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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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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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Baldinini has opened its first store in Paris on rue...
Baldinini has opened its first store in Paris on rue Saint-Honoré, close to Colette, and it plans to follow up with openings in Vienna and Budapest next March
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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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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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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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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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Prada has opened its first Sicilian store in an 18th...
Prada has opened its first Sicilian store in an 18th century palazzo in Palermo, next to the Politeama theater
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But Fashion Solutions of Portugal, which produces and markets the...
But Fashion Solutions of Portugal, which produces and markets the Cubanas line of shoes, is opening the first store under this brand name in Lisbon next month, which should be followed by two franchises in Lebanon next May. The company also has a chain of multi-brand shoe stores, called Made ...
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Spartoo, the French shoe e-tailer, has launched a special portal,...
Spartoo, the French shoe e-tailer, has launched a special portal, StylistClick.com, where a restricted group of 10,000 registered members will get personalized advice on the choice of certain styles – 250 to begin with – after filling out a questionnaire about their preferences. All the styles will be sold at ...
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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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Zippy, the shoe retail chain of the Portuguese Sonae Group,...
Zippy, the shoe retail chain of the Portuguese Sonae Group, has opened its second store in Turkey
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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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Bensimon, the French fashion company known for its minimalist shoes,...
Bensimon, the French fashion company known for its minimalist shoes, has launched a virtual shop where it is offering only new or exclusive products
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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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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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Aigle has opened a pop-up shop in the Piazza of...
Aigle has opened a pop-up shop in the Piazza of London's Covent Garden and will keep it in operation until Jan. 2. It measures 200 square meters on two floors. The interior is similar to that of a pop-up store that the French company opened in Hong Kong last April, ...
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After opening a third store in Hong Kong last June,...
After opening a third store in Hong Kong last June, Hogan has opened its first store in Beijing
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After opening a store in Beverly Hills last summer, Pretty...
After opening a store in Beverly Hills last summer, Pretty Ballerinas of Spain is following up with another store in California, this time in Santa Monica
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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 ...
