The couple first caught the attention of law enforcement several years ago after Niagara Falls police received complaints about fake Nike sneakers being sold from makeshift stands at deeply reduced prices. Local agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, who listened in on phone calls,...
The International Council of Shopping Centers reported that chain-store sales were down 1.9 percent for the week ended Aug. 17 compared with the previous week. It was the second straight weekly decline....
A fight over footwear is brewing among several major sneaker manufacturers in New England. Six New England-based footwear companies wrote a letter to President Obama's top trade official recently, urging the administration to eliminate import tariffs on shoes made overseas as it negotiates a new...
Soles4Souls Inc., the not-for-profit institution dedicated to fighting poverty through the distribution of shoes and clothing, named veteran philanthropy executive Kevin Cherep as chief development officer....
A Toyota ad might show up on a news article about a car crash. Or an ad for Dove, which prides itself on promoting women’s “Real Beauty,” could show up on a Facebook page glorifying domestic violence. Such situations have forced the tech companies hosting...
The company, whose One for One business model donates a pair of shoes to someone in need for every pair it sells, aims to give 1 million pairs of shoes to children in the U.S. by the end of 2014....
The most long-standing trade protectionism issue is import tariffs on goods. Discrimination of this sort is no better than traditional tariff discrimination. To what extent should international trade agreements establish "global governance" rules on these issues?...
Why not just have your computer make your footwear for you? That's the basic idea behind Finnish shoe designer Janne Kyttanen's latest project. He's released a collection of shoes that can be assembled by a 3D printer, Mashable reports. ...
The companies said the merger would create the world's largest fashion subscription e-commerce company, with more than $400 million in annual revenue and 33 million members....
Sales at privately held retailers selling sporting goods, hobby supplies and musical instruments (NAICS 4511) in the 12 months ended Aug. 1 were 10.5% higher than the same period a year earlier, and profit margins have been flat, at around 3 percent, according to Sageworks'...