All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 23-24 – Page 4
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The magazine Ladies' Home Journal has awarded Crocs with its...
The magazine Ladies' Home Journal has awarded Crocs with its “Do Good” stamp, indicating that the footwear company works to make the world a better place. Specifically noted was Crocs Cares, the company's corporate social responsibility program, which tries to help children and families in depressed communities or areas affected ...
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Jørgen Krebs, president of the Denmark Shoe Trade Association, has...
Jørgen Krebs, president of the Denmark Shoe Trade Association, has been promoted from vice president to president of Ceddec, the European shoe retailers' confederation, taking over from Jean Fabre of France. Massimo Donda, president of Federcalzatura, the Italian shoe retailers' federation, has made his return to Ceddec's top echelons as ...
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Steve Madden has tapped Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to be...
Steve Madden has tapped Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to be the creative directors for Superga North America after getting the license for the brand from its parent company, BasicNet. He hopes to make the 100-year-old Italian brand a big player in the U.S. The former child star twins will handle ...
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Artcrafts, the Italian distributor of Crocs, Teva and other brands,...
Artcrafts, the Italian distributor of Crocs, Teva and other brands, has signed up as Italian distributor of Bloch, the Australian brand of ballet shoes and ballerinas run by Guy Rapp
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The chamber of commerce for the area around Arzignano, in...
The chamber of commerce for the area around Arzignano, in Northern Italy, has announced a project to make the Chiampo valley “green.” The valley is the home of 860 leather businesses with 10,000 employees and sales of €3 billion a year. The chamber said that exports had fallen by nearly ...
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Apiccaps, the Portuguese shoe and leather association, has just published...
Apiccaps, the Portuguese shoe and leather association, has just published its first World Footwear Yearbook, which says that for the first time ever, global footwear production surpassed 20 billion pairs of shoes in 2010. The final tally was 20.18 billion pairs, with China as the biggest producer by far with ...
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Big rise in orders through ANWR
Ariston-Nord-West-Ring (ANWR) looks back at a successful first half of this year, as the company reported a strong 15 percent increase in centralized settlements to €405 million for its affiliated shoe retailers in Germany. For the second half, ANWR expects a stable development of its business. The cooperative had a ...
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Anta, the Chinese footwear brand, plans to invest in a...
Anta, the Chinese footwear brand, plans to invest in a new production facility for leather footwear in Shangqiu, a city in Henan province. The company will put more than $150 million toward the project. Shangqiu, which has a population of 7.5 million and is a central hub for several railway ...
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The Council for Leather Exports in India has announced that...
The Council for Leather Exports in India has announced that in the quarter from April to June, leather exports from the country rose by 5.1 percent to $811 million. The chairman of the CLE, M. Rafeeque Ahmed, noted that despite the growth and continuing demand in Europe for Indian leather ...
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World Leather has announced that Heller-Leder, a German company, is...
World Leather has announced that Heller-Leder, a German company, is global Tannery of the Year. It won the competition from the European region, and then beat out the other regional winners: Nakara of Namibia for Africa; Coming Indústria e Comércio de Couros or Brazil for the Americas; Xing Ye Leather ...
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Lectra has promoted Anastasia Charbin to marketing director, fashion,...
Lectra has promoted Anastasia Charbin to marketing director, fashion, in view of some new design solutions due to be unveiled shortly
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Leder & Schuh has received approval by Austria's antitrust authorities...
Leder & Schuh has received approval by Austria's antitrust authorities for its acquisition of Stiefelkönig (see previous issue of Shoe Intelligence). Through Humanic and its other shoe retail chains, Leder & Schuh is estimated to have a share of 22 percent in the Austrian shoe market. Stiefelkönig has a share ...
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Kennel & Schmenger plans to open a new concept store...
Kennel & Schmenger plans to open a new concept store in Berlin. The company already owns and manages concept stores in Mainz, Freiburg and Trier and now plans to open a new store in the Alten Schönhauser Strasse. It should start up in spring 2012. The location, with a surface ...
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Clear tendency for earlier orders among German retailers
German shoe industry executives note that more and more suppliers are posting earlier closing dates for certain lines, partly because of growing sourcing problems in the Far East. A survey conducted by the magazine Schuhkurier among German specialist shoe retailers seems to indicate that they have reacted in kind. ...
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Avirex, the American brand of sportswear, will debut its first...
Avirex, the American brand of sportswear, will debut its first shoe collection at Micam next week. The line was created in agreement with the Italian company 3AAntonini, producer of the Lumberjack and Alexander footwear brands. Avirex's first line consists of four men's styles that combine American and military traditions. They ...
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Amazonas launches eco-friendly tongs
The Brazilian company, which is already one of the largest suppliers of certain footwear components on a global basis, has launched a rather unique collection of tongs made with eco-friendly materials. They also offer a high degree of comfort and designs and colors that remind of the Amazonas rainforest.Amazonas has ...
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The family also has a big interest in horses and...
The family also has a big interest in horses and bought a horse stud farm for DKK 3.45 million (€463,200-$634,000) in 1997. Ecco is the world's fifth-largest leather producer with a presence in more than 90 countries.
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Brandmasters, distributor of Airstep in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, will...
Brandmasters, distributor of Airstep in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, will from now on also take care of the brand's distribution in the U.K. Brandmasters recently acquired 50 percent of the trademark rights for Airstep, and the company designs all its men's and women's shoe collections. The shoes are produced in ...
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Philippe Dugarin is the new international sales director of Aigle,...
Philippe Dugarin is the new international sales director of Aigle, the French brand of outdoor and lifestyle shoes and clothing owned by Maus Frères, taking the place left vacant by Alexander Hagen after he left one year ago to work for Puma. Dugardin himself worked most recently for Puma, handling ...
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German shoe retailers see more challenging times ahead
The German shoe retailers' federation, BDSE, reported a slight drop of 0.5 percent for the first six months of this year. The second half of 2011 also started cautiously, as July brought a decline of 8.0 percent after the huge drop of 17 percent suffered in June. Calculations indicate that ...
