All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 4-5 – Page 4
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Alberta Investment Management Corporation has partnered with Callisto Capital to...
Alberta Investment Management Corporation has partnered with Callisto Capital to acquire a controlling interest in Town Shoes Limited, Canada's leading branded specialty footwear retailer. Town Shoes' founding Simpson family will retain a significant continuing interest in the company, and Alan Simpson and the current management team will continue to run Town. ...
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Alain Duménil, a French real estate investor who bought Francesco...
Alain Duménil, a French real estate investor who bought Francesco Smalto, Jean-Louis Scherrer and several other fashion brands, has received a suspended sentence of one year in prison and a fine of €75,000 in relation to the bankruptcy and liquidation of Stephane Kélian in 2005, which led to the dismissal ...
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Airwalk is entering the Indian market through a local manufacturing...
Airwalk is entering the Indian market through a local manufacturing company, Wiesner Worldwide Creations, which will use the brand name for a line of children's shoes and clothing
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Mephisto has a new agent in Sweden, Gabriëlle Zwart of...
Mephisto has a new agent in Sweden, Gabriëlle Zwart of Maran Shoes
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Italy's Ciao Bimbi has a new agent in France, IFC...
Italy's Ciao Bimbi has a new agent in France, IFC
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VF is ready for further buys after Timberland
VF Corporation said that it has the financial and managerial resources to carry out further acquisitions but warned that it is unlikely to achieve a deal the size of Timberland over the next 12 months. VF bought the footwear brand in June 2011 for about $2 billion. The comments come ...
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Clarks is launching an advertising campaign for its spring/summer women's...
Clarks is launching an advertising campaign for its spring/summer women's collection, touting it as its first-ever augmented reality campaign. There will be four videos for the Bodkin Bay, Henderson Sky, Dollar Crazy and Scent Bottle styles of shoes. Users of iPhone, iPads and high-powered Androids with the Aurasma Lite app ...
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The acquisition of Combs, which owns the Bogs and Rafters...
The acquisition of Combs, which owns the Bogs and Rafters brands of footwear, helped Weyco Group to boost its total sales by 18 percent last year to $271 million and to book a higher net profit of $15.3 million, compared with $13.7 million in 2010. Wholesale revenues in North America ...
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Palladium, the French brand of casual footwear acquired by K-Swiss...
Palladium, the French brand of casual footwear acquired by K-Swiss a few years ago, recorded a 16.7 percent increase in its order backlog at the end of 2011, and it should become slightly profitable this year. K-Swiss' total revenues were up by 23.8 percent to $268.4 million, with increases of ...
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The Jones Group is serious about becoming a global fashion...
The Jones Group is serious about becoming a global fashion company, setting up its own fashion office with its own leadership. Wendy Hirschberg Clurman is the vice president and fashion director for Jones New York; Amanda Ross is the consulting fashion director of Anne Klein; and Danielle de Marne is ...
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Marcel Piquet has passed away. He was 81 years old....
Marcel Piquet has passed away. He was 81 years old. The French entrepreneur was the founder of two shoe retail chains, Minelli and France Arno. They were subsequently taken over by the former Groupe André and by Eram, respectively. Groupe André is now Vivarte.
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India's Council for Leather Exports recently honored 65 companies for...
India's Council for Leather Exports recently honored 65 companies for their export performance at the India International Leather Fair in Chennai. Looking at the fiscal year 2010-11, Super House Limited of Kanpur took the “Top Export Winner” award for overall leather exports, with Mirza International and Tata International coming in ...
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In the last month, more than 60 brands have signed...
In the last month, more than 60 brands have signed up to exhibit at Modacalzado + Iberpiel, the big show for footwear and leathergoods being held in Madrid March 11-13. Among those planning to display their fall/winter 2012-13 collections are Desigual, Luis Onofre, Estefanía Marco, Atlanta Mocasín, Marco Tozzi, Chocolat ...
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Roberto Botticelli has opened a new showroom of 500 m²...
Roberto Botticelli has opened a new showroom of 500 m² at Via Senato 47 in Milan
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Kallisté will produce the women's shoes for N.21, a new...
Kallisté will produce the women's shoes for N.21, a new brand of clothing designed by Alessandro Dell'Acqua, under a new two-year agreement with the Italian designer. The footwear line will be distributed in the U.S. by The Hive. The Milan showroom of Massimo Bonini will handle sales in Europe and ...
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Fratelli Rossetti finished 2011 with a 4 percent increase in...
Fratelli Rossetti finished 2011 with a 4 percent increase in sales to €75 million. By early April, the company is due to open a second store in Hong Kong and a location in Shanghai, while completing a restyling of its store in Via Montenapoleone in Milan.
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Pollini increased sales by 15.4 percent in 2011 to €32.3...
Pollini increased sales by 15.4 percent in 2011 to €32.3 million, driven by growth in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union, China and Japan. In the meantime, the shoemaker's parent company, Aeffe, bolstered revenues by 12.2 percent to €246.0 million. Aeffe's overall footwear and leathergoods turnover rose ...
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PPR wants luxury goods sales of €14.4 billion by 2020
Describing it as an “ambition” rather than a goal, the management of PPR told financial analysts last month that the group would like to reach a level of €24 billion in revenues by the year 2020, with about 60 percent of that coming from a threefold increase in luxury goods ...
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Le Cuir à Paris, the leather show held Feb. 14-16,...
Le Cuir à Paris, the leather show held Feb. 14-16, had an 8 percent increase in visitors to 12,237 over last year. Forty percent of the attendees were from France, with another 20 percent from the U.K., 15.3 percent from Italy, 7.9 percent from Spain and 7.7 percent from Germany. ...
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New owner for Russia’s No. 1 online shoe shop
The Ozon Group, which is described as the Russian version of Amazon, last month acquired full ownership of Sapato.ru, the major Russian retailer of shoes and accessories. Its online store, which started up in June 2010, is already profitable on sales that are expected to grow to €80 million this ...
