News Briefs – Page 21
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Ara Shoes' sales increased by one percent to €576 million...
Ara Shoes' sales increased by one percent to €576 million in 2013, according to preliminary figures. Unit sales grew by 0.6 percent to almost seven million pairs. The company invested in cost optimization, the qualitative optimization of sales and the promotion of brand visibility in the past year. It has ...
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Mexico's total footwear exports in 2013 had a volume of...
Mexico's total footwear exports in 2013 had a volume of just under 26.1 million pairs. This represents an increase in volume of 8.5 percent as compared to 2012. In terms of value, footwear exports brought $592.6 million into Mexico last year, an increase of 14 percent on 2012. In 2013, ...
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John Lobb, the British brand of handmade men's shoes owned...
John Lobb, the British brand of handmade men's shoes owned by Hermès, is reprotedly planning to increase its total sales from the current €42 million to €130 million. The brand wants to extend its product offer of handmade men's shoes by strengthening and expanding its ready-to-wear product line. John Lobb ...
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Dosenbach-Ochsner, the Swiss subsidiary of Deichmann, had reported slight sales...
Dosenbach-Ochsner, the Swiss subsidiary of Deichmann, had reported slight sales declines its shoe retail stores in 2013. The Dosenbach stores saw their sales drop by 2 percent to 363 million Swiss francs (€296.92m-$407.25m), while sales at Ochsner Shoes fell by 1 percent to CHF 138 million (€112.87m-$154.81m). As a group, ...
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Phoenix Footwear, the American shoe retailer, has blamed the long...
Phoenix Footwear, the American shoe retailer, has blamed the long and cold winter in many parts of the U.S. for a sales decline of 1.4 percent to $5.7 million in the first quarter. The gross margin remained flat at 37 percent. Net earnings fell by 34 percent to $171,000.
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A German online platform, testsieger.de, tested ten online stores for...
A German online platform, testsieger.de, tested ten online stores for shoes with regard to their products, prices, service and telephone, website, orders and dispatch and security in April 2014. The online retailer from Berlin, Zalando, received the best grade, 1.53, followed by I'm walking and Deichmann. Testsieger.de compared the online ...
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GMS, the German buying group that has expanded to the...
GMS, the German buying group that has expanded to the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Italy, recorded an increase in sales of 24.2 percent to €77 million in the first quarter of 2014, as compared to the same period of the previous year. A very positive business situation, which motivated many ...
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Rocky Brands has reported 22.5 percent higher sales of $65.8...
Rocky Brands has reported 22.5 percent higher sales of $65.8 million for the first quarter of 2014, with strong double-digit growth in all its major categories and higher military sales. The management said it was also pleased with the initial performance of Creative Recreation, a brand of sneakers bought at ...
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The value of Portugal's shoe production grew by 6.3 percent...
The value of Portugal's shoe production grew by 6.3 percent to €1,910 million in 2013. Confirming a recovery that began in 2011, the number of manufacturing companies in the sector rose to 1,354 last year. They had 35,355 employees at the end of 2013, up from just over 32,000 in ...
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The global luxury goods market is going to grow this...
The global luxury goods market is going to grow this year by 6 percent in terms of current currencies, according to the latest estimates by Altagamma, including a 9 percent increase in Japan. The institute also predicts that the companies in the sector will raise their operating earnings by seven ...
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The Italian fashion industry has finally started to recover. According...
The Italian fashion industry has finally started to recover. According to Sistema Moda Italia, which groups the trade associations involved in clothing, shoes and accessories as well as their suppliers, their members enjoyed an increase of 3.3 percent in the first quarter of this year. Growth rates of 4.5 percent ...
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Spanish shoe companies are becoming more optimistic about their sales...
Spanish shoe companies are becoming more optimistic about their sales prospects in their own country and abroad, according to a survey recently conducted by Inescop. Only 8.2 percent of the Spanish shoe companies feel that their domestic market is going to deteriorate, and 45.6 percent are projecting a sales increase ...
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French shoe companies enjoyed a sales increase of 4 percent...
French shoe companies enjoyed a sales increase of 4 percent to €920 million in 2013 and their production grew by 10 percent to 25 million pairs. French shoe consumption declined by 1.8 percent to €8.8 billion last year, according to the French Shoe Industry Federation. It grew by 6.3 percent ...
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Hermès International has reported an operating margin of 32.4 percent...
Hermès International has reported an operating margin of 32.4 percent in 2013, the highest since its introduction on the stock market in 1993. The net profit continued to rise by 6.8 percent, reaching a record of €790 million. As previously reported, Hermès' total sales grew by 7.8 percent to €3.78 ...
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The footwear sold by Jack & Jones, a brand that...
The footwear sold by Jack & Jones, a brand that belongs to the Danish Bestseller Group, reached a total sales volume of around 1.72 million pairs last year. Its value, which was not reported by the brand, increased by 20 percent in 2013, compared to the previous year. Jack & ...
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Most Portuguese shoe manufacturers are doing relatively well and are...
Most Portuguese shoe manufacturers are doing relatively well and are reasonably optimistic about their future prospects, according to the quarterly survey conducted by their trade association, Apiccaps, but while they expect to keep their export prices stable, nearly half of them are worried about the impact of rising raw material ...
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Executives of Leder & Schuh have indicated to the Austrian...
Executives of Leder & Schuh have indicated to the Austrian press that the group made another loss in 2013, although it was much lower than the negative results generated in the previous two years. The main reasons were the reorganization of Stiefelkönig and the closing of stores in some East ...
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Van Haren, the Dutch shoe retailer controlled by the Deichmann...
Van Haren, the Dutch shoe retailer controlled by the Deichmann group, achieved a record turnover of nearly €140 million last year, up by 5.1 percent. The number of pairs sold increased by 108,000 to a total of 6.1 million. The Dutch company opened six new stores in the course of ...
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Esprit turned around to a net profit of 95 million...
Esprit turned around to a net profit of 95 million Hong Kong dollars (€8.89m-$12.24m) in the first half of its financial year, compared with a loss of HK$465 million in the same period a year earlier, although its sales declined by 5.5 percent to HK$12.8 billion (€1.2m-$1.6m) in the six months ended ...
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Rockport's sales increased by 1 percent to €289 million in...
Rockport's sales increased by 1 percent to €289 million in 2013, with growth of 6 percent in dollars and other local currencies, mainly due to higher sales of the brand's lightweight concepts. Women's shoes represented only 24 percent of the total turnover. Rockport's sales declined by a high single digit ...
