News Briefs Retail – Page 33
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Repetto has opened a boutique on Paris' Champs-Elysées avenue. The...
Repetto has opened a boutique on Paris' Champs-Elysées avenue. The store, which started up on March 15, is the sixth for the brand in the French capital city. On a surface of 140 square meters, the customers of the new boutique are offered different product ranges of the brand as ...
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The Micam Award for the best buyers of Italian shoes...
The Micam Award for the best buyers of Italian shoes went last month to an Italian retailer, Rosy Biffi, and to a foreign retailer, Javier Bravo. The latter belongs to the third generation of the Bravo family, which founded his company in 1942. Aside from its online shop, it has ...
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Schuh, a subsidiary of Genesco, has partnered with Klarna to...
Schuh, a subsidiary of Genesco, has partnered with Klarna to offer online shoppers the possibility to pay for their items after delivery. Klarna's checkout solution allows customers to buy products by only entering their e-mail and delivery address, without having to provide log-in information and credit or debit card details. ...
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Joya, the Swiss brand of comfort shoes, is launching an...
Joya, the Swiss brand of comfort shoes, is launching an interesting B2B platform where retailers can exchange Joya shoes that are sold out or out of stock. Partnering retailers receive a login and are able to offer Joya shoes or place a request for a certain model. A newsletter sent ...
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Gabor has been testing an “extended aisle” project at three...
Gabor has been testing an “extended aisle” project at three participating retailers since the summer of 2016. They are a franchisee of its licensed Camel Active footwear line, which doesn't have its own online shop, plus a brick-and-mortar retailer and a retailer with an omni-channel retailing strategy. An online program developed ...
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Cafénoir, the Italian brand of shoes and accessories, has opened...
Cafénoir, the Italian brand of shoes and accessories, has opened a 90-square-meter flagship store in Düsseldorf. It is the first German store for the brand, which already has four directly managed stores and 11 franchises in Italy. Cafénoir already opened its first store in Spain, located in Zaragoza, at the ...
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Pretty Ballerinas, which belongs to the Mascaró Group, is expanding...
Pretty Ballerinas, which belongs to the Mascaró Group, is expanding its international network of franchised stores. In the course of last year, the Spanish brand opened its first franchised mono-brand stores in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in Taipei, Taiwan, and its second one in Tokyo. It already has four franchised stores ...
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After opening a new directly managed single-brand store in Frankfurt...
After opening a new directly managed single-brand store in Frankfurt a few months ago, Peter Kaiser aims to open two franchised stores with its distribution partners in the Dutch city of Utrecht and in Moscow in the course of this year. The brand opened its very first company-owned store in ...
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Last October Mephisto opened a new store in Munich under...
Last October Mephisto opened a new store in Munich under the ownership and management of Steinmetz, the company that already owns and manages another franchised Mephisto store in Munich. Mephisto has about 40 stores in Germany and counts some 900 stores worldwide. Half of the stores are franchised, the other ...
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Vagabond opened a company-owned store in Hamburg last October. The...
Vagabond opened a company-owned store in Hamburg last October. The Swedish shoe brand, which has over 35 mono-brand stores worldwide, most of them in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, will open its fifth store in Germany in the Centro shopping mall in Oberhausen this April. Vagabond will own and manage the ...
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The new “Vibram Paris Academy” opened its doors at 20,...
The new “Vibram Paris Academy” opened its doors at 20, rue des Petits-Champs in Paris on Dec. 6. The 50-square-meter shop is Vibram's first in France, while it is the third in the world, after the Vibram “academies” in Athens and London. This store concept combines a selling area with ...
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Philipp Plein has recently opened its first boutique dedicated to...
Philipp Plein has recently opened its first boutique dedicated to sport in Paris. The Plein Sport shop, which occupies a surface of 102 square meters, is located at 250 rue de Rivoli, not far from the Parisian flagship of the main brand, Philipp Plein. The new store has been designed ...
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Görtz opened six new stores this year, one more than...
Görtz opened six new stores this year, one more than initially planned, taking the total door count up to 160 units, and the German shoe retailer is planning to open up to ten more in 2017. Among other investments, it will open a big new store in the Upper West ...
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Deichmann is considering a possible entry into the French market,...
Deichmann is considering a possible entry into the French market, where it may open its first stores in the course of next year. The German shoe retailer already has a presence in 24 countries with a total of more than 3,700 stores. At the end of last year, 1,390 of ...
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André, the French shoe retail banner that belongs to the...
André, the French shoe retail banner that belongs to the struggling Vivarte group, has opened the first store in Greater China though a local partner, and 13 more stores are due to follow during the balance of this year. Measuring 40 square meters, the first store is located in The ...
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Zalando is testing an on-demand collection service for customers in...
Zalando is testing an on-demand collection service for customers in Paris who wish to return their online purchases. The free service allows customers to set up appointments with couriers for a pick up within thirty minutes or at a convenient time during the week, from 9am to 8pm seven days ...
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Chanel is opening the first single-brand store that is completely...
Chanel is opening the first single-brand store that is completely dedicated to footwear in Honolulu, occupying 100 square meters in the Ala Moana shopping center. It is located right next to a regular Chanel store of 600 sqm., which has been redesigned. The brand already opened an ephemeral shoe shop ...
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Casadei has opened its first store in London, covering 120...
Casadei has opened its first store in London, covering 120 square meters on Abermarle Street, in the Mayfair district of the British capital. It counts Alexander Wang, Aquazzurra and Paul Smith among its neighbors. The store is divided into two parts. The front part is very bright. The second part ...
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Joseph Cheney is going to open a 1,000-square-foot store on...
Joseph Cheney is going to open a 1,000-square-foot store on Henrietta Street in the Covent Garden district of London next spring, not far from the stores of Burberry, Hackett, Mulberry and other brands. Subtle details and materials will give a contemporary flavor of the brand's English heritage and craftsmanship. The ...
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Dr. Martens has opened a new factory outlet store in...
Dr. Martens has opened a new factory outlet store in Wembley's London Designer Outlet, which also hosts the outlet stores of Guess, Kurt Geiger, Superdry, Levi's Replay and Wrangler.
