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DiaSHOE project: improving the quality of life of people with diabetes
The European Footwear Confederation and its partners from Czechia, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Romania kicked off the new Erasmus+ project DiaSHOE, intended to support footwear manufacturers, patients, healthcare workers, and shoe-store clerks to tackle the issue through prevention and skills development
Jovan receives double certification
Portuguese company Jovan has just been double certified by the SGQA - Quality and Environment Management system (ISO 9001 and ISO 14001). Quality and the environment are top priority in this company dedicated to manufacturing footwear for adults and children
Germany Retail: The shoes must go on! But COVID-19 is still not off the stage
One of the key footwear players took a massive hit with the dissemination of the pandemic inside its borders. During the first COVID-19 wave, footwear retail almost collapsed in Germany, but the recovery was faster than what was initially expected, and September was marked by optimism. However, a partial lockdown in the Autumn and not very good perspectives for Christmas are anticipating bad news for Germanic retailers, once again, and even before a full recovery has been achieved
JCPenney’s Retail and Operating Assets to exit Chapter 11
The US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas has confirmed the Company’s Plan of Reorganization to create separate property holding companies
Brazil: driven by slippers, footwear exports grow by 13.8%
According to data by the Brazilian Footwear Industries Association (Abicalçados) in November, 9.55 million pairs of footwear were exported, 13.8% more than in the same month last year
Genesco: sales down but better than expected
Net sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2021 decreased by 11%. Genesco says this sales results exceeded expectations and translate the return of the company to profitability
Under Armour and Stephen Curry launch Curry Brand
The Baltimore-based sportswear brand in partnership with three-time NBA champion and two-time Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry, announced the creation and launch of the Curry Brand
Caleres: sales down by 18.3%
The US-based footwear group has announced results for its third quarter, marked by a decline of 18.3% in net sales. Declines registered in all segments, except for the online business
New Generation: meet The Boot Institute
Two friends, one day at the beach. That is how the project The Boot Institute was born. Sandra has a background in Marketing and Dina has 12 years of experience in the footwear sector
Pitti gathers its events and moves them to February
Uomo, Bimbo and Filati to take place at the same dates in Florence. The Pitti events are now on the agenda to take place between the 21st and the 23rd February 2021
How COVID-19 affected the 10 largest footwear exporters
After analysing the impact in the main footwear importers, today we focus on the influence the pandemic and subsequent restrictions of movements and lockdowns had on the main footwear exporters in the first half of the current year
Arcadia declines emergency loan offer from Frasers Group
The owner of several high street retailers, Arcadia, have declined a 50 million British pounds (55.8 million euros) emergency loan offer from Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, the retail group formally known as Sports Direct
The impact of the pandemic in footwear imports
International footwear trade was heavily impacted by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent dissemination across the globe. Check the impact on the main footwear importers
Which footwear categories resisted better to the hit of COVID-19?
In the first semester of 2020, global footwear exports have fallen almost a third (-31.1%) compared with similar period in the previous year. Do you know which categories resisted better to the impact of the pandemic?
Caleres to close 133 Naturalizer stores in US and Canada
More than 130 Naturalizer stores in the United States and Canada will be closed by early 2021 as Caleres announces it will adopt a digital sales strategy for the shoe chain-
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