On March 19th, Gary Weiner, President and CEO of Saxon Shoes, Inc., was interviewed on WRVA's Jimmy Barrett's show about the recently introduced internet sales tax bill in Congress called the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013....
American footwear brand Skechers plans to introduce lower price points (below Rs 3,000) once it starts manufacturing in India. The brand has recently availed of the provisions for single brand retail to set up a joint venture in the country....
Any fashionista worth her salt knows the importance of shoes, so perhaps it's not surprising that speculation has already surfaced about what Pope Francis's choice of footwear could mean for his papacy. ...
... Nana's Kidz, a program affiliated with Grandma's House of Hope and dedicated to helping children in low-income families, partnered with Payless Shoe Source to provide 75 local kids with a new pair of shoes....
by Massimo Gatto Romans knew that the timetable for the papal conclave would be a quick one when the three sets of vestments prepared for the new pontiff—in small, medium, and large sizes—had already disappeared from the display window of Gammarelli, the ecclesiastical tailors, on Friday,...
Here’s what I want to TSA to do. Get rid of the shoe-removal requirement. It’s inconvenient. It limits one’s outfit options when the fab lace-up boots get kicked to the curb because of the time it takes to lace and unlace them. ...
Kanchit Chanthanapornchai, chairman of the Association of Thai Footwear Industrial Promotion said that Thai footwear industry’s production dropped to 13.7 million pairs last year from its normal annual level of 19 million pairs....
Indeed, "innovation and distribution are key," said Matt Priest, president of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, an industry trade group. "They had to reinvent themselves in the sense they have developed new products that customers wanted to buy," Mr. Priest said. "It's...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is planning to announce next week that Japan will enter the ongoing negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, sources have revealed....