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Tagliatore will soon be launching a shoe collection. The Puglia-based...
Tagliatore will soon be launching a shoe collection. The Puglia-based brand, which is best known for its jackets and outerwear, actually started out making shoes. The grandfather of Pino Lerario, the current company's owner and creative director, originally ran a cobbler's workshop, hence the name “Tagliatore,” which refers to the ...
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Pure London has hired Nelly Gergi as its new content...
Pure London has hired Nelly Gergi as its new content editor, with immediate effect. She will be responsible for all aspects of content creation including Pure Origin, the new sourcing section of the event. She will also oversee seminar programs across the Main, Future and Origin Stages at Pure London's ...
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Dune has joined Nike and Steiner Outdoor to donate overstocked...
Dune has joined Nike and Steiner Outdoor to donate overstocked shoes and boots to Goods For Good for refugee camps in Kurdistan and the Ukraine, and families in the Philippines. Goods For Good is a U.K.-based charity that sends goods donated by businesses and individuals in the U.K. to pre-identified, ...
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Pantofola D'Oro has opened a new flagship store in New...
Pantofola D'Oro has opened a new flagship store in New York City. The store, which was inaugurated on Jan. 18, is located at 325 West Broadway, in the trendy Soho district of Manhattan. The company said the opening in New York is part of its ongoing retail expansion, which is ...
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The success of Italian exports is largely driven by reshoring....
The success of Italian exports is largely driven by reshoring. This is what emerges from a recent study by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, as reported by the Italian daily Il Foglio. According to the study, more than 79 percent of Italian exported products have been manufactured ...
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Online sales of personal luxury goods are expected to more...
Online sales of personal luxury goods are expected to more than triple by 2025, reaching about €74 billion. McKinsey & Company has recently released a report entitled “The age of Digital Darwinism,” in which it explains that online sales of personal luxury goods, which accounted for 8 percent of the ...
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In a preliminary statement, Wolverine Worldwide said it expects to...
In a preliminary statement, Wolverine Worldwide said it expects to achieve this year its target of a 12 percent adjusted operating margin on a 6 percent increase in underlying revenues, in spite of significant incremental investments of more than $40 million to drive future growth. Its international business is expected ...
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Kavat is planning to set up a sales subsidiary with...
Kavat is planning to set up a sales subsidiary with a showroom in Düsseldorf, covering its business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The operation will be led from next month by Christian Adams, who has worked for several fashion, sports and outdoor brands. Germany is the biggest market for the ...
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Genesco indicates that it achieved a sales increase of 10...
Genesco indicates that it achieved a sales increase of 10 percent on a comparable store basis during the fourth quarter ended on Jan. 4 at its Journeys chain of shoe shops in the U.S., thanks in part to a shift from canvas casual styles to retro athletics. Johnston & Murphy ...
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Gucci has opened a high-end restaurant in the 14th-century Palazzo...
Gucci has opened a high-end restaurant in the 14th-century Palazzo della Mercanzia near the central Piazza della Signoria in Florence. The chef is Massimo Bottura, who is said to have opened the best restaurant in the world, Osteria Francescana, in Modena last year. The Gucci Osteria is part of a ...
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Office posted revenues of £298.7 million (€336.7m-$402.2m) in the 53 weeks...
Office posted revenues of £298.7 million (€336.7m-$402.2m) in the 53 weeks to July 2, 2017, as compared to revenues of £387.8 million (€437.1m-$522.2m) in the prior 74-week period, extended after its sale to Truworths to match its financial year end. Despite the uncertainties in the U.K. trading environment, which are expected to ...
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Wortmann says that 73 of its 300 franchised Tamaris stores...
Wortmann says that 73 of its 300 franchised Tamaris stores have adopted the new Tamaris 2.0 concept. That includes top locations in Vienna, Paris, Luxembourg, Nice, Athens and Moscow. The company quotes one of its biggest franchisees, Marc Timmermans, as being particularly satisfied with the new, more future-oriented format, which ...
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The Nike group saw its sales rise by 5 percent...
The Nike group saw its sales rise by 5 percent to $8,554 million for the second quarter of its fiscal year, as a dip in North America was compensated for by an uptick in demand in other regional markets. The Nike brand's turnover alone reached $8,136 million, up by 5 ...
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CCC has taken over its 54 franchised stores in Romania...
CCC has taken over its 54 franchised stores in Romania from its franchisee, Peeraj Brands International, which also operates stores for Geox and other brands. Peeraj, which is owned by investors in Dubai, says the Polish-based chain is paying around €33 million for the business, which generated a net profit ...
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Gallery Shoes, the new trade fair in Düsseldorf, is adding...
Gallery Shoes, the new trade fair in Düsseldorf, is adding yet another temporary hall at its venue in Areal Böhler to accommodate a growing list of exhibitors at its next edition on March 11-13. The show will showcase the collections of more than 500 brands. More than 30 of them ...
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In spite of the ambitious goals set by the government...
In spite of the ambitious goals set by the government of Bangladesh for the sector over the next few years, which wants its output to grow by least 15 percent a year (Shoe Intelligence Vol. 19 N° 23+24 of Dec. 23), the country's total exports of leather and leather products ...
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Pony has announced a collaboration with Michael Michalsky, a well-known...
Pony has announced a collaboration with Michael Michalsky, a well-known German fashion designers who served many years ago as creative director of Adidas. The fruits of the collaboration will be shown at the Seek trade show during next month's Berlin Fashion Week. The presentation will coincide with the establishment of ...
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Prada has appointed Nicola Antonacci as its new South Europe...
Prada has appointed Nicola Antonacci as its new South Europe regional director. Antonacci will be responsible for Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey, and will be based at Prada's headquarters in Milan. Prior to this new role, Antonacci was Prada's managing director for the U.S. He joined Prada as head ...
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The Indonesian Footwear Association (Aprisindo) is urging the government to...
The Indonesian Footwear Association (Aprisindo) is urging the government to improve infrastructures and reduce taxes to make the local footwear industry more competitive and attract new investments. Projecting an increase of only 6 to 7 percent in the country's shoes exports in 2018, remaining below the 10 percent growth level ...
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Nous, a new concept store around streetwear and high-tech, has...
Nous, a new concept store around streetwear and high-tech, has been launched in Paris by a group of former workers of Colette's Parisian boutique, led by Sébastien Chapelle and Marvin Dein. The opening comes just a few weeks after the closure of Colette's Parisian boutique on Dec. 20, where Chapelle ...
