All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 21-22 – Page 2
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Prada is close to overtaking Gucci
Prada is close to becoming the main Italian-based fashion brand. After having overtaken Giorgio Armani, Prada may soon be challenging the supremacy of PPR's Gucci brand, as it is growing at a faster rate thanks to a strong performance in leathergoods and the expansion of its retail network. As a ...
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Lower profits at Clarks
Pre-tax earnings declined by 12.9 percent to £31.1 million (€38.7m-$49.8m) at C&J Clark for the first half of its financial year, ended on July 31. Operating profits before exceptional items declined by 12.3 percent to £35.5 million (€44.1m-$56.8m), but the management expects them to be flat for the full year. ...
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News briefs
Ernesto Segarra of Spain has launched what he claims to...
Ernesto Segarra of Spain has launched what he claims to be the world's first 100-percent compostable leather shoe. Once the shoe has reached the end of its life cycle, it can be left to decompose on a domestic compost heap or along with domestic rubbish for a new lease of ...
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A Portuguese shoe company, Claçado Guimarães, has opened its first...
A Portuguese shoe company, Claçado Guimarães, has opened its first store in Spain. It is located in a new shopping mall, called El Faro, at Badajoz near the Spanish border with Portugal. The company already has 37 directly managed stores in Portugal.
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Good response to Micam China project
More than 250 companies expressed interest in Micam's new project to organize its first foreign show in Shanghai next April 9-11 (see the previous issue). Participation in the show is open to selected brands from all over the world in the medium, upper-medium and highs segments of the market, including ...
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New general secretary for CEC from Spain
Carmen Arias Castellano, a multi-lingual Spanish lawyer born in 1965, is the new general secretary of CEC, the European confederation of the shoe industry. Together with a new team based at a new office in Brussels, she has taken the place of Roeland Smets, who passed away last February. ...
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Superga is putting out a capsule collection of sophisticated shoe...
Superga is putting out a capsule collection of sophisticated shoe styles in collaboration with a British designer, Giles Deacon. It will be available at high-end boutiques such as 10 Corso Como in Milan, Dover Street Market in London, L'Eclaireur in Paris, Susan of Burlingame in San Francisco and Lina Dresdner ...
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Nordstrom will start opening its first stores in Canada next...
Nordstrom will start opening its first stores in Canada next year. Three of them will occupy the premises vacated by Sears at the Chinook Centre of Calgary in the autumn of 2014, at the Rideau Centre of Ottawa in the spring of 2015, and at the Pacific Centre of Vancouver ...
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The footwear sector came out particularly strong at the latest...
The footwear sector came out particularly strong at the latest Fashion Access, which was held in Hong Kong on Sept. 27-29. Nine exhibitors were rewarded with the Best of APLF Awards, four of which were footwear companies. PT Mario Minardi of Indonesia won for Best Quality Men's Footwear Collection. Art ...
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Double-digit growth for the brown shoe market
The major brands of brown shoes – an expression that we use every year for certain types of casual shoes – raised their sales by 12.2 percent in terms of U.S. dollars in 2011, according to an annual survey of the industry by Shoe Intelligence. This compares with the drop ...
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Schuh, the successful British chain catering to young customers in...
Schuh, the successful British chain catering to young customers in the U.K., is launching a new format for children, called Schuh Kids. The first three stores of the kind are set to open at Braehead in Scotland, at the Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex and at Liverpool One, adjoining the ...
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A new British brand, Fury, has won a prize for...
A new British brand, Fury, has won a prize for a sponsored stand in the FN Platform section of the Magic show in Las Vegas. It is one of thee prizes won by young British entrepreneurs in the 2012 Footwear Friends Awards. Monetary prizes were given by the consultancy of ...
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Bortolo Venturelli is the new general manager of Tod's Deutschland,...
Bortolo Venturelli is the new general manager of Tod's Deutschland, which handles the sale of all the brands of the Tod's group in the German-speaking countries as well as in Scandinavia. He takes the place of Alessandro De Medici. Previously, Venturelli was with a company that distributes brands such ...
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Geox switches CEO to boost its fortunes
Geox has replaced its long-serving chief executive, Diego Bolzonello, with the group's marketing director, Giorgio Presca, in an attempt to relaunch the group, whose sales have petered out lately. The appointment of Presca heralds a change of strategy for the brand, aimed at making it more fashion-oriented, as repeatedly ...
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The Dutch shoe manufacturer Schoenfabriek Wed. J.P. van Bommel will...
The Dutch shoe manufacturer Schoenfabriek Wed. J.P. van Bommel will be reopening its factory at its head office in Moergestel on Nov. 27. The renovated factory was completely destroyed by a fire in 1951. After a complete reconstruction in the last eight months, its space of 6,000 square meters will ...
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Shoe stores are getting bigger
After the successful expansion of the shoe floors at the flagship stores of Selfridges in London and Galeries Lafayette in Paris, three department stores in New York and a couple of them in Germany replicated the move in the last few weeks, offering a broader selection of products and placing ...
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Berluti has opened a shop-in-shop at Harrods, the department store...
Berluti has opened a shop-in-shop at Harrods, the department store in London, featuring for the first time the menswear line developed for the brand by Alessandro Sartori
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News briefs
Planitoi, the Portuguese company that markets shoes under the Beppi...
Planitoi, the Portuguese company that markets shoes under the Beppi trade name, is reportedly negotiating a joint venture with a financially solid partner to establish a U.S. subsidiary before the end of this year. The new structure will enable the company to deliver merchandise from its own stock in the ...
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G.H. Warner Footwear has become the exclusive distributor for the...
G.H. Warner Footwear has become the exclusive distributor for the U.K. and Ireland of three brands by Grendene – Ipanema, Rider and Grendha – replacing Glass Footwear
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