News Briefs Retail – Page 29
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Zalando has launched a new customer service program, Zalando Plus,...
Zalando has launched a new customer service program, Zalando Plus, in Germany, after conducting a test this summer, to handle returns. Hermes picks up the products that customers want to return to Zalando at the customer's desired location, i.e. their home or their workplace. Customers can choose a time slot ...
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Global Blue has launched a new and revamped Tax Free...
Global Blue has launched a new and revamped Tax Free shopping app. New features include the live tracking of tax refunds, advanced mapping, and a digital shop tax-free card. The app is designed to help frequent international shoppers plan, buy and easily claim their tax refunds. Geolocation services help users ...
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Many e-tailers announced record sales in Europe during last week's...
Many e-tailers announced record sales in Europe during last week's Black Friday promotion. Zalando clicked more than 2,000 orders per minute, clearly up from 1,500 order per minute a year ago. It won over more than 100,000 new customers for the shopping event.
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Chaussea is entering the Italian market. The French shoe retailer...
Chaussea is entering the Italian market. The French shoe retailer has just inaugurated its first Italian store at the Globo shopping mall in Busnago, northeast of Milan. It will be followed by a second shop in Silvi Marina, near Teramo, then a third one in Bussolengo, near Verona, and a ...
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Lacoste's management has reportedly indicated its intention to dedicate a...
Lacoste's management has reportedly indicated its intention to dedicate a whole wall to its footwear and other accessories in its stores, starting with new locations in London, Paris and Los Angeles. The footwear range will be expanded. Licensed by Pentland Brands, the Lacoste footwear collection has represented about one-quarter of ...
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Leiser continues to shut down stores as its tries to...
Leiser continues to shut down stores as its tries to get out of insolvency proceedings. One of them is the Leiser store on Berlin's Friedrichstrasse, which has been patronized by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other high-caliber politicians. Another one is the big Schuh Eisner store on Hamburg's Mönchenbergstrasse, which ...
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Birkenstock opened its first company-owned mono-brand store in the U.K....
Birkenstock opened its first company-owned mono-brand store in the U.K. on Nov. 16. The store is located on Neal Street in London's Covent Garden. A New York store is also in the cards in the near future. The company's new store in London is about 60 square meters and features ...
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Hunter has opened its first stand-alone store in North America....
Hunter has opened its first stand-alone store in North America. The 2,800-square-foot store is located at the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto, Canada. The store marks Hunter's third stand-alone store globally. To celebrate the opening, Hunter has released a limited-edition backpack in Canada's red and white national colors, called the ...
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Sergio Rossi has developed a new store concept for its...
Sergio Rossi has developed a new store concept for its store in Paris' rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and others in Tokyo and elsewhere. It will also be applied next year to its flagship stores in Rome and Milan, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the brand.
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Vagabond recently opened its fourth company-owned store in Germany. The Swedish shoe...
Vagabond recently opened its fourth company-owned store in Germany. The Swedish shoe brand, which has over 39 mono-brand stores worldwide, most of them in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, works also with some 2,000 retailers in 42 countries. Its global sales grew last year to €74.7 million from €73.6 million in 2015.
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The ANWR Group has introduced Risk Check, a new consulting...
The ANWR Group has introduced Risk Check, a new consulting tool for shoe retailers that identifies business risks and suggests ways to counteract them. The analysis ranges from key financial figures to personnel planning and market presence to checking the online capability of inventory management and related logistics processes. Together ...
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A well-established German internet retailing platform, Schuh24, to allow its...
A well-established German internet retailing platform, Schuh24, to allow its retail members to offer shoes for sale online. More than 1,800 shoe retailers are affiliated with GMS, including more than 1,000 in Germany. Schuh24 acts as a marketplace for about 500 shoe shops. The move follows the successful launch of ...
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Snipes is continuing its aggressive expansion with the opening of...
Snipes is continuing its aggressive expansion with the opening of a 400-square-meter store in the fashionable shopping strip of Tauentzienstr in Berlin and another in the city's Gropius Passage. The company also opened a store in Zurich on Oct. 19 and another in Madrid the next day. Snipes is part ...
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Shoepassion, a multichannel shoe retailer based in Berlin, has opened...
Shoepassion, a multichannel shoe retailer based in Berlin, has opened its first brick-and-mortar store in Austria. Located in one of the most historic squares in Vienna, the store strengthens the brand's local presence, which until now had only been served by an e-tail website shoepassion.a. The store occupies 65 square ...
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Marc Shoes has opened a directly operated store of 100...
Marc Shoes has opened a directly operated store of 100 square meters in Berlin, where customers can order a shoe that is not available in their sizes for delivery the next day. The store also offers models from the 1885 styled by Berkemann collection of clogs and pumps. Meanwhile, retailers ...
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Groupe Royer is seeking to revive the venerable Charles Jourdan...
Groupe Royer is seeking to revive the venerable Charles Jourdan brand, for which it has the rights all over the world except in the U.S., by opening a flagship store of 130 square meters on Place de la Madeleine in Paris, not far from the first store that the brand ...
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Prada has opened a painstakingly restored Shanghai mansion, Villa Rong...
Prada has opened a painstakingly restored Shanghai mansion, Villa Rong Zhai in the Jing'an District, as a cultural center that will host an ever-changing lineup of art exhibitions, shows and events. Prada generated sales of more than €300 million in China in the first half of the current financial year ...
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DSW is experimenting with the possible addition of a rental...
DSW is experimenting with the possible addition of a rental service at some of its stores. The service offered by the U.S. retail chain would involve shoes for special occasions such as weddings, promotions and other events.
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JD.com, one of the largest e-tailers in China, has unveiled...
JD.com, one of the largest e-tailers in China, has unveiled a new luxury e-commerce platform for affluent Chinese consumers, called Toplife. So far, the luxury brands that have joined the platform include La Perla, Emporio Armani, Rimowa, B&O Play, and Trussardi. Others are expected to join shortly. JD.com said the ...
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Beating analysts' estimates, LVMH reported a strong 14 percent increase...
Beating analysts' estimates, LVMH reported a strong 14 percent increase in total revenues to €30.1 billion for the first nine months of this year, with organic growth of 12 percent. In particular, its fashion and leathergoods division grew by 14 percent on an organic basis and by 21 percent including ...
