All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 28-29 – Page 3

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    Belle International, the big Chinese conglomerate, is working with Hong...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Belle International, the big Chinese conglomerate, is working with Hong Kong Shangduo Leather and Xinxiang Leather Company to open a new tannery in the Suzhou Economic Zone in Jiangsu province. Groundbreaking for the Bailian Shangduo tannery, north of Shanghai, took place on Nov. 21, and once completed the facility should ...

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    Jeffrey Thorp has been named vice president and creative director...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Jeffrey Thorp has been named vice president and creative director for the Jones New York brand, one of the divisions of The Jones Group. He was formerly the creative director at Magaschoni, and his previous experience also include Barneys and Ann Taylor. In a separate appointment, Stefani Greenfield will take ...

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    Two new engineers have been brought onboard to help Delcam...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Two new engineers have been brought onboard to help Delcam Crispin continue on its path of strong growth. Ian Burgess and Lauren Whitaker join the maker of softwear for footwear design and production. Burgess has been a footwear designer doing work for Georgina Goodman, LXY Brands, Alexander McQueen and Zandra ...

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    Tom Jungell, former CEO of Omnicon Media Group, has become...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Tom Jungell, former CEO of Omnicon Media Group, has become CEO of Footbalance, replacing the company's founder, Erkki Hakkala, who will concentrate on R&D

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    The second round of collective bargaining of the German shoe...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    The second round of collective bargaining of the German shoe industry, which took place recently in Offenbach near Frankfurt, has not been resolved. Representatives of the German shoe industry claim that the high expectations of the employees' representatives are not realistic. HDS, the federation of the German footwear industry, underlines ...

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    Brazil’s shoe trade balance deteriorates

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    The volume of shoes exported from Brazil fell by 25.0 percent to 82.1 million pairs in the first nine months of 2011. They had already recorded a decline in June. After an upward spurt during the month of July, they continued to drop in August and September. Brazilian manufacturers are ...

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    Good back-to-school at two other U.S. chains

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Things are going so well at DSW that the American chain has decided to extend its offer on the internet, launched in the U.S. last June, to some 200 other countries around the world gradually, starting at the end of the fourth quarter of its financial year. In the third ...

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    Deichmann entered the Portuguese market last August with a store...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Deichmann entered the Portuguese market last August with a store in the Forum shopping mall of Sintra. The German multinational chain was said to be planning to open five more stores in the metropolitan region of Lisbon before the end of 2011 – all in shopping centers.

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    Phoenix Footwear Group turned around to a net profit of...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Phoenix Footwear Group turned around to a net profit of $73,000 in the third quarter ended Oct. 1 from a net loss of $1.1 million a year ago, as selling, general and administrative expenses were cut by 28 percent and gross margins improved by 12 percentage points to 38 percent ...

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    Arezzo improves sales and earnings

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Arezzo & Company, the big Brazilian shoe retailer that also owns the Schutz, Alexandre Birman and Anacapri brands of shoes, reported a sales increase of 18.9 percent in the third quarter to 188.9 million reais (€75.4m-$99.9m), as compared to a year ago. The number of shoes sold in the quarter ...

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    A committee of the European Parliament has approved a decree...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    A committee of the European Parliament has approved a decree for the use of €1.4 million from the European Globalization Adjustment Fund to help 680 of the 974 workers who have lost their jobs due to the shutdown of Rohde's factory in Portugal. The plant employed more than 3,000 people ...

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    A court of appeals in Paris has ruled on fines...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    A court of appeals in Paris has ruled on fines of more than €60,000 against Minelli, one of the shoe retail chains of the Vivarte group, for counterfeiting the Queenie Derby style of Free Lance, the brand of women's shoe belonging to Rautureau Apple Shoes. Minelli will also have to ...

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    The ANWR Schuh cooperative has created the new position of...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    The ANWR Schuh cooperative has created the new position of a marketing manager to develop new marketing and sales strategies for the 3,100-plus retail stores that belong to the German group. The position will be occupied by Michael Fischer, a 45-year-old marketing and communication expert who has worked for other ...

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    Quick Schuh, the retail franchising operation run by the ANWR...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Quick Schuh, the retail franchising operation run by the ANWR group, is bringing two new employees to the executive suite of its company. Together, Alfred Pusswald and Thomas Bast will be succeeding Jochen Obrecht in his post as chief executive. The 51-year old longtime CEO will be leaving in order ...

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    Brown Shoe Company has announced that it will closing down...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Brown Shoe Company has announced that it will closing down its distribution center in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, phasing it out starting in January with full closure by April. The activities that take place there will be moved to other locations as Brown Shoe makes an effort to cut down on ...

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    Alpargatas beats higher rubber prices

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    The parent company of Havaianas, Dupé and other sportier brands improved its net income by 7.6 percent to 87.5 million reais (€34.9m-$46.3m) in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 in spite of a 28 percent increase in the cost of rubber. In releasing Alpargatas' results for the period, the management ...

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    Drivers passing through the Allston Brighton toll plaza on the...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Drivers passing through the Allston Brighton toll plaza on the Massachusetts Turnpike on Wednesday evening got a Thanksgiving surprise: Zappos paid all their tolls, and included credits for tolls paid by those with Fast Lane memberships

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    PPR banks on ecology for all its brands

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    PPR announced earlier this months that all its 16 luxury, sports and lifestyle brands, which include names such as Puma, Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, will produce an “environmental profit and loss account” (EP&L) by 2015. Such EP&Ls will not be used to determine the companies' financial results, but to ...

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    All the Tamaris stores that had been managed by the...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    All the Tamaris stores that had been managed by the Tomorrow Group are being taken over by Wortmann, the parent company of Tamaris. These Tamaris stores are located in Minden, Dortmund, Paderborn and Magdeburg, plus four stores in Berlin. The chief executive of Wortmann, Jens Beining, claims that the switch ...

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    Leather tanners in Algeria are complaining that hide smugglers, sneaking...

    2011-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Leather tanners in Algeria are complaining that hide smugglers, sneaking raw material out over the western and eastern borders, are hurting their business. Some tanners say that their No. 1 problem right now is a lack of hides caused by this smuggling. Algerian law prohibits the export of raw hides ...