Retro and classic styles drive slow year for US footwear industry

 “For more than a decade, U.S. sales of athletic footwear have averaged about a 4 percent annual increase, but 2016 will go down as a slightly below…

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Swiss manufacturers cut jobs that sector warns won’t come back

Six decades after opening, Schindler’s hometown factory in Ebikon that decades ago employed hundreds will be scaled back to under 100 employees by the end of 2017.They…

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