All Retail articles – Page 73

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    Sanuk, one of the brands of Deckers Outdoor Corp., has...

    2013-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Sanuk, one of the brands of Deckers Outdoor Corp., has opened a store in Honolulu

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    Eureka, the Portuguese manufacturer behind the Eureka, Grotesque and Philipe...

    2013-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Eureka, the Portuguese manufacturer behind the Eureka, Grotesque and Philipe Souza brands of shoes, is reportedly studying the opening of its first stores outside its country. It just opened a new flagship Eureka store in the central rua de Santa Catarina in Porto. It is its 28th store in Portugal. ...

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    André, the oldest shoe retail chain of the Vivarte group,...

    2013-12-31T00:00:00Z

    André, the oldest shoe retail chain of the Vivarte group, has upgraded its image, while remaining a popular and accessible brand. The new, cleaner, white and purple image is reflected in a new flagship store that has been inaugurated on place Victor Hugo in Paris. It will be replicated in ...

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    Rack Room Shoes, the American subsidiary of the Deichmann group,...

    2013-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Rack Room Shoes, the American subsidiary of the Deichmann group, wants to accelerate the development of its two chains of stores, Rack Room Shoes and Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse, which already counts 450 doors in 34 states. For this purpose, it has hired new real estate directors for each of ...

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    Shoebuy.com has relaunched its website after redesigning it to make...

    2013-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Shoebuy.com has relaunched its website after redesigning it to make it more visually appealing to its customers. The new Shoebuy.com and mobile site feature less text, larger images and easy navigation for more intuitive shopping. The company said that through the new site, customers should easily find what they want ...

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    Dubarry of Ireland plans to open shortly a new flagship...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Dubarry of Ireland plans to open shortly a new flagship store in London. It will be located on Duke of York Square in the Chelsea district of the English capital. The company says that its store in Dublin has been a major success since its opening in October 2012.

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    Kyaia, the Portuguese company that owns the Fly London and...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Kyaia, the Portuguese company that owns the Fly London and Softinos brands, plans to introduce Softinos shoes gradually in its Fly London stores. The company has just moved its Fly London store in Oporto to a bigger and more central location. Kyaia worked together with Aerosoles for many years in ...

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    Leiser, the German shoe retail chain controlled by Joseph Seibel,...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Leiser, the German shoe retail chain controlled by Joseph Seibel, plans to launch a new store concept called Leiser-Comfort. For this purpose, it has rented a space of around 575 square meters in the Charlottenburg area of Berlin. The address is given as Reichsstrasse 100, but the timing of its ...

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    As planned, the Polish CCC chain has opened its first...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    As planned, the Polish CCC chain has opened its first German store, measuring 600-square-meters and located in the City Point shopping center of Nuremberg. The next German openings before the year-end were or will be in Halle, Heilbronn and Hamburg. They should be followed by between 20 and 30 new ...

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    Yoox has launched the first online shop for Brioni, the...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Yoox has launched the first online shop for Brioni, the upmarket Italian suit maker, as part of its joint venture with French luxury group Kering, established in Aug. 2012 to manage the monobrand online stores of several Kering brands. The addition of Brioni has brought the number of monobrand websites ...

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    Prada is consolidating its retail presence in Brazil. It has...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Prada is consolidating its retail presence in Brazil. It has opened a store in Brasilia and is planning three other openings in Curitiba, São Paulo and Recife. This will raise to seven the number of single-brand stores in the country.

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    Vans has opened a new flagship store in Bilbao, raising...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Vans has opened a new flagship store in Bilbao, raising to seven the number of its mono-brand stores in Spain, and another one is opening shortly in Alicante. Only two of the Spanish stores are owned by VF Corp., parent company of Vans, and they are both located in Barcelona. ...

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    British independent shoe retailers elected Josef Seibel as bestseller in...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    British independent shoe retailers elected Josef Seibel as bestseller in the categories of ‘Top Ladies Brand' and ‘Top Men's Brand' for this year's spring/summer season. The brand was ranked first in the overall men's footwear segment and in the women's comfort shoe segment. In the overall women's footwear segment, the ...

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    Spartoo, the online retailer in footwear and fashion apparel, has...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Spartoo, the online retailer in footwear and fashion apparel, has been chosen by Google to evaluate and test its “Trusted Store” program in the U.K., France and Germany. Spartoo is the first online retailer to participate in this certification at the same time across several European countries. Google launched this ...

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    Rexor, the German buying group controlled by ANWR, has created...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Rexor, the German buying group controlled by ANWR, has created a special training workshop for young retail entrepreneurs to promote an exchange of ideas and strategies. The group has already visited a German shoe manufacturer, FinnComfort, and two retailers, Dorsch and Schön & Endres. During the first training session, the ...

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    Service Value in Cologne has conducted a survey among 3,300...

    2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Service Value in Cologne has conducted a survey among 3,300 consumers in Germany to evaluate the performance of 21 shoe brands and retail banners, both online and bricks-and-mortar, in terms of range of products, value for money, store concepts, customer service and many other parameters. The survey makes no distinction ...

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    Mephisto opened two new mono-brand stores in Germany, managed by...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Mephisto opened two new mono-brand stores in Germany, managed by local partners, in Berlin and Lüneburg in August this year. Mephisto has a total of 874 mono-brand stores worldwide, 105 of them in China, about 100 in France and 35 in Germany. Altogether 36 new stores were opened in the ...

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    Red Wing has opened its fourth German store in Munich...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Red Wing has opened its fourth German store in Munich

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    Fly London plans to open its third store in the...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Fly London plans to open its third store in the U.K. by the spring of 2014. The Portuguese shoe brand recently opened a new mono-brand store in London, which is owned and managed by the company. Fly London currently manages six mono-brand stores in Europe – two in Portugal, one ...

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    NeroGiardini is looking at China for the future development of...

    2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

    NeroGiardini is looking at China for the future development of its network of franchised stores. The Italian company has opened six franchised stores in Russia since December and plans to add three others, according to Pambianco's news service. Looking within Europe, it recently opened a franchised store in Zurich as ...