All Trade fairs & conferences articles – Page 31
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India's Council for Leather Exports is planning to stage an...
India's Council for Leather Exports is planning to stage an Indian Leather Show in Paris from Feb. 28 to March 1, 2013. The show was supposed to take place in Paris last month, but CLE decided to postpone it in order to allow Indian manufacturers of leather and leathergoods to ...
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The footwear sector came out particularly strong at the latest...
The footwear sector came out particularly strong at the latest Fashion Access, which was held in Hong Kong on Sept. 27-29. Nine exhibitors were rewarded with the Best of APLF Awards, four of which were footwear companies. PT Mario Minardi of Indonesia won for Best Quality Men's Footwear Collection. Art ...
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A new British brand, Fury, has won a prize for...
A new British brand, Fury, has won a prize for a sponsored stand in the FN Platform section of the Magic show in Las Vegas. It is one of thee prizes won by young British entrepreneurs in the 2012 Footwear Friends Awards. Monetary prizes were given by the consultancy of ...
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Bernard Arnault, the chairman and chief executive of the LVMH...
Bernard Arnault, the chairman and chief executive of the LVMH conglomerate and France's richest man, will be honored with an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by the British ambassador in France, Sir Peter Ricketts. Reportedly, Arnault will be the only French national to be awarded the ...
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The 2012 edition of the All China Leather Exhibition (ACLE),...
The 2012 edition of the All China Leather Exhibition (ACLE), held on Sept.4-6 in Shanghai, attracted 22,204 visitors, 16.25 percent more than in 2011. Visitors from China were 18,699, an increase of 20.22 percent from last year, while overseas visitors came in at 3,138, up by 1.69 percent. Apart from ...
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A total of 133 paying delegates attended the first Footwear...
A total of 133 paying delegates attended the first Footwear Sustainability Summit in Shanghai last Sept. 13-14, resulting in a full house, and the event will likely be repeated next year. One of the speakers was Luigi Grosso, president of Euro Brand Management in Germany. The delegates came from such ...
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The 23rd edition of Le Cuir à Paris attracted 14,011...
The 23rd edition of Le Cuir à Paris attracted 14,011 visitors, an increase of 9.8 percent from September 2011. Boosted by the luxury sector, the leather and fur trade show, which closed last Sept. 21 in Paris, saw the participation of some 413 exhibitors, and its surface increased by ...
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The Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence is showing an exhibition...
The Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence is showing an exhibition of shoes that Ferragamo made for the iconic actress Marilyn Monroe. Running until January, the exhibition demonstrates that the heels on Monroe's shoes are the same height, dispelling the myth that she always had one heel made slightly lower than ...
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Inspiramais, the Brazilian fair for shoe components and materials, welcomed...
Inspiramais, the Brazilian fair for shoe components and materials, welcomed 30 percent more visitors than last February at its July 24-26 edition in São Paulo, or a total of more than 5,000. Over 100 exhibitors showed more than 500 new materials and Walter Rodriguez again ran a very interesting fashin ...
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The Moda Footwear show held in Birmingham last month featured...
The Moda Footwear show held in Birmingham last month featured more than 400 brands, and attendance grew by 3 percent. Organizers said the increase indicated that the British footwear industry is in good health. Making their Moda debut were K-Swiss, We Are Saints and Palladium.
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The new Shoe Gallery at Copenhagen's restructured Bella Center were...
The new Shoe Gallery at Copenhagen's restructured Bella Center were a great success during the the fashion fairs in the Danish capital in mid-August. Like in Stockholm, all the shoe brands exhibiting at the trademart were ordered to exhibit on the same floor, which was divided by product areas, and ...
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Expo Riva Schuh India, the annual trade show held in...
Expo Riva Schuh India, the annual trade show held in New Delhi, saw a 16.2 percent increase to 3,795 in the number of dealers who visited its second edition on July 5-7. Apparently, Indian buyers appreciated its earlier dates. There was also a relatively strong presence of foreign buyers who ...
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TEC, the French shoe agents' exhibition, will move to the...
TEC, the French shoe agents' exhibition, will move to the big Porte de Versailles exhibition center next March from its more peripheral venues in the Botanical Garden of Vincennes, where it will still be staged later this month, on Sept. 23-25. The move is seen as a natural evolution for ...
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With just about a week to go before Modacalzado+Iberpiel in...
With just about a week to go before Modacalzado+Iberpiel in Madrid, the organizers report about 500 brands, both from Spain and abroad, including many first-timers. Some of the companies making their debut at the show, being held Sept. 22-24, include Muxart, Lois, Mayoral, Holster Shoes, Pelé Sports, Rieker Antistress, Iron ...
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All China Leather Exhibition (ACLE), launched in 1998 to present...
All China Leather Exhibition (ACLE), launched in 1998 to present Chinese buyers with the latest developments from the global leather industry, took place at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Pudong on Sept. 4-6. The event ran concurrently with China International Footwear Fair (CIFF) and Moda Shanghai. The companies ...
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Up to 150 to 200 current exhibitors at Bread &...
Up to 150 to 200 current exhibitors at Bread & Butter are said to be likely to be thrown out of the fair as part of a major cleanup decided by the management. Reacting to criticism from the major brands and buyers, Karl-Heinz Müller, the boss of the Berlin show, ...
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Geox is pulling out of the GDS show in Düsseldorf,...
Geox is pulling out of the GDS show in Düsseldorf, but it will go back to Micam in Milan next month after a long absence. The next edition of Micam will take place on Sept. 16-19 at the Rho trade fair area, near Milan. With an exhibition surface of over ...
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The British Fashion Council has decided to organize its menswear...
The British Fashion Council has decided to organize its menswear fashion shows in London on Jan. 7-9. The dates coincide with those of Pitti Uomo, which has strongly criticized the decision.
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British footwear has cachet around the world, as evidenced by...
British footwear has cachet around the world, as evidenced by the increasing demand from stores in Asia and the U.S., which U.K. factories are working hard to fulfill. The British Footwear Association is taking more and more companies to international trade shows such as GDS in Germany and Magic in ...
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The Italian shoe industry association, Anci, is organizing a collective...
The Italian shoe industry association, Anci, is organizing a collective stand, titled Shoes from Italy, during the APLF Fashion Access fair in Hong Kong on Sept. 27-29. It will feature 43 companies including Alfiere, Bruno Magli, Cerutti, Gianfranco Lattanzi, Imac, Krhio, Mac Dugan, Naturino, Stonefly and others.
