All Obituary articles – Page 4
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 managing ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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, which was ...
-
News briefs
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, ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
Heinz-Horst Deichmann, the founder of the Deichmann footwear retail group,...
Heinz-Horst Deichmann, the founder of the Deichmann footwear retail group, has died at the age of 88. Born in Essen in 1926, Deichmann studied both theology and medicine but took over responsibility for the small footwear manufacturing business that his parents had founded after the Second World War, turning it ...
-
News briefs
Rafael Calvo Rodriguez, who ran the Spanish shoe industry federation,...
Rafael Calvo Rodriguez, who ran the Spanish shoe industry federation, Fice, for 34 years, passed away on Oct. 8 at the age of 69. The former lawyer became secretary general of Fice in 1984 and was promoted to the position of executive president in 1992, a unique role that he ...
-
News briefs
Yves Carcelle, who led Louis Vuitton and the fashion and...
Yves Carcelle, who led Louis Vuitton and the fashion and leathergoods division of LVMH for 22 years until his departure at the end of 2012, passed away on Aug. 31 at the age of 66, after a long illness. Heading up Louis Vuitton since 1990, he took over the distribution ...
-
News briefs
Walter Giesswein passed away on July 3 at the age...
Walter Giesswein passed away on July 3 at the age of 81 years. Together with his wife Elisabeth, he founded Giesswein Walkwaren in Austria in 1954 and led it for many years, passing it on to their children in 2002.
-
News briefs
Franz Gustav Andersson, who founded Gerli together with Bruno Heim...
Franz Gustav Andersson, who founded Gerli together with Bruno Heim in 1973, has passed away at the age of 91. The partners began by importing shoes from Spain into the German market. They founded and registered the Dockers brand of casual shoes for the European market in the middle of ...
-
News briefs
Mark Lemond, the former chief executive and president of Shoe...
Mark Lemond, the former chief executive and president of Shoe Carnival, has died at the age of 59. Lemond, who was originally hired as chief financial officer, worked at the company for 25 years, before he retired in 2012. Born in Jasper, Indiana, he was a graduate of Mater Dei ...
-
News briefs
Dieter Meyer, a former chief executive of Lloyd Shoes, has...
Dieter Meyer, a former chief executive of Lloyd Shoes, has passed away at the age of 76. Together with his brother Gerrit, he was involved with the German company for more than 40 years. He left the company after its sale to Are Shoes in 1998. Meyer was also for ...
-
News briefs
A former director of the Shoe and Allied Trade Research...
A former director of the Shoe and Allied Trade Research Association, also known as Satra, Graham Butlin, has died at the age of 84. He was with the U.K.-based institute for 32 years and was director for 14, retiring in 1991. In the 1960s, he led the team responsible for ...
