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“This is all completely wrong. There was no takeover agreement with Mr Schrems from which claims could have arisen. A contract was planned, but never came to fruition,” Bolko Kissling stressed to schuhkurier. Rainer Schrems, who took over the Austrian shoe chains Salamander and Delka from Ara AG last year, claimed in a statement that…
For a year now, local entrepreneurs in the industry have been appearing under the new label “Shoe City Pirmasens”. A new website brings together specialist expertise and a variety of resources, while information about educational opportunities in the industry is also presented online. Now another company is joining the project: The Gautsche outlet store, run…
The Italian footwear sector recorded a 9.1% drop in sales in the first half of the year and suffered losses in foreign trade. The number of companies has continued to fall significantly and expectations are subdued. The article The Italian shoe industry reports a decline in sales and exports first appeared on schuhkurier. Source link
The United States is also facing an explosion in parcel shipments from China. More and more parcels are being caught by US-China tariffs because they are exploiting a so-called de minimis loophole. This allows parcels with a value of less than $800 to be sent to the United States with relatively little scrutiny. In this…
The expansion continues: Absolute Teamsport will soon be celebrating the opening of another location. From September 30th, Rico Haubold, who currently runs his sports shop of the same name in Dresden, among other places, will reopen it under the specialist’s concept. Team sports and fitness items will be offered in “a spacious sales area”, complemented…
On September 4, a lawsuit was filed by the US shoe manufacturer Skechers in the Southern District of New York. This lawsuit is directed against the Rockport brand and its licensee Marc Fisher, including the companies Marc Fisher Holdings LLC, ABG Rockport LLC and its parent company Authentic Brands Group LLC. Skechers accuses Rockport or…
As Rolf Pangels, CEO of BTE, explained to schuhkurier, they parted ways by mutual agreement.However, the position held by Eva Maria Schaffner at the BTE will remain; a successor is being worked on, said Pangels. Since November 1, 2022, Eva Maria Schaffner has been part of the BTE team as a business administration consultant. As…
“Everything was tried to preserve the Delka/Salamander locations and a supposedly reliable partner in Germany was found in the form of Görtz,” explains Rainer Schrems, Managing Director of Schuhquadrat GmbH, in a statement from the law firm Singer, Kessler & Partner. Görtz did take over old Delka/Salamander branches and opened shops there. However, the agreed…
Tamaris has reopened the store in Baden-Baden, which has been in operation for 14 years, with a new design to match the new store concept. “We are delighted that our long-standing partner, Gerry G&M Marks Mode Pur Schweinfurth GmbH, is taking this step with us and converting a space that has been successfully operated for…
Despite careful and professionally supported succession planning, no adequate successor solution was found. Owner Barbara Artmann deeply regrets this: “I have always seen my role as the guardian of the Künzli brand. It was not easy to prepare Künzli for the future and make it fit. We have succeeded in doing this in recent years….
