All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 21-22
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Sports-Contacts’ operator launches Shoes-Contacts
M2b, the Munich-based recruitment agency of Michael Plank, is launching a new business portal through the GDS fair in Düsseldorf to help shoe brands to find suitable agents and distributors in various countries. Called Shoes-Contacts, it will start with agents and distributors for the German-speaking countries, Benelux and Poland in ...
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Inditex makes more shoes in Spain
The Spanish-based parent company of Zara, Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Pull & Bear and other well-known international retail chains produced 48.93 million pairs of shoes for the group through Tempe, a subsidiary in Alicante that currently employs more than 1,100 persons, according to Textilwirtschaft. This compares with only 32.18 million pairs ...
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Fornarina's first German store is set to open on the...
Fornarina's first German store is set to open on the Sendlingerstrasse in Munich next spring
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Pittards has reported flat results for the first six months,...
Pittards has reported flat results for the first six months, which it puts down to the 150 percent tariff on crust leather exports imposed by the Ethiopian government. The U.K.-based leather company reported profits of £100,000 (€124,185-$160,330), in spite of restructuring costs of £200,000 (€248,372-$320,661). The firm expects the prices ...
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Fewer Italians than foreigners at Micam
Micam Shoevent is changing its name to theMICAM (sic) and launching a new logo intended to portray the fair as the most authoritative and significant event for footwear professionals in the world, with a strong international identity. The new trade name will also be applied to theMICAM Shanghai, the new ...
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Stuart Weitzman has launched his online store in Europe, offering...
Stuart Weitzman has launched his online store in Europe, offering the whole range of products sold under his label in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Payments can be made in euros or pounds sterling.
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Eram invests in Mellow Yellow
Eram, one of the biggest shoe retailers in France, has acquired a minority stake in Mellow Yellow, a fast-growing brand of shoes and other products created in 2003 by Bruno Van Gayer, a French trader based in Hong Kong who was formerly a client of Eram.The investment has given Mellow ...
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The thirtieth edition of Modacalzado + Iberpiel recorded a slight...
The thirtieth edition of Modacalzado + Iberpiel recorded a slight increase in visitors, up by 5 percent from the previous edition last March and virtually flat as compared to one year ago. Held in Madrid on Sept. 22-24,the Spanish shoe and leathergoods fair welcomed 7,526 buyers from 69 countries. Over ...
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Pedro Garcia is to launch its new e-commerce site in...
Pedro Garcia is to launch its new e-commerce site in the autumn, making the brand even more accessible to all kind of customers in the U.S. and Europe. Established in the early 1920s by Pedro Garcia as a children's footwear workshop, some 80 years later the Alicante-based luxury footwear company ...
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Repetto has inaugurated a store in Dubai and a shop-in-shop...
Repetto has inaugurated a store in Dubai and a shop-in-shop in the Milan flagship store of La Rinascente, the Italian department store chain. The French brand of ballerinas has gone ahead with the planned opening of four stores in Japan since the beginning of this year. Other recent openings have ...
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Dr. Martens plans to open a second store in New...
Dr. Martens plans to open a second store in New York City, this one located at 868 Broadway, according to Crain's NY
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Italy’s shoe production goes down
Italy's shoe exports declined in terms of volume by 10.3 percent to 96.9 million pairs for the first five months of this year, but with a 15.9 percent increase in the average price, their value rose by 4.0 percent to €3.11 billion.For Italy's shoemakers, this relative stability compensated for an ...
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Spanish footwear scores well in distant markets
Exports of footwear from Spain grew by an estimated 13.5 percent in volume and by 0.5 percent in value in the first six months of 2012, reaching a level of 75 million pairs worth €1,027.3 million. The volume figure is not 100 percent sure with regard to a couple of ...
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Paris fairs shuffle dates and venues
The organizers of Who's Next and ancillary shows in Paris, including shoe and accessories fairs such as Mess Around and Première Classe, have decided to postpone the dates of their next summer session for one week, making them run on July 6 to 9, after Bread & Butter and other ...
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Huntsman has launched Daltoped Lite, an innovative polyether material for...
Huntsman has launched Daltoped Lite, an innovative polyether material for polyurethane shoe soles that is set to represent a versatile alternative to its ethyl vinyl acetate (EVA). Daltoped Lite materials combine the low density needed for increased comfort with mechanical properties and improved ease-of-processing. They are particularly suited to the ...
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India's Council for Leather Exports is planning to stage an...
India's Council for Leather Exports is planning to stage an Indian Leather Show in Paris from Feb. 28 to March 1, 2013. The show was supposed to take place in Paris last month, but CLE decided to postpone it in order to allow Indian manufacturers of leather and leathergoods to ...
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U.S. shoe consumption drops slightly
Americans purchased smaller volumes of shoes and spent an ever smaller percentage of their household income to on footwear in 2011. According to ShoeStats 2012, the annual report released by the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), U.S. footwear consumption dropped by 3.8 percent in volume to about 2.18 billion ...
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Corso Como District is the name of the newest fashion...
Corso Como District is the name of the newest fashion district of Milan, taking from the famous fashion store at 10 Corso Como. A recently rehabilitated area that extends from the pedestrian Corso Como to Piazza della Repubblica, in the city center, will host about 50 stores, showrooms, restaurants, art ...
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Santoni is coming up with its first line of women's...
Santoni is coming up with its first line of women's handbags for spring/summer 2013
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The Leiser group of shoe shops has come out of...
The Leiser group of shoe shops has come out of bankruptcy proceedings, following a settlement with its creditors. As previously reported, the proceedings were largely predicted when the Joseph Seibel group took an initial stake in the German retailer, which has been subsequently raised to 100 percent.
