All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 4-5 – Page 3
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Keen has bought a building in Portland, Oregon, that it...
Keen has bought a building in Portland, Oregon, that it plans to turn into its new headquarters. The new space has a total of 50,000 square feet on five floors. The ground floor comprises 6,000 square feet of retail space, and the upper four floors each offer 10,000 square feet ...
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Booming sales and soaring costs for Ugg
The growing popularity of Ugg's styles pushed up the brand's turnover past the $1 billion mark last year, but combined with those of other similar branded and unbranded products, it contributed to a growing shortage of sheepskin leather. Sheepskin leather prices went up by about 40 percent last year, leading ...
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The BRICS offer big opportunities for internationalization (Part II)
This is the second part for a series of notes taken while attending the Empreintes conference in Bordeaux and the World Footwear Congress in Rio de Janeiro last autumn. We ran the first part in the previous issue of Shoe Intelligence. These notes are still valid in spite of a ...
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Kangnai, the Chinese footwear brand, has a big year in...
Kangnai, the Chinese footwear brand, has a big year in 2011. It made 11 million pairs of high- and medium-end shoes and opened 3,000 stores, some own retail and some franchises. It started its expansion outside China with some of the stores, and for the year reports a 47 percent ...
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Yoox, the big Italian online fashion retailer, is said to...
Yoox, the big Italian online fashion retailer, is said to be about to announce the launch of a dedicated online shop for shoes
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Zappos.com is looking for the next best things. With its...
Zappos.com is looking for the next best things. With its Emerging Designer Program, the online giant is inviting beginning designers – whether of footwear, apparel or accessories – to submit their ideas. Each month Zappos will pick a designer to showcase on its website, providing a boutique page, a blog ...
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Justin Original Workboots has begun using Poron XRD cushioning materials,...
Justin Original Workboots has begun using Poron XRD cushioning materials, by Rogers Corporation, in two of its styles for this spring. The WK630-Lace-R WK and the 4630-Pull On both make use of Poron XRD M-Guard, which provides impact protection along the boot's instep and also meets the ASTM met-guard standard ...
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Steven Madden beats expectations
Steven Madden continued to outperform market expectations, posting a 73.7 percent increase in fourth-quarter sales to $279.8 million lifted by the May acquisition of The Topline Corporation and Cejon, and the transition of the company's Target private label and Olsenboye footwear businesses from a buying agency model to a wholesale ...
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Base London continues to make new inroads into the other...
Base London continues to make new inroads into the other markets. The 17-year-old British footwear brand has announced new agency agreements with Show Too in Italy, Peoples Concept in Belgium, Silverplate in the Netherlands and Five Stars in Spain, adding to those that it signed earlier in Germany and France. ...
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Moda and Footwear Industry Awards bring shoes to Birmingham
Moda Footwear, the trade show held Feb. 19-21 in Birmingham, England, reportedly saw strong trading among both new and established exhibitors with buyers attending from department stores including Debenhams, John Lewis, Fenwick, Bentalls, McElhinney's and Arnotts; and retailers such as the Clinkard Group and Pavers. Overall attendance in the various ...
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Dutch shoe retailers saw their sales decline by an average...
Dutch shoe retailers saw their sales decline by an average of 2.5 percent last year, chiefly due to an abrupt drop of 10 percent in spending on footwear in the third quarter, according to CBW Mitex. In both the first and second quarters, shoe sales inched up by 0.5 percent. ...
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Peter Kaiser has decided to stop marketing a more avant-garde...
Peter Kaiser has decided to stop marketing a more avant-garde line designed by Dawid Tomaszewski to concentrate on its own classic collection of women's shoes. As previously reported, the German company is going to a reorganization, which involves the elimination of about 100 jobs at its factory in Pirmasens and ...
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Payless ShoeSource is expanding in Asia with new stores opening...
Payless ShoeSource is expanding in Asia with new stores opening this year in Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. Emart, a unit of Shinsegae Group of Seoul, will work with Payless to open stores in Korea, and Central Marketing Group, owned by Central Group of Bangkok, will introduce Payless to Thailand and ...
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Twenty-three people were arrested on the first day of a...
Twenty-three people were arrested on the first day of a new initiative by authorities in Guangdong province, China, to eliminate the manufacture and sale of counterfeit luxury items. Officers closed off 31 production facilities or sales outlets as well. Nine provincial government departments and 700 police officers are taking part ...
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Clarks has appointed Helen Thomson to the new role of...
Clarks has appointed Helen Thomson to the new role of European Region director, reporting go Ken Dobinson, the company's international director. She previously ran Clark's successful international store franchising program. The Europe Region is one of four operational regions created by Clarks, somewhat on the model of Ecco. The others ...
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Shoon Limited, the family-owned British shoe and apparel retailer, has...
Shoon Limited, the family-owned British shoe and apparel retailer, has gone into administration, close on the heels of the previously reported bankruptcy of Barratts Priceless. Schoon, which had the distribution of Ecco shoes in the U.K. for a while many years ago, was reportedly unable to dispose of some of ...
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Footwear Plus magazine recently gave out its annual Plus Awards...
Footwear Plus magazine recently gave out its annual Plus Awards at an event it hosted with the Fashion Footwear Association of New York, and Wolverine Worldwide took home four of the honors, the first time one company has won in four distinct categories. Winners are chosen based on votes from ...
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The Export Promotion Bureau of Bangladesh has announced that in...
The Export Promotion Bureau of Bangladesh has announced that in the first seven months of the fiscal year, July 2011-January 2012, its total leather exports jumped by 26.4 percent to $446.9 million. All sectors showed double-digit growth, with finished leather up by 22.4 percent to $180.1 million; footwear up by ...
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Shoes were not among the top-performing merchandise categories at Nordstrom...
Shoes were not among the top-performing merchandise categories at Nordstrom in the fourth quarter of the last year financial, in contrast with handbags and other products. The U.S. retailer reported a sales increase of 7.1 percent on a same-store basis in the quarter, however, and the momentum continued afterwards with ...
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Stuart Weitzman, the American shoe designer based in Spain, is...
Stuart Weitzman, the American shoe designer based in Spain, is launching a new logo, Stuart Weitzman New York, for his collections. His company, which is now partly owned by Jones Apparel, is also launching and a new, aggressive advertising campaign for spring/summer 2012 that features a topless image of Natalia ...
