All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 9-10
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Sperry Top-Sider is the new title sponsor of the U.S....
Sperry Top-Sider is the new title sponsor of the U.S. sailing team, which will now be known as U.S. Sailing Team Sperry Top-Sider. The deal with the team, which includes the sailors in 10 Olympic and three Paralympic boat classes, runs through 2016. The boats and their main sails will ...
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Sutor Mantellassi has opened a store at a prestigious new...
Sutor Mantellassi has opened a store at a prestigious new location at 3, via Montenapoleone in Milan. The 250-square-meter store, which has two levels, will also offer the company's new line of women's shoes. The Italian producer, which was taken over by E-Land of South Korea in September 2010 along ...
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Sven Simonsen is taking over as sales manager of Palladium...
Sven Simonsen is taking over as sales manager of Palladium for the German-speaking countries from Robert Dosert, who is leaving the brand at his own wish. Simonsen, 50, worked previously for other brands such as Diesel, Oilily and Crocs. Palladium is still the property of K-Swiss Inc., where a new ...
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Twenty-seven members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a...
Twenty-seven members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter to the country's trade representative, Ron Kirk, asking him to ensure that the footwear industry was treated fairly in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP creates a new free-trade zone and is lauded as an opportunity for the U.S. to ...
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The new Start Rite shoe shop in Hong Kong is...
The new Start Rite shoe shop in Hong Kong is said to be performing well above budget, with over 59% of its customers being expatriates
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Weak growth for Timberland
The outdoor and action sports unit of VF Corporation lifted its sales by 60 percent for the first quarter. They were inflated by the acquisition last year of the Timberland and SmartWool brands, which added $356 million for the quarter, but the rise also included organic growth of 15 percent. ...
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LVMH and Hermès grow rapidly, too
LVMH continued its excellent momentum in the first quarter of this year by recording a 25 percent increase in total revenues to €6,582 million, with organic growth of 14 percent. Representing an acceleration compared with the 12 percent growth rate registered in the fourth quarter of 2011 on an organic ...
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The Mexican government is said to have reached a new...
The Mexican government is said to have reached a new agreement with the Chinese government about shoe imports from China, which had been subject to heavy duties for a long time until last December. The new deal, which runs from last May 1 to the end of December 2014, reportedly ...
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Genesco plans to rebrand some of its struggling Underground Station...
Genesco plans to rebrand some of its struggling Underground Station stores in the U.S. to Underground by Journeys
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Toms opened its first store in the U.K. yesterday...
Toms opened its first store in the U.K. yesterday - a pop-up shop in London's Covent Garden. The two-story shop will be open through June 28, selling its spring/summer shoe collection as well as eyewear.
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Famous Footwear has launched an in-store shoe recycling program at...
Famous Footwear has launched an in-store shoe recycling program at 16 of its stores in the Philadelphia metropolitan region, in conjunction with ShoeBox Recycling. ShoeBox puts recycling bins in the stores where customers can throw away their old ones when they get new ones, then buys the shoes from Famous ...
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Wolverine’s sales, orders are hit by European recession
Wolverine Worldwide blamed the recession that is hitting many of Europe's economies for a 2.4 percent drop in its revenues to $322.8 million in the first quarter ended March 24, falling below the company's and financial analysts' expectations. The situation in Europe also affected the group's order backlog, down by ...
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Thomas Grote, former president of Esprit, has now left as...
Thomas Grote, former president of Esprit, has now left as chief executive of Mexx
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Jones sees some encouraging signals
The Jones Group reported a net loss of $1.2 million for the first quarter, compared with a profit of $25.7 million in the same period a year ago, but attributed this mainly to charges of $28 million and other costs of $9 million related to its acquisition of a major ...
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Mephisto has a new website with easier navigation and new...
Mephisto has a new website with easier navigation and new functions, including an international store locator combined with Google Maps. Its shoe models can be visualized from different angles, with the ability to blow up the details of the shoes. The site is currently available in French, English, German, Italian ...
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Dune Group is taking over operations from Kurt Geiger for...
Dune Group is taking over operations from Kurt Geiger for the men's shoe department of five House of Fraser stores in the U.K. next September, according to Drapers. Dune already handles the men's footwear departments of 51 other HoF department stores and licenses its private labels of women's shoes – ...
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Dubarry goes for premium performance outdoor lifestyle
Dubarry of Ireland is celebrating its 75th anniversary with an interesting program intended to raise €75,000 to finance breast cancer research. The company has created limited editions of 250 pairs of its original Galway country boots and Ultima sailing boots. A pair of the boots will be given with a ...
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Skechers’ sales drop in Europe and the U.S.
In the first quarter, Skechers booked a 26.2 percent decline in consolidated sales to $351.3 million, with a 40 percent drop in the total pairs sold. Sales in the first quarter of 2011 were bloated by the clearing of excess inventory of toning shoes sold at reduced prices. The clearance ...
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Wolf-Dieter Herzog, who led Sabu for many years, died last...
Wolf-Dieter Herzog, who led Sabu for many years, died last month after a long illness at the age of 89. He worked for the German cooperative between 1955 and 1986, the last five as its general manager.
