Shoes

How ‘Circular Sourcing’ Powers Renewable Retail
How ‘Circular Sourcing’ Powers Renewable Retail
November 21, 2019  |  Retail

There are plenty of firms in the shoes and apparel sector that are “going green” to some extent. But new shoe startup Thousand Fell is...

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Building A Peer-To-Peer Network For Trading Shoes
Building A Peer-To-Peer Network For Trading Shoes
November 07, 2019  |  Retail

Shoe Bank CEO and Co-Founder Roni Harel loves shoes — and she has tons of them sitting in her closet. “Most of them I don’t wear,”...

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Why Allbirds Is Planting One Foot Firmly In Brick-And-Mortar Retail
Why Allbirds Is Planting One Foot Firmly In Brick-And-Mortar Retail
November 01, 2019  |  Retail

Allbirds has always been a somewhat unique company in the world of digitally-native brands attempting to take the world by storm. Its founding duo were...

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Allbirds Looks To Open 20 Brick-And-Mortar Locations
Allbirds Looks To Open 20 Brick-And-Mortar Locations
October 29, 2019  |  Retail

With a brick-and-mortar expansion in the works, direct-to-consumer shoe brand Allbirds plans to open 20 stores next year. The company began as a Silicon Valley...

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Nike, Shoe Retailers Try On Newer Forms Of Digital Commerce
Nike, Shoe Retailers Try On Newer Forms Of Digital Commerce
October 21, 2019  |  Retail

Everyone needs shoes — and that need helps drive innovation in an important sector of retail. In fact, several hot commerce trends involve footwear as...

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Footwear Helps Retailers Find The Right Fit For Innovation
Footwear Helps Retailers Find The Right Fit For Innovation
October 03, 2019  |  Retail

The sale of shoes online has come a long way since the dawn of eCommerce – and footwear continues to help drive innovation in the...

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Combining Consumers’ Love Of Comfort And 3D Knitting Into A $700M Brand
Combining Consumers’ Love Of Comfort And 3D Knitting Into A $700M Brand
September 10, 2019  |  Retail

Women’s footwear is big business, worth $32 billion annually in the U.S. alone, according to market research group NPD — though capturing those sales is...

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New Tariffs On Clothes, Shoes To Hit Consumers In The Wallet
New Tariffs On Clothes, Shoes To Hit Consumers In The Wallet
September 02, 2019  |  Economy

After the President Donald Trump administration added 15 percent tariffs to $112 billion of goods from China on Sunday (Sept. 1), China responded by imposing...

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DTC Shoe Company Atoms Gets $8.1M In Series A Round
DTC Shoe Company Atoms Gets $8.1M In Series A Round
August 30, 2019  |  Retail

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) shoe brand Atoms, which offers sizes in quarters instead of halves, and also lets customers buy different sizes for each foot, has raised...

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