News Briefs Retail – Page 52
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Peter Kaiser launched its own online shop prior to the...
Peter Kaiser launched its own online shop prior to the GDS trade show, in order to promote the brand online. The entire range of Peter Kaiser products will be available on the company's website, including a selection of bags. POS integration is offered to specialist retailers and orders are then ...
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Christian Louboutin has expanded its e-commerce operation to include a...
Christian Louboutin has expanded its e-commerce operation to include a European boutique, adding to the sites it already has in the U.S. and Canada. It carries this spring's men's and women's collections and the new 20th anniversary capsule line; the latter will be available in Europe online only. Customers have ...
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Padders recently invested in its e-commerce site and managed to...
Padders recently invested in its e-commerce site and managed to increase internet sales by 55 percent in 2011 compared with the previous year. The website has been restructured from a mail-order based system to an electronic and web-based system. Padders, market leader for comfort shoes in the U.K., recorded a ...
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Zalando is widening the range of products sold on its...
Zalando is widening the range of products sold on its website once more by adding home textiles and accessories, including the branded offerings in this segment of fashion brands such as Escada, Esprit, Joop! and Tom Tailor. This section of the Berlin-based e-commerce portal, which started off with shoes in ...
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Spartoo, the online footwear retailer, has been named one of...
Spartoo, the online footwear retailer, has been named one of Europe's fastest-growing online companies by Internet Retailer, a U.S. publication. The company grew by 70 percent in 2011, reaching sales of almost €100 million with 1.5 million pairs of shoes. The company said that this year it hopes to reach ...
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Sarenza, the main competitor of Spartoo in France, is planning...
Sarenza, the main competitor of Spartoo in France, is planning to enter the Polish market shortly, while launching a new e-commerce platform - Sarenza.eu - that would cover all the European markets for which it doesn't have a dedicated website. Somewhat like Spartoo, Sarenza reports a 60 percent increase in ...
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Rocky Brands is extending the availability of its products online...
Rocky Brands is extending the availability of its products online to more than 90 countries around the world. Customers will be able to order in their own languages and currencies at guaranteed prices after customs duties and taxes from the localized websites of the company's brands, including Georgia Boot and ...
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Macy's plans to set up what it is calling the...
Macy's plans to set up what it is calling the world's largest shoe floor at its store in New York City. The 63,000-square-foot space will offer more than 300,000 pairs of shoes and including luxury shoe shops and a designer shoe salon. The department store plans will expand the current ...
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Staged in a black and white setting at the top...
Staged in a black and white setting at the top of Milan's Pirelli skyscraper, this time the Micam Awards went to A&Y Marka of Turkey and to an Italian retailer, Cappelletto. A&Y runs a total of 218 shoe and fashion shops in Turkey and Lebanon under seven different banners including ...
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Coolway has opened its first flagship store in Scandinavia, setting...
Coolway has opened its first flagship store in Scandinavia, setting up on Karl Johans Gate 13, a pedestrian shopping street in Oslo. The brand has been developed by the Mayordomo family of Spain, working with Marius Furomo. If it proves to be a success, more stores are planned in Stockholm ...
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Payless ShoeSource is expanding in Asia with new stores opening...
Payless ShoeSource is expanding in Asia with new stores opening this year in Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. Emart, a unit of Shinsegae Group of Seoul, will work with Payless to open stores in Korea, and Central Marketing Group, owned by Central Group of Bangkok, will introduce Payless to Thailand and ...
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Kangnai, the Chinese footwear brand, has a big year in...
Kangnai, the Chinese footwear brand, has a big year in 2011. It made 11 million pairs of high- and medium-end shoes and opened 3,000 stores, some own retail and some franchises. It started its expansion outside China with some of the stores, and for the year reports a 47 percent ...
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El Naturalista has embarked on its project with El Corte...
El Naturalista has embarked on its project with El Corte Inglés, opening its first shop-in-shop in the chain's department store in Bilbao. Thanks to new initiatives such as this, the Spanish footwear brand hopes to report 17 percent growth this year; last year it grew by 12 percent.
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Prada continues to invest in new stores while opening a...
Prada continues to invest in new stores while opening a revamped and expanded flagship store in Paris. Located on the prestigious Faubourg Saint-Honoré, near Hermès, the latter is being reopened on 1,900 square meters after two years of reconstruction. In the U.S., the brand has opened a 700-m² store in ...
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Aldo has its sights set on France. The Canadian footwear...
Aldo has its sights set on France. The Canadian footwear and accessories retailer opened two stores in France in late 2011 – one in La Défense, west of Paris, and one on Rue de Rivoli in the capital. It plans to speed up its development and to have 50 shops ...
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Hermès has opened a shop for its Asian-inspired brand, Shang...
Hermès has opened a shop for its Asian-inspired brand, Shang Xia, on the Rue de Sèvres in Paris, opposite its local Hermès flagship store in the shopping neighborhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It is only the second store for the brand, with the first one having been opened already in Shanghai. It ...
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Camper's new store in Rotterdam is meant to evoke an...
Camper's new store in Rotterdam is meant to evoke an aquarium, complete with a blue-centered color scheme. The Spanish company has 68 stores, 75 shop-in-shops and 12 outlet stores that it runs itself, and an addition 75 stores, 65 shop-in-shops and four outlets that are franchised. It operates in 42 ...
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Sperry Top-Sider's first New York store opened on Feb. 1...
Sperry Top-Sider's first New York store opened on Feb. 1 in the city's Flatiron District. In keeping with the brand's nautical flavor, the 1,700-square-foot store has a boathouse-like area where customers can check out the inventory stock. The store sells 100 styles of shoes for men, women and children.
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Clarks has opened its 14th location in India, an outlet...
Clarks has opened its 14th location in India, an outlet store in the Inorbit Mall in Hyderabad. It opened all 14 stores in the last year, and plans to continue the fast expansion with 20 new stores in India per year, with a goal of having 100 in the next ...
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Belle International opened 2,983 new retail locations in mainland China...
Belle International opened 2,983 new retail locations in mainland China last year, 1,100 of them in the fourth quarter. That brings the total number in mainland China to 14,950 outlets, all directly run by the Hong Kong footwear group. Most of them, 10,270, are dedicated to footwear, while the others ...
