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Abicalçados, the Brazilian footwear industry association, has conducted an in-depth...
Abicalçados, the Brazilian footwear industry association, has conducted an in-depth study on the footwear market in Russia, in collaboration with Apex, Brazil's export promotions agency. Abicalçados values the Russian footwear market at $10 billion in 2016, and 75 percent of the shoes sold in the country are imported from abroad. ...
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Marcato Capital Management, the activist investor that has been criticizing...
Marcato Capital Management, the activist investor that has been criticizing the management of Deckers Brands and wants it to sell its assets, has come up with a list of ten new executives that it has nominated for seats on the company's board of directors. The board is up for renewal ...
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Prada is changing its financial year to align it with...
Prada is changing its financial year to align it with the calendar year, which will result in an 11-month reporting period in 2017. Until last year, Prada's financial year ran from Feb. 1 to Jan. 31. For this year, the financial year started on Feb.1 but will end on Dec. ...
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Cole Haan has announced a long-term retail, wholesale and e-commerce...
Cole Haan has announced a long-term retail, wholesale and e-commerce distribution agreement with Sitoy Retailing, a subsidiary of Sitoy Group Holdings, for Greater China. Sitoy will bring Cole Haan to consumers in Hong Kong, Macau and China through various retail channels from summer 2017. The deal covers all distribution of ...
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Lloyd Shoes has announced the development of an electronically extended...
Lloyd Shoes has announced the development of an electronically extended aisle as part of its multichannel strategy. The German shoe brand developed the in-store ordering system together with Sinner Schrader Commerce and Novomind. The system is intended to enable employees in Lloyd stores to view the entire online portfolio and, ...
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Skechers has announced a partnership with Camila Cabello on a...
Skechers has announced a partnership with Camila Cabello on a new global marketing campaign. The Cuban-born American singer and songwriter will be the face of Skechers' women's footwear category. The campaign, which will appear in Spanish and English, is scheduled for launch later this month. Cabello, who is 20, started ...
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Wolverine Worldwide has announced that it is partnering with the...
Wolverine Worldwide has announced that it is partnering with the American Red Cross, the Two Ten Footwear Foundation and the United Way to help victims of Harvey, the hurricane that made landfall in the U.S. at the end of August. The firm said it will contribute more than $2.6 million ...
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Footwear Friends will host its annual awards ceremony for young...
Footwear Friends will host its annual awards ceremony for young designers in London on Oct. 18. The jury will meet on Sept. 28 to examine the proposals, which are said to of “extraordinarily good quality” this time. Dune, Clarks, Pentland, the University of Northampton and the British Footwear Association will ...
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Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and shoe components industry association, launched...
Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and shoe components industry association, launched earlier this year a campaign called Iconic, focusing on the universe of iconic characters from movies and music. So far the campaign has featured Victoria Guerra, interpreting iconic characters to present women's footwear. Now the campaign to promote Portuguese shoes ...
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Hunter Boots has appointed Daniel Shaw as its new design...
Hunter Boots has appointed Daniel Shaw as its new design director, replacing Niall Sloan who has moved to Escada after four years with the British company. Shaw previously ran the design studio of Christopher Raeburn. He has also been an associate lecturer at the London College of Fashion since 2015.
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Wolverine Worldwide has appointed Stewart Whitney as vice president and...
Wolverine Worldwide has appointed Stewart Whitney as vice president and managing director of its Asia-Pacific division. He comes from Timberland, where he led its Asia-Pacific business for six years before becoming president of the brand in 2014. He left Timberland in July of last year, when he was replaced by ...
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DTLR, an urban lifestyle retailer based in Hanover, in the...
DTLR, an urban lifestyle retailer based in Hanover, in the Baltimore area, is merging with Philadelphia-based Sneaker Villa, also a urban lifestyle retailer. The merged company will comprise nearly 240 stores across 19 states and the District of Columbia, spanning the East Coast from New York to Florida, the Midwest, ...
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Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global...
Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global meat and leather empire around JBS, has been put in jail in Brasilia on charges of graft and other serious crimes. A Brazilian Supreme Court judge suspended the immunity that had been granted to the businessman in a plea bargain ...
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The traditional price gap for luxury goods between China and...
The traditional price gap for luxury goods between China and Europe is shrinking. According to a study by Deloitte, the gap has shrunk by a quarter over the last 12 months. Key results of the study were reported by The Financial Times in early September. An increasing number of Chinese ...
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Birkenstock made a big splash in New York City with...
Birkenstock made a big splash in New York City with its Birkenstock Box in association with Barneys New York, which designed the interior of the freight container and co-created a limited-edition line of Birkenstock shoes and added some of its own merchandise. The company's new mobile retail concept remained open ...
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Manolo Blahnik is starring in a new documentary film, “Manolo,...
Manolo Blahnik is starring in a new documentary film, “Manolo, The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards.” Meanwhile, a retrospective exhibition of more than 200 styles by the Spanish 74-year-old shoe designer is travelling around the world. After stops in Milan and St. Petersburg, it is now being shown in ...
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Hunter Boots is releasing a first collaborative limited-edition line of...
Hunter Boots is releasing a first collaborative limited-edition line of backpacks in rubberized leather, featuring ironic and naïve hand-drawn designs by a makeup artist, Isamaya Ffrench, which is being sold exclusively in London's Dover Street Market. Raised in Cambridge, the designer is a consultant for Tom Ford's beauty line. As ...
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Vögele Shoes recently introduced an online calculation system for children's...
Vögele Shoes recently introduced an online calculation system for children's shoes. According to the Swiss shoe retail chain, more than 80 percent of children's shoes are actually smaller than indicated. On Vögele Shoes' website, parents can enter the length and width of their children's feet. The Swiss retail chain then ...
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Who's Next Première Classe, the French fashion exhibition in Paris,...
Who's Next Première Classe, the French fashion exhibition in Paris, reported an increase in attendance for the first time in three years. According to the organizers, the number of visitors grew by 10.1 percent to 42,122. The reports from the show were generally positive, except for the fact that there ...
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Hartmut Schelchen, founder of Schelchen, the German company that owns...
Hartmut Schelchen, founder of Schelchen, the German company that owns the Pedag brand of footwear insoles, passed away at the age of 87. He seized the chance of the economic miracle after the second world war to set up his own production. It was always important for him to manufacture ...
