Product & Marketing – Page 219
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Joaquim José Heitor obtains ISO 14001 certification
The Portuguese footwear company Joaquim José Heitor, which owns the JJ Heitor brand, has obtained an ISO 14001 certification. ISO 14001 sets the criteria for an environmental management system. The certification was granted after an audit carried out at the end of March by SGS, a Swiss inspection, verification, testing ...
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Deckers wins again in Ugg trademark dispute
Deckers Brands has won another round in a dispute with Australian Leather regarding the use of the Ugg trademark. In 2016, the American company, which owns the Ugg brand, sued Eddie Oygur and his company Australian Leather for selling sheepskin boots as uggs in the U.S. In Australia, ugg is ...
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Shoeaholics opens a huge store in London
Shoeaholics, the discount brand of the British luxury footwear and accessories retailer Kurt Geiger, has opened a 25,000 square feet store in the Westfield London shopping center, located in White City, in west London. It claims that it is the largest footwear store in the U.K. Kurt Geiger created Shoeaholics ...
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Ecco opens flagship store in Shanghai
Danish footwear brand Ecco opened a new flagship store in Shanghai in April. The company said that physical stores remain an important and attractive sales channel for Ecco’s customers, although online shopping has become an essential part of the “new normal.” Additionally, life in Shanghai right now is not hampered ...
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Vans sneaker company co-founder Paul Van Doren dies
Paul Van Doren, a co-founder of Vans, has passed away on May 6 at the age of 90, shortly after the publication of his biography, titled “Authentic.” He started as a service boy at a rubber factory at the age of 16. He acquired his independence in 1966 when he ...
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The auction for Peter Kaiser’s equipment has started
More than 200 pieces of equipment used by the German shoe maker Peter Kaiser are being auctioned. The online procedure started on May 4 and is organized by the Hamburg-based auction house Lüders & Partner. The company went into insolvency on Dec. 1, after filing an application with the Pirmasens ...
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Andrea Montelpare signs a 5-year license deal with Philipp Plein
The Italian shoe maker Andrea Montelpare has obtained a five-year license to create, produce and distribute worldwide children’s shoes under the Philipp Plein brand. The license agreement kicks off with the 2022 spring/summer collection. Based in Fermo, in the Italian region of the Marche, Andrea Montelpare specializes in luxury children’s ...
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Yue Yuen April operating revenues $786.3 million
Yue Yuen Industrial posted consolidated operating revenues of $786.3 million in April, resulting in accumulative operating revenues of $3,278.2 million in the first fourth months of the year. The company did not release comparative figures. Operating revenues represent total sales less sales discounts and sales returns. The Chinese company ...
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News briefsEcco takes its waterless tanning process to the next level
A few years ago, Ecco introduced DriTan, a new tanning process that leads to significant improvements in all relevant parameters such as water and energy, chemicals, wastewater and sludge. This innovation has already earned the Danish footwear brand the SOG Award Winter 2019/20 in the technology category. While the first ...
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StockX opens an authentication center in Australia
StockX, the American online market for sneakers, opened on May 5 an authentication center in Melbourne. It is the company’s first center covering Australia and New Zealand. StockX currently has 11 authentication centers and drop-off locations in addition to its offices in Detroit, London and Tokyo. Australians have been able ...
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FFANY Market Week scheduled Aug. 2
Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) said that a physical FFANY Market Week is scheduled to be held in New York the week starting on Aug. 2 at the Warwick New York hotel. The trade show was last held early 2020 and had to be interrupted because of the ...
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Frankfurt Fashion Week goes digital-only this summer
The organizers of the Frankfurt Fashion Week have scrapped plans for a physical event and will go ahead with a digital-only edition amid lingering uncertainty, as Germany and the whole of Europe continue to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic. The trade fair will be held from July 5 to ...
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ArticleCCC enjoys strong digital and brick-and-mortar sales growth
The Polish footwear company CCC posted sales of 1,429 billion zloty (€313.9m-$381.8m) in the first quarter running from February to April, up by 85 percent from a year earlier, when business was affected by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The top line is also nearly PLN 300 million (€65.9m-$80.2m) ...
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ArticleWeyco suffers in Q1 but sees acceleration in wholesale orders
Weyco continued to suffer from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the opening months of 2021, but the company enjoyed an acceleration in wholesale orders in the latter part of the first quarter and a strong performance in Australia. Net sales in the first quarter ended March 31 fell ...
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ArticleTimberland launches first products made from Haitian community cotton
Following a joint effort between Timberland and the local Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA), the reintroduction of cotton farming in Haiti has created a new cotton supply chain designed to bring social and environmental benefits to Haitian farming communities. Timberland first partnered with the SFA in 2010 to plant five million ...
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ArticleZalando lifts FY guidance after sales jump by 47%
Zalando once again hiked its sales and profit forecasts for 2021 after its revenues jumped in the first quarter by 46.8 percent to €2,238 million, marking the company’s strongest growth since it went public in 2014. To keep up with the pace of expected future growth, the fashion-oriented e-retailer also ...
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ArticleStuart Weitzman significantly reduces its losses
In the fiscal third quarter ended on March 27, Stuart Weitzman managed to significantly cut its operating losses thanks to higher revenues and a reduction in expenses. The brand, which is owned by the American group Tapestry, posted net sales of $57 million for the quarter compared to $51 million ...
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ArticleRocky Brands reports higher Q1 revenues, net income
U.S.-based footwear and apparel maker Rocky Brands reported soaring first-quarter revenues and net income on the back of strong demand from its wholesale and direct-to-consumer channels. The company said revenues for the three months to March 31 rose by 57.3 percent to $87.7 million. Wholesale segment sales increased by 69.1 ...
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ArticleBoohoo cautious on post-pandemic trade after profit surge
The British fast-fashion e-tailer Boohoo reported annual profits up by more than a third but warned that revenue growth will be weaker and returns will increase in the current fiscal year as the economy returns to normal after the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Pre-tax profit for the year ...
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ArticleAlpargatas posts 33% jump in Q1 sales
Alpargatas, the parent company of Havaianas and Osklen, saw first quarter sales rise by 32.7 percent to 901.3 million Brazilian reais (€137.9m-$165.5m), posting its best first quarter in a decade as growth accelerated both domestically and abroad following the continued easing of Covid-19 lockdown measures. Gross margin in the first ...
