News Briefs Retail – Page 22
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Bally, the big Swiss shoe company purchased last year by...
Bally, the big Swiss shoe company purchased last year by the Chinese Shandong Ruyi Group, has opened a new flagship store in the fashion district of Milan. Named Bally Haus in the German language, it occupies more than 600 square meters on three floors on the corner of Via Montenapoleone ...
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With the opening of three new stores in September, the...
With the opening of three new stores in September, the Rezet Sneaker Store chain now has seven shops in Denmark. There is a new stand-alone shop in Aalborg, a dedicated Rezet space inside the main Magasin Du Nord department store in Copenhagen and another stand-alone shop in the Magasin du ...
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Red Wing Shoes continues its expansion in Germany with the...
Red Wing Shoes continues its expansion in Germany with the opening of two new stores in Dusseldorf and Berlin. The Minnesota-based shoe producer plans to open a third store in Leipzig in October. As a result, Red Wing will have a presence in 14 major cities in Europe. Germany has ...
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Italian retail sales of all kinds of products to U.S....
Italian retail sales of all kinds of products to U.S. shoppers increased by 10 percent in the May-July 2019 period as compared to the same period in 2018, according to the data collected by Global Blue on VAT refunds. U.S. shoppers took over the second spot after Chinese tourists, which ...
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Church's, the luxury British brand controlled by Prada, has launched...
Church's, the luxury British brand controlled by Prada, has launched a website dedicated to the North American market and is reportedly planning to opening a flagship store in New York. The brand sells its collections to around 30 wholesalers in the U.S. and, according to reports in WWD.com, it is ...
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Gémo, a retail brand of Eram, has inaugurated its first...
Gémo, a retail brand of Eram, has inaugurated its first Parisian store, entirely dedicated to children's fashion, which is also new for Gémo. The first Gémo Kids is located at 104 rue de Rennes in a space previously occupied by Texto, another retail brand of Eram. The new Gémo Kids ...
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Office will close between ten and 15 of its loss-making...
Office will close between ten and 15 of its loss-making stores in the U.K. over the next two years. The announcement has been made by Truworths, Office's parent company, after the retailer's operating profit fell by 55 percent for the year to June 30. The overall store portfolio would therefore ...
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Saks Fifth Avenue is continuing the refurbishment of its flagship...
Saks Fifth Avenue is continuing the refurbishment of its flagship store in Manhattan with a new, 8,000-square-foot department for luxury men's shoes. Located on the sixth floor, the department offers sneakers, casual footwear and dress shoes from more than 60 luxury brands, 15 of which are making their debut. They ...
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Highlighting the malaise of the department store business in the...
Highlighting the malaise of the department store business in the U.S., Barneys New York has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors, complaining about declining consumer traffic and rising rents. After obtaining $218 million from two financial institutions to pay two loans and cover its costs, the upscale ...
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It has been one and a half years since Sabu,...
It has been one and a half years since Sabu, the German voluntary group of independent shoe retailers, introduced its electronic invoice portal together with the ANWR group from Mainhausen near Frankfurt. The company has now completed an interim evaluation. For some years now, RAW, the archiving specialist and technology partner for interconnected groups, ...
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Deichmann re-opened its store on Neuhause Strasse, in the center...
Deichmann re-opened its store on Neuhause Strasse, in the center of Munich, on Aug. 8. This store replaces the store on Kaufinger Strasse and, at 2,300 square meters, is the biggest flagship in Deichmann's domestic market. Deichmann has been selling its products in the Bavarian capital for 34 years and currently has 10 stores ...
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After entering the Swiss market in December 2018, Schuhe24 is now...
After entering the Swiss market in December 2018, Schuhe24 is now expanding its product offer there. The online shoe retail portal – created four years ago by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer and former member of ANWR's supervisory board – signed a cooperation agreement with Digitec Galaxus, the leading online retailer from Switzerland, ...
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The Shoepassion group, a multichannel shoe retailer based in Berlin...
The Shoepassion group, a multichannel shoe retailer based in Berlin that owns the Heinrich Dinkelacker brand of traditional high-end men's shoes with “budapester” construction, is testing a new hybrid retail concept to combine the advantages of online and brick-and-mortar stores. The group has opened a pilot store at the Bikini shopping ...
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Bata Italy has launched a new e-commerce website. The launch...
Bata Italy has launched a new e-commerce website. The launch is part of the retailer's digital growth and omni-channel transformation. The new e-commerce solution enables order management, advanced search and real-time stock visibility, among other features. Customers are offered a click-and-collect service and can manage returns via the new site.
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Vans has signed a lease to step into a space...
Vans has signed a lease to step into a space in Oxford Street, London, which was previously occupied by Miss Selfridges, according to reports in the Evening Standard. The new Vans flagship store will therefore be located close to the Nike flagship store. The new Vans shop is expected to ...
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Snipes, a subsidiary of Deichmann, recently opened its tenth French...
Snipes, a subsidiary of Deichmann, recently opened its tenth French store at the Parly 2 shopping center, in the suburbs of Paris. The retailer opened its first French store in the summer of 2018, at the Créteil Soleil shopping center, while the first store in the inner city area of ...
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Alibaba has launched an English-language website for its Tmall Global...
Alibaba has launched an English-language website for its Tmall Global marketplace aimed at merchants. Tmall Global, an extension of Tmall, hosts foreign brands that look to sell to Chinese consumers. The recent move is meant to double the number of international brands on the platform, from the current 20,000 to ...
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Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at...
Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at its London head office in Camden, many of them in the marketing department. The last set of interim results, which the online retailer released in March, showed a drop of 87 percent in its pre-tax profits. The company has been ...
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Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has...
Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has announced that his company should be delivering packages with drones “within months.” Speaking at Re:Mars – the e-tail behemoth's conference on machine learning, automation, robotics and space, held on June 4-7 in Las Vegas – Wilke said that Amazon's latest ...
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Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first...
Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first French monobrand store at the end of July. As reported by fashionnetwork.com, the 50-square-meter shop will be located in Paris' Marais district, at 12 rue du Temple.
