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Wolverine Worldwide has promoted Elliot Brown to the position of...
Wolverine Worldwide has promoted Elliot Brown to the position of Northern European sales director for its lifestyle and heritage brands. He was most recently U.K. sales manager for the division. Prior to that, he was the managing director of Converse in the U.K. and sales director of Levi Strauss in ...
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Skechers USA is going to start handling its own business...
Skechers USA is going to start handling its own business in Japan with its own subsidiary, Skechers Japan. Hirokazu Iwasaki, who has worked previously with Nike, Adidas and Puma, will lead the Japanese operations, which plans to fully enter the market with the coming fall/winter collection. Skechers hopes to double ...
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Torsten Schmidt is leaving Head, where he held the position...
Torsten Schmidt is leaving Head, where he held the position of business manager for shoes and bags. Simon Brenneis, product manager for the division, will take over some of his responsibilities until a successor is on board.
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Vans is opening a subsidiary in Sweden this year, and...
Vans is opening a subsidiary in Sweden this year, and taking over the distribution in Norway and Finland in 2013, according to a local report
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Mephisto has a new agent in Sweden, Gabriëlle Zwart of...
Mephisto has a new agent in Sweden, Gabriëlle Zwart of Maran Shoes
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Italy's Ciao Bimbi has a new agent in France, IFC...
Italy's Ciao Bimbi has a new agent in France, IFC
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Airwalk is entering the Indian market through a local manufacturing...
Airwalk is entering the Indian market through a local manufacturing company, Wiesner Worldwide Creations, which will use the brand name for a line of children's shoes and clothing
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Clarks has appointed Helen Thomson to the new role of...
Clarks has appointed Helen Thomson to the new role of European Region director, reporting go Ken Dobinson, the company's international director. She previously ran Clark's successful international store franchising program. The Europe Region is one of four operational regions created by Clarks, somewhat on the model of Ecco. The others ...
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Base London continues to make new inroads into the other...
Base London continues to make new inroads into the other markets. The 17-year-old British footwear brand has announced new agency agreements with Show Too in Italy, Peoples Concept in Belgium, Silverplate in the Netherlands and Five Stars in Spain, adding to those that it signed earlier in Germany and France. ...
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Hevea, which owns the Dunlop brand for protective footwear, has...
Hevea, which owns the Dunlop brand for protective footwear, has a new chief executive, Allard Bijlsma. He is taking over the helm from Peter Traas, who has successfully built up the brand in the last 15 years and is now joining Hevea's board of directors. Bijlsma already joined the company ...
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Shepherd, a Swedish brand of sheepskin footwear, is entering the...
Shepherd, a Swedish brand of sheepskin footwear, is entering the British market via the distribution company of Edward Barnes
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Tss Scandinavia, the Swedish company run by John Kilborn, has...
Tss Scandinavia, the Swedish company run by John Kilborn, has taken on the agency for Airwalk in the Scandinavian countries
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Nicola McLeod is the new general manager of Walter's Shoe...
Nicola McLeod is the new general manager of Walter's Shoe Care, a supplier of high-quality shoe care and foot comfort products based in Toronto. She is tasked with expanding the business globally, and will also sit on the board of the parent company, E.F. Walter. McLeod has worked in the ...
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Move On will not have a stand at the Micam...
Move On will not have a stand at the Micam and GDS shows this month, but the Aerosoles brand will be there as before. As we have previously reported, the Portuguese company has decided to stop selling shoes under its Move On brand name and to go back to the ...
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Bogs, which was acquired in March 2011 by Weyco Group,...
Bogs, which was acquired in March 2011 by Weyco Group, exhibited for the first time at the Premium trade show in Berlin and then at Ispo in Munich. Starting last month, the brand has been distributed in Germany, Switzerland and Austria by the Swiss importer Freemark Enterprises, who will handle ...
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Per Schaadt, whose company Aceline sells the successful line of...
Per Schaadt, whose company Aceline sells the successful line of Kawasaki shoes internationally, has obtained the agency for the Ugg brand in Denmark. The two lines are presented separately because Schaadt is concentrating on the high end of the market for Ugg.
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Hunter's distributor for Germany and Switzerland, ACM Boots, will from...
Hunter's distributor for Germany and Switzerland, ACM Boots, will from now on also take care of the Czech Republic. Hunter already has 16 clients in the Czech market, most of them in Prague. The company developed its first outerwear collection last year, with the first products to be sold during ...
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Melania has hired Andrew Lovelock as its U.K. agent to...
Melania has hired Andrew Lovelock as its U.K. agent to reach out to independent shoe retailers, and the Italian brand of children's shoes will participate for the first time in the Moda Footwear fair in Birmingham on Feb. 19-21
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Converse has extended its licensing and distribution agreement in France...
Converse has extended its licensing and distribution agreement in France with Royer Group, with whom it has worked since 2001. The new deal runs through 2015. Financial details were not disclosed. It is reported that Converse is looking to have an office in Paris that would handle marketing, communication and ...
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Alberto Guardiani is opening a new showroom of more than...
Alberto Guardiani is opening a new showroom of more than 500 square meters on Corso Venezia in Milan. Its parent company, Nuova Centauro, has reported stable sales of €32 million for 2011, with an operating margin (Ebitda) of 19 percent. About 60 percent of the turnover is generated in Italy.
