All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 16-17 – Page 2
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Carlo Pazolini has inaugurated a store on Rome's plush via...
Carlo Pazolini has inaugurated a store on Rome's plush via Frattina and plans to follow up with one in Venice
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Deckers buys Sanuk
Deckers Outdoor Corporation is hoping the replicate the success obtained with its Ugg brand with an agreement to acquire Sanuk, an American brand of beach sandals and other lifestyle shoes.Sanuk's sales are expected to double this year from $43 million in 2010, generating Ebitda of $15 million. The brand is ...
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Michele Zonno has left as chief executive of Bruno Magli....
Michele Zonno has left as chief executive of Bruno Magli. He has been replaced by Armin Müller. Nothing could be learned about the circumstances of the change of management. At last report, Fortelus Capital Management, the London-based hedge fund that took over the Italian shoe company from Opera in 2006, ...
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Rubel steps down as leader of Collective Brands
Matt Rubel has resigned as the chairman, president and chief executive of Collective Brands, the big American footwear retail and wholesale company that owns big operations such as Payless ShoeSource or Stride Rite, among many others. Rubel had helmed and developed the company for six years. In a statement, he ...
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FYE, a French brand of ecological footwear whose name stands...
FYE, a French brand of ecological footwear whose name stands for For Your Earth, is planning to launch an online store in French and English at ForYourEarth.com. It will take orders from all over Europe except for Germany and Spain, where it has some retail customers.
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This year's Simac exhibition in Bologna is going to feature...
This year's Simac exhibition in Bologna is going to feature a special forum to help shoemakers personalize products for custom-made market. Simac runs from Oct. 18-20, the same time as the Tanning Tech exhibition, which will also introduce a new forum, this one focusing on sustainability and the environment. Both ...
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Peter Bolliger and others are honored in the U.K.
Peter Bolliger, the Swiss-born manager who retired as chief executive of the Clarks group after 10 fruitful years in 2010, won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual ceremony organized by the British Drapers magazine last month for the Drapers Footwear Awards. Before running Clarks, where he improved the bottom ...
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Effective Monday, Paul Blum will be the new chief executive...
Effective Monday, Paul Blum will be the new chief executive at Kenneth Cole Productions. He will join the board of directors and will report to Kenneth Cole, who stays on as chairman and chief creative officer. Blum returned to the company last March, when he was brought on board as ...
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Preliminary insolvency proceedings for the German shoe manufacturer Biodyn Human...
Preliminary insolvency proceedings for the German shoe manufacturer Biodyn Human Footwear started on June 8, with the appointment of a lawyer in Mannheim, Stefan C. Roth, as temporary trustee. All the operations of Biodyn are proceeding as usual for the moment. Salaries and wages are secured until the end of ...
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Big growth for Superga
This iconic Italian brand of casual shoes is in line to raise its sales by about 21 percent to the equivalent of around $75 million this year – directly and through its licensees – as it gets ready to celebrate its 100th anniversary.This big spurt can be partly attributed to ...
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Thirty of the best Olympic sailors have joined Team Sperry...
Thirty of the best Olympic sailors have joined Team Sperry in a sports marketing initiative by Sperry Top-Sider. The World Champions come from Croatia, France, the U.K. and the U.S., in a sign of Sperry's bid to expand internationally. They made their debut last week at the Skandia Sail for ...
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The Tod's Group has become a shareholder of La Scala,...
The Tod's Group has become a shareholder of La Scala, the famous opera house in Milan, with an investment of €5.2 million spread over four years. Tod's worked with the theater a few months ago on a video clip titled “An Italian Dream,” likening the process of producing shoes to ...
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Bakers Footwear reports a decline in its net loss to...
Bakers Footwear reports a decline in its net loss to $2.5 million for the first quarter of this year from $3.5 million in the same period a year ago as the American shoe reta iler's sales went up by 8.0 percent to $47.0 million. Comparable store sales went up by ...
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Jon Paul Grogan has been named sales executive for Babycham...
Jon Paul Grogan has been named sales executive for Babycham in the U.K., selling the footwear brand to key accounts. He will continue as well in his sales position at Jacobson Group for Gola Classics footwear and bags.
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Famous for its policy of giving away a free pair...
Famous for its policy of giving away a free pair of shoes to charities for any pair of shoes sold, Toms Shoes is introducing its first line of sunglasses based on a similar model. For every pair of sunglasses sold, the American company will try to help someone in need ...
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In association with Proplanet, its corporate social responsibility initiative, Woodland,...
In association with Proplanet, its corporate social responsibility initiative, Woodland, has introduced a new range of biodegradable footwear. The Indian company said that production of the new footwear involves no major processing, so the materials used contain no harmful substances. The heel and outer sole are made from natural raw ...
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Cimac, a laboratory run by the Italy footwear industry association,...
Cimac, a laboratory run by the Italy footwear industry association, Anci, has found that 48 percent of Chinese-made leather shoes analyzed contained hexavalent chromium, a chemical compound that increases risks of lung cancer, according to Anci. The laboratory was commissioned to carry out the toxicity test by the national observatory ...
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Fice, the Spanish shoe industry association, participated in a highly...
Fice, the Spanish shoe industry association, participated in a highly publicized ceremony staged by Casa del Actor, a nonprofit association in Madrid, where the 24 best films received prizes. An equal number of Spanish shoe brands developed special models for each of the movies, taking inspiration from their plots. Famous ...
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Geox has announced a new sponsorship contract with Max Biaggi,...
Geox has announced a new sponsorship contract with Max Biaggi, the 2010 Superbike champion
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Cleto Sagripanti will run Anci
Anci, Italy's power shoemakers' association, has elected the 40-year-old Cleto Sagripanti as its new president for at least the next two years, replacing the older Vito Artioli, who held the job for two mandates, or a total of four years. Artioli, who pushed for the renewal of the European Union's ...
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