News Briefs Retail – Page 25
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Vivarte, the mother company of a number of French retailers...
Vivarte, the mother company of a number of French retailers including La Halle, Caroll and Minelli, is being heavily affected by the yellow vests protests. Patrick Puy, Vivarte's chief executive, said in an interview with Europe 1, a French radio channel, on Jan. 30, that the loss in turnover for ...
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Kat Maconie has opened her first store, ten years after...
Kat Maconie has opened her first store, ten years after launching her eponymous brand, in 2009. The first concept store of the British footwear designer is located in London, in the busy neighborhood of Bermondsey, best known for its converted warehouse buildings. The store's interior, designed by Emma Larsson Revitt, ...
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Etos, Brandt Software-Produkte and Ariston Informatik, in cooperation with the...
Etos, Brandt Software-Produkte and Ariston Informatik, in cooperation with the German Shoe and Leathergoods Industry Association (HDS/L), are about to launch a joint project: the “SPOCC – Single Point of Content and Communication” platform. The SPOCC was created in May 2018 as an alliance between industry representatives and technology partners. ...
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Eram, the French footwear retailer, is testing a new service...
Eram, the French footwear retailer, is testing a new service of home delivery. The pilot project, in partnership with Shopopop, is being tested in Nantes, a city with a population of around 300,000 in the western part of the country. The service is offered in cases in which the customer ...
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Ricosta has announced its decision to withdraw from the direct...
Ricosta has announced its decision to withdraw from the direct distribution of its products to Amazon, starting with the next autumn/winter collection. The German children's footwear specialist says it want to strengthen its retail partners, supporting their omni-channel activities and enabling better planning. The company said the move follows the ...
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Schuhe24 is entering the Swiss market. The online shoe retail...
Schuhe24 is entering the Swiss market. The online shoe retail portal that was created four years ago by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer and former member of ANWR's supervisory board, has signed a cooperation agreement with Digitec Galaxus, the leading online retailer from Switzerland. According to Digitec Galaxus, it ...
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Starting on Dec. 11, Zalando has been giving its German...
Starting on Dec. 11, Zalando has been giving its German customers the option to pay for the products they order on their iPhones with Apple Pay. It has also begun to test a “Smart Doorbell” and “Smart Doorlock” technology with the Belgian Post Office. The technology allows customers to open ...
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Liebeskind, the German brand of clothing, handbags, shoes and other...
Liebeskind, the German brand of clothing, handbags, shoes and other accessories, opened its first shop-in-shop for its Copenhagen shoe label in Antwerp at the beginning of December. The so-called “Your Premium Store” presents the shoe collections of Liebeskind's Copenhagen label over 15 square meters. An additional five to ten shop-in-shops ...
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Rolf Schäfer, a local entrepreneur specializing in sheepskin trading, has...
Rolf Schäfer, a local entrepreneur specializing in sheepskin trading, has obtained the authorization of Pirmasens' city council to set up a “Schuhstadt Pirmasens” (Pirmasens Shoe City) in the center of the German town, where many shoe companies are based. The €12 million project involves the construction of a new shopping ...
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El Corte Inglés has entered a wide-ranging cooperation with the...
El Corte Inglés has entered a wide-ranging cooperation with the Alibaba Group, covering cloud computing, trading, logistics and smart payments. The Spanish department store chain, which is a major player in the domestic sporting goods market, will have access to Alibaba's software solutions for large data analysis and customer relationship ...
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Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, is...
Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, is expanding into Austria. The German buying group has launched a new internet platform there, called Schuhe.at, where affiliated retailers will be able to sell their products as of 2019.
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Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's fast-growing German internet platform, has signed...
Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's fast-growing German internet platform, has signed a cooperation agreement with Mirapodo. Retailers affiliated with Schuhe.de will be able to offer their product lines through Mirapodo. ANWR has recently signed similar agreements with Amazon, Zalando, eBay and Spartoo, the French online shoe retailer that has agreed to ...
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Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to...
Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to integrate online and offline channels as part of its evolution from an online retailer to an open ecosystem, or platform. Through Connected Retail, Zalando's fashion partners can take orders from Zalando customers themselves and ship the goods directly from their ...
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Hermès has unveiled its first-ever Chinese e-commerce site. The site...
Hermès has unveiled its first-ever Chinese e-commerce site. The site offers ready-to-wear clothing for women and men, fragrances, shoes, jewelry, as well as its signature handbags except for its Kelly and Birkin models, which are not available. According to reports by Jing Daily, the overall design of the new Chinese ...
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Deichmann is planning to open a big flagship store in...
Deichmann is planning to open a big flagship store in Munich around July 2019. Making ample use of large screens and omnichannel tools, it will occupy more than 2,000 square meters on two floors in the Joseph Pschorr Haus at 19-21, Neuhauser Strasse. The new flagship will take the place ...
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Golden Goose says it is planning to introduce an “emotive...
Golden Goose says it is planning to introduce an “emotive customization” concept at a new store that it will open in Milan in January, called Golden Goose Lab, where its craftsmen will adapt existing models to the customers' wishes. Silvio Camapara, chief executive of the Italian brand of distressed sneakers ...
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The Natural Store has filed for voluntary liquidation, closing its...
The Natural Store has filed for voluntary liquidation, closing its two stores in the Chelsea and Covent Garden districts of London. The retailer claimed to have opened the first shoe store on Neal Street in 1977, followed by many others. It is the property of The Boot Tree, which is ...
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Continuing a trend toward larger premium physical stores, CCC has...
Continuing a trend toward larger premium physical stores, CCC has opened a flagship of more than 1,000 square meters in the Max City shopping center of Pula in Croatia. It is the company's 25th store in the country.
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Ara has opened a store in the center of Lisbon....
Ara has opened a store in the center of Lisbon. It's the fourth store directly operated by the German brand in Portugal, where it also has a factory producing 7,000 pairs per year. It also has ten shop-in-shops in local footwear stores.
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Alibaba's Single's Day festival collected orders worth $30.8 billion in...
Alibaba's Single's Day festival collected orders worth $30.8 billion in terms of merchandise value on Nov. 11, or 27 percent more than one year ago. The 24-hour event in China was much more successful than the 36-hour Amazon Prime Day in July, which racked an estimated $4.2 billion.
