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For spring/summer 2019, Kavat is launching a new collection of children's...
For spring/summer 2019, Kavat is launching a new collection of children's rubber boots, in four colors. One-third of the materials used to make the “Skur” collection are drawn from Brazilian sugar cane. In March 2018, Kavat received its second EU Ecolabel for continued commitment to high quality and sustainable production, despite tougher requirements. In ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo registered a 25.5 percent drop in its 2018...
Salvatore Ferragamo registered a 25.5 percent drop in its 2018 net profit, excluding minorities, to €88.4 million and cut its full-year dividend to €0.34 per share from €0.38 a year earlier. Full-year sales were down by 3.3 percent to €1,347 million (see Shoe Intelligence Vol. 21 n° 3+4) and gross ...
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Tod's has cut its dividend for its 2018 results to...
Tod's has cut its dividend for its 2018 results to €1.00 per share from €1.40 as it suffered a decline in profitability. The company posted a gross operating profit, or Ebitda, of €118.3 million for last year, down from €160.5 million in the previous one, due to higher communication and ...
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Through a digital B2B platform, Ricosta, the big German brand of children's...
Through a digital B2B platform, Ricosta, the big German brand of children's footwear, and Lloyd Shoes, the German shoe manufacturer, are presenting their retail clients with a new “endless aisle” called Fashion Cloud. Among other things, Fashion Cloud allows clients to check the availability of missing items from their stores in real time ...
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Skechers reports the opening of its 3,000th store. With a...
Skechers reports the opening of its 3,000th store. With a surface of 3,000 square meters, it is its largest mono-brand store in the world. It is located in the Chinese city of Shenyang. The store has an entertainment area for children and a large assortment of branded clothing to complement ...
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Skechers reports the opening of its 3,000th store. With a...
Skechers reports the opening of its 3,000th store. With a surface of 3,000 square meters, it is its largest mono-brand store in the world. It is located in the Chinese city of Shenyang. The store has an entertainment area for children and a large assortment of branded clothing to complement ...
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Treds, a multi-brand footwear retailer in the U.K. (not to...
Treds, a multi-brand footwear retailer in the U.K. (not to be confused with the U.S. maker of rubber footwear), has been placed in administration, a legal procedure similar to bankruptcy protection in the U.S. For now, Treds' 21 stores, e-tail site and staff of 165 will be carrying out business ...
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Giorgio Presca, a well-known figure in the Italian footwear industry,...
Giorgio Presca, a well-known figure in the Italian footwear industry, has been appointed as interim chief executive of Emilio Pucci, the Italian fashion house owned by LVMH. He replaces the outgoing CEO, Mauro Grimaldi. Described as a turnaround expert, Presca worked until last September as CEO of Golden Goose, the ...
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Lyst, a global metasearch platform for fashion, has launched what...
Lyst, a global metasearch platform for fashion, has launched what it calls the Sneaker Intelligence Unit. The company has recruited a network of “sneaker experts” by administering an online test and, for those who score at least 80 percent, a “'mastery' stage challenge.” Lyst then solicits opinions from these experts ...
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Sergio Rossi has signed a long-term lease with Thor Equities...
Sergio Rossi has signed a long-term lease with Thor Equities Group for some 2,000 square feet of retail space at 680 Madison Avenue in New York. The ground floor space has 25 feet of frontage on Madison Avenue.
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In the last two weeks of January, Diego Della Valle,...
In the last two weeks of January, Diego Della Valle, chairman and co-chief executive of Tod's, bought an additional take of about 2 percent in the company after it issued disappointing full-year sales figures, prompting the share price to fall. The shares are not part of an agreement reached with ...
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Vivarte, the mother company of a number of French retailers...
Vivarte, the mother company of a number of French retailers including La Halle, Caroll and Minelli, is being heavily affected by the yellow vests protests. Patrick Puy, Vivarte's chief executive, said in an interview with Europe 1, a French radio channel, on Jan. 30, that the loss in turnover for ...
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Tamaris is collaborating with Doppler, the manufacturer of umbrellas. Their...
Tamaris is collaborating with Doppler, the manufacturer of umbrellas. Their first collection, released under the Tambrella brand, consists of three models each in three colors and will hit stores this March. Doppler also collaborates with brands like Bugatti and S.Oliver.
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The French Leather Council (Conseil National du Cuir - CNC)...
The French Leather Council (Conseil National du Cuir - CNC) has announced the first “Sustainable Leather Forum,” which will be held in Paris on Sept. 16. The event, especially focused on sustainable practices in the French leather industry, will take place at the headquarters of the French Federation of Public ...
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Ecco has teamed up with Dow Chemical and Dassault for...
Ecco has teamed up with Dow Chemical and Dassault for a project called Quant-U. With Dow supplying elastomer and Dassault supplying software, the three companies have come up with a midsole that is made of liquid silicone rubber. It can be produced with a 3D printer, fitting the shape and ...
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Ermenegildo Zegna has launched My Cesare, its first entirely customizable...
Ermenegildo Zegna has launched My Cesare, its first entirely customizable sneaker. The shoe is part of the Ermenegildo Zegna XXX collection presented by the Italian high-end menswear specialist during Milan's Men's Fashion Week. It is composed of various materials and can be personalized by using a series of Pantone colors ...
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The Center for Footwear Technology Research (CTCR) in La Rioja,...
The Center for Footwear Technology Research (CTCR) in La Rioja, Spain, has tested the effectiveness of used coffee grounds as an antibacterial agent in shoes. CTCR tested five different types of coffee, recycled from restaurants across the region of La Rioja. Spain is a country of coffee drinkers, with adults ...
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Carlo Ferro, president since January of the Italian trade promotion...
Carlo Ferro, president since January of the Italian trade promotion agency, Ice, indicated that the Italian industry ministry is setting up a national scheme based on blockchain technology to ensure the traceability of Italian products in order to protect brands and fight counterfeiting. Blockchain is a shared database fueled by ...
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Capital, the monthly business magazine published in Hamburg, has declared...
Capital, the monthly business magazine published in Hamburg, has declared that the Deichmann Group has one of best employee-training programs in Germany. Deichmann's program was rated “very good” among some 700 other candidates. The magazine signaled out the program's specialist content, overseas opportunities for new recruits, regular feedback, workshops, mentoring, ...
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Caprice, the German shoe brand and subsidiary of the Wortmann Group,...
Caprice, the German shoe brand and subsidiary of the Wortmann Group, which also owns the bigger and better-known Tamaris label, is expanding its presence in Eastern Europe. At the end of January, Caprice created a Ukrainian subsidiary, called Caprice Schuhproduktion, in the capital city of Kiev. A distribution company called Egle has ...
