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Delcam Crispin has expanded its sales team with the appointment...
Delcam Crispin has expanded its sales team with the appointment of Ian Evans as marketing executive. He will be in charge of the global marketing for the Crispin range of design and manufacturing software, as well as the development of its new website. He will be based at the Birmingham ...
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BNS Bergal, Nico and Solitaire signed a joint venture in Mainz with...
BNS Bergal, Nico and Solitaire signed a joint venture in Mainz with Granger's, the British manufacturer of shoe care products, to cover the German and Austrian markets with a single sales team. The companies will be exhibiting for the first time together at the Ispo show in Munich at the beginning of February.
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Flip Flop, the brand owned by Bernd Hummel, plans to open...
Flip Flop, the brand owned by Bernd Hummel, plans to open three additional stores in Germany in 2013, probably in Munich and Frankfurt. Meanwhile, Flip Flop has signed a distribution contract with the sales agency of Karin van Dijk for the Dutch market, where the first collection will be in stores ...
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Vagabond is making a big push in emerging markets. The...
Vagabond is making a big push in emerging markets. The Swedish footwear brand opened a subsidiary in St. Petersburg last autumn to support its business in Russia, where its collections are sold through wholesale accounts and three own retail stores. Vera Kasapoglu is managing the new office. Vagabond is also setting up its ...
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Pajar Canada, which showed for the first time at the Premium...
Pajar Canada, which showed for the first time at the Premium show in Berlin instead of Bread & Butter, has created a European sales subsidiary, Pajar Europe, which has taken over the direct distribution of the Pajar brand in the Benelux countries, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. The European office and its new showroom ...
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Irregular Choice opened a sales office and a mono-brand store...
Irregular Choice opened a sales office and a mono-brand store in Hong Kong last year. The Hong Kong office, which employs 10-15 people, is meant to serve as a stepping-stone for the expansion of the British brand into China and other Asian markets. Irregular Choice also opened three new stores in the ...
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Vivarte has named Véronique Makarian as director of the fashion...
Vivarte has named Véronique Makarian as director of the fashion division of the group. The French shoe and fashion conglomerate owns a number of fashion brands including Caroll, Kookaï, Naf Naf, Chevignon and others. Makarian was previously director general at Georges Rech Apostroph. She had also spent about ten years ...
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Harald Neisser, a German industry veteran who left the top...
Harald Neisser, a German industry veteran who left the top management of Leiser a few weeks ago, is now representing the Evado brand of women's shoes in all the German-speaking countries, starting with the autumn/winter season. Owned and developed by an Italian company run by Mariano Renzi, Multimoda of Casetta ...
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Adige of France will no longer act as the European...
Adige of France will no longer act as the European distributor for Beverly Feldman. The Spanish-based American shoe designer, whose brand of glamorous women's shoes has been well known internationally for 35 years, says she parted ways with the French agency by mutual consent. She is now looking for distributors in various ...
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Pony announced a strategic distribution agreement with Urban Styles Agency...
Pony announced a strategic distribution agreement with Urban Styles Agency to jointly develop the brand in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Established in 1999 in Cologne by Sven Voth, who also founded Snipes, the agency has been representing several influential street culture brands. It current portfolio comprises brands such as Hummel, ...
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Another top manager has left Geox, in the wake of...
Another top manager has left Geox, in the wake of the former chief executive, Diego Bolzonello, and Lodovico Mazzolari, general manager for marketing and sales. This time it's the turn of Massimo Stefanello to leave. He joined the company in 2007 to take care of real estate development and became ...
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Rocket Dog Brands has appointed Jim Kennedy as vice president...
Rocket Dog Brands has appointed Jim Kennedy as vice president of domestic sales to key accounts in the U.S. such as JC Penny, Kohls and Dillards. He previously handled sales to these department stores at Converse. Prior to Converse, he worked in senior sales roles for both Wolverine Worldwide and ...
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Jordi Constans stepped down from his position as chief executive...
Jordi Constans stepped down from his position as chief executive of Louis Vuitton due to medical reasons, just one month after taking over from Yves Carcelle, who helmed the French house for more than two decades and is currently serving on LVMH's executive committee. Constans, who first joined Vuitton in ...
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K-Swiss is investing in new product development to keep the...
K-Swiss is investing in new product development to keep the momentum growing for for Palladium, the French casual brand of shoes that it owns. After launching a collaboration with Richard Chai, a well-known American designer, at last autumn's New York Fashion Week, it has hired Hommy Diaz, the ...
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Maximilian Müller is leaving on Dec. 31 as one of the...
Maximilian Müller is leaving on Dec. 31 as one of the top managers of Lloyd Shoes after 18 years to join the top management of its parent company, Ara Shoes. At Lloyd, which has become one of the major German brands of men's shoes, Müller is currently in charge of production, product ...
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Matthias Reichwald, 41, will be next February the new general manager...
Matthias Reichwald, 41, will be next February the new general manager of Ecco's German sales subsidiary, responsible also for Austria and Switzerland. He will take the place of Uwe Janzen, who has become sales director for the entire Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Reichwald was most recently the German country ...
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Vibram has appointed Antonio Dus for the newly created position...
Vibram has appointed Antonio Dus for the newly created position of consultant to Marco Bramani, the group's chief executive and president. The 42-year-old's job will be to improve leadership of the company as a supplier of shoe soles as well as driving innovation and quality within the company. He will ...
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Axel Thiefenthaler will be leaving next March as chief executive of Central...
Axel Thiefenthaler will be leaving next March as chief executive of Central Park Shoes Pirmasens (CPS), a big German trading company that he co-founded. Reports indicate that he is quitting the job at his own wish because of differences with CPS' parent company, Groupe Royer of France, over the organization of sourcing ...
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Gabriella Di Carlo has been named to the new position...
Gabriella Di Carlo has been named to the new position of commercial director of Bruno Magli, reporting to the Italian company's chief executive, Armin Müller, who was previously handling this role. Her task will be to consolidate the relaunch of the brand and to reinforce its image and its distribution ...
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Xavier and David Berneda have returned to the helm of...
Xavier and David Berneda have returned to the helm of Berneda S.A., the Spanish company that manages the Munich brand of sneakers. The two brothers had left the company in the midst of negotations, which have now been completed, for their acquisition of Berneda S.A. and two other satellite firms ...
