All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 10-11 – Page 4
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Amazon starts selling shoes in Germany, Zalando in the U.K.
Amazon launched a new online shop for footwear in Germany on May 3. With the help of the newly created website Javari.de, Amazon aims to develop its market position in Germany further, although the country is already the second-largest market for the company after the U.S. Amazon, which recently bought ...
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Leili-Maria Koch has taken on the management of all the...
Leili-Maria Koch has taken on the management of all the stores of Högl. The British retail expert started her professional career at Harrods in London and worked for well-known companies such as Bally, Marks & Spencer and most recently as head of international retail at Wolford. Altogether, Högl has set ...
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Aldo moves into Italy
The big Canadian-based shoe retailer, which already has more than 1,500 stores around the world, is coming closer to a goal to have a presence in 65 different countries by the end of this year with the opening of its first two stores in the important Italian market.The two stores ...
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Prada Group has signed a deal with the Al Tayer...
Prada Group has signed a deal with the Al Tayer group to jointly develop a network of Prada and Miu Miu stores in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia. Based in Dubai, the group claims to be the largest distributor of luxury goods in the Middle ...
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Ciao Bimbi has signed an agreement with Flash & Partners...
Ciao Bimbi has signed an agreement with Flash & Partners to produce and distribute worldwide a line of children's shoes under its Nolita Pocket brand name
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Labelux Group, which took over Bally a few years ago,...
Labelux Group, which took over Bally a few years ago, has signed an agreement in principle for the acquisition of Clothing Company, an Italian firm that owns the well-known Belstaff brand name
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After opening its first mono-brand store in Florence, Alexander, the...
After opening its first mono-brand store in Florence, Alexander, the high-end men's shoe brand of 3A Antonini, is opening one in the latter's home town of Verona. The group has also reopened its Lumberjack store near the Spanish Steps in Rome, based on a new look that will be rolled ...
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After restyling them, Tod's is reopening stores in Düsseldorf and...
After restyling them, Tod's is reopening stores in Düsseldorf and Madrid
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After testing it out as an ephemeral store, Timberland is...
After testing it out as an ephemeral store, Timberland is opening its third French corporate store in Paris
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After relaunching the Salamander brand in the shoe care segment...
After relaunching the Salamander brand in the shoe care segment last year, Melvo is introducing a new look for its Woly brand for its 80th birthday, including a new logo featuring its birthdate and, from next autumn, a new website. Thanks in part to the start-up of new subsidiaries in ...
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Just a month after the end of Modacalzado+Iberpiel, the organizers...
Just a month after the end of Modacalzado+Iberpiel, the organizers had already booked 85 percent of the exhibition space available for the next edition, being held Sept. 11-13. The new dates place it between the big shows in Düsseldorf and Milan, and while it remain in Feria de Madrid, it ...
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Fornarina launched an interesting viral advertising campaign to support the...
Fornarina launched an interesting viral advertising campaign to support the renovation of its 13-year-old store in Bologna, which has reopened with a more dynamic urban design. In addition to fliers, it sent out an e-card good until April 17 giving customers the right to get a special gadget and a ...
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Christian Louboutin takes action against two brands
Christian Louboutin is famous for its red soles, and brands that want to mimic the look should watch out. In the last month, the luxury company has initiated legal action against two companies for infringing on its highly visible trademark, which it registered in the U.S. in 2008. The first ...
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Following its recent acquisition of the Bogs and Rafters brands...
Following its recent acquisition of the Bogs and Rafters brands of casual footwear, Weyco Group is going to expand its headquarters in Glendale, Wisconsin. The cost of acquiring these two brands depressed the group's profit, which declined to $3.4 million in the first quarter of this year from $3.9 million ...
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According to the DHI Retail Sales Index, shoe sales in...
According to the DHI Retail Sales Index, shoe sales in Sweden increased by 6.5 percent in February. This results in an increase of 1.8 percent so far this year, calculated in money. With the price increase taken into account, shoe sales decreased by 0.9 percent in February, which gives a ...
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LVMH accelerates
The leading luxury goods company, LVMH, has released better-than-expected quarterly results for the opening months of 2011 despite the situation in Japan, indicating ongoing strong demand for quality products. Tod's, which will release first-quarter results on May 12, also indicated that it was very satisfied about the first three months ...
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Quick-Schuh thinks about women
The German chain of franchised shoe shops, which is steered as an independent unit of Ariston-Nord-West-Ring, introduced the Quick Schuh Women store format last year, which has been widely adopted by retailers, considering the fact that women buy many more shoes than men. They opened 20 stores last year with ...
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Luxury goods market should grow by 8%
Based on Bain & Co.'s newest estimates, Altagamma, the Italian monitoring agency for the global luxury good market, is raising its forecast for its growth this year, predicting an increase of 8 percent in constant currencies to €185 billion. It had previously anticipated growth of between 3 and 4% for ...
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Ralph Hanus, 57, is confirmed as general manager of the...
Ralph Hanus, 57, is confirmed as general manager of the German Sabu buying cooperative for another five years
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Stonefly's store on Corso Europa in Milan experienced a 50...
Stonefly's store on Corso Europa in Milan experienced a 50 percent increase in sales after its renovation, based on a new concept that will be replicated in other stores. The company has also inaugurated three new stores in Siena, Turin and Trieste, taking the total door count up to 33 ...
