All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 20-21
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Shoes and women's wear were the only major sectors that...
Shoes and women's wear were the only major sectors that recorded a sales decline in the U.K. during the month of June, as compared to one year ago, according to British Retail Consortium
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Linea Marche has opened a showroom in New York for...
Linea Marche has opened a showroom in New York for Vic Matié and its other brands, OXS, Rubber Soul and Akethon
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Outdoor market supports LaCrosse
LaCrosse Footwear increased revenues by 2 percent to $27.1 million in the second quarter ended June 25 thanks to strong growth in outdoor sales. The Portland, Oregon, company continued to be loss-making, booking a $0.2 million net loss compared with a net profit of $0.1 million a year earlier. It ...
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Stéphane Vais has joined Sarenza, one of the two major...
Stéphane Vais has joined Sarenza, one of the two major French online shoe retailers, as deputy general manager in charge of administration, finance, business intelligence and legal matters. The executive worked most recently as finance director of Photobox, a leading provider of photo services over the internet. Among other stations, ...
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Roger Vivier is launching its online store in September, but...
Roger Vivier is launching its online store in September, but it will only offer shoes and handbags from previous seasons. The current styles will only be sold in the company's stores and corners around the world.
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Marc Shoes and Josef Seibel work together internationally
Starting from the next spring/summer 2012 season, the sales agencies of Josef Seibel in the U.S., Canada, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Britain will distribute the collections of Marc Shoes in addition to their own brands. The tie-up makes sense because of Seibel's good record and the fact that its ...
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Riding on the wave of improved sales in the U.S.,...
Riding on the wave of improved sales in the U.S., the Italian shoe industry association, Anci, is organizing an exhibition of selected Italian brands at the Flathotel on West 52nd Street in New York on Aug. 2-5, during FFANY. One of them is Manas, the company of Cleto Sagripanti, who ...
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Skechers sells half of toning inventory
Skechers halved the inventory of lingering toning shoes by selling 2 million pairs of original Shape-up models at a $21 million loss. The shoes were predominantly sold to one big account. The company booked an additional charge of $4.4 million on the rest of the stock, composed of less than ...
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Weaker quarter for Jones Group
Jones Group suffered an operating loss of $2.4 million on revenues of $188.4 million in its redefined domestic wholesale footwear and accessories division during the second quarter ended July 2. But it achieved positive operating margins of 2.9 percent on sales of $166.5 million in its domestic retail operations, 6.6 ...
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As previously reported, Geox and Fratelli Rossetti will make a...
As previously reported, Geox and Fratelli Rossetti will make a comeback at the next GDS fair in Düsseldorf, scheduled for Sept. 7-9, but they will not be the only newcomers. Alviero Martini, Callaghan, D'Acquasparta, Farrutx, Flip Flop, Heschung, John Varvatos, Lumberjack, Salamander and United Nude will also exhibit for the ...
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Tempe, the footwear manufacturing and sourcing unit of Inditex, has...
Tempe, the footwear manufacturing and sourcing unit of Inditex, has opened a new €100 million distribution center in Elche with a capacity to handle more than 100 million pairs of shoes per year for the 5,000-odd stores of Zara and the other retail chains of the group around the world. ...
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Two experts join forces for German-speaking Europe
A raft of important shoe brands has entered the portfolio of Euro Brand Management, an agency that has been representing several others for the German-speaking countries and beyond. For this agency, which is based near Munich, the new development is coming as its well-known principal, Luigi Grosso, is joining forces ...
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FN Platform, the shoe show due to be held at...
FN Platform, the shoe show due to be held at the Magic fashion fair in Las Vegas reports an increase of more than 25 percent in buyers' pre-registration for its Aug. 22-24 session. The organizers point to several new highlights at the show including a “Black Diamond” area for luxury ...
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Vibram takes over FiveFingers’ distribution in Europe
Vibram has amicably parted ways with Aicad, the Italian producer of Lizard sandals, by not renewing a contract that had given it the right to distribute its own line of FiveFingers shoes in Europe for the past five years. Aicad will have until the end of this year to clear ...
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Deckers posts a temporary loss
The parent company of Ugg, Teva, Tsubu and Ahnu completed on July 5 the acquisition of Sanuk, a surf-inspired brand whose sales jumped by 57 percent in the first half of this year to about $43 million.Meanwhile, the shift from distributors to direct wholesale distribution in the U.K. and the ...
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Europe leads Crocs’ growth
Europe was Crocs' fastest growth market in the second quarter ended on June 30, rising by 50.4 percent to $52.2 million. For the first time ever, Asia became the company's largest market, overtaking the Americas. But the feat will be short-lived and the Americas should remain the group's biggest market ...
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A court in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, has ruled that Denis...
A court in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, has ruled that Denis Lemercier of the holding company EPI will be the new owner of Les Tanneries du Puy, which went into administration in April 2010. The court had to decide between two legitimate bids for the company; the other came from the ...
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Most costly shoes gain market share in Italy
The Italian footwear market has undergone a stagnation in sales over the past decade and the only segments to have gained market share have been shoes priced above €140 a pair, while purchases of more economical shoes have declined, according to a survey carried out by Diomedea for the youth ...
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In the course of the recent cost increases, Pointers has...
In the course of the recent cost increases, Pointers has decided to move some of its production to Italy and the U.K. At the moment, Pointers the British brand is manufacturing half of its product line in Portugal and the other half by means of a production partnership in China. ...
