K-Swiss Inc. will receive $30 million from Collective Brands Inc. to settle a trademark infringement lawsuit.

Collective Brands, the parent company of the Payless ShoeSource and Stride-Rite retail chains, is not admitting any wrongdoing, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commisison.

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Nike 6.0, the action sports division of Nike, Inc. is the latest advertiser to set up a branded community on Loop'd Network. Members of the Nike 6.0 community can create profiles, share photos of themselves in the midst of skating, biking or surfing, and compete for commercial sponsorships. They can also interact with all of the other communities within San Diego, Calif.-based Loop'd Network, including the Monster Army and the PacSun Team.

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Sales of fashion-focused athletic shoes are racing ahead of those designed for a specific sport according to new figures released this week.

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Well sort of. You can do some things to increase the purchase rate.

A survey conducted by PayPal and comScore revealed that unexpectedly high shipping fees are the number one reason consumers abandon online purchases. Checkout abandonment is a significant challenge for online merchants, with an estimated two out of every three consumers failing to pay for items they put in their shopping carts.

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LaCrosse Footwear Inc's Danner subsidiary has won a $3m delivery order as part of the Mountain Cold Weather Boot contract awarded by the United States Marine Corps in 2006.

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Jay Meschter, Innovation Director of Nike's Innovation Kitchen, on new lightweight technology for shoe design that's akin to suspension-bridge construction. MarketWatch's Andria Cheng reports.

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Legislation to eliminate import tariffs on about 60% of all shoes sold in the United States has reached another landmark on its way to final passage as US trade group said yesterday (19 June).

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Legislation to eliminate import tariffs on about 60% of all shoes sold in the United States has reached another landmark on its way to final passage as US trade group said yesterday (19 June).

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Adidas Group unit The Rockport Company is rolling out an advertising campaign in the US called "are you established" for its Established 1971 footwear collection.

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ADDISON – Rising construction costs are causing some retailers to back out of new shopping center projects, according to a panel of retailers speaking Wednesday at a shopping center industry luncheon.

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Crocs has introduced a new woman's shoe to its Rx collection called the Silver Fox.

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Interchangeable footwear brand Skins has sealed a distribution deal with online retailer Zappos.com.

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Robert J. Dennis, president of Genesco Inc., will assume the additional role of chief executive officer starting Aug. 1.

Hal N. Pennington, the current chairman and chief executive officer, will continue as chairman.

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NEW YORK — Skins Inc. announced Wednesday the appointment of Michael Solomon as CFO, effective immediately.

Most recently, Solomon served as SVP and controller of Nexxar Group Inc., a global payment transmitter and processing company. Prior to that, he held several top executive titles, including CFO, at such as companies as Startrak Systems LLC, Shareholder International Corp. and Georgeson Shareholder Communications Inc.

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70 percent of U.S. consumers worry wbout online privacy, but few take protective action, Jupiter Media Metrix reports. Privacy and security concerns could cost online businesses almost $25 billion by 2006.

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Are loyalty programs alone enough to keep your customers in your store?

Integrated Solutions For Retailers, July 2008
Written by: Erin Harris

In the retail world, customer relationship management (CRM) has quickly evolved from a luxury to a necessity. If you do not retain, analyze, and use your customers’ key data, chances are another retailer will. In addition, CRM has grown from a cumbersome manual process to a proliferation of automated data collection, customized loyalty programs, one-to-one marketing efforts, and more. So, loyalty as it pertains to CRM is only one component of a multifaceted process. In this month’s Retail Solutions Forum, Tim Lemieux, senior VP and CIO of Ratner Companies, and Kathryn Murphy, VP of product management at Tomax Corporation, discuss CRM as a comprehensive discipline and where it’s headed next.

Why are retailers using CRM?
Lemieux: CRM allows retailers to better understand their customers and create demographic profiles, which lead to improved effectiveness in marketing efforts.

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(CSRwire) STRATHAM, NH,. - June 17, 2008 - The Timberland Company today announced several innovative changes in how it publicly reports on its corporate social responsibility (CSR) work. The company, which has traditionally reported its CSR performance in an annual report format, is moving to quarterly updates of key CSR metrics – the first of which is now available on the Timberland page at JustMean (http://timberland.justmeans.com). Full CSR reports will still be available every two years with the 2007-2008 corporate CSR report scheduled for release in Spring 2009.

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PICKERINGTON, Ohio, June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Three collateral marketing pieces developed by R.G. Barry Corporation, the Dearfoams® Company, have been selected from more than 4,000 entries for 2008 Hermes Creative Awards.

