All Obituary articles – Page 3
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Guy Gasparian, who ran Hirica from 1996 to 2016, died...
Guy Gasparian, who ran Hirica from 1996 to 2016, died last month at the age of 78, after a long illness. Founded in 1904, the French shoe company was recently taken over by an industry veteran, Jean-François Bru.
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Birkenstock has announced the death of Margot Fraser, the German-American...
Birkenstock has announced the death of Margot Fraser, the German-American dressmaker and designer who brought the iconic brand to the U.S. more than 40 years ago. Fraser discovered and personally experienced Birkenstock sandals on a trip to Germany in 1966. Based on that experience, she decided to contact Karl Birkenstock ...
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Stefan Vierhig, who has worked for the Wortmann group for...
Stefan Vierhig, who has worked for the Wortmann group for almost four decades, concentrating on export markets, has passed away after a long illness. He was 55 years old. He had been less active on the sales front in the past years because of his illness.
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Georges Biotteau, whose family owns the Eram group, has died....
Georges Biotteau, whose family owns the Eram group, has died. Eram was founded by his father François in 1846. The company became the largest shoe manufacturer in France during the 1960s. It is now one of the two major French shoe retailers. Run by his son Xavier, it has 12 ...
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Joan Helpern, half of the shoe duo behind the Joan...
Joan Helpern, half of the shoe duo behind the Joan David brand, has died in New York at the age of 89. According to reports in WWD, her death was caused by respiratory failure. David Helpern, Joan's husband and business partner, died in 2012. The pair founded together ...
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Mickey Chen, founder and chief executive of Kingmaker, died from...
Mickey Chen, founder and chief executive of Kingmaker, died from wounds after being stabbed at one of the company's shoe factories in Vietnam, by a warehouse manager after he was questioned about missing inventory, according to a report in the Taipei Times. Chen founded Kingmaker in Taiwan in 1981 and ...
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Friedrich Schüttfort, a highly respected German shoe retailer who served...
Friedrich Schüttfort, a highly respected German shoe retailer who served as chairman of the former Nord-West-Ring buying group, passed away on Jan. 16 at the age of 90. He joined the board of NRW in 1997 and led it from 1982 to 1989. In 1979, he participated in the foundation ...
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Douglas Tompkins, who founded The North Face in 1964 and...
Douglas Tompkins, who founded The North Face in 1964 and Esprit in 1968, died in a kayaking accident in Southern Chile on Dec. 8. He was 72 years old. At Esprit, he pioneered the shop-in-shop concept in department stores. Passionate about the environment, he used some of the money from ...
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Hilde Röseler died on Oct. 27, a few weeks after...
Hilde Röseler died on Oct. 27, a few weeks after the celebration of her 100th birthday. Together with her husband Paul Röseler, she ran a shoe shop in Solingen-Ohligs in the 1930s and 1940s. She accompanied and supported him after he founded Ara in 1949. The company is still controlled ...
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The Vietnamese government has issue new regulations that specify the...
The Vietnamese government has issue new regulations that specify the maximum amounts of formaldehyde and Azo dyes that can be used in textile products manufactured, imported and traded in the country. The regulations are scheduled to be enforced from February 2016. They make reference to updated international test standards. They ...
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Roger Pedder, the former chairman of Clarks, has died at...
Roger Pedder, the former chairman of Clarks, has died at the age of 74 after battling with leukaemia. Pedder joined Clarks Shoes as a graduate trainee in 1963. He left Clarks in 1969 to pursue other retail roles at companies including BHS and Burton. He rejoined Clarks in 1988 as ...
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CTC, the leather and footwear testing institute, has announced the...
CTC, the leather and footwear testing institute, has announced the death of Roland Steyns, who helped set up CTC Dongguan, China, in 2007. Steyns was CTC's project director for South China. Among his previous roles, he served as production director at Crockett Jones and held the position of ...
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Juan Ignacio Rivera Escribano, the vice president of Avecal in...
Juan Ignacio Rivera Escribano, the vice president of Avecal in Spain, has died following a short illness at the age of 58. Avecal, of which Rivera was also a founder member, is the footwear industry association of the Valencia region. Rivera was also at the head of Veri 2011, the ...
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Josef Seibel, who ran the German shoe company by the...
Josef Seibel, who ran the German shoe company by the same name in Hauenstein until 1993, died on May 26 at the age of 92. He belonged to the third generation of the family that founded the company in Hauenstein in 1886. The company is now managed by his son ...
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We should have published this article earlier in Shoe Intelligence,...
We should have published this article earlier in Shoe Intelligence, as we already did in SGI Europe, and we apologize: Harrison Greenberg, 19-year-old son of Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers USA, died unexpectedly on April 6 while on a vacation in Thailand. His death was attributed by the company to ...
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A fixture in the Swedish footwear industry has died. Over...
A fixture in the Swedish footwear industry has died. Over the years, Bengt Gustafsson played a defining role in many Scandinavian footwear companies. He acted as chief executive of a Swedish brand, Hefa, and Sko Team, which were purchased by New Wave Group. He also bought into Skokanonen, ...
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Last Dec. 31, Xavier Noël, former president of the French...
Last Dec. 31, Xavier Noël, former president of the French footwear group that bears his name, passed away at the age of 85. He was the son of the company's founder and the father of the current chief executive, Patrick Noël. During his tenure at the helm of the company, ...
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Vince Camuto, the co-founder of Nine West, died at his...
Vince Camuto, the co-founder of Nine West, died at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Jan. 21. He was 78. Camuto grew Nine West into a major business, developing a strong sourcing business, and sold it to Jones Apparel Group in 1999, and after a brief break, launched the fashion ...
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Klaus Duttenhöfer, long-time managing partner of Peter Kaiser, passed away...
Klaus Duttenhöfer, long-time managing partner of Peter Kaiser, passed away at the age of 86 on Jan. 4. Duttenhöfer shaped the Peter Kaiser brand over decades. From 1963 to 1994, he worked as chief executive officer for the company. Together with his colleague and companion, Walter Joneck, he set out ...
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Josef Kalliwoda passed away at the age of 91 on...
Josef Kalliwoda passed away at the age of 91 on Nov. 16. The former German shoe agent was successful in the 1990s with a fashionable shoe collection that he was putting together for his clients. He had started to work independently in 1969 after working for many years as sales ...
