News Briefs Retail – Page 53
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Ghetz, distributor of Anatomic Gel shoes from Brazil for Europe...
Ghetz, distributor of Anatomic Gel shoes from Brazil for Europe and the U.S., got orders for 2,500 pairs from British in the two months leading up to Christmas through its new online shop. It plans to repeat the operation in the U.S. during the second half of 2012.
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An investment fund, Alven Capital, has injected 2.5 million Swiss...
An investment fund, Alven Capital, has injected 2.5 million Swiss francs (€2.0m-$2.7m) into what is described as the leading e-commerce site for footwear in Switzerland, koala.ch. Set up one year ago by two former officials of eBay, Valentin Cogels and Matthias Fröhlicher, koala.ch has attracted more than 600,000 visits in ...
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Sarenza.com, the French online shoe store, is planning to enter...
Sarenza.com, the French online shoe store, is planning to enter the Polish market during the first half of 2012, with a dedicated page in the Polish language. As part of a strategy to cover the whole European market by 2015, the company has already registered the Sarenza.eu domain for a ...
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Zalando will be opening a permanent outlet store in Berlin...
Zalando will be opening a permanent outlet store in Berlin in the spring of 2012. It will sell fashion products, footwear and accessories to registered members only. The sales area will encompass about 1,000 square meters on three levels. The company decided on a restricted shopping model based on its ...
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Javari, the virtual shoe store launched by Amazon in various...
Javari, the virtual shoe store launched by Amazon in various European countries one year ago, is adding handbags and other accessories to its offer, which will soon be expanded further to include other shoe brands. The website is now offering free delivery all over Europe and, for any purchase of ...
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Like Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges in London or soon...
Like Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges in London or soon also La Rinascente in Milan, the biggest department store operator in Switzerland, Manor Group, has inaugurated a new shoe floor as part of the €16 million renovation of its flagship store in Basel, where LED lights play an important role. ...
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Dr. Martens opened its first standalone store in Scotland a...
Dr. Martens opened its first standalone store in Scotland a couple of weeks ago in Glasgow. The 2,000-square-foot pop-up shop is the biggest one the brand has in the U.K., carrying its full collection of footwear, apparel and accessories. The concrete flooring and industrial lighting were meant to evoke the ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo has opened its first store in Colombia, located...
Salvatore Ferragamo has opened its first store in Colombia, located in the capital city of Bogotá. The company now has 57 doors in Latin America. Sales in the region grew by 33.3 percent in the first nine months of this year, but they still represent only 3.8 percent of the ...
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Flip Flop will open its third mono-brand store in Europe...
Flip Flop will open its third mono-brand store in Europe by the end of February 2012. The store will be located in the city center of Cologne. At the moment, Flip Flop, the brand owned by Bernd Hummel, owns and manages stores in Amsterdam and in Berlin. During the next ...
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Neosens, a sister of brand of Art, has opened a...
Neosens, a sister of brand of Art, has opened a shop-in-shop in the Tascón shoe store located in the La Maquinista shopping center of Barcelona. The Art Company has a fully decorated store featuring both brands on the rue de Rennes in Paris and another one in Milan, on via ...
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Christian Louboutin is launching an online shop for Europe in...
Christian Louboutin is launching an online shop for Europe in early 2012, just in time for the 20th anniversary of its first brick-and-mortar store, which opened in Paris. Customers can select from the overall spring/summer 2012 collection and also browse styles that will be available exclusively via the European online ...
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Christian Louboutin will open the first of several stores in...
Christian Louboutin will open the first of several stores in India at the beginning of 2012. It will be housed in the DLF Emporio luxury shopping mall of New Delhi.
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Bearpaw Footwear has opened its first store, in the style...
Bearpaw Footwear has opened its first store, in the style of a rustic ski lodge. Called “The Summit,” the store is located near the company's corporate office at Citrus Heights, California, in an area owned by the company's chief executive, Tom Romeo. He wants the whole area to become a ...
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Crocs has inaugurated a new, more flexible and more interactive...
Crocs has inaugurated a new, more flexible and more interactive format for its stores in the U.S. It gives customers the possibility to view the enlarged collection of 250 styles proposed by the brand. The new concept has been launched at three locations in Bloomington, Minnesota; Austin, Texas; and Durham, ...
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Karl-Heinz Müller, the boss of Bread & Butter, plans to...
Karl-Heinz Müller, the boss of Bread & Butter, plans to start up his second 14 oz. store in Berlin next October. It will occupy 600 square meters in the historical Cumberland House on the Kurfürstendamm, close to Hermès, Louis Vuitton and other major fashion stores.
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Deichmann entered the Portuguese market last August with a store...
Deichmann entered the Portuguese market last August with a store in the Forum shopping mall of Sintra. The German multinational chain was said to be planning to open five more stores in the metropolitan region of Lisbon before the end of 2011 – all in shopping centers.
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Groupe Royer is launching a chain of children's shoe stores...
Groupe Royer is launching a chain of children's shoe stores featuring models from all the brands that it owns or licenses. It's going to be called Kids & Kickers. In addition to its Kickers shoes for children, it will offer those of other group brands such as Aster and Mod'8 ...
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All the Tamaris stores that had been managed by the...
All the Tamaris stores that had been managed by the Tomorrow Group are being taken over by Wortmann, the parent company of Tamaris. These Tamaris stores are located in Minden, Dortmund, Paderborn and Magdeburg, plus four stores in Berlin. The chief executive of Wortmann, Jens Beining, claims that the switch ...
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Bianco Footwear has reportedly taken steps to safeguard its position...
Bianco Footwear has reportedly taken steps to safeguard its position in the market by acquiring more than a third of its 160 retail franchises. Officials of the Danish-based international shoe retail company could not be reached for comment, but it seems that the move was related to the financial ...
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I Love 19,95, the 14-store Spanish retailer, plans to start...
I Love 19,95, the 14-store Spanish retailer, plans to start selling own-brand shoes in 2012. Outsourced manufacturing partners will make the footwear in Elche, the country's shoe center, in keeping with I Love 19,95's new theme of “I Love Spain.” While the stores have stocked footwear before, they have not ...
