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Pollini has confirmed the British designer Nicholas Kirkwood as its...
Pollini has confirmed the British designer Nicholas Kirkwood as its creative director until 2015. He started working for Pollini with the 2011 spring/summer collection.
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Olga Berluti will take over the role of creative director...
Olga Berluti will take over the role of creative director of the Berluti Art line, owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. She is known as a pre-eminent bootmaker, one of the rare women in the field, and takes the job from her former position as artistic director for the ...
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Fabrizio Salvatori, a former Geox manager who became production...
Fabrizio Salvatori, a former Geox manager who became production and sourcing director for the shoe division of Sixty Group, is the latest of a string of executives who has left the Italian company
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Steve Madden has hired the twin sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate...
Steve Madden has hired the twin sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen as creative directors for Superga. Madden has the license for North America for the sneaker brand, owned by BasicNet. The partnership will start with a co-branding initiative for the spring/summer 2012 collection between Superga and The Row, a brand ...
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Vito Artioli, chairman of the European shoe industry federation, CEC,...
Vito Artioli, chairman of the European shoe industry federation, CEC, is recruiting a new general manager for the Brussels-based organization as Eline Van Audenaerd quit her job after only a few months in office. She was supposed to take the place of Roeland Smets, who is retiring at the end ...
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Michael Brumme has been appointed publisher of Verlag Otto Sternefeld,...
Michael Brumme has been appointed publisher of Verlag Otto Sternefeld, which puts out Schuhkurier and other footwear magazines in German. He takes the position of his father, Horst Sternefeld, who died at the beginning of this year at the age of 86. Brumme has been the general manager of the ...
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Andrea Beltrami has been appointed commercial director of Voile Blanche,...
Andrea Beltrami has been appointed commercial director of Voile Blanche, one of the adult shoe brands of Falc, which also owns the Naturino and Falcotto brands of children's footwear
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Jacques Royer, president of Groupe Royer, and his brother Alain,...
Jacques Royer, president of Groupe Royer, and his brother Alain, vice president, are getting extra help in running his fast-growing conglomerate. Nathalie Montaldier Henock, a seasoned 50-year-old executive, has been appointed to the new position of deputy general manager to handle mainly the operational side. She worked at Leo Burnett, ...
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Ralf Hahnbück from the agency Markenkontor Ralf Hahnbück has been...
Ralf Hahnbück from the agency Markenkontor Ralf Hahnbück has been the distributor of the Spanish shoe brand Sacha London in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since July. He is responsible for the distribution of the women's and men's collections sold under the brands Sacha London, Sacha Too and Sachelle. Hahnbrück is ...
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Overland Shoes, the global licensee for G-Star Raw footwear, is...
Overland Shoes, the global licensee for G-Star Raw footwear, is going to try to expand the brand in the North American market through a new distribution partnership with Contest Footwear group. Along with sales into the U.S. and Canada, G-Raw plans to revise its pricing structure, amp up its marketing ...
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Pentland has extended the territory covered by P.B. Footwear for...
Pentland has extended the territory covered by P.B. Footwear for Lacoste Footwear from Germany and Austria to Croatia and Slovenia
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USG Brands is opening a new subsidiary in France to...
USG Brands is opening a new subsidiary in France to distribute the increasing number of sports fashion brands for which it has the rights in the country. It is starting off with Valsport and Tenson, which it owns, and with Pantofola d'Oro, for which it has a license covering France ...
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Move On, the brand from Portugal, has signed new distribution...
Move On, the brand from Portugal, has signed new distribution contracts in the last three months. Innova will be the company's new distributor in Spain and Migato will handle distribution in Greece and Cyprus. Move On is currently in discussions with potential distributors in France, the U.K., Russia and the ...
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Artcrafts, the Italian distributor of Crocs, Teva and other brands,...
Artcrafts, the Italian distributor of Crocs, Teva and other brands, has signed up as Italian distributor of Bloch, the Australian brand of ballet shoes and ballerinas run by Guy Rapp
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Brandmasters, distributor of Airstep in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, will...
Brandmasters, distributor of Airstep in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, will from now on also take care of the brand's distribution in the U.K. Brandmasters recently acquired 50 percent of the trademark rights for Airstep, and the company designs all its men's and women's shoe collections. The shoes are produced in ...
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Linea Marche has opened a showroom in New York for...
Linea Marche has opened a showroom in New York for Vic Matié and its other brands, OXS, Rubber Soul and Akethon
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Shulong has signed a new distribution contract for the next...
Shulong has signed a new distribution contract for the next spring/summer season 2012 for the German market with X-Plus, which is also distributing the Portuguese shoe brand Nobrand in Germany. In France, this shoe brand from Hong Kong is already distributed by Up to Up. The company is considering alternative ...
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Pajar Canada has signed a new distribution contract for Russia...
Pajar Canada has signed a new distribution contract for Russia with TMHF Company, and also has a new distributor for Serbia and Montenegro, called Office. The Hungarian market will be managed by another distributor, Overland. All these distribution contracts have been signed in the last couple of months and they ...
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Birkenstock is expanding the distribution of its line to the...
Birkenstock is expanding the distribution of its line to the outdoor and running specialty retail channels in the U.S.
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Bally has inked a deal for the opening of several...
Bally has inked a deal for the opening of several stores in India with Bird Group, a company that already works with Porsche Design, BMW and other major foreign players. The first Bally store in India will open before the end of this year in the DLF Emporium shopping center ...
