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Dorino Della Valle, the founder of what later became Tod's,...
Dorino Della Valle, the founder of what later became Tod's, died on March 27 at the age of 87. His father, Filippo, was a shoemaker, and Della Valle started his company, called Della Valle, in the 1940s by making footwear for such names as Calvin Klein, Azzedine Alaïa and Neiman ...
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Alfonso Melluso, founder of the shoe company bearing his name...
Alfonso Melluso, founder of the shoe company bearing his name in the Naples area, has died at the age of 83 years, after a long illness
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Dick Braeger, one of the founders of Cole Haan as well as the owner of...
Dick Braeger, one of the founders of Cole Haan as well as the owner of the Garys specialty men’s stores, has died at the age of 74
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Roeland Smets, who retired at the end of last year...
Roeland Smets, who retired at the end of last year as general manager of the Confederation of the European Shoe Industry (CEC) after 40 years in office, died on Feb. 7 at the age of 69. He had been ill for some time. The dedicated and temperamental Belgian lobbyist ran ...
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Marcel Piquet has passed away. He was 81 years old....
Marcel Piquet has passed away. He was 81 years old. The French entrepreneur was the founder of two shoe retail chains, Minelli and France Arno. They were subsequently taken over by the former Groupe André and by Eram, respectively. Groupe André is now Vivarte.
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The Otto Group has announced the death of Werner Otto,...
The Otto Group has announced the death of Werner Otto, the visionary German businessman who founded the world's largest mail-order company in 1949. He died on Dec. 21 at the age of 102. The son of a merchant, he set up the former Otto Versand with capital of 6,000 German ...
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C&J Clark International has announced that Nathan Clark, who designed...
C&J Clark International has announced that Nathan Clark, who designed the Clarks Originals Desert Boot in 1949, died on June 23. The company called him “a lifelong ambassador of Clarks” in a release. He joined the family business in 1947. Jim Salzano, the new president of The Clarks Companies N.A., ...
