All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 10-11 – Page 3
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Fashion Box, the parent company of Replay and other brands...
Fashion Box, the parent company of Replay and other brands in which its footwear licensee, Equibox Holding, acquired a controlling interest of 51 percent one year ago, is profitable again. While the company's reorganization led to a 10.9 percent drop in sales to €243 million, the Ebitda grew by 18.2 ...
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LaCrosse books a loss
LaCrosse Footwear posted a net loss of $0.7 million in the first quarter ended March 26, compared with a net profit of $1.7 million a year earlier, as revenues declined by 26.3 percent to $25.2 million, hit by a drop in military sales.Excluding the government channel, wholesale, direct and international ...
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BolognaFiere, which organizes Lineapelle, is considering the project of holding...
BolognaFiere, which organizes Lineapelle, is considering the project of holding a leather exhibition and conference in Chengu, in southwest China. Last month's edition of the leather show in Bologna recorded a total of 12,000 domestic visitors and 6,700 foreign visitors, slightly down from the levels of a year ago.
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Julia Boltersdorf, formerly with Birki, replaces Susanne Ojeda Moreno as...
Julia Boltersdorf, formerly with Birki, replaces Susanne Ojeda Moreno as marketing manager for Snipe at Gabor
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Tata International, one of the biggest exporters of leather and...
Tata International, one of the biggest exporters of leather and shoes in India, is setting up a tannery and leathergoods production facility in Ethiopia, its first such facility outside India
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Fly London has won a prize for the “Best Enterprise...
Fly London has won a prize for the “Best Enterprise Solution” from Retail Technology Europe. The Portuguese brand got the prize because of the implementation of an intelligent RFID system that allows customers to try out a pair of shoes virtually in a store, visualizing his or her own image ...
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Santoni is opening its first flagship store in Beijing...
Santoni is opening its first flagship store in Beijing
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Massimo Dutti, one of the chains of Inditex, is beginning...
Massimo Dutti, one of the chains of Inditex, is beginning to offer a customization service for shoes, allowing customers to choose among different types of leather, laces and other types of materials and accessories
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India has been chosen by Vulcabras as the country where...
India has been chosen by Vulcabras as the country where it will make uppers for its athletic footwear. The Brazilian company has announced an agreement in principle to acquire a production unit for this purpose in Chennai that currently employs around 1,000 people. The plan is to invest $50 million ...
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Roger Rawlins has been promoted to senior vice president and...
Roger Rawlins has been promoted to senior vice president and general manager for DSW.com, the online arm of the American retail chain. He has been with the company since 2006, most recently as senior vice president for finance and controller. Jennie Wilson will take over that position. Her experience include ...
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Lanxess, the specialty chemicals group based in Germany, has created...
Lanxess, the specialty chemicals group based in Germany, has created Lanxess Middle East GmbH, based in Dubai, to handle business in the Middle East. The area is interesting to the company partly because of the supply of raw materials, and partly because of growing demand for its products. Elie Saad ...
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Baldinini is going to open its first French flagship store...
Baldinini is going to open its first French flagship store at 350 rue Saint-Honoré in Paris
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New optimism around Indian production
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, the Indian minister of state for commerce and industry, told the attendees of a leather summit held by the Council for Leather Exports (CLE) that the country could meet its goal of $8.5 billion in leather exports within the next three years. This year the total figure ...
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Footwear, gastronomy and tourism from the region around Venice are...
Footwear, gastronomy and tourism from the region around Venice are again presenting a joint image for a campaign involving this time 1,200 shoe shops in Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. Promotional leaflets, USB sticks and POS material provided by Italy's Consorzio Maestri Calzaturieri del Brenta and Veneto's tourism board ...
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Andrew Meyer is Payless ShoeSource's new senior vice president and...
Andrew Meyer is Payless ShoeSource's new senior vice president and general merchandise manager for the women's and accessories business. In his new role he will be in charge of product creation and merchandising in his niche, which includes brands such as Dexter, Brash, Airwalk and the designer labels Christian Siriano, Lela ...
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Lise Andresen, who has worked for Web Magasin, is succeeding...
Lise Andresen, who has worked for Web Magasin, is succeeding Tover Riiser Larsen, who is retiring as chief editor of Sko, the leading shoe trade magazine in Norway, after 20 years
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André, the French chain of shoe retail stores, is introducing...
André, the French chain of shoe retail stores, is introducing a special collection of Diesel shoes. The chain, owned by the Vivarte group, has just opened its 200th store in a little French town called Tulle. It has also opened two stores in Tunisia and is planning to open one ...
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Leder & Schuh has reopened the Humanic store on Vienna's...
Leder & Schuh has reopened the Humanic store on Vienna's Stephansplatz with an innovative interior design. New features include an exclusive businessman's corner with high-end models by Church's, D.H. Pollak and other brands, and a Spidercam-HD Store Movie which theatralizes the shoe displays in a dynamic way. The 56-year-old store, ...
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Bread & Butter has decided to cancel its new children's...
Bread & Butter has decided to cancel its new children's wear fair, originally planned for July 15-17 in Berlin, for lack of sufficient interest by exhibitors
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Shoe Carnival, the American shoe retail chain, has shut down...
Shoe Carnival, the American shoe retail chain, has shut down its distribution center near Evansville, Indiana, because of roof damage due to storms and strong winds
