All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 25-26 – Page 8
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Newfeel, the private brand of non-athletic walking shoes sold exclusively...
Newfeel, the private brand of non-athletic walking shoes sold exclusively in Décathlon stores, is reporting a major success for its One Many sneaker, whose modular construction allows the user to change the upper on the technical and breathable comfort sole. Typically, the customer buys the soles at the modest price ...
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Cocorose London, an emerging British brand of special women's shoes,...
Cocorose London, an emerging British brand of special women's shoes, has won a sponsored stand at the FN/Platform show at Magic in Las Vegas. The company, which gained notoriety last year for a line of shoes made in England, was one of the winners at the recent Footwear Friends Annual ...
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Floris van Bommel has launched a new limited-edition style of...
Floris van Bommel has launched a new limited-edition style of sneakers for this year's fall/winter season, created by the Dutch brand for Textures, a metal music brand from the Netherlands, in connection with the release of a new album. The collection is designed in black, which is typical for the ...
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Olga Berluti will take over the role of creative director...
Olga Berluti will take over the role of creative director of the Berluti Art line, owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. She is known as a pre-eminent bootmaker, one of the rare women in the field, and takes the job from her former position as artistic director for the ...
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One more trade show will join the Berlin Fashion Week...
One more trade show will join the Berlin Fashion Week next July. Called Panorama, it will focus on medium-priced and creative clothing, shoes and accessories and will be held on July 4-6 at a new fairgrounds, Expocenter Airport, next to the international Schönefeld airport. It will complement Premium, which is ...
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The rapidly expanding Groupe Royer, which has been very successful...
The rapidly expanding Groupe Royer, which has been very successful as the French licensee of Converse, is finalizing the signature of a five-year license for Spring Court, a French brand that became famous in the 1960s because its tennis shoes were worn by John Lennon and Serge Gainsbourg. The Spring ...
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Fabrizio Salvatori, a former Geox manager who became production...
Fabrizio Salvatori, a former Geox manager who became production and sourcing director for the shoe division of Sixty Group, is the latest of a string of executives who has left the Italian company
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BasicNet takes over Sabelt license
BasicNet, the Italian company that acquired Superga a few years ago, has bought indirectly a 50 percent stake in the Sabelt brand of footwear and apparel. This Italian brand is owned by the Marsiaj family through a company called Fashion. BasicNet has acquired a 50 percent stake in Fashion for ...
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B.A.G., the Italian company that owns NeroGiardini, NG NeroGiardini and...
B.A.G., the Italian company that owns NeroGiardini, NG NeroGiardini and NeroGiardini Junior, is scheduled to officially inaugurate in the coming weeks a fully automated 12,000-square-meter warehouse for the dispatching of finished products near its headquarters in Monte San Pietrangeli, in the province of Fermo. The company claims that the warehouse ...
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The traditional Micam Awards went last month to the buyers...
The traditional Micam Awards went last month to the buyers of Zum, the leading department store in Moscow, and to Luisa di Roma, an Italian shoe retailer that launched an e- commerce platform ten years ago. Among many other types of products, Zum sells some 50,000 pairs of shoes per ...
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Richter, the Austrian shoe brand for children, has relaunched the...
Richter, the Austrian shoe brand for children, has relaunched the brand, starting with a new market presence at this year's GDS fair in Düsseldorf. The new image of the brand can be summed up with the slogan ‘fashion, function, fun' and includes not only a new collection, but also a ...
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The China Leather Industry Association has reports that exports of...
The China Leather Industry Association has reports that exports of leather shoes fell by 5 percent in the first seven months of 2011, indicating that footwear manufacturers in the country are concentrating on the domestic market. By volume, Chinese leather footwear producers exported 540 million pairs from January through July, ...
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Steve Madden has hired the twin sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate...
Steve Madden has hired the twin sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen as creative directors for Superga. Madden has the license for North America for the sneaker brand, owned by BasicNet. The partnership will start with a co-branding initiative for the spring/summer 2012 collection between Superga and The Row, a brand ...
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Vito Artioli, chairman of the European shoe industry federation, CEC,...
Vito Artioli, chairman of the European shoe industry federation, CEC, is recruiting a new general manager for the Brussels-based organization as Eline Van Audenaerd quit her job after only a few months in office. She was supposed to take the place of Roeland Smets, who is retiring at the end ...
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Michael Brumme has been appointed publisher of Verlag Otto Sternefeld,...
Michael Brumme has been appointed publisher of Verlag Otto Sternefeld, which puts out Schuhkurier and other footwear magazines in German. He takes the position of his father, Horst Sternefeld, who died at the beginning of this year at the age of 86. Brumme has been the general manager of the ...
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The organizers of Expo Riva Schuh have announced the dates...
The organizers of Expo Riva Schuh have announced the dates for the next two sessions of the fair. It will be held on Jan. 14-17 and on June 16-19.
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Andrea Beltrami has been appointed commercial director of Voile Blanche,...
Andrea Beltrami has been appointed commercial director of Voile Blanche, one of the adult shoe brands of Falc, which also owns the Naturino and Falcotto brands of children's footwear
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Etnies has opened a flagship store in Amsterdam, created in...
Etnies has opened a flagship store in Amsterdam, created in cooperation with a key retail partner, Eberhardt. The store is in the sought-after Damrak area, and carries the largest collection of Etnies footwear and apparel in Europe. It's Etnies' second store to open in Europe after a shop in London ...
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Nordstrom is testing a new retail concept, called Treasure &...
Nordstrom is testing a new retail concept, called Treasure & Bond, in the Soho district of New York City. Clothing, shoes and accessories by innovative brands and young designers are offered on 1,100 square meters of space, and the profits will be donated to charities. It is the first store ...
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The factory of Fagus-Grecon at Alfeld, near Hanover, which was...
The factory of Fagus-Grecon at Alfeld, near Hanover, which was designed by Walter Gropius, has been placed on Unesco's list of World Heritage sites. In addition to many other operations, Fagus is a leading German developer and producer of scanning systems and footwear lasts.
