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    Stonefly is again on a positive course, following a major...

    2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Stonefly is again on a positive course, following a major clean-up of the distribution and the introduction of new products under the Blusoft and Second Skin names, especially in the women's segment. Sales increased by between 2 and 3 percent last year, with particularly strong growth in Italy and Spain. ...

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    Aeffe, parent company of Pollini and other brands, has reported...

    2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Aeffe, parent company of Pollini and other brands, has reported a financial turnaround. It made a net profit of €4 million in 2014 compared with a loss of €1.9 million in the previous year. While the total turnover remain relatively stable at €251.1 million, the group's operating earnings before alortization ...

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    Santoni reports a jump of about 20 percent in its...

    2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Santoni reports a jump of about 20 percent in its turnover to €65 million in 2014, doing better than it had expected for the year. The rise was largely attributed to the growing demand for its 10-year-old women's collection, which has come to represent 30 percent of sales. The Italian ...

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    Yoox made a net profit of €13.8 million in 2014,...

    2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Yoox made a net profit of €13.8 million in 2014, or 9.4 percent better than the previous year. Operating earnings before amortization (Ebitda) grew by 13.4 percent to €48.8 million. The company had previously reported a turnover of €524.3 million for the past year, 15.1 percent higher than in 2013, ...

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    Labor costs in China are expected to rise by 12...

    2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Labor costs in China are expected to rise by 12 percent annually in the period from 2013 to 2020. According to The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), part of the Economist publishing group, manufacturing labor costs in China will continue to increase sharply on an annual basis, although they will do ...

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    Yoox posted a 15 percent increase in revenues to €524...

    2015-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Yoox posted a 15 percent increase in revenues to €524 million last year. More than half of the revenues came from Europe, with Italy alone generating €86.1 million. Sales in North America were worth €115.2 million. The biggest growth, however, came from the “Other countries,” which registered an increase of ...

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    Aeffe has reported essentially flat revenues of €251.1 million for...

    2015-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Aeffe has reported essentially flat revenues of €251.1 million for 2014, up by only 0.2 percent, but its footwear and leathergoods operations, which include Pollini, recorded growth of 19.5 percent. The total turnover, which also includes fashion brands such as Alberta Ferretti, Emanuel Ungaro and Moschino, would have increased by ...

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    GMS, the German buying group that has expanded to the...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    GMS, the German buying group that has expanded to the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Italy and France, increased the group's turnover by 25 percent to €239 million in 2014, as compared to the previous business year. The number of clients rose by 243 with 269 points of sale in 2014. The ...

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    The German footwear industry recorded an 8.8 percent increase in...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    The German footwear industry recorded an 8.8 percent increase in total sales to €2.518 billion in 2014, as compared to the previous year., says HDS/L, the industry's association.  While there was a 5.7 percent increase in the first half as compared to the same period the previous year, the rise ...

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    Sabu Schuh & Marketing recorded a 5 percent increase in...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Sabu Schuh & Marketing recorded a 5 percent increase in centralized settlements to €352 million in 2014. The German buying group's members recorded a plus of 5 percent in their own retail sales, but the gain was eroded in the second half. As compared to the previous year, Sabu's members ...

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    Americans bought on average 7.5 pairs of shoes per year....

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Americans bought on average 7.5 pairs of shoes per year. The figure, which refers to 2013, has been unveiled by the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) while announcing its reports ApparelStats 2014 and ShoeStats 2014. According to the same source, the rebound in Made in USA clothes and shoes, ...

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    Gabor Shoes reports a 4.8 percent increase in revenues to...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Gabor Shoes reports a 4.8 percent increase in revenues to €414 million in 2014, including its licenses, Gabor Shop & Store and Gabor Footwear. The volume grew by 3.2 percent to 9.7 million pairs. The Gabor brand booked 6.9 percent higher sales of €354 million last year. Under the Gabor ...

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    Jimmy Choo, which went public last year, reports a 6.2...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Jimmy Choo, which went public last year, reports a 6.2 percent sales increase for the last year to £299.1 million (€498.3m-$447.7m), with growth of 12 percent in local currencies. The highest increase was scored in Asia. Total retail revenues went up by 8.7 percent to £193 million, rising by 15.4 ...

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    The Ara Group raised its total sales slightly by 1.4...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    The Ara Group raised its total sales slightly by 1.4 percent to €590.3 million in 2014, compared with €581.9 million in the previous year, according to preliminary figures. Ara Shoes recorded a plus of 1.4 percent in total sales last year, with an expected sales value of €209.8 million, up ...

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    Vietnam's shoe exports rose by 23.1 percent to $10.34 billion...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Vietnam's shoe exports rose by 23.1 percent to $10.34 billion in 2014, and the country's General Statistics Office has forecast a 23.2 percent increase for January 2015. The expansion of the footwear, apparel and wood manufacturing sectors led the Bing Dong province in southern Vietnam to stage a job fair ...

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    Sales of work, occupational and safety shoes in the U.S....

    2015-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Sales of work, occupational and safety shoes in the U.S. rose by 14% to $1.8 billion in the first ten months of 2010, according to NPD

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    The Portuguese shoe industry is expected to report its fifth...

    2015-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The Portuguese shoe industry is expected to report its fifth year of growth in exports, according to its association, Apiccaps, leading to an increase of more than 45 percent since 2010. Exports rose by 8.8 percent in volume to more than 70 million pairs in the first ten months of ...

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    Europe's luxury goods industry, including footwear and leather goods, showed...

    2015-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Europe's luxury goods industry, including footwear and leather goods, showed continued growth between 2010 and 2013. Turnover increased by 28 percent to reach €547 billion, namely 4 percent of the European Union (EU)'s gross domestic product, and 200,000 new direct and indirect jobs were created. These are among the figures ...

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    The latest statistics from the British Retail Consortium show a...

    2015-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The latest statistics from the British Retail Consortium show a persistent deflationary trend for clothing and footwear products combined. Their prices in British retail stores fell on average by 10.9 percent in the course of last year. On an annual basis, they were flat in November and off by 9.7 ...

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    The German footwear industry booked a 9 percent sales increase...

    2015-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The German footwear industry booked a 9 percent sales increase in the first nine months of 2014, according to HDS/L, but while the companies' turnover rose by 13 percent, their sales abroad fell by 2.8 percent. The business improved in the U.K. and the U.S., but remained difficult in Eastern ...