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Tod’s benefits from its DTC orientation
For the second quarter in a row, Tod’s beat market expectations in terms of sales development as the group registered the “first positive signs” of its strategy of renewing its collections more regularly and reducing its exposure to wholesale clients. Tod’s posted fourth-quarter sales of €238.4 million, up by 1.7 ...
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India may hike import duties on footwear
In presenting his country’s budget, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Nitharaman reportedly proposed to raise customs duties on certain types of imported footwear to 35 percent from 25 percent to help protect labor-intensive industries. “Cheap and low-quality imports are an impediment to their growth. Special attention has been taken to ...
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Shoes24 increases sales by 36%
The German Schuhe24 Group, which includes the online platforms Schuhe24 for footwear, Sportmarken24 for sports products, Outfits24 for clothing and Taschen24 for handbags, reports a new record for the 2019 financial year with sales of €75 million. With a sales increase of 36 percent as compared to the previous year, ...
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Footway slows down
Footway, the Swedish e-commerce site, continues to grow with increased sales and good profitability, but its growth has slowed. Sales in the fourth quarter amounted to SEK 308.4 million (€29.3m-$31.7m), an increase of 16.7 percent. They grew by 30.4 percent for the year to SEK 990.9 million (€94.0m-$101.9m). In ...
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Ambitious new goals for CCC
The management board of CCC, the Polish shoe manufacturer and retailer, has announced new ambitious growth objectives through 2022. It said that it plans to increase its sales to an annual level between 8.5 billion and 9.0 billion zloties, around €2 billion, by the end of 2022. At the ...
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JD’s acquisition of Footasylum hits anti-trust hurdle
Mike Ashley, the maverick boss of Sports Direct, must be jumping with joy at getting his way with his criticism of JD Sports Fashion’s acquisition of Footasylum last April, which is again being questioned by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The CMA launched a review of the case ...
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Spartoo acquires Easy Peasy
Spartoo has acquired Easy Peasy from the Noël group, which was put into liquidation in the autumn of 2019. The financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed. Easy Peasy is an eco-friendly brand that makes baby booties. The brand was founded in 2008 by two young creatives who ...
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Dr. Martens’ owner buys Golden Goose for €1.28 billion
The London-based private equity firm is buying a majority stake in the Italian footwear company Golden Goose from another investment group, the Carlyle Group. The size of Permira’s investment was not released but financial sources indicated that the price tag was €1.28 billion – a price more or less equivalent ...
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Micam Milano replaces Micam Americas
Informa Markets, a British organizer of exhibitions and events, has joined forces with the Micam Milano to launch Micam Americas, scheduled to run for the first time from Aug. 17 to 19 in Las Vegas. It will replace FN Platform and run alongside two other important fashion events at the ...
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Coronavirus is starting to hit the world economy
More than 1,500 people have died and more than 50,000 have been infected in China alone as of today. The virus is now spreading abroad and putting a serious dent in the world’s economic activity. The virus has spared no part of the supply chain for footwear, as China accounts ...
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ArticleEurope has become the “epicenter” of the coronavirus pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Europe has now become the “epicenter” of the novel coronavirus pandemic as the virus spreads dramatically, prompting nations to totally or partially shut down their economies. On March 22, the Italian government issued a decree imposing the closure of all manufacturing ...
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Germany withstands the disease in better ways
Italy, the largest shoe manufacturing country on the continent, has suffered the highest number of deaths, followed by Spain, the second-largest producer. The official number of deaths related to the epidemic is now higher in Italy than in China, where it started last December. After Italy, Spain became the second ...
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Italy’s 2019 shoe production fell by 3.1% in volume
Italian footwear production fell by 3.1 percent to 178.6 million pairs in 2019 as the industry continued to suffer from a weak domestic market and a decline in export volumes, according to an estimate released by the Italian shoe industry association Assocalzaturifici. The value of the production rose by 1.3 ...
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Lower foreign and domestic sales by German shoe companies
The growth of the German footwear industry weakened in 2019, weighed down once again by lower sales abroad, according to an annual report by the Federal Association of the German Footwear and Leathergoods Industry (HDS/L) and presented at the Gallery Shoes fair in Düsseldorf earlier this month. In 2019, ...
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German shoe retailers post record growth in a difficult market
According to the German Federal Association of Shoe Retailers (BDSE), German shoe retailers recorded an increase of year-on-year 3 percent in their sales in 2019, expanding the total market to around €11.8 billion. The situation for German shoe retailers was positive last year except for a difficult winter, once ...
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ANWR Germany reports lower centralized settlements
At its Campus Second trade show held on March 3-5 in Mainhausen, near Frankfurt, ANWR looked at its 2019 business year. ANWR’s two main German retail cooperatives, ANWR Schuh and Garant, recorded a decrease in centralized settlements from €885 million in 2018 to €865 million in 2019. At the ...
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With higher sales and visits, Zalando pushes its marketplace
Zalando’s momentum keeps going, and the e-tailer is looking at new ways to grow after posting strong results for the fourth quarter of the year. One of the highlights was a jump in the number of site visits, which progressed by 31.9 percent to 960.7 million. The company’s revenues ...
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Footway bids for Sportamore
The Footway Group, a Swedish online shoe retailer that is expanding internationally, announced on Feb. 17 that it wants to buy Sportamore, a leading Swedish online retailer of sports products. Footway has offered to pay 439 million kronor (€41.5m-$44.9m) in cash and shares for Sportamore, or a premium of around ...
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Change of control for Baldinini
An Italian investment company, Finross, is taking over the control of Baldinini, the well-known Italian shoe company. According to a local newspaper, Il Resto del Carlino, Finross, which is owned by the Rossetti family and based in Bologna, is acquiring a 60 percent stake in the 110-year-old company for €13 ...
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Shandong Ruyi fails to complete Bally’s takeover
It’s not clear at this stage whether Shandong Ruyi will be the new owner of Bally. The Chinese textile and clothing manufacturer has failed to obtain financing to complete the $600 million acquisition of the Swiss shoe brand, according to the Reuters. Bally confirmed that the deal that was announced ...
