All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 8 – Page 3
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Pittarello, the Italian shoe retailer bought last year by the...
Pittarello, the Italian shoe retailer bought last year by the private equity fund 21 Partners, captained by Alessandro Benetton, has undergone a rebranding in collaboration with the communication agency Casiraghi & Greco. The new corporate image was unveiled with the opening of a 1,500-square-meter store at the Milano Fiori shopping ...
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Peter Simma is set to join the executive board of...
Peter Simma is set to join the executive board of Leder & Schuh as financial director next September after leaving a similar position at Walford
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Sergiolin has gotten a license for Blumarine shoes, handbags and...
Sergiolin has gotten a license for Blumarine shoes, handbags and other accessories
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Manolo Blahnik, the iconic footwear designer, said that he didn't...
Manolo Blahnik, the iconic footwear designer, said that he didn't consider his job to be work because it is so much fun. He admitted to the Telegraph, the newspaper in the U.K., that he is working more slowly these days, but he has no plans to retire. He said he ...
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Josef Biller, a former chief operating officer of Zalando, is...
Josef Biller, a former chief operating officer of Zalando, is heading up 21Diamonds, a new online jewelry shop in Germany. One of the shareholders is Rocket Internet, the investment company of the Samwer brothers that is also a shareholder in Zalando.
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A large South Korean conglomerate, E-Land, is preparing a bid...
A large South Korean conglomerate, E-Land, is preparing a bid to acquire Collective Brands for $1.8 billion, together with institutional investors, according to the Bloomberg news agency, but it may not be the only candidate to the acquisition. Collective has been on the market since last August, and other companies ...
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Liebeskind of Berlin continues to open new shops for its...
Liebeskind of Berlin continues to open new shops for its products, including an expanding footwear line, through franchisees. A sixth one has just opened in Paris. Others are due to open later this year in Salzburg, Graz and New York.
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Richter relaunched its homepage just before the beginning of the...
Richter relaunched its homepage just before the beginning of the GDS trade show in Düsseldorf. The homepage now has the same updated design as the new logo and the new image of the brand. Additionally, new point-of-sale support has been developed, in order to present the traditional brand in a ...
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Raf Simons has been confirmed as the new creative director...
Raf Simons has been confirmed as the new creative director of Christian Dior, taking the place of John Galliano, who was fired a year ago because of his racist and anti-Semitic statements
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Dorino Della Valle, the founder of what later became Tod's,...
Dorino Della Valle, the founder of what later became Tod's, died on March 27 at the age of 87. His father, Filippo, was a shoemaker, and Della Valle started his company, called Della Valle, in the 1940s by making footwear for such names as Calvin Klein, Azzedine Alaïa and Neiman ...
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Bally has opened a new store in Geneva on rue...
Bally has opened a new store in Geneva on rue du Rhône, overlooking the Jardin Anglais
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Michel Bergerac, a former president and chief merchant of Bakers...
Michel Bergerac, a former president and chief merchant of Bakers Footwear Group, has joined Payless ShoeSource as senior vice president and general manager for the chain's collections of women's shoes and accessories
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Special insolvency plan for the German Bahner Group of shoe shops
The Bahner Group, which operates 132 shoe retail stores in Germany under numerous banners, including Leiser and Schuhhof, has been granted a special type of bankruptcy protection from creditors. Its new status, called ESUG based on new regulations voted by the federal German parliament last October, is supposed to allow ...
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A tannery in Arzignano, Northern Italy, reportedly caught fire on...
A tannery in Arzignano, Northern Italy, reportedly caught fire on the morning of April 1. It is run by Cadore, a producer of leather for footwear, furniture, automotive upholstery and other leather goods. An area used to store finished leather was the center of the blaze in the 4,000-square-meter facility. ...
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The organizers of Who's Next, Première Classe, Mess Around and...
The organizers of Who's Next, Première Classe, Mess Around and other fashion-related shows In Paris, have hired a Berlin-based studio to concot an advertising campaign designed to attract more international visitors to these simultaneous exhibitions, due to take place for the first time at the end of June, just before ...
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Giorgio Armani indicated at the Milan Fashion Week in February...
Giorgio Armani indicated at the Milan Fashion Week in February that his collections will have more shoes and leathergoods in the future
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Reinhard Mewes, responsible at Ariston-Nord-West-Ring for the Best Partner trading...
Reinhard Mewes, responsible at Ariston-Nord-West-Ring for the Best Partner trading concept, is going to retire in the middle of this year. Mewes designed the concept, which was launched in 1998. His responsibility will be handed over to Michael Fischer, who has been in charge of the marketing department at ANWR ...
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Arezzo focuses on Brazil
Arezzo & Company, the big Brazilian retailer and owner of the Schutz, Anacapri and Alexandre Birman brands, has reported a 42.0 percent increase in net profit to 91.6 million reais (€38.1m-$49.9m) for the past financial year, ended on Dec. 31. It reached a ratio of 13.5 percent of its total ...
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Guido Heck has been appointed new managing director for Germany...
Guido Heck has been appointed new managing director for Germany of MBT, replacing Uwe Schäfer, who has switched to K-Swiss' operations in the same country. Heck, a former manager of Nike, Rohde and Mephisto, will keep his position as international sales director, which he took on early last year. Heck ...
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Anci, the Italian shoe industry association, is sounding out Italian...
Anci, the Italian shoe industry association, is sounding out Italian shoemakers to check whether they may be interested in a preview of their collections in Munich, at earlier dates than Moda Made in Italy. Possible dates for the event would be July 29-30 and Feb. 20-21, 2013. The next Moda ...
