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Consumption of clothing and footwear in Poland decreased by 0.6...
Consumption of clothing and footwear in Poland decreased by 0.6 percent in 2009, but rebounded in 2010 with an increase of 4.6 percent to 27.8 billion zlotys (€6.4bn-$8.7bn), according to a market research company, PMR. Retail sales of shoes, which represented about 77 percent of the total, grew by 3.4 ...
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The China Leather Industry Association has reports that exports of...
The China Leather Industry Association has reports that exports of leather shoes fell by 5 percent in the first seven months of 2011, indicating that footwear manufacturers in the country are concentrating on the domestic market. By volume, Chinese leather footwear producers exported 540 million pairs from January through July, ...
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NilsonGroup reported record results for 2010. The pre-tax margin went...
NilsonGroup reported record results for 2010. The pre-tax margin went up to 10.5 percent of its consolidated sales, which rose by 9.9 percent to 2,442.6 million Swedish kronor (€266.5m-$385.6m), from 7.8 percent in the prior year. The sales increase was 10.4 percent in Sweden and 8.2 percent in other ...
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Sabu Schuh & Marketing, one of the biggest German trade...
Sabu Schuh & Marketing, one of the biggest German trade associations in the shoe sector, recorded an increase in the volume of its centralized settlements of 20 percent for the first half of this year compared with the same period last year. The increase resulted mainly from new members who ...
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The German shoe manufacturer Lloyd recorded a 7.5 percent increase...
The German shoe manufacturer Lloyd recorded a 7.5 percent increase in sales at the end of the fall/winter season 2010-11. Exports increased by 8 percent. Through the end of July, reorders were up by 2.6 percent compared with the same period in the previous year. The company plans to open ...
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Nordstrom and some other American department store chains, such as...
Nordstrom and some other American department store chains, such as Macy's, Kohl's and Saks, have reported double-digit increases in profits for the second quarter of this year. In particular, Nordstrom said that shoes, cosmetics and designer fashion were the best categories in its own stores, whose sales rose by 12.4 ...
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Florsheim's sales in Europe and Australia jumped by 40 percent...
Florsheim's sales in Europe and Australia jumped by 40 percent to $11.3 million in the second quarter, helping the parent company, Weyco Group, book a 16 percent increase in total revenues to $56.6 million. In North America, Florsheim and Nunn Bush recorded drops of 1 and 2 percent at wholesale, ...
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Auri, a young American shoe company that recently went public,...
Auri, a young American shoe company that recently went public, reports a net loss of $508,391 for the second quarter, up from a loss of $130,536 in the year-ago period. Revenues declined by 23 percent to $169.8 million, due to the fact that Auri shipped the majority of its spring ...
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According to the naztional retail sales index, shoe retailers'...
According to the naztional retail sales index, shoe retailers' sales in Sweden increased by 3.3 percent in March and 8.7 percent in April. This means shoe sales increased by 1.5 percent at current prices in the first four months. At fixed prices, shoe sales decreased by 1.9 percent.
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Following up on the previously reported increase in leather exports...
Following up on the previously reported increase in leather exports from China, the China Leather Industry Association said that exports of leather shoes rose by 11.4 percent to $4.9 billion in the first six months of the year. Finished and semi-finished leather grew by 21.8 percent to $228.8 million, and ...
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Yoox increased first-half sales by 35.9 percent to €131.2 million...
Yoox increased first-half sales by 35.9 percent to €131.2 million but net profits slipped by 12.7 percent to €2.9 million. Earnings were affected by depreciation and amortization connected to investments in an automated distribution platform, the opening of a new office in Milan, the expansion of premises in Bologna and ...
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Bakers Footwear Group cut its net losses to $1.6 million...
Bakers Footwear Group cut its net losses to $1.6 million in the second quarter ended July 30 from $2.1 million in the year-ago period as the American chain of 233 women's footwear stores raised its sales and margins. With customers responding favorably to its dress and club assortments, total revenues ...
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Another American shoe retail chain, Shoe Carnival, reported a 34.1...
Another American shoe retail chain, Shoe Carnival, reported a 34.1 percent drop in net income for its second quarter as its sales rose by only 0.8 percent to $166.7 million and the gross margin fell by 0.4 percentage points to 27.8 percent. On a comparable store basis, sales declined by ...
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DSW performed much better in the second quarter, which ended...
DSW performed much better in the second quarter, which ended on July 30, posting a 12.3 percent increase in comparable store sales against the 12.0 percent gain recorded in the same period a year ago. Total sales rose by 14.7 percent to $476.3 million and the gross margin improved by ...
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Apiccaps, the Portuguese shoe and leather association, has just published...
Apiccaps, the Portuguese shoe and leather association, has just published its first World Footwear Yearbook, which says that for the first time ever, global footwear production surpassed 20 billion pairs of shoes in 2010. The final tally was 20.18 billion pairs, with China as the biggest producer by far with ...
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The Industry and Trade Ministry of Vietnam says that in...
The Industry and Trade Ministry of Vietnam says that in the first half of this year, the country exported $7.4 billion worth of products to the EU, 49 percent more than in the same period last year. The EU accounted for 17.5 percent of Vietnam's total exports. Footwear sold to ...
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The Council for Leather Exports in India has announced that...
The Council for Leather Exports in India has announced that in the quarter from April to June, leather exports from the country rose by 5.1 percent to $811 million. The chairman of the CLE, M. Rafeeque Ahmed, noted that despite the growth and continuing demand in Europe for Indian leather ...
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Retail sales of footwear reached an indicated level of $17.9...
Retail sales of footwear reached an indicated level of $17.9 billion in Russia last year, according to a report by PMR Research, a market research company that focuses on Central and Eastern Europe. The study says that sales of clothing and shoes went up by 11 percent to $56 million ...
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Announcing the fact that it now has more than 100...
Announcing the fact that it now has more than 100 employees with 15 different nationalities, Spartoo.com, the 5-year-old French online shoe retailer, says it is confident of reaching sales of €100 million this year, up from €30 million in 2009 and €60 million in 2010, with sales outside France due ...
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Gabor Shoes has reported a 16.8 percent sales increase for...
Gabor Shoes has reported a 16.8 percent sales increase for the group to €179.5 million in the first half of 2011. A big slice of the growth came from the German market, whose share of the total turnover rose to 54 percent as compared to less than 50 percent a ...
