All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 11-12 – Page 2
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Manolo Blahnik, the luxury footwear designer, has until recently had...
Manolo Blahnik, the luxury footwear designer, has until recently had just one point of sale in the U.K., in Chelsea in London. But he has signed a deal with Kurt Geiger that will get his shoes into boutiques in the shoe departments of Harrods and Liberty. Kurt Geiger is the ...
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Bill Taylor has been named vice president for sales and...
Bill Taylor has been named vice president for sales and marketing at Birki's, which he will expand among existing customers and grow in new channels. Based in California, the brand offers a range of sandals, clogs and slip-ons with anatomically correct footbeds. Taylor comes from Sanita, where he was president ...
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Rockport banks on women’s and retail to expand in Europe
Working closely with many important key accounts in various countries, Rockport continues to expand in Europe, broadening its footprint from the men's segment into the much larger women's segment, where the brand sees its biggest potential. From 80-20 a couple of years ago, the ratio between the sale of men's ...
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Mephisto is looking back at the first year in business...
Mephisto is looking back at the first year in business of its flagship store in New York, and reports that it exceeded sales projections by 37 percent. Sales have grown every month since the store opened in Trump Plaza on Third Avenue. This was echoed by the success of two ...
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Geox enjoys strong spring sales but autumn orders collapse
Geox's directly operated stores (DOS) are enjoying strong comparable sales with its spring/summer collection thanks to good demand for women's items, especially fashion products. But the group has also registered a drop of about 15 percent in orders for the fall/winter collection. Apparently, the bulk of the decline stems from ...
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A.Testoni has opened a home page on Facebook and Twitter,...
A.Testoni has opened a home page on Facebook and Twitter, showing its present collection and featuring a video on its step-by-step manufacturing process. Founded by Amedeo Testoni in 1920, the Italian brand of men's shoes says it is now generating 85 percent of its turnover outside its home market.
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Daniel Hechter and the German-based Astormueller group are joining forces...
Daniel Hechter and the German-based Astormueller group are joining forces for a long-term cooperation. Tim T. Müller, chairman of Astormueller, has founded a separate company, Daniel Hechter Shoes, to be license holder for the line marketing under this brand name, taking over from Rhoede. The license agreement covers women's and ...
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John Lobb is partnering with Aston Martin, the luxury automaker,...
John Lobb is partnering with Aston Martin, the luxury automaker, to make a driving shoe called Winner Sport. The full-grain leather shoe feature John Lobb's distinctive double rows of stitching and is lined with sheepskin with air holes on the vamp. It comes in eight colors and sells for $970 ...
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Bankrupt MBT seeks buyers for its assets
A Swiss court in Winterthur opened bankruptcy proceedings last May 9 for Masai Group International and Masai Marketing & Trading, the two companies that own the brand rights and run the global operations of MBT, the pioneering Swiss brand of “physiological footwear.” It immediately ordered the shutdown of its new ...
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An Asian investment company, Crescent Hyde Park, is reported to...
An Asian investment company, Crescent Hyde Park, is reported to have taken over Italy's Sixty Group
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Vulcabras starts turning around
The worst is apparently over at Vulcabras, as the Brazilian company reported its first operating profit before amortization for the first quarter of 2012. The parent company of Azaleia, Dijan, Opanka and Olympikus turned around to positive Ebitda of 25.2 million reais (€9.9m-$12.6m) for the quarter from negative Ebitda of ...
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Giorgio Armani is said to be considering the establishment of...
Giorgio Armani is said to be considering the establishment of a foundation to take over all the assets of his big fashion house
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Alpargatas performs better than expected
Alpargatas performed better than expected in the first quarter of this year, raising its total net sales by 17 percent to 648.9 million reais (€255.7m-$325.3m), in spite of a small temporary dip on the European market. Higher average selling prices were responsible for about half of the growth.The Brazilian company ...
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Scapino and Aktiesport in strategic tie-up
Scapino, the largest footwear retailer in the Netherlands, has teamed up with Aktiesport, a discount-oriented sports retailer owned by the Unlimited Sports Group (USG). To start with, the partnership calls for Aktiesport to set up shop-in-shops dedicated to sports products at Scapino.Owned by the Macintosh Retail Group, Scapino has 211 ...
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Indonesia and Malaysia have signed an agreement to be allies,...
Indonesia and Malaysia have signed an agreement to be allies, rather than competitors, in their footwear industries. The Malaysian Footwear Manufacturers Association and the Indonesian Footwear Association (Aprisindo) signed the cooperation agreement in the hopes that footwear producers in both countries band together to grow despite competition from companies elsewhere.
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Turkey’s Ziylan has ambitious plans after Lumberjack takeover
The Turkish group intends to build a portfolio of Western brands that will generate annual revenues of €250 million in about five years' time, partly through further acquistions. A few weeks ago, as reported, Ziylan took over the Lumberjack brand from the Italian group 3A Antonini after six months of ...
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Anci, Italy's national footwear association, headed to South Africa last...
Anci, Italy's national footwear association, headed to South Africa last week with several companies in collaboration with ICE of Johannesburg. The visit was part of a lab promoting Asia and emerging countries, and was to allow Anci and its members to gain a wider understanding of the Johannesburg and the ...
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Seasonally adjusted shoe store sales in the U.S. reached a...
Seasonally adjusted shoe store sales in the U.S. reached a near-record of $2,411 million in March, up 7.9 percent from the same month a year ago, according to Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA), an organization that federates retailers accounting for an estimated 80 percent of the market. It ...
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Tanya Heath’s adjustable heels make their first steps
Tanya Heath's futuristic shoes with adjustable heel heights, which intend to combine comfort with glamour, were one of the hottest new items at the recent GDS fair in Düsseldorf. After being taken up by the Printemps department store in Lyon and by Sarenza's online shoe shop in France earlier this ...
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Since the beginning of May, Achim Leidel has held the...
Since the beginning of May, Achim Leidel has held the newly created position of managing director for Crocs in Germany. Leidel will be responsible for Croc's growth strategy and operative business in the German market. The 43-year-old previously worked as country manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland for Scholl Footwear. ...
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