All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 18-19 – Page 2
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Crocs is now directly managing the distribution of its shoe...
Crocs is now directly managing the distribution of its shoe collections in Portugal and Slovakia. Before, Crocs had been selling its product line in these countries by means of a distributor. At the moment, Crocs manages the distribution of its products directly in altogether 15 countries. In the future, the ...
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Crocs has opened its first store in France – its...
Crocs has opened its first store in France – its 20th in Europe – in the Val d'Europe shopping center just outside Paris. The 65-square-meter store carries the brand's newest lines including Translucent, Sneakers and Crocs Tone. The company called France a key market for the brand, and said that ...
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Tod's has restyled its corporate website, www.todsgroup.com. The overhaul has...
Tod's has restyled its corporate website, www.todsgroup.com. The overhaul has changed the site from a static and somewhat uninspiring outfit into something more modern and elegant, bearing the brand's brown and orange colors.
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Expo Riva Schuh continues to grow
Last month's Expo Riva Schuh show brought in 10,711 visitors, a 5 percent increase from the June 2010 edition. The total number of exhibitors reached 1,211, or 150 more than one year ago, and they included 314 companies from Italy 847 from 39 other countries. Birkenstock was among the newcomers ...
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A spokesperson for ECCO denies a report that the company...
A spokesperson for ECCO denies a report that the company is planning to set up a new €4 million factory in Portugal
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PPR, parent company of Gucci Group, has raised its stake...
PPR, parent company of Gucci Group, has raised its stake in Sowind Group, the Swiss manufacturer of Girard-Perregeaux and Jean Richard high-end watches, from 23% to 50.1%
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Red Wing Shoe Company opened a European head office in...
Red Wing Shoe Company opened a European head office in Amsterdam at the start of July. The American group has been trading in the Netherlands and in other European countries for the last 10 years, but its rapid growth in the last five years called for an expanded European team ...
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Joe Filipas, who has worked for Hi-Tec Sports, Columbia and...
Joe Filipas, who has worked for Hi-Tec Sports, Columbia and Sorel, has joined Wolverine World Wide as senior footwear developer for its newly acquired Chaco brand
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The prospect of a cut by the Chinese government in...
The prospect of a cut by the Chinese government in its import duties on shoes and other luxury products by next autumn has apparently led Sergio Rossi to decide to take over control over five of its 11 franchised stores in China. The Italian brand, which is owned by Gucci ...
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Pou Chen Corporation, the major shareholder of Yue Yuen (see...
Pou Chen Corporation, the major shareholder of Yue Yuen (see its results further down), indicates that it should be able to complete a major reorganization of its Asian production apparatus by end of 2012, in response to rising labor costs in Eastern China. It will relocate a large part of ...
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The Scandinavian Shoe Center, the permanent trademart for shoe companies...
The Scandinavian Shoe Center, the permanent trademart for shoe companies within the Copenhagen Fashion House at Bella Center, has reported that it expects to continue to operate for at least two more seasons, although many exhibitors have pulled out. The most important one, ECCO, has chosen to set up its ...
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Foot Shop, a British retailer of oversized and special shoes,...
Foot Shop, a British retailer of oversized and special shoes, has been sold by its founder, David Price, to its management, led by Andrew Peirce, according to Drapers. The business comprises two divisions, Cosyfeet and Walktall. Cosyfeet is a brand of extra-wide shoes for people with swollen and bandaged feet, ...
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The NAC Breda football club in the Netherlands is going...
The NAC Breda football club in the Netherlands is going to be sponsored from the next season on by Patrick, the sports brand owned by the Belgian Cortina group. However, Patrick has been replaced by an Italian company, Royal Sport, as the kit supplier for Rayo Vallecano, a football club ...
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Francal caters to strong Brazilian consumption
More than 1,000 companies with about 3,000 brands, nearly 99 percent of them Brazilian, were represented on 82,000 square meters of exhibition space at the big Francal shoe show in São Paulo, which took place earlier than usual on June 27-30 to allow buyers to order items for delivery as ...
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Rebecaa Blair, who has worked for John Varvatos, Juicy Couture,...
Rebecaa Blair, who has worked for John Varvatos, Juicy Couture, Sergio Rossi, Betsy Johnson and Tory Burch, has been hired by Schwartz & Benjamin as president of its Diane von Fürstenberg footwear division
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Pikolinos' Maasaï project is a nominee for “best brand for...
Pikolinos' Maasaï project is a nominee for “best brand for sustainable development” in this year's Global Fashion Awards organized by WGSN. The project is a line of shoes and bags whose sales go toward the Masai people in Kenya. In 2010, a school was built for 400 students in the ...
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Belle International is said to be keen on setting up...
Belle International is said to be keen on setting up an e-commerce operation in chain with the help of Baidu, a search engine company, and Xu Lei, a former vice-president of a major online retailer, 360buy.com
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New Brazilian fair before World Footwear Congress
While proceeding swiftly with the organization of next November's World Footwear Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Grupo Couromoda is launching a new fair for fast fashion, to be held on Oct. 26-28 in the Expo Center Norte fairgrounds in São Paulo. The organizers have rented 7,000 square meters of net ...
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Eduardo Smaniotto, who has been export manager of Dumond for...
Eduardo Smaniotto, who has been export manager of Dumond for five years, has left the Paquetà group to work for Priority, another Brazilian group that owns the West Coast and Cravo & Canela brands. With 18 years of experience in the shoe sector, he has joined Priority to supervise sales ...
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Richard L. Markee has been named to the board of...
Richard L. Markee has been named to the board of directors at Collective Brands for a three-year term. He is the executive chairman at Vitamin Shoppe, where he was the chief executive until April 4. The 58-year-old has also held leadership positions with Babies ‘R' Us and Toys ‘R' Us.
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