News Briefs Retail – Page 26
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Adidas and Nike were among the 237 brands that generated...
Adidas and Nike were among the 237 brands that generated sales of more than 100 million yuan renmimbi (€12.6m-$14.4m) at Alibaba's Single's Day consumption festival on Nov. 11. New Balance was also a winner with 60,000 pairs of shoes ordered during a pre-sales program. Overall, consumers placed orders for a ...
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Want Shoes, a shoe retailer in Cologne that started selling...
Want Shoes, a shoe retailer in Cologne that started selling its women's products three years ago simultaneously via Instagram and through its own physical shoe store, has now launched its first online store, want-shoes.de, offering the same brands that are sold in the store, including Pomme d'Or, Fru.it, Ash, Aeyde, ...
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Bata is planning a massive retail expansion in India with...
Bata is planning a massive retail expansion in India with the opening of around 100 new stores and 50 new franchise stores across the country during the current financial year. The company has recently announced Sushant Singh Rajput as a new brand ambassador, to promote its men's casual range of ...
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Delka and Salamander Austria have joined ANWR Garant Austria, the...
Delka and Salamander Austria have joined ANWR Garant Austria, the local subsidiary of the German buying group by the same name. Delka has 36 stores in Austria. Salamander Austria has 35 stores in Austria plus 15 in Hungary, eight in the Czech Republic and four in Slovakia. Two sister companies ...
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Mücke, the big German shoe and sports retail chain controlled...
Mücke, the big German shoe and sports retail chain controlled by the ANWR Group, has launched a new concept store focusing on sneakers and streetwear in the company's hometown of Kulmbach. Its new KU13 offshoot brand store occupies 350 square meters in a former dental laboratory in the small city, ...
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In December Sneakersnstuff is opening a 3,450-square-foot store in Los...
In December Sneakersnstuff is opening a 3,450-square-foot store in Los Angeles, in close proximity to Venice Beach. The store will be designed by Jenny Askenfors of Bofink Design Studio, Sneakersnstuff's official design partner. According to reports by Footwear News, the company's co-founder, Erik Fagerlind, has said the next cities in ...
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Birkenstock has opened its first mono-brand store in the U.S....
Birkenstock has opened its first mono-brand store in the U.S. with big buzz in the media. Directly managed by the company and located at 120 Spring Street in the SoHo district of New York, it is the German company's 47th company-owned store. An artist, Amit Greenberg, developed a campaign that ...
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Allbirds, the U.S.-based brand of sustainable footwear, has opened its...
Allbirds, the U.S.-based brand of sustainable footwear, has opened its first store in the U.K. in London's Covent Garden. In the store, Allbirds will sell its signature line for men, women and kids that is made from ecological materials like wool, trees and sugar. The London site is the third ...
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The German-based GMS buying group has launched a new service...
The German-based GMS buying group has launched a new service for affiliated retailers to reduce old stock and to provide them with cash. The retailers decide which merchandise they want to get rid of, and GMS collects the old stock free of charge, but gets a commission on the sale ...
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LuisaViaRoma has announced the opening of a pop-up store in...
LuisaViaRoma has announced the opening of a pop-up store in New York, at Manhattan's Spring Studios, between November and December. The Italian luxury fashion retailer has also announced that its long-established boutique in Florence will be transformed into a full-fledged home, complete with lounge, dining room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom ...
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Dr. Martens is the top British retailer on Instagram, according...
Dr. Martens is the top British retailer on Instagram, according to the latest Social Scorecard by Red Hot Penny. The study evaluates the social media engagement of the best-known store brands in the U.K. Dr. Martens is closely followed by Guess, Urban Otfitters, Timberland, Hollister and Lululemon. The report also ...
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Görtz, the big German shoe retailer that recently changed ownership...
Görtz, the big German shoe retailer that recently changed ownership and management, is expanding its omnichannel activities by launching a so-called “ship-from-store” service. The inventories of its physical stores are integrated with Görtz' online store. In that way, the stores are also used as warehouses for online orders. Görtz already ...
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Peter Kaiser, the German manufacturer of women's shoes, opened a...
Peter Kaiser, the German manufacturer of women's shoes, opened a new outlet store and adventure center, called “Werk 1,” at its headquarters in Pirmasens on Sept. 6. The new outlet store offers women's shoes, men's shoes, the Lurchi brand of children's shoes, and Falke socks as well as handbags on ...
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Dogo, the Turkish shoe brand, is expanding its presence in...
Dogo, the Turkish shoe brand, is expanding its presence in Germany by opening its second mono-brand store in the country in Cologne, after an opening in Berlin. Reportedly, Dogo plans to open additional mono-brand stores in Germany, at locations like Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich. It already has stores in Turkey, ...
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Allbirds has opened its first New York flagship. The 4,800-square-foot...
Allbirds has opened its first New York flagship. The 4,800-square-foot store of the eco-friendly footwear firm, headquartered in San Francisco, is located at 73 Spring Street, in NYC's SoHo area. The store reflects the new retail strategy that the company is planning to roll out in a number of new ...
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Eytis has opened a store with a minimalistic decor of...
Eytis has opened a store with a minimalistic decor of about 100 square meters on Brewer Street in London, close to iconic streetwear brands like Supreme and Stüssy. Founded five years ago, the Swedish footwear brand reportedly became famous for its “Mother” sneaker, made with suede and rubber. It launched ...
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Schuhe24 has launched a new international online shoe retail portal,...
Schuhe24 has launched a new international online shoe retail portal, shoesyouwant.com, for customers from the European Union who wish to pay in U.S. dollars or British pounds. In the first eight days after the launch of the new website, Schuhe24 recorded many orders from the U.K., France, Luxembourg, France, Spain ...
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A shoe manufacturer from Belarus, Megatop, has opened two stores...
A shoe manufacturer from Belarus, Megatop, has opened two stores in Moscow inside two large hypermarkets that host other shoe stores and attract high customer traffic. One of the two, the Mozaika Hypermarket, has already been operating shoe stores for brands such as Mario Mikke, Zenden, Tamaris, Palatin and Friday ...
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Hermès is experimenting with a store for shoes only. It...
Hermès is experimenting with a store for shoes only. It will offer 150 styles of shoes for six months alone at a 115-square-meter site on Green Street, in the Soho district of New York. The styles were created by Hermès designer, Pierre Hardy, and two versions of its mules and ...
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Peter Kaiser will launch a so-called #shoebar, offering customers the...
Peter Kaiser will launch a so-called #shoebar, offering customers the possibility to create their customized Peter Kaiser shoe model, at selected retailers and big fashion retail stores in Germany as well as in some export markets in September, for a total of 30 partner stores in the pilot phase of ...
