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Zalando is planning to stop handling returns in-house in its...
Zalando is planning to stop handling returns in-house in its logistic centers in Erfurt, Lahr and Mönchengladbach, whose management is reportedly being outsourced
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Snipes, a subsidiary of Deichmann, recently opened its tenth French...
Snipes, a subsidiary of Deichmann, recently opened its tenth French store at the Parly 2 shopping center, in the suburbs of Paris. The retailer opened its first French store in the summer of 2018, at the Créteil Soleil shopping center, while the first store in the inner city area of ...
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Working with a local partner, Berkemann has opened two stores...
Working with a local partner, Berkemann has opened two stores in Taipei
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Alibaba has launched an English-language website for its Tmall Global...
Alibaba has launched an English-language website for its Tmall Global marketplace aimed at merchants. Tmall Global, an extension of Tmall, hosts foreign brands that look to sell to Chinese consumers. The recent move is meant to double the number of international brands on the platform, from the current 20,000 to ...
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Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at...
Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at its London head office in Camden, many of them in the marketing department. The last set of interim results, which the online retailer released in March, showed a drop of 87 percent in its pre-tax profits. The company has been ...
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In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram...
In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram has launched its own internet retail account internationally under @shop. Its own team recommends products such as shoes, handbags and pullovers, tracking trends and posting their pictures on its social media platform, which is owned by Facebook, just like its ...
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Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because...
Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because it is losing about 20-30 million transactions per year, which equals about €1 billion in sales, due to a lack of stock in its own warehouses. Zalando is already working with more than 1,000 shops in Germany, but wants to ...
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Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first...
Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first French monobrand store at the end of July. As reported by fashionnetwork.com, the 50-square-meter shop will be located in Paris' Marais district, at 12 rue du Temple.
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Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has...
Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has announced that his company should be delivering packages with drones “within months.” Speaking at Re:Mars – the e-tail behemoth's conference on machine learning, automation, robotics and space, held on June 4-7 in Las Vegas – Wilke said that Amazon's latest ...
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After a beta test in France that began a year...
After a beta test in France that began a year ago, Google is taking its Shopping Actions experience to the U.S. With this application, customers are able to buy products online from a brand or a retailer through their own Google account, without registering for the service and without leaving ...
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After the opening of its ninth store in Turin, the...
After the opening of its ninth store in Turin, the Italian PittaRosso chain has launched its first private label footwear collection, called P Essential, for the current spring/summer season, which includes models for everyday life, ballerinas and sandals
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Timberland plans to open between 25 and 30 new directly...
Timberland plans to open between 25 and 30 new directly owned and franchised stores in Europe
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Görtz has launched a new service to help parents to...
Görtz has launched a new service to help parents to buy the right shoes for their children. The Hamburg-based shoe retailing firm sends one of its employees, Nicole Anton, to the home of the customer to show a selection of shoes and give advice, free of charge, after the parents ...
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Gore-Tex recently opened a pop-up store at a German shoe...
Gore-Tex recently opened a pop-up store at a German shoe retail store called Schuh Reindl. The pop-up store, covering 40 square meters, is located in Rosenheim. It's the company's first pop-up store in Germany. There, consumers can test sneakers, casual shoes, trekking shoes and running shoes made with Gore-Tex fabrics. ...
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Kurt Geiger is planning to open its first store in...
Kurt Geiger is planning to open its first store in India this autumn through a partnership with Genesis Luxury. Under the terms of the agreement, Genesis Luxury has acquired the exclusive distribution rights to Kurt Geiger in the country. Genesis Luxury, a division of Reliance Brands, already brings to India ...
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A new site to showcase France's shoe manufacturing and design...
A new site to showcase France's shoe manufacturing and design tradition has been inaugurated in Romans-sur-Isère, in southeastern France. “La Cité de la Chaussure” (French for “Shoe City”) is a €3.3 million privately funded project gathering together start-ups and artisans, who can produce and sell their creations in the same ...
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Tax-free sales to Middle Eastern customers in Milan's Montenapoleone district,...
Tax-free sales to Middle Eastern customers in Milan's Montenapoleone district, the high-end shopping area in town, jumped by 56 percent in the first quarter of 2019. According to recent data from Global Blue, the average spent also increased significantly, with a 19 percent rise versus the same period in 2018. ...
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Le Coq Sportif and Opium, a dedicated sneaker shop in...
Le Coq Sportif and Opium, a dedicated sneaker shop in the dead center of Paris, have collaborated on a limited-edition sneaker. Based on the Freestyle, a mountain-bike shoe from Le Coq's back catalogue, the LCS R1000 was designed in part by – and exists in tribute to – the three ...
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Spain's Chie Mihara is launching an updated version of its...
Spain's Chie Mihara is launching an updated version of its web store in English, Spanish and French, welcoming orders from 82 different countries. Reportedly, the company had sales of €14 million last year, servicing more than 600 stores around the world.
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Vögele Shoes opened its biggest store in the Swiss market...
Vögele Shoes opened its biggest store in the Swiss market on May 2. The new three-level store, which was designed in line with a new store concept that includes digital elements, offers a wide range of products on 1,500 square meters of retail space. To celebrate its opening, Vögele offered ...
