All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 4-5 – Page 2
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The shoe designer Giuseppe Zanotti has just signed a footwear...
The shoe designer Giuseppe Zanotti has just signed a footwear license with Anthony Vaccarello, to be distributed through Giuseppe Zanotti Design showrooms in Milan and New York and sold in selected boutiques and department stores in August
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The Spanish Supreme Court has put an end to a...
The Spanish Supreme Court has put an end to a long judicial fight started by Geox in 2004 and Fluchos, the Spanish brand of comfort shoes, whose soles feature a patented three-layer Oxygen Climatic Control system designed to aerate the foot while keeping moisture away. As reported in the last ...
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El Naturalista has embarked on its project with El Corte...
El Naturalista has embarked on its project with El Corte Inglés, opening its first shop-in-shop in the chain's department store in Bilbao. Thanks to new initiatives such as this, the Spanish footwear brand hopes to report 17 percent growth this year; last year it grew by 12 percent.
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Coolway has opened its first flagship store in Scandinavia, setting...
Coolway has opened its first flagship store in Scandinavia, setting up on Karl Johans Gate 13, a pedestrian shopping street in Oslo. The brand has been developed by the Mayordomo family of Spain, working with Marius Furomo. If it proves to be a success, more stores are planned in Stockholm ...
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Prada continues to invest in new stores while opening a...
Prada continues to invest in new stores while opening a revamped and expanded flagship store in Paris. Located on the prestigious Faubourg Saint-Honoré, near Hermès, the latter is being reopened on 1,900 square meters after two years of reconstruction. In the U.S., the brand has opened a 700-m² store in ...
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Tss Scandinavia, the Swedish company run by John Kilborn, has...
Tss Scandinavia, the Swedish company run by John Kilborn, has taken on the agency for Airwalk in the Scandinavian countries
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Liebeskind is coming out with its first collection of men's...
Liebeskind is coming out with its first collection of men's shoes
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Skechers’ sales collapse
Skechers booked a 37.7 percent decrease in fourth-quarter revenues to $283.2 million due to a decline in domestic and international sales. Revenues were facing a tough comparison, the group having booked record sales in the fourth quarter of 2010, but it also registered lower-than-expected sales across many collections with key ...
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Kenneth Cole wants to go private
Kenneth Cole Productions did not hold its usual conference call with analysts last Thursday as it issued its latest financial results, which showed a net loss of $2.9 million for 2011, versus a profit of $2.1 million the year before, on 4.7 percent higher revenues of $478.9 million. But, the ...
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Ricosta held for the first time a two-day clinic in...
Ricosta held for the first time a two-day clinic in January at its headquarters in Donaueschingen for key retail clients and their sales staff to train them and motivate them to sell more with the help of a specialist in the matter, Hufner Training. The German company has decided to ...
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Weak sales at Macintosh’ shoe retail chains
Macintosh Retail Group, a Dutch non-food retail group, increased footwear sales by 9.7 percent in the full 2011 financial year to €666.9 million but only thanks to the acquisition in April of the British retailer Jones Bootmaker, the introduction of Steve Madden in the Benelux countries, and the launch ...
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Calzaturificio Elizabet, the Italian shoe manufacturer that got a five-year...
Calzaturificio Elizabet, the Italian shoe manufacturer that got a five-year license for Byblos footwear last year, will show an expanded collection under this brand at next week's Micam show in Milan, comprising also handbags and other accessories. The company's turnover rose by 8.5 percent last year to €44 million. In ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo is opening a store in San Diego, California...
Salvatore Ferragamo is opening a store in San Diego, California
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Italians question their business models
Interpreting the sentiment of many Italian shoemakers, Anci's new chairman, Cleto Sagripanti, says they are aware that the economic crisis is “altering the entire structure of the footwear industry.” According to an annual survey released by Anci, called “Shoe Report 2012,” 86.3 percent of entrepreneurs feel that the crisis ...
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Schuh, the rather successful British shoe retailer taken over by...
Schuh, the rather successful British shoe retailer taken over by Genesco last year, contributed $7.3 million in operating profit on sales of $100 million to the U.S. for its fourth quarter ended Jan. 28. The U.K. chain plans to add 8 to 11 stores this year to its current 64 ...
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Breuninger, the German department store chain, is planning to expand...
Breuninger, the German department store chain, is planning to expand the shoe section of its flagship store in Stuttgart to some 2,000 m², according to the magazine Textilwirtschaft
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Gucci has opened its third store in Brazil inside the...
Gucci has opened its third store in Brazil inside the Citade Jardim shopping center of São Paulo
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Hevea, which owns the Dunlop brand for protective footwear, has...
Hevea, which owns the Dunlop brand for protective footwear, has a new chief executive, Allard Bijlsma. He is taking over the helm from Peter Traas, who has successfully built up the brand in the last 15 years and is now joining Hevea's board of directors. Bijlsma already joined the company ...
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Shepherd, a Swedish brand of sheepskin footwear, is entering the...
Shepherd, a Swedish brand of sheepskin footwear, is entering the British market via the distribution company of Edward Barnes
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Icon, the Italian company that markets the Diego Dolcini brand,...
Icon, the Italian company that markets the Diego Dolcini brand, has transferred the responsibility of producing and distributing its footwear line to Sebastian, starting with the fall/winter 2012-13 season. The line will be on display at the showroom of Massimo Bonini in Milan. Dolcini will remain the artistic director of ...
