All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 16-17
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A pair of shoes worn by Queen Victoria and made...
A pair of shoes worn by Queen Victoria and made between 1840 and 1850 are on display at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Wirral, England. The exhibition, called “The Finishing Touch,” shows show women's fashion from 1830 to 1940 evolved as it reflected the changing roles of women in ...
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Italian shoemaker hit by supply problems
More than half of Italian shoemakers faced problems in obtaining hides and leather in the opening months of 2011, according the their association, Anci. The association's outgoing chairman, Vito Artioli, has urged the European Commission to establish bilateral trade agreements to avoid protectionism and unfair competition, especially regarding export duties ...
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VF takes over Timberland, targeting synergies and higher profit margins
VF Corporation, the owner of The North Face and many other outdoor, sports and jeans brands, has agreed to pay about $2 billion to acquire The Timberland Company, the American firm that owns the Timberland and SmartWool brands. The amount doesn't include extra cash at Timberland. If completed, the tie-up ...
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Harrods has opened its Men's Shoe Salon, which it says...
Harrods has opened its Men's Shoe Salon, which it says is now Europe's largest men's shoe department. The 8,000-square-foot space evokes New York in the mid -20th century with marble floors, rich ocher rugs and leather chairs. It sells luxury brands including Salvatore Ferragamo, Ermenegildo Zegna, Oliver Sweeney, Paul Smith ...
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Shoedex helps shoe retailers shoot good photos
One of the novelties at the last GDS fair was a fully automatic and compact photo studio that shoe retailers can use to create high-quality 3D photos of shoe models for their online shops. Seven German retailers have placed orders so far for the product, called M3D+ and developed by ...
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Valleverde, Sanagens and Fly Flot may form new group
Lones, the Italian company that produces Fly Flot shoes, may combine its business with those of two other Italian brands, Valleverde and Sanagens, to form a group that would target a combined annual turnover of €150 million by 2013. Details of the project, which has yet to be fine-tuned, could ...
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Ruco Line inaugurated its new store in Florence on the...
Ruco Line inaugurated its new store in Florence on the first day of the Pitti Uomo fair in the city
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Workers in Indonesian sportswear factories will have more rights under...
Workers in Indonesian sportswear factories will have more rights under a new pact that manufacturers and brands such as Adidas, Nike and Puma have signed with textile, clothing and footwear unions in the country. The pact will allow workers to unionize at supplier factories. Recent research by the International Textile, ...
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Prada’s IPO looks promising, but less than expected
The pricing of Prada's initial public offering (IPO) will only be known later today. The latest indications are that it will probably be a little lower than initially expected, valuing the company at the equivalent of between US$12.98 billion and $13.88 billion. This would be based on an introductory price ...
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Micro-Pak sets up a European office
Based in Hong Kong, Micro-Pak Ltd. claims to be the leading supplier of certified moisture management systems for shoe boxes, clothes and bags around the world. It sells more than 1 billion stickers and sheets per year, and more than 80 percent of them are meant to protect shoes during ...
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Enrico Pesallaccia is leaving as the manager of Sixty Group's...
Enrico Pesallaccia is leaving as the manager of Sixty Group's footwear division, which he set up ten years ago, after pushing its sales to an annual level of 1.6 million pairs, with revenues of €60 million. The division handles the brands Miss Sixty, Energie, Killah and Murphy & Nye. New ...
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Thekey.to, a fashion fair that was due to take place...
Thekey.to, a fashion fair that was due to take place in Berlin this summer, has been postponed until next Jan. 18-21. Thekey.to hosts international exhibitors in the eco-fashion sector. January's show will run one day longer and start at the same time as the well-known Bread & Butter and Premium ...
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Students are finally reaping the reward of a donation of...
Students are finally reaping the reward of a donation of 248,000 Hong Kong dollars (€22,225-$31,850) that UBM Asia, the trade show organizer, donated to help rebuild the Caoheba Primary School, which was destroyed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The money went to Salvation Army Hong Kong and Macau Command, and ...
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Skechers has a signed a deal with the U.S. subsidiary...
Skechers has a signed a deal with the U.S. subsidiary of the Li & Fung group for a line of branded fitness apparel and accessories due to be launched in 2012 under the brands Shape-Ups, Tone-Ups and Skechers Resistance
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Industry groups in India including the Council of Leather Exports...
Industry groups in India including the Council of Leather Exports are calling on the government to step in to stop further decline. For the quarter ended March 31, the manufacturing sector's growth was 5.5 percent, down from 15.2 percent the previous year. CLE says that the high cost of power ...
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Lollipops of France launches its first collection of women's clothing...
Lollipops of France launches its first collection of women's clothing for spring/summer 2012
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Zungui Haixi, a Chinese manufacturer of shoes and clothing, is...
Zungui Haixi, a Chinese manufacturer of shoes and clothing, is adding five new production lines and expanding the distribution of its products to Tier 2 and 3 cities in China. In releasing its results for the first quarter ended March 31, it said it was planning to open 30 more ...
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Footwear exports from Jinjiang city in China's Fujian province grew...
Footwear exports from Jinjiang city in China's Fujian province grew by 26.2 percent to $830 million in the first five months of the year. The Jinjiang Bureau of Inspection and Quarantine noted that the exports were the result of orders placed in the second half of 2010, and that the ...
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Erich Rohde has made some changes in management recently. Mirko...
Erich Rohde has made some changes in management recently. Mirko Ostendörfer, the former executive of Marc Shoes who has been developing Rohde's licensed line of Daniel Hechter shoes, is now sales director of both Rohde and Hechter for all the German-speaking countries. Andreas Schulz is in charge of the group's ...
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A delegation from Novo Hamburgo, the center of leather and...
A delegation from Novo Hamburgo, the center of leather and footwear production in Brazil, visited the Korean Institute of Footwear Fashion and Technology in Busan recently with Novo Hamburgo's mayor, Tarcísio Zimmermann. His goal was to establish ties between industry players in his region of Brazil and he Korean institute, ...
