11 countries and liberalize trade in other areas. They argued that the tariff ...
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Vietnam saw footwear exports grow by 11.4 percent in the...
Vietnam saw footwear exports grow by 11.4 percent in the first five months of this year as compared to the same period in 2012. In the month of May alone, exports totaled $750 million, driven by increasing orders from new importers. In the first four months of 2013, the industry ...
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Italian tax police in the Northern city of Bergamo has...
Italian tax police in the Northern city of Bergamo has 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 activities in the trade and introduction of counterfeit products ...
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Ralph Rieker has been re-elected president of HDS, the German...
Ralph Rieker has been re-elected president of HDS, the German shoe and leathergoods industry federation, for another two-year term. The extremely popular and diplomatic German executive has already served in this position since the retirement of Philip Urban in 2007. He remains chief executive of Ricosta, the family-owned brand of ...
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The Swiss shoe retailers' association, SSV, foresees a difficult business...
The Swiss shoe retailers' association, SSV, foresees a difficult business year in 2013. At its annual general assembly at the beginning of June, Dieter Spiess, president of the association, criticized the high wholesale prices charged to Swiss retailers, who have to pay about 30 percent more than their foreign colleagues ...
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The British Footwear Association (BFA) has appointed John Saunders to...
The British Footwear Association (BFA) has appointed John Saunders to the new role of sales and marketing director, providing increased support for its members and the U.K. footwear industry. One of his tasks will be to take over the management of the BFA members' participation at trade shows around the ...
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Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) has appointed Greg...
Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) has appointed Greg Tunney, president and chief executive at RG Barry and former vice chairman of the association, as its new chairman. He replaces Blake Krueger, chairman, chief executive and president of Wolverine Worldwide, who has served as chairman of FDRA for two ...
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The legal dispute between Hermès and LVMH, which owns 22.6...
The legal dispute between Hermès and LVMH, which owns 22.6 percent of its shares, has reached new heights. LVMH announced a lawsuit against Hermès one week ago after its new chief executive, Axel Dumas, declared that its incursion into the company's equity was “not desired and not desirable.” LVMH says ...
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The Indian government has lowered the import duty on machinery...
The Indian government has lowered the import duty on machinery for the manufacture of leather and leathergoods from 7.5 percent to 5 percent. The Indian Council of Leather Exports said the move is an important step in the modernization of the sector, facilitating its growth in the long term.
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Gucci lost the latest round in a long-standing trademark dispute...
Gucci lost the latest round in a long-standing trademark dispute with Guess on May 2 when a court in Milan rejected all infringement claims brought by Gucci against the American brand. The Italian court ordered the cancellation of Gucci's diamond pattern, its G logo and “Flora” pattern trademarks, considering that ...
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The international community is following the tragic events in the...
The international community is following the tragic events in the clothing industry of Bangladesh, where more than 1,000 workers were killed by the collapse of a building last month and other recent incidents. The clothing sector employs many more people and generates 80 percent of its export revenues, but the ...
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JJ Shoes, a Dutch brand of women's shoes, has filed...
JJ Shoes, a Dutch brand of women's shoes, has filed for insolvency
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Tonino Ciannavei has been elected as the new president of...
Tonino Ciannavei has been elected as the new president of the footwear branch of Confidustria, the Italian employers' federation, for the province of Macerata, one of Italy's leading footwear manufacturing areas. He succeeds Cleto Sagripanti, now at the helm of the Italian shoe industry association, which is being renamed as ...
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Skechers has announced the appointment of BDO USA as the...
Skechers has announced the appointment of BDO USA as the company's new independent auditors, replacing KPMG which resigned after the discovery of unlawful activities by one of its partners. Skechers points out that the resignation was not related to its financial statements, but nevertheless, BDO will re-audit the company's statements ...
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A U.S. federal judge has approved a proposed $40 million...
A U.S. federal judge has approved a proposed $40 million settlement of a class action suit brought by American consumers against Skechers USA for misleading advertising of the alleged benefits of its toning shoes. The company had removed the ads but did not admit any wrongdoing. In the end, while ...
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Two major U.S. footwear companies, Skechers and Deckers Outdoor Corporation,...
Two major U.S. footwear companies, Skechers and Deckers Outdoor Corporation, the owner of Ugg, Teva and other brands, are subject to a series of cases of alleged misconduct by a staff member of their auditing company, KPMG. Skechers has already announced that it no longer works with KPMG. The separation followed the ...
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A Portuguese company that markets a line of shoes called...
A Portuguese company that markets a line of shoes called Chocolate Negro has won a case against a British company, itnk tm, that wanted to register a brand with the name Choocolate. The Portuguese firm, AS - Industria de Calçado, had registered the Chocolate Negro brand name through the European ...
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Four employees were killed and one was critically burnt when...
Four employees were killed and one was critically burnt when a major fire engulfed a shoe factory in Mangolpuri, in outer Delhi, in the early hours of March 12. Reportedly, the factory was being illegally run on the ground floor of a four-storey residence. Police said that a short-circuit in ...
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Turkey is now one of the biggest exporters of shoes...
Turkey is now one of the biggest exporters of shoes to Russia after China, Italy and Vietnam. According to the Turkish Footwear Industry Association, Russia continues to be an important market for exports of Turkish leather apparel, and the Turkish footwear industry has also obtained an increase in exports to the country over ...
