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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Two new top managers have joined the Tod's group. Riccardo...
Two new top managers have joined the Tod's group. Riccardo Schiutto is the new general manager of the Hogan brand, replacing NIcola Giorgi who has moved to Safilo to run its house brands. Roberto Lorenzini will be the new chief executive of the Tod's group's North American division, responsible for ...
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Melody Harris-Jensbach is returning to Esprit in the new position...
Melody Harris-Jensbach is returning to Esprit in the new position of chief product and design officer, effective immediately. She previously worked for Esprit in various senior management roles between 1998 and 2007. Ronald van der Vis, the new chief executive of the company, said that her product and design strategy ...
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Deckers Outdoor Corporation has promoted Leah Larson as vice president...
Deckers Outdoor Corporation has promoted Leah Larson as vice president of the company and creative director of Ugg Australia, rewarding her for the good job that she has done in the last seven years as product manager of the brand
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Ricosta is taking over the distribution of its collections in...
Ricosta is taking over the distribution of its collections in Switzerland after parting ways with André Fonry, who covered the market, until a successor is found
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Kristin Burrows is leaving at the end of next week...
Kristin Burrows is leaving at the end of next week Collective Brands, where she has been acting as president of Keds. The company says that she and her team made significant progress in repositioning the brand and developing a strategy that will deliver meaningful growth in the future. In fact, ...
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Since the end of the last year, Sven Bürkle has...
Since the end of the last year, Sven Bürkle has assumed the newly created post of head of marketing at the Bernd Hummel for the Kangaroos brand, following a recently introduced change in the brand's segmentation. In his function he will be reporting directly to Julia C. Hummel, managing director ...
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Mark Schmitt is the new chief information officer for Brown...
Mark Schmitt is the new chief information officer for Brown Shoe Company, coming to lead the company's IT initiatives with experience under his belt from UPS, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Express Scripts
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Van Bommel has hired a new export manager, Patrick Meijers,...
Van Bommel has hired a new export manager, Patrick Meijers, who has previously worked for Levi Strauss & Co., Puma, Diesel, Adidas and Converse. He reports to Pepijn van Bommel, commercial director of the Dutch firm. Following his appointment, the company has stopped working with a German agency for its ...
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Bob Galvin, formerly president of the Camuto Group of Connecticut,...
Bob Galvin, formerly president of the Camuto Group of Connecticut, reportedly left that position as of Jan. 1
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Björn Gulden is leaving his position on the executive board...
Björn Gulden is leaving his position on the executive board of Deichmann on Feb. 28 to become chief executive of Pandora, the large jeweler based in Copenhagen. The Norwegian executive, who joined Deichmann in 2000 after working for Adidas, has been most recently responsible for purchasing as well as chief ...
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Beverly Feldman has signed up with a new distributor for...
Beverly Feldman has signed up with a new distributor for the U.S. market, Michael Abrams, putting a friendly end to her 11-year-old relationship with another distributor. The American designer is also bringing out a new collection from Spain, called B….. Glamour&Comfort.
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A new management structure has been established for the Fink...
A new management structure has been established for the Fink Schuhe + Sport chain of 50 shoe and sports stores in Germany, following the death of its main owner, Günther Nold, last July. According to Textilwirtschaft, his widow, Sylvelie Nold, has joined the executive board along with her son-in-law Ralph-Peter ...
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Ferruccio Ferragamo has been confirmed as president of Polimoda, the...
Ferruccio Ferragamo has been confirmed as president of Polimoda, the fashion school in Florence
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Berndt Hauptkorn, who became chief executive of Bally in November...
Berndt Hauptkorn, who became chief executive of Bally in November 2009, one year after its takeover from Texas Pacific Group, has left the company at his own wish. He had joined Labelux, the holding company of Bally, at the end of 2007, serving as its chief executive. In that role, ...
