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Ugg's new campaign
Ugg has introduced its “Ugg Collective” campaign for spring/summer 2020, with photographs by Frederic Auerbach shot at the Eric Lloyd Wright House in the Californian resort of Malibu. Featured in the campaign are Dominique Crenn, who runs the restaurant Atelier Crenn in San Francisco and is the first female American ...
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Piferi takes to Instagram
Alfredo Piferi has taken to Instagram to launch his eponymous brand of vegan women’s shoes. The shoes’ materials include recycled nylon, lurex, vegan suede made of recycled plastic fibers, and “Bio Veg nappa,” 68 percent of which is “bio components.” Piferi is an Italian designer who began as an intern ...
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Hotter presents foot scanner
Hotter has invested £500,000 (€535,000-$578,000) in its FootprintTM, which provides both foot measurements and fitting recommendations. The big British brand of comfort shoes, which is developing its digital direct-to-consumer business, is installing this 3D foot scanner in 32 of its stores and this April will be taking it, as part ...
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Dr. Martens collaborates with Hello Kitty
Dr. Martens is collaborating with Hello Kitty for the launch of a limited edition. Both brands are celebrating their 60th anniversary in 2020. They cooperated for the first time in 2010. This year, Dr. Martens will launch a limited edition of its Jadon Boot with two Hello Kitty images on ...
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Wolverine fined in Michigan
Wolverine Worldwide has agreed to pay $69.5 million to local authorities and the state of Michigan over several years to remedy water contamination from chemicals used in a now-closed tannery and other company-owned facilities in the state. On the other hand, WWW will get $55 million in a lump sum ...
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AAFA releases new Restricted Substance List
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has released an updated version of its Restricted Substance List (RSL), the open-industry document that provides apparel and footwear companies with information related to regulations and laws that restrict or ban chemicals and substances in finished home textile, apparel and footwear products around ...
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Blockchain to trace Italian projects
A project launched by the Italian industry ministry to set up a national scheme using blockchain technology to guarantee the traceability of Italian products, in order to protect brands and fight counterfeiting, has been dropped due to a lack of funds, according to Pambianconews. The ministry indicated that it does ...
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Industry criticism of EC's removal of Cambodia's customs advantages
Matthias Händle, president of the foreign trade association of German retailers (AVE) and former president of the Hamm-Reno Group, has criticized the decision of the European Commission to remove Cambodia’s customs advantages. According to the AVE, the measure affects the country’s population primarily. Reacting to allegations of systematic human rights ...
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World's first Industry 4.0 smart footwear demonstrator
Thanks to an investment of €400,000 from the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (Ivace), Spain’s Center for Technology and Innovation (Inescop) has developed what it calls the world’s first Industry 4.0 smart demonstrator for the footwear industry. According to Inescop, the demonstrator showcases “enabling technologies” to “reduce time, costs, waste ...
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BasicNet profits
BasicNet has reported a net profit of €21.05 million for 2019 as compared to €21.01 in the previous year. It actually recorded an increase of 11 percent excluding a tax benefit received in 2018. As previously reported, the aggregated wholesale-equivalent sales generated by its brands, including Kappa and Superga, grew ...
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YouGov survey
YouGov, a market research institute, recently published an online survey of 900,000 Germans aged 18 and over. According to that survey, Deichmann offers the best price/performance ratio in the German fashion retail sector. A German chain of drugstores, dm, ranked first overall, followed by Lidl and Deichmann. C&A ranked 10th ...
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Bangladeshi leather exports fall
Exports of Bangladesh’s leather sector fell by 9 percent to $631.9 million in the first eight months of the country’s financial year, ended in February 2020, as leather footwear exports decreased by 11.2 percent to $376.6 million. Exports of finished leather fell by 27.9 percent to $84.2 million, while leathergoods ...
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Brazilian footwear exports fall
In January, Brazilian footwear exports fell by 16.1 percent in volume to 12.5 million pairs and by 7.3 percent in value to $91.5 million, largely due to political instability in Latin America. Haroldo Ferreira, president of the Brazil’s footwear industry, Abicalçados, said that Brazilian manufacturers may have also suffered from ...
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Vietnam will likely meet its export target
The Vietnam Leather and Footwear Association (Lefaso) announced in early February that the domestic footwear industry was likely to reach its export target of $24 billion this year, as a result of the U.S.-China trade war and the related shift in sourcing. According to reports in Vietnam Plus, Lefaso forecast ...
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German shoe machinery suppliers have tough 2019
For German suppliers of shoe and leather machines, 2019 was a troubled business year. According to the German industry association VDMA TFL (Textile Care, Fabric and Leather Technologies), German manufacturers of shoe and leather machines managed to export €39.77 million in machines during the first 11 months of 2019, 16.6 ...
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Veja opens first U.S. store
Veja has just opened its first store in the U.S. Located in the Nolita neighborhood of New York City, the store reflects the French brand’s unfinished look and its commitment to sustainability, using wood and other simple materials and decoration. The store plans to host monthly panel discussions on sustainable ...
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Gabor expands shop concept
Gabor has expanded its current shop concept with a rear wall module designed to display Gabor ‘s sneaker collection. It has already been implemented at a retailer in Celle, which has been operating a Gabor shop-in-shop since 2006. The new, flexible module displays 15 sneakers in a typical side view ...
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Deichmann to sell Adidas, Nike
Europe’s largest shoe retailer, Deichmann, will be selling shoes, accessories and sports apparel from Adidas and Nike. The items will be available from Deichmann’s online store and from certain of the German shoe retailer’s brick-and-mortar stores. Deichmann is launching sports apparel in its stores with an influencer campaign featuring various ...
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Covid-19 case at Zalando
An employee at Zalando has tested positive for coronavirus and is staying home under self-imposed quarantine. The European e-tailer has since sought to determine who at its headquarters in Berlin, Germany, came into contact with the infected employee over the previous 14 days. It has asked those staff members to ...
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Grangers has a new distributor
Grangers, a British company founded in 1937 and specializing in aftercare products for technical clothing and footwear, has made Sea to Summit its exclusive American distributor. The partnership comes as Grangers is experiencing significant growth thanks to previous work with some of the largest retailers in the U.S., such as ...
