All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 25-26 – Page 7
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Epic Footwear, a division of Fresh Footwear, is going to...
Epic Footwear, a division of Fresh Footwear, is going to introduce Xti of Spain into the British market for spring/summer 2012
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Jones Group is discussing the sale of its jeanswear division...
Jones Group is discussing the sale of its jeanswear division to an Israeli firm, Delta Galil
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Schuhzoo.de is starting up in Germany as the first discount-oriented...
Schuhzoo.de is starting up in Germany as the first discount-oriented online store for shoes, providing a selection of thousands of style at prices ranging from €9.95 to €29.95 a pair. The new project is the creature of a German company, Easystores GmbH, run by Christian Lertes, which also runs web ...
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The latest edition of Cuir à Paris, the French leather...
The latest edition of Cuir à Paris, the French leather show, welcomed 12,759 visitors, 15 percent more than one year ago, and 65 percent of them came from outside France. The number of exhibitors was up by 7 percent to 353, as compared from one year ago, and the rented ...
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As part of his new collaboration with Geox, Patrick Cox...
As part of his new collaboration with Geox, Patrick Cox has created a shoe that the British pop star Elton John has been wearing during his newest show, The Million Dollar Piano, which started on Sept. 28 at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. The shoe is a traditional English ...
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Roland-Schuhe launched its first online store, offering clients shoes and...
Roland-Schuhe launched its first online store, offering clients shoes and accessories. The offer encompasses shoes for women, men and kids, sports shoes, sneakers and bags matching the current shoe collections. Customers can also order shoe care products and accessories on the new online platform of Roland-Schuhe. Founded in 1928, initially ...
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U.S. forces Reebok to refund money for deceptive toning claims
Reebok International has entered a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that will see it paying out $25 million in refunds to U.S. customers who bought its toning footwear. Reebok claimed that the shoes helped tone and strengthen glutes by 28 percent more than conventional footwear and hamstrings and ...
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More Chinese shoe companies go public
One of them is Active Group Holdings, a Chinese maker of men's casual shoes and other products in the province of Fujian. It has two house brands, Jimaire and Bull Titan, and three licensed brands: Luotuo, Camel Active and Greiff. It also manufacturers shoes for foreign footwear brands on an ...
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El Naturalista lands in China
El Naturalista, the Spanish shoe brand well-known for its ecological shoe production, sees China as one its main growth markets. Since the end of 2010, El Naturalista has been selling its products to China by means of a multi-brand distribution. The company signed a partnership with a distributor, Manpex, for ...
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Gucci has immediately responded to charges that it ran a...
Gucci has immediately responded to charges that it ran a “sweatshop” at one of its 42 Chinese stores, located in Shenzhen. Five former employees of the store had published an open letter alleging that they had been forced to work overtime until 3 AM to run inventory checks without adequate ...
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Mario Moretti Polegato, inventor, founder and chairman of Geox, has...
Mario Moretti Polegato, inventor, founder and chairman of Geox, has been elected by a jury to be the “personality of the year” at Mapic, the international market for retail real estate. Polegato will be awarded with the prize during the Mapic awards ceremony at the Palais de Festivals in Cannes ...
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PPR is expanding the capacity of its main international distribution...
PPR is expanding the capacity of its main international distribution and logistics platform for Gucci and its other brands of luxury products. For this purpose, the group has bought 40,000 square meters of land in the industrial zone of Sant'Antonino, in the Ticino canton of Switzerland. Operated by a PPR ...
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Callaghan invests in foreign sales staff
Callaghan, which has finally made it into our Brown Shoe Chart, is reinforcing its sales teams in Germany and Italy as the Spanish group seeks to expand its foreign presence. Domestic sales still represent 70 percent of the group's revenues, but Callaghan aims to boost foreign turnover to 40 percent ...
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Mahendra Gupta, dean of Olin Business School at Washington University...
Mahendra Gupta, dean of Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected as a member of the board at Brown Shoe Company to provide advice on managerial accounting, strategic cost management, information technology and marketing management and strategy
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New business model for Bruno Magli
The Italian shoe company has decided to shut down its factory in Bologna, where it was founded by the Magli family in 1936, and to move its headquarters from there to a new office and showroom in Milan, where it can properly receive its clients. Besides outsourcing all the production ...
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Pollini has confirmed the British designer Nicholas Kirkwood as its...
Pollini has confirmed the British designer Nicholas Kirkwood as its creative director until 2015. He started working for Pollini with the 2011 spring/summer collection.
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Hotter Shoes, the British manufacturer of comfort footwear, is ramping...
Hotter Shoes, the British manufacturer of comfort footwear, is ramping up its production to meet growing demand. The company claims that it makes one out of every three pairs of shoes manufactured in the U.K. Last year Hotter made 1.3 million pairs of shoes at its Lancashire factory; it expects ...
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The Brazilian government has reportedly launched a formal investigation into...
The Brazilian government has reportedly launched a formal investigation into claims that Chinese shoe exporters are circumventing the anti-dumping duty of $13.85 a pair imposed on their products last year. The Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and External Trade said there were substantiated suspicions that Chinese companies have been shipping ...
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Strong growth for branded casual shoes
Our annual study of the so-called brown shoe market shows an overall increase of 9.0 percent to $13.6 billion in the sales invoiced by the major brands in 2010 in terms of U.S. dollars, recovering from a 4.0 percent drop in 2009. It grew by 13.5 percent in the U.S. ...
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Palladium, the casual footwear brand owned by K-Swiss, recorded a...
Palladium, the casual footwear brand owned by K-Swiss, recorded a big sales increase in European markets in the first half of 2011, triplicating the volume of deliveries in comparison to the same period of last year, when they amounted to 100,000 pairs. Palladium expects to sell a total of 600,000 ...
