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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mahendra Gupta, dean of Olin Business School at Washington University...
Mahendra Gupta, dean of Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected as a member of the board at Brown Shoe Company to provide advice on managerial accounting, strategic cost management, information technology and marketing management and strategy
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Epic Footwear, a division of Fresh Footwear, is going to...
Epic Footwear, a division of Fresh Footwear, is going to introduce Xti of Spain into the British market for spring/summer 2012
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Klaus Kennel is retiring at the end of this year...
Klaus Kennel is retiring at the end of this year from Kennel & Schmenger Schuhfabrik (K&S), the German company in which he is a managing partner. The transition has been prepared for a long time. Most recently, last month, Stefan Frank, who has been responsible for sales and marketing since ...
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Michael McBreen has left his position as president of the...
Michael McBreen has left his position as president of the global operations group at Wolverine World Wide to join Collective Brands. He will take on the position of divisional senior vice president of product development for PaylessShoeSource. He had been with Wolverine since 2008; before that he was at Furniture ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Skinie, a new fashion-oriented brand of shoes from Australia for...
Skinie, a new fashion-oriented brand of shoes from Australia for babies and children up to the age of five, is entering the European market through United Brand Management, a distributor based in Manchester, England, which is now looking for distribution partners in the rest of Europe. Launched in 2009 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