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HA NOI — The Viet Nam Leather and Footwear Association (Lefaso) yesterday asked the Vietnamese Government and relevant ministries to continue negotiating with the European Commission to maintain the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) for Vietnamese-made footwear.

The association’s request was a response to the European Commission’s announcement last week that it would discontinue GSP terms for Vietnamese footwear shipped to the bloc.

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[Source: Smallbiztechnology.com ] One of the points in my timeless, 10 Web Site Musts is the importance of good navigation and the overall look of your web site. Like you, before I visit someone or when I want to know more about them I check out their web site. If their web site is not good, I wonder how seriously they take their business. Sure this is NOW easy for me to say, since last Fall I invested the money to make my previously crappy web site so much better. First impressions count in how we dress, how our office looks and the delivery trucks we use! It also counts in our web site I hear several reasons why business don't have better web sites. No time to do them. No knowledge of how to get it done. Hiring a local web developer is going to be a bit costly, many good ones won't touch a web site for less than $5,000 or so. However, there are so many services available that can help you build a web site or make the one you have better. A new service from web host Concentric (a subsidiary of XO Communications) is one example of these offerings. (click here for original article)

[Source: Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com ] New figures from the US Commerce Department show consumers headed back into the stores in May – confirming monthly sales figures posted by many retailers last week. (click here for original article)

[Source: Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com ] Adidas Group-owned sportswear brand Reebok has reported that its new website is meeting early performance targets a one month after its launch. (click here for original article)

[Source: Yahoo! Finance: Textile - Apparel Footwear & Accessories Industry News ] STRATHAM, N.H.----Today The Timberland Company announced the global launch of the Earthkeeper campaign, a movement to recruit one million people to become part of an online network designed to inspire real environmental behavior change. (click here for original article)

[Source: Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com ] Retail sales values on the UK high street rose 1.9% on a like-for-like basis during May, new data from the British Retail Consortium showed today (10 June), with clothing and footwear at the forefront of sector growth. (click here for original article)

[Source: The Retail Site - Retail Business News, Ideas, and Tips Blog ] An online shopping study conducted by Sunshine Rewards demonstrates that more than anything else, when merchants offer free shipping, consumers will choose to buy online and minimize other costs.Fishers, IN (PRWEB) June 9, 2008 — If you are a merchant trying to influence customers to spend shrinking discretionary shopping dollars, a survey done by an online loyalty site, Sunshine Rewards, indicates that free shipping is the highest priority in potential customers’ purchase decisions. Consumers are looking for ways to save money and more efficiently use resources. A survey was presented to Sunshine Rewards members who consistently look to online merchants when making buying decisions. In fact, 84% of those who responded to the survey indicated that they shop online monthly, weekly, and even as frequently as daily. In today’s economy where money is tight and resources are being more carefully budgeted, a major factor for many shoppers is whether or not gas or shipping is less expensive. Read entire press release at PRWeb.com (click here for original article)

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ChoiceStream and PowerReviews partner to provide customer reviews to shoppers.
- Personalization service provider ChoiceStream and customer review solution developer PowerReviews are teaming up to allow retailers to include customer reviews in their targeted online customer recommendations. Announced June 3, the partnership is intended to boost online sales conversions. “There...

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[Source: Yahoo! Finance: Textile - Apparel Footwear & Accessories Industry News ] NIWOT, Colo.----Crocs, Inc. and Outside, America's leading active lifestyle magazine, today announced a partnership to promote Inspiring Soles, a program celebrating extraordinary athletes that have combined their compassion for humanity with their passion for the outdoors. (click here for original article)

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In a tough retail environment, where many retail chains are struggling with declining store sales, senior executives are pushing for more integration of the thriving web channel into an overall retail strategy, says Fiona Dias, executive vice president of e-commerce technology and services provider GSI Commerce Inc.

“There’s a clear mandate to represent the same brand to the same consumers who shop across channels,” says Dias, who will address e-commerce and multi-channel strategies for retail chains at the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2008 next week in the session “Organizing for e-commerce success.”

But many retailers are also struggling to find the right formula for integrating channel strategies as well as their online and offline professional teams, she adds. “We’ve seen some awful flips in the last couple of years as retailers raced to integrate the web channel with the rest of the company, expecting the web team to fix the problems of the parent organization, and then seen everything grind to a halt.”

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The remarkable longevity of the Ugg boot is helping Deckers maintain its rapid growth.

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