All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 28-29 – Page 4
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Aigle has opened a pop-up shop in the Piazza of...
Aigle has opened a pop-up shop in the Piazza of London's Covent Garden and will keep it in operation until Jan. 2. It measures 200 square meters on two floors. The interior is similar to that of a pop-up store that the French company opened in Hong Kong last April, ...
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Titan Industries has struck a licensing agreement to manufacture shoes...
Titan Industries has struck a licensing agreement to manufacture shoes with the Zadig & Voltaire brand name. The French brand joins a roster that includes Badgley Mischka, Charles Jourdan and L.A.M.B. Zadig & Voltaire previously produced its shoes in-house; now Titan Industries will take over that duty and then sell ...
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At its annual convention in Milan a few days ago,...
At its annual convention in Milan a few days ago, the Italian shoe industry association, Anci, signed a contract with an Italian credit insurance company, Sace BT, to provide special rates for its members, many of whom have suffered from the late payments made by Italian and foreign clients. The ...
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LaCrosse Footwear is in litigation in Denmark against a local...
LaCrosse Footwear is in litigation in Denmark against a local hunting company, Sealand, which it has accused of copying the designs of its rubber boots
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After opening a third store in Hong Kong last June,...
After opening a third store in Hong Kong last June, Hogan has opened its first store in Beijing
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After opening a store in Beverly Hills last summer, Pretty...
After opening a store in Beverly Hills last summer, Pretty Ballerinas of Spain is following up with another store in California, this time in Santa Monica
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Europe can probably live without AD duties
Vito Artioli, chairman of the European shoe industry federation (CEC), reiterated at the World Footwear Congress in Rio de Janeiro that his body will continue to be vigilant on the import front, and that it will not hesitate to request a new anti-dumping investigation if there is any new evidence ...
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Brazil’s plans against trade circumvention of AD duties get challenged
A recently formed group of major athletic footwear companies filed a formal document with the Brazilian government a few days ago, opposing a request by Abicalçados, the Brazilian shoe industry association, to extend its anti-dumping measures against China to Indonesia, Vietnam and possibly other countries.In addition to the regular import ...
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Anci, the Italian shoe industry association, proposed actions to fight...
Anci, the Italian shoe industry association, proposed actions to fight various kinds of counterfeiting at a hearing of a dedicated committee of the Italian Parliament's House of Deputies. Besides requesting higher sanctions against counterfeiters and mandatory labels of origin for shoes imported into the European Union, Anci called for legislation ...
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Heelys scouts for acquisitions
The American brand of wheeled shoes wants to use its remaining cash pile of $23.1 million to diversify by taking over another sporting goods firm that makes some other type of wheeled or leisure products, or protective gear, or performance apparel. It is prepared to spend up to $30 million ...
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Trilantic Capital Partners, a U.S. private equity fund, has acquired...
Trilantic Capital Partners, a U.S. private equity fund, has acquired a substantial stake in Implus Corporation from another fund, AEA Investors, in cooperation with the company's chief executive, Seth Richards, and its president, Todd Vore. The U.S. company markets insoles, shoe care products and other items under numerous brands including ...
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The Wortmann Group has assigned Achim Tischler to act as...
The Wortmann Group has assigned Achim Tischler to act as chief executive of Wortmann Internationale Schuhproduktionen, a subsidiary that oversees the workings of Tamaris. In this function he will be responsible for this brand of the group, for which he has been handling most of the collections. After finishing his ...
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Sarenza, the French online store for footwear, reports a 75...
Sarenza, the French online store for footwear, reports a 75 percent sales increase for the first nine months of this year. Its sales had reached €20 million in 2010.
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Payless ShoeSource is offering 50 percent off many of its...
Payless ShoeSource is offering 50 percent off many of its products for the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 23-27, with some accessories priced starting at $3
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Sales rose by 24 percent in the first six months...
Sales rose by 24 percent in the first six months of the year on Milan's fashion street via Montenapoleone, according to the retailers' association Associazione della via Montenapoleone. It added that 80 percent of revenues were generated by foreigners. The association has introduced a card enabling non-EU residents to obtain ...
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Yoox increased nine-month sales by 35.6 percent to €204.4 million...
Yoox increased nine-month sales by 35.6 percent to €204.4 million but net profits slipped by 10.0 percent to €3.6 million. Earnings were affected by depreciation and amortization connected to investments in an automated distribution platform, the opening of a new office in Milan, the expansion of premises in Bologna and ...
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Ferragamo’s 9-month shoe sales up 34.2%
Salvatore Ferragamo's footwear sales rose by 34.2 percent to €302.07 million in the first nine months of the year as group revenues booked double-digit growth rates worldwide except in Japan. On a currency-neutral basis, shoe sales were up by 32.8 percent. Total sales went up by 27.6 percent to €701.3 ...
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I Love 19,95, the 14-store Spanish retailer, plans to start...
I Love 19,95, the 14-store Spanish retailer, plans to start selling own-brand shoes in 2012. Outsourced manufacturing partners will make the footwear in Elche, the country's shoe center, in keeping with I Love 19,95's new theme of “I Love Spain.” While the stores have stocked footwear before, they have not ...
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A dozen cartons with Louis Vuitton products worth about €300,000...
A dozen cartons with Louis Vuitton products worth about €300,000 was stolen at one of Paris' airports a few nights ago
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Pollini increased sales by 15.0 percent to €25.3 million in...
Pollini increased sales by 15.0 percent to €25.3 million in the first nine months of the year. In the meantime, the shoemaker's parent company, Aeffe, booked a 14.0 percent increase in overall sales to €197.4 million. Sales of the ready-to-wear activity rose by 10.3 percent to €157.8 million and revenues ...
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