All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 13, Issue 30-31 – Page 3
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Collective Brands, parent company of Sperry Top-Sider, Keds, Pro-Keds, Stride...
Collective Brands, parent company of Sperry Top-Sider, Keds, Pro-Keds, Stride Rite and Airwalk, Saucony, has reportedly hired an investment bank, Perella Weinberg, to look for potential buyers for its whole business, which includes the loss-making Payless ShoeSource chain of shoe shops, or parts of it. The company indicated last August, ...
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Collective Brands has created a new position as European manager...
Collective Brands has created a new position as European manager of its lifestyle shoe brands, responsible for Keds, Pro-Keds and Sperry Top-Sider. The post has been given to Michael Schmitz, a 34-year-old manager who has worked for the group for four years, coordinating its sales in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and ...
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Dozens of brands have signed up to have a presence...
Dozens of brands have signed up to have a presence in a 10,000-square-meter theme park for shoes and leathergoods due to be set up near Waalwijk, the leading Dutch hub of the leather community. Offering commercial, educational and cultural experiences, the new center is expected to attract between 300,000 and ...
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Brax, a successful German fashion brand that originally specialized in...
Brax, a successful German fashion brand that originally specialized in pants, is expected to continue its diversification into footwear and other products following the appointment of Ulrich Bauer to head up its licensing business. Hauer, 54, was formerly a shareholder and the managing director of Ulihauer Pluslinks, a German company ...
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Farrell, a British brand of men's clothing founded by a...
Farrell, a British brand of men's clothing founded by a pop music star, Robbie Williams, is planning to launch its first line of shoes in the autumn of 2012
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The German buying cooperative GMS expects to have booked centralized...
The German buying cooperative GMS expects to have booked centralized settlements in the amount of €125 million for its 850 affiliated specialty shoe retailers in 2011. In the previous business year, they had reached the total amount of €95 million. With more than 300 stores, fashion-oriented retailers represent the biggest ...
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Blaming imports, Vulcabras posts a loss
The Brazilian footwear company, which owns the Azaleia and Dijiean brands of women's shoes and has a large athletic shoe department, reported major sales declines and a net loss for the third quarter, ended last Sept. 30, blaming in part “aggressive” imports of foreign-made footwear in the premium and low-price ...
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Big spurt for Portuguese exports
Official statistics show that Portugal's shoe exports increased by 20.2 percent to €1.2 billion in the first nine months of 2011, representing the biggest year-on-year increase of the last 17 years. They were nearly equal to Portugal's total exports in 2010, when they grew by 5.2 percent to €1.29 billion.A ...
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Zalando will be opening a permanent outlet store in Berlin...
Zalando will be opening a permanent outlet store in Berlin in the spring of 2012. It will sell fashion products, footwear and accessories to registered members only. The sales area will encompass about 1,000 square meters on three levels. The company decided on a restricted shopping model based on its ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo has entered the FTSE MIB benchmark index, listing...
Salvatore Ferragamo has entered the FTSE MIB benchmark index, listing the 40 most traded stock classes on the Italian Bourse
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MBT has selected Ben May to be its new managing...
MBT has selected Ben May to be its new managing director for the U.K. and Ireland. He's a former MBT retailer, and he also oversees the company's operations in Portugal, Andorra and Spain. MBT opened five new stores in the U.K. in the last few weeks, and it is said ...
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Jean-François Palus, the young manager who has been running the...
Jean-François Palus, the young manager who has been running the finance division of PPR Group since 2005, masterminding the acquisition of Puma and Volcom, has seen his responsibilities enlarged with the promotion to a new position as group managing director in charge of new strategic, operational and organizational orientations. He ...
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Max Kibardin has been selected to be the new creative...
Max Kibardin has been selected to be the new creative director of Bruno Magli, starting with the fall/winter 2012-13 collection, which will be presented in the company's new showroom in Milan. The young designer, who was born in Siberia, has his own line of shoes and accessories, and he has ...
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For the holiday season, Payless ShoeSource has been joined by...
For the holiday season, Payless ShoeSource has been joined by more than 700 nonprofit organizations from the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean for its fourth annual Payless Gives Shoes 4 Kids program, a grass-roots effort aimed at giving more than $1.2 million in shoes to children of families ...
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A private equity firm, Searchlight Capital Partners, has become the...
A private equity firm, Searchlight Capital Partners, has become the majority shareholder of Hunter Boot through a capital increase designed to increase the brand's presence in existing markets and to expand in new regions around the world. The former shareholders including Pentland Group, which bought a 49 percent stake in ...
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Bearpaw Footwear has opened its first store, in the style...
Bearpaw Footwear has opened its first store, in the style of a rustic ski lodge. Called “The Summit,” the store is located near the company's corporate office at Citrus Heights, California, in an area owned by the company's chief executive, Tom Romeo. He wants the whole area to become a ...
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Musical chairs on Bata’s global chessboard
Marcelo Villagran, who has successfully run Bata India since the beginning of 2005, is moving to Mexico to act as group managing director of Bata Emerging Markets for Latin America. In this region, Bata operates about 650 stores located in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Mexico.Rajiv Gopalakrishnan, who has ...
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J.M. Weston, the French brand of handmade men's shoes based...
J.M. Weston, the French brand of handmade men's shoes based in Limoges, has published a book on its 120-year-old history, written by a novelist, Didier van Cauwelaert
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The RSB Bank, which is owned by the Sabu cooperative...
The RSB Bank, which is owned by the Sabu cooperative of shoe retailers in Germany, is reportedly taking centralized invoicing and settlements for Mirapodo, the virtual shoe store launched by Otto Group in March 2010. The bank started to do a similar service for some suppliers to another German online ...
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Baldinini has opened its first store in Paris on rue...
Baldinini has opened its first store in Paris on rue Saint-Honoré, close to Colette, and it plans to follow up with openings in Vienna and Budapest next March
