Latest News Briefs – Page 215
-
News briefs
A former Puma endorsee, Kylie Jenner has announced that she...
A former Puma endorsee, Kylie Jenner has announced that she was switching Adidas, to help market the Falcon sneaker. The reality TV personality shared the news on social media, wearing a pair of Falcons, part of the Adidas Originals range. Jenner's switch to Adidas reunites the family: Kendall Jenner, Kylie's ...
-
News briefs
The participation in Gallery Shoes, the new three-day trade show...
The participation in Gallery Shoes, the new three-day trade show in Düsseldorf, ended on Sept. 4 with stable results as compared to one year ago. It hosted around 350 exhibitors with more than 500 brands from more than 20 countries and it attracted about 9,800 visitors on a daily basis, ...
-
News briefs
The next edition of the German International Leather Goods Fair,...
The next edition of the German International Leather Goods Fair, ILM, will take place in Offenbach on Feb. 16-18, three weeks earlier than previously planned, in order to avoid another overlap with the Gallery Shoes show in Düsseldorf. This month, the ILM took place almost simultaneously with Gallery Shoes, running ...
-
News briefs
With the support of Icex, the Spanish foreign trade promotion...
With the support of Icex, the Spanish foreign trade promotion agency, Momad Shoes invited buyers from the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Israel, Panama and other countries to its latest edition on Sept. 7-9, which was held simultaneously with Ifema's fashion fair, Momad Metropolis. The Spanish shoe show still addresses mainly the ...
-
News briefs
Skechers has helped 583,000 pets in shelters in the U.S.,...
Skechers has helped 583,000 pets in shelters in the U.S., including saving the lives of around 241,000 animals, through its $3 million donation to Best Friends Animal Society, an American non-profit organization dedicated to ending the killing of dogs and cats in shelters. Best Friends has also used Skechers' contributions ...
-
News briefs
We have been informed that Don McCarthy, a figurehead of...
We have been informed that Don McCarthy, a figurehead of the British shoe retail sector, die on July 21 of cancer, aged 63. After working for many years at the former Stead & Simpson group, where he ran some of its Ravel and Stylo stores, he founded in 1991 a ...
-
News briefs
Robert Siff, a veteran of the footwear industry and a...
Robert Siff, a veteran of the footwear industry and a former president and lifetime director of Two Ten Footwear Foundation, passed away on Sept. 11. He was 94, and had fought a 20-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. During his career, Siff served as president and chief executive of B-W Footwear, ...
-
News briefs
USA Dawgs, the company that fought for a decade against...
USA Dawgs, the company that fought for a decade against Crocs, claiming that it was infringing the intellectual property rights of its own clogs, has been acquired by a private equity firm, the Optimal Investment Group, in an asset deal worth $3,250,000. The company, which produces and sells shoes under ...
-
News briefs
According to a German trade magazine, Schuhkurier, Steffen Liebich, owner...
According to a German trade magazine, Schuhkurier, Steffen Liebich, owner of the German Leiser, Schuhhof and Anika Schuh retail chains, recently acquired another important German shoe retail chain, Schalthost. Permactum, the company that owned Schlatholt, was taken over on Aug. 8 by Goal, the holding company of Liebich. According to ...
-
News briefs
Legero United, the Austrian company behind the Legero, Superfit, Think! and Vios...
Legero United, the Austrian company behind the Legero, Superfit, Think! and Vios brands, is building a new head office in Feldkirchen near Graz. At a ground-breaking ceremony staged on July 19, the group indicated that it will accommodate 550 employees in the future. The so-called “Legero United Campus” will consist of two ...
-
News briefs
Velasca, a Milan-based maker of luxury shoes and accessories for...
Velasca, a Milan-based maker of luxury shoes and accessories for men, has secured €2.5 million in a new round of funding led by P101 SGR, an existing backer, with participation from Milano Investment Partners and a group of private investors. It is P101's second investment in Velasca, after the one ...
-
News briefs
Sebastian Hasebrink assumed the newly created position of chief digital...
Sebastian Hasebrink assumed the newly created position of chief digital officer at Deichmann on Aug. 1. He was also made a member of Deichmann's executive board. Deichmann was one of the first German retailers that sold shoes online. The group manages currently 36 different online shops, which are recording sales ...
-
News briefs
Bally has announced two new executive appointments with a focus...
Bally has announced two new executive appointments with a focus on marketing in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (Emea) region. The luxury footwear brand has hired Eva Quirrenbach as chief marketing officer. Also, the company has promoted Silvia Onofri to chief executive of Emea, where she will be responsible ...
-
News briefs
Fragiacomo has appointed Alessio Spinelli as its new creative director....
Fragiacomo has appointed Alessio Spinelli as its new creative director. Spinelli has collaborated with other shoe brands including Jimmy Choo, René Caovilla, Lanvin and Prada. He has worked for Roma-based fashion houses such as Roberto Capucci, Sarli and Gattinoni. Meanwhile, he has been developing personal projects, which helped him win ...
-
News briefs
First Heritage Brands has appointed Perry Oosting, the chief executive...
First Heritage Brands has appointed Perry Oosting, the chief executive of its Robert Clergerie subsidiary, to run also Sonia Rykiel, a French fashion label that it took over recently. First Heritage Brands, which belongs to Li & Fung group, also owns a Belgian leathergoods brand, Delvaux. Oosting worked as a ...
-
News briefs
Wortmann has decided to close its U.S. subsidiary for the...
Wortmann has decided to close its U.S. subsidiary for the Tamaris brand in Orlando, Florida, according to Schuhkurier. Jan Brinkmann, who was appointed to run it when it was established in 2014, will leave the group. Wortmann will try to service the market directly through other channels.
-
News briefs
Schuhe24 has launched a new international online shoe retail portal,...
Schuhe24 has launched a new international online shoe retail portal, shoesyouwant.com, for customers from the European Union who wish to pay in U.S. dollars or British pounds. In the first eight days after the launch of the new website, Schuhe24 recorded many orders from the U.K., France, Luxembourg, France, Spain ...
-
News briefs
A shoe manufacturer from Belarus, Megatop, has opened two stores...
A shoe manufacturer from Belarus, Megatop, has opened two stores in Moscow inside two large hypermarkets that host other shoe stores and attract high customer traffic. One of the two, the Mozaika Hypermarket, has already been operating shoe stores for brands such as Mario Mikke, Zenden, Tamaris, Palatin and Friday ...
-
News briefs
Görtz, the big German shoe retailer that recently changed ownership...
Görtz, the big German shoe retailer that recently changed ownership and management, has disclosed a target of €300 million for its turnover by 2021, up from the present level of around €265 million, in an interview with German magazine Capital. Much of the progress is expected to come from the ...
-
News briefs
Stuart Weitzman is still in the doldrums. Due to ongoing...
Stuart Weitzman is still in the doldrums. Due to ongoing problems with product development and deliveries, the brand posted a sales decline of 17 percent, down to $73 million, in the fourth quarter of its parent company's financial year, ended June 30. The brand generated an operating loss of $21 ...
