News Briefs – Page 36
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Seventy-nine tanneries in Quanzhou city will be closed this year,...
Seventy-nine tanneries in Quanzhou city will be closed this year, according to the China Leather Industry Association. Altogether, the plants produce less than 100,000 pieces annually. Their closure is due to environmental protection requirements, and to meet city targets to cut the discharge of effluents that are the result of ...
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Stiefelkönig continued to lose money in 2010. The Austrian shoe...
Stiefelkönig continued to lose money in 2010. The Austrian shoe retailing company, which is still up for sale, suffered a net loss of €10.8 million and its sales dropped by 14 percent to €109.8 million, partly due to the sale of its Turbo-Schuh stores. As previously reported, the company has ...
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Sabu Schuh & Marketing says its centralized settlements grew by...
Sabu Schuh & Marketing says its centralized settlements grew by about 20 percent in the first four months of this year. The members of the German buying group raised their own sales by an average of 3 percent during the period. Orders placed for the next fall/winter season indicate further ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo, which is readying itself for a listing on...
Salvatore Ferragamo, which is readying itself for a listing on the Milan stock exchange - unconfirmed reports indicate that it may float up to 25 percent of its equity - saw its net profit jump by 43.5 percent to €15.5 million in the first quarter of 2010. The turnover grew ...
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Aeffe, parent company of Pollini, reports a 16.4 percent sales...
Aeffe, parent company of Pollini, reports a 16.4 percent sales increase for the first quarter in terms of constant currencies. Total sales grew by 17.4 percent on a reported basis to €71.9 million, with shoes and leathergoods rising by 30.8 percent to a profitable level of €17.1 million. The group's ...
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Esprit reports a 3.1 percent decline in total sales to...
Esprit reports a 3.1 percent decline in total sales to 25.9 billion Hong Kong dollars (€2.3bn-$3.3bn) for the first nine months of its financial year, ended March 31, although they rose by 0.7 percent in local currencies. The reported sales sank by 8.8 percent to HK$20.5 billion (€1.9bn-$2.6bn) in Europe, ...
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China produced 11.1 billion pairs of shoes last year, 10...
China produced 11.1 billion pairs of shoes last year, 10 percent more than in 2009, and its exports increased by 18.9 percent to 4.19 billion pairs, according to the country's shoe and leather manufacturers' association. On the other hand, there are signs that other countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam ...
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Vietnam's exports of leather footwear and leathergoods rose by 31...
Vietnam's exports of leather footwear and leathergoods rose by 31 percent to $2.1 billion in the first four months of 2011. Footwear alone took up $1.75 billion of this amount. In April, the country exports shoes worth $430 million, up from $350 million in April 2010.
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Following its recent acquisition of the Bogs and Rafters brands...
Following its recent acquisition of the Bogs and Rafters brands of casual footwear, Weyco Group is going to expand its headquarters in Glendale, Wisconsin. The cost of acquiring these two brands depressed the group's profit, which declined to $3.4 million in the first quarter of this year from $3.9 million ...
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The Italian shoemaker Giuseppe Zanotti finished 2010 with a 17...
The Italian shoemaker Giuseppe Zanotti finished 2010 with a 17 percent increase in sales to €71 million. In 2011, the group plans to open six to eight mono-brand stores mainly in the Middle East and Asia. At the end of last year, it had 52 stores worldwide.
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The Slovakian subsidiary of Gabor has reported a 30 percent...
The Slovakian subsidiary of Gabor has reported a 30 percent sales increase for 2010 to €66.1 million as its daily production increased from 10,000 to 12,000 pairs, reaching altogether a volume of 2,280,000 pairs for the year. The company enrolled 120 new workers last year and it currently employs more ...
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Fashion Box, the parent company of Replay and other brands...
Fashion Box, the parent company of Replay and other brands in which its footwear licensee, Equibox Holding, acquired a controlling interest of 51 percent one year ago, is profitable again. While the company's reorganization led to a 10.9 percent drop in sales to €243 million, the Ebitda grew by 18.2 ...
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According to the DHI Retail Sales Index, shoe sales in...
According to the DHI Retail Sales Index, shoe sales in Sweden increased by 6.5 percent in February. This results in an increase of 1.8 percent so far this year, calculated in money. With the price increase taken into account, shoe sales decreased by 0.9 percent in February, which gives a ...
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Superga, the sneaker brand owned by the Italian BasicNet group,...
Superga, the sneaker brand owned by the Italian BasicNet group, is expected to double sales to $140 million in 2014 from an estimated $70 million this year. The anticipated increase in revenues will be fuelled by recent distribution agreements with Steven Madden for the U.S., Canadian and Mexican markets and ...
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Bernd Hummel, the licensee for KangaROOS in Germany and many...
Bernd Hummel, the licensee for KangaROOS in Germany and many other European countries, says its pre-orders for this year's fall/winter season are up by around 50 percent, led by outdoor and waterproof winter boots. The company had a tough business year in 2010 with a decrease in sales of about ...
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Xti recorded a 25 percent increase in sales to about...
Xti recorded a 25 percent increase in sales to about 5 million pairs in 2010. Italy is a strong market for the Spanish brand, as 1.5 million pairs of shoes were sold there. In Germany, Xti sold about 1 million pairs of shoes in total in 2010. The company opened ...
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Padders increased its total sales in 2010 by 3.5 percent,...
Padders increased its total sales in 2010 by 3.5 percent, with an 8 percent rise in retail. Exports account for 18 percent of the total turnover, which is not being given. The British shoe company exports mainly to the U.S., Australia and the Middle East. Its health shoe collection sells ...
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Joya by Karl Müller expanded in the last year, achieving...
Joya by Karl Müller expanded in the last year, achieving total sales of €16 million and 350,000 pairs of shoes sold in 2010. About 30 percent of its total sales are exported. Future markets for the company are the U.S., Great Britain and the Benelux countries. Joya starts a new ...
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Waldläufer sold 2 million pairs of shoes in 2010, up...
Waldläufer sold 2 million pairs of shoes in 2010, up from 1.6 million in 2009. About 25,000 pairs of shoes were sold in the U.S. and 10,000 pairs in Canada. In Europe, the company sells mainly in the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia. In 2010, Waldläufer recorded total sales of ...
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Semler had a 10 percent increase in sales in 2010...
Semler had a 10 percent increase in sales in 2010 to 500,000 pairs. Exports made up a quarter of the total. Austria, Switzerland and the Benelux countries are the company's strongest export markets in the EU; outside the union, Russia, Canada and Japan are the biggest markets. Semler owns production ...
