News Briefs – Page 26
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Bachi Shoes, the Indian manufacturer of children's shoes owned at...
Bachi Shoes, the Indian manufacturer of children's shoes owned at 76 percent by the big Tata group, sold 2.25 million pairs of shoes in 2012 and expects to increase its sales volume to 2.6 million pairs in 2013. Bachi was able to increase its production capacity in 2011 by taking ...
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Lloyd Shoes raised its sales by 7.9 percent to €133.4...
Lloyd Shoes raised its sales by 7.9 percent to €133.4 million in 2012. In terms of volume, sales increased by 5.5 percent to 1.9 million sold pairs. The daily production rate rose from 6,500 to 7,100 pairs in 2012, with 2,000 pairs made in Germany. The spring/summer 2013 season showed an ...
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R.G. Barry Corporation has reported a net profit of $11.4...
R.G. Barry Corporation has reported a net profit of $11.4 million on a consolidated basis for the first half ended Dec. 29, 2012, down by 13.6 percent from the equivalent period a year ago but in line with the company's expectations. Net sales in the six-month period slipped by 9.5 percent to $95.7 million. The ...
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Yoox, the Italian-based web-only fashion retailer, recorded a sales increase...
Yoox, the Italian-based web-only fashion retailer, recorded a sales increase of 29.1 percent to €375.9 million for the full year ended Dec. 31, 2012, driven by strong sales growth in its key international markets, and particularly in the U.S. and China. Revenues from what the company calls its multi-brand business, including ...
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The U.S. footwear market rose by 3 percent to $54...
The U.S. footwear market rose by 3 percent to $54 billion in 2012, according to NPD Group, with increases of 4 percent for women's shoes, 2.4 percent for men's shoes and 3.8 percent for children's shoes. Sales carried out over the internet went up by 7 percent.
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German shoe retailers saw their sales grow by 3 percent...
German shoe retailers saw their sales grow by 3 percent in December as compared to the same month a year earlier, but the progress was mostly due to average price increases of 4.0 percent, according to the Institut für Handelsforschung. As a result, their total sales for 2012 were down ...
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According to HUI Research, retail sales of shoes in Sweden...
According to HUI Research, retail sales of shoes in Sweden increased by 6.9 percent during the month of December and by 2.5 percent for the entire 2012 calendar year, as compared to the same periods of 2011. At constant prices, sales increased by 5.1 percent in 2012.
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GMS, the relatively young German buying cooperative, increased by 20 percent...
GMS, the relatively young German buying cooperative, increased by 20 percent to €151 million the amount of centralized settlements in behalf of its 1,200 affiliated specialty shoe retailers in 2012. In the previous year, they had reached €126 million. In Germany, the amount of centralized settlements increased from €124 million in 2011 to €131 ...
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Sabu Schuh & Marketing recorded a decrease in centralized settlements of 4.7...
Sabu Schuh & Marketing recorded a decrease in centralized settlements of 4.7 percent to €338 million in 2012, after they had increased by 16.8 percent in 2011. However, Sabu's members recorded a plus of about 0.4 percent in their own retail sales in comparison to the previous year. The volume of centralized settlements rose ...
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Ara Shoes raised its sales slightly last year to more...
Ara Shoes raised its sales slightly last year to more than €570 million, compared with €557 million in the previous year, according to preliminary figures, but this was mainly due to the acquisition of Delka, one of Stiefelkönig's former shoe retail chains in Austria. Sales grew by 1.2 percent in ...
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Gabor sold nine million pairs of shoes in 2012, or 8 percent more...
Gabor sold nine million pairs of shoes in 2012, or 8 percent more than in 2011. Total brand revenues increased by 1.7 percent to €370 million, including licenses for Gabor Bags, Gabor Kids, Gabor Home and Gabor Shoecare, plus the company's own shoe stores and Gabor Footwear. The uneven development of sales in terms ...
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Coach has announced that it will focus on footwear to...
Coach has announced that it will focus on footwear to boost its slowing sales growth. The company will relaunch the shoe corners at 170 of its 356 stores in March. The installation of new shoe salons to showcase its footwear is already under way. The U.S.-based leathergoods brand reported sales of ...
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India's exports of leather, leather footwear and leathergoods declined by...
India's exports of leather, leather footwear and leathergoods declined by 2.2 percent in the first eight months of the current financial year, which ran from April through November 2012, compared with the same period in 2011. According to India's Council for Leather Exports (CLE), the drop to $3.2 billion was ...
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Vietnam's footwear exports grew by 10.6 percent in 2012 compared...
Vietnam's footwear exports grew by 10.6 percent in 2012 compared with the same period in the previous year, according to the Vietnam Leather and Shoes Association (Lefaso). The European Union, the U.S. and Japan are still the three major export markets. In 2013 the industry has set a target of ...
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Yue Yuen Industrial reports that its consolidated sales crept up...
Yue Yuen Industrial reports that its consolidated sales crept up by just 0.3 percent to US$7,282.5 million for the full year 2012. The leading Chinese footwear manufacturer, controlled by Pou Chen in Taiwan, ended the year with a turnover of $664.1 million for December, up by 0.9 percent compared with ...
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Nordstrom reported an 8.6 percent increase in same-store sales for...
Nordstrom reported an 8.6 percent increase in same-store sales for the five-week period ended Dec. 29, compared with the five-week period ended Dec. 31, 2011. The Seattle-based fashion specialty retailer, which sells a lot of shoes, posted preliminary total retail sales of $1.72 billion for December 2012, up by 9.4 percent ...
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Shoe retailing performed better than the sale of clothing, furniture,...
Shoe retailing performed better than the sale of clothing, furniture, house textiles, home accessories, health & beauty products and other sectors in the U.K. during 2012, according to the British Retail Consortium and KPMG. Fewer customers turned up at British stores in December than a year earlier, and they took ...
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More German retailers are taking advantage of the benefits of multi-channel trading. According...
More German retailers are taking advantage of the benefits of multi-channel trading. According to a survey conduced by the German retail federation, HDE, 13 percent of German retailers generated more than 10 percent of their sales over the internet during the 2012 Christmas shopping season. About 50 percent of the respondents stated that sales ...
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Only 41 percent of the people clean their shoes in...
Only 41 percent of the people clean their shoes in Germany, although 75 percent of the German people feel that the individual's attention to the aspect of their footwear has a lot to say about their personality. Out of those who take care of their shoes, 58 percent feel that ...
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The latest figures from Eurostat show that retail sales of...
The latest figures from Eurostat show that retail sales of all non-food products excluding fuel were off by 1.2 percent in October in the Eurozone area as compared to September, and off by 3.5 percent as compared to October 2011. The decline in total retail sales was particularly acute for ...
