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Brazil's footwear exports decreased by 7.7 percent in volume and...
Brazil's footwear exports decreased by 7.7 percent in volume and 9.4 percent in revenues in March, as compared with the same period last year, with 9 million pairs priced at $83.9 million, bringing to a short-lived recovery to an end. For the full first quarter of 2019, exports were still ...
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The Italian footwear maker Giano posted a 20 percent increase...
The Italian footwear maker Giano posted a 20 percent increase in revenues last year compared with the €11 million posted in 2017. The group's chief executive, Enrico Paniccià, told Pambianconews that the growth was driven by two licensed brands, La Martina and Harmont Blaine, and a joint venture ...
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Office Shoes has reported that its sales for the 52...
Office Shoes has reported that its sales for the 52 weeks to July 2018 totaled £285.5 million (€332.4m-$374.8m), down from £298.7 million in the previous fiscal year, which had 53 weeks. The British shoe retailer's gross margin slipped to 44.4 percent from 46.0 percent due increased markdowns. The pre-tax profit ...
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Tod's has cut its dividend for its 2018 results to...
Tod's has cut its dividend for its 2018 results to €1.00 per share from €1.40 as it suffered a decline in profitability. The company posted a gross operating profit, or Ebitda, of €118.3 million for last year, down from €160.5 million in the previous one, due to higher communication and ...
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Golden Goose Deluxe, the fast-growing Italian brand of sneakers, aims...
Golden Goose Deluxe, the fast-growing Italian brand of sneakers, aims to achieve annual sales of €500 million in the next three years compared with €186 million in 2018. More than 80 percent of the turnover comes from outside Italy. The company, which has been controlled since 2017 by a U.S. ...
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Schuhe24, the German online marketplace for shoe retailers based in...
Schuhe24, the German online marketplace for shoe retailers based in Wiesbaden, ranked 38th in the latest list by the Financial Times of the thousand fastest-growing companies in Europe. Listed as Shoe Benner, and founded by Dominik Benner in 2013, the company posted a compound annual growth rate of 183 percent ...
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YouGov, a market research institute, recently published a survey conducted online...
YouGov, a market research institute, recently published a survey conducted online among 900,000 Germans aged 18 and over. According to that survey, Deichmann offers the best price-performance ratio in the German fashion retail sector. Overall, Lidl ranked first, followed by DM, a German chain of drugstores, and Deichmann. YouGov evaluated ...
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The big German Otto Group, which deals in retailing, shopping...
The big German Otto Group, which deals in retailing, shopping centers and other activities, reports that its Otto.de web shop increased total sales by 8 percent to over €3 billion in its financial year to Feb. 28. Otto claims to be the world's largest distance retailer overall and the biggest ...
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Rexor, the German buying group controlled by ANWR, recorded a...
Rexor, the German buying group controlled by ANWR, recorded a 3.8 percent increase in centralized settlements to €220.3 million in 2018. In Germany, Rexor managed to increase its sales by more than 10 percent last year. Follow-up orders from affiliated retailers decreased significantly in 2018, mainly because of difficulties in ...
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Aeffe's revenues from footwear and leathergoods rose by 9.3 percent...
Aeffe's revenues from footwear and leathergoods rose by 9.3 percent in euros and in local currencies to €118.3 million in 2018. The Italian company, whose holdings include Pollini, raised its total consolidated revenues by 11.2 percent to €346.6 million, up by 10.9 percent at constant exchange rates. Sales through the ...
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Vibram finished 2018 with sales of €190 million, up from...
Vibram finished 2018 with sales of €190 million, up from €173 million in 2017. The U.S. and Europe represented about 90 percent of revenues and Asia the remaining 10 percent, led by Japan and South Korea. The company generated €20 million from its innovative FiveFingers and Furoshiki footwear collections – ...
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The number of bankruptcies in the shoe retail trade doubled...
The number of bankruptcies in the shoe retail trade doubled in Norway to 14 in 2018, as compared to the previous year. The highest concentration was in the center of Oslo, which saw six stores file for bankruptcy proceedings. The increase is quite high when compared to the retail industry ...
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Italy's entire fashion industry – including apparel, footwear, leathergoods, jewelry...
Italy's entire fashion industry – including apparel, footwear, leathergoods, jewelry and eyewear – posted a 0.9 percent rise in sales to €95.7 billion last year, according to a preliminary estimate by Confindustria Moda, the new umbrella trade association for all the fashion-related sectors. Exports rose by 2.6 percent to €63.4 ...
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Footwear accounts for almost half of online sales of luxury...
Footwear accounts for almost half of online sales of luxury fashion products in the U.S., according to NPD. The annual spend on shoes has reached $794, after growing at an annual average rate of 4 percent in recent years, with a purchase frequency of 1.6 times a year. Luxury apparel ...
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According to the database of the European Clearing Center (ERIX), sales for the...
According to the database of the European Clearing Center (ERIX), sales for the German shoe retail industry were about 7.2 percent lower in 2018 than in the previous year. Germany, the largest and most open shoe market in Europe, booked a sales increase of 1.7 percent at retail in 2017, ...
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Boozt, the Swedish-based online shoe retailer with an online store...
Boozt, the Swedish-based online shoe retailer with an online store in Germany, recorded sales of €269 million in 2018, an increase of 38 percent from the previous year. After a loss in 2017, Boozt generated positive Ebit of €6.6 million last year. Sales in the fourth quarter of 2018 were ...
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According to the German trade magazine Schuhkurier, Schuhplus has recorded the most...
According to the German trade magazine Schuhkurier, Schuhplus has recorded the most successful business year in its 16-year history. The German mail-order retail specialist for extra-large men's and women's shoes posted an increase of 25 percent in its operating result for 2018. For its stationary business at the company's headquarters ...
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In a preliminary report, CCC said that its total revenues...
In a preliminary report, CCC said that its total revenues increased by 14 percent in 2018 to about 3.86 billion zlotys (€901m-$1.024bn). In a separate document, the Polish-based shoe retailing group stated that its German subsidiary had a loss of €15 million in the first nine months of last year, ...
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No details were available about China's footwear trade, but the...
No details were available about China's footwear trade, but the country's total exports and imports both contracted in December, raising worries about the growth of the world's second-largest economy and the world's in general. While its trade surplus with the U.S. reached a record high, as U.S. importers front-loaded purchases ...
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Bianco Footwear has reported a sales decline for the eighth...
Bianco Footwear has reported a sales decline for the eighth year in a row. The Danish footwear retailer's sales fell by a further 25 million Danish kroner (€3.3m-$3.8m) in 2017, leading to a total decline of almost DKK 200 million over the eight-year period (€26.8m-$30.5m). In 2016, Anders Holch ...
