All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 9-10 – Page 2
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Desigual plans to launch a men's footwear line next year...
Desigual plans to launch a men's footwear line next year
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The Design Museum of London has started an exhibition of...
The Design Museum of London has started an exhibition of Christian Louboutin's work, featuring more than 200 designs made since he started his own shoe collection in the early 1990s. The shoes are displayed on a carousel. A specially created 17-meter shoe with prominent red sole is part of the ...
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The flagship department store of Selfridges in London is set...
The flagship department store of Selfridges in London is set to triple the size of its men's shoe department from its present size of 5,497 square feet, making it easier for customers to shop through a presentation by categories instead of brands, says Drapers magazine. The number of brands would ...
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Hermès is opening a pop-up shop dedicated to footwear near...
Hermès is opening a pop-up shop dedicated to footwear near its flagship store in Paris. The shop, opening on rue de Sèvres, will sell spring/summer styles as well as a preview of fall/winter shoes designed by Pierre Hardy. It will close down on July 19.
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Steven Madden expands deal with Macintosh
Steven Madden has extended its distribution agreement for the Steve Madden label with the Dutch group Macintosh Retail Group to include France, Germany and Scandinavia. The initial agreement between the two parties, announced in December 2010, was limited to the Benelux countries. The American group added that it will start ...
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Moda Made in Italy will move to later dates next...
Moda Made in Italy will move to later dates next October – from Oct. 7-9 to a new Oct. 12-14 schedule – taking place from Friday to Sunday instead of Sunday to Tuesday. The organizers say that this is because hotel occupancy in Munich will be reaching its limits due ...
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Europe weighs down on Crocs’ sales and orders
Crocs lifted its sales by 19.9 percent to $271.8 million for the quarter, in spite of a sales decline of 2.7 percent in Europe to $52 million. While wholesale revenues fell in the region, European retail sales grew by 52.2 percent, with a 21 percent increase on a comparable store ...
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A federal court in Illinois has ordered a permanent injunction...
A federal court in Illinois has ordered a permanent injunction against 3,007 Chinese-based websites that were selling counterfeit Ugg Australia products. It also awarded Deckers Outdoor Corporation, owner of Uggs and the plaintiff in the lawsuit, $686 million in damages. The judge, acknowledging that it was unlikely that Deckers would ...
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The Council for Leather Exports of India says that from...
The Council for Leather Exports of India says that from April to December 2011, which corresponds with the first nine months of its fiscal year, exports of leather and leathergoods grew by 31.1 percent to $3.6 billion. Finished leather exports totaled $776.7 million, leather footwear was worth $1.2 billion, footwear ...
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Ifema is said to be considering grouping its Modacalzado+Iberpiel fair...
Ifema is said to be considering grouping its Modacalzado+Iberpiel fair for shoes and leathergoods in Madrid with its fashion fair, SIM, starting in September 2013, under the management of Francesco Malatesta, who is in charge of both exhibitions. The move resembles the recent grouping of Mess Around in Paris with ...
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The Turkish group Ziylan has confirmed its previously reported takeover...
The Turkish group Ziylan has confirmed its previously reported takeover of the Lumberjack brand from the Italian 3A Antonini group. Ziylan already had the rights to produce and distribute Lumberjack in Turkey starting with the 2012 fall/winter collection. The Turkish group is due to hold a press conference in Milan ...
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In spite of tough market conditions, Macintosh Retail Group saw...
In spite of tough market conditions, Macintosh Retail Group saw its sales rise by 8.4 percent to €258.5 million in the period of this year ended last Apr. 21. In the fashion segment, sales grew by €26.2 million to €170.1 million, mainly because of the acquisition of Jones Bootmaker in ...
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Wolverine sets up joint ventures in India and Colombia
Wolverine Worldwide has created joint ventures in India and Colombia as part of its efforts to expand internationally through a direct presence, starting off with its Merrell and Caterpillar Footwear brands. The group believes that setting up joint ventures will enable it to have more clout in developing brands than ...
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The women's-only Jimmy Choo store in the Elements mall in...
The women's-only Jimmy Choo store in the Elements mall in Hong Kong has expanded to include men's shoes, bags, belts and small leathergoods as well. Jimmy Choo Hong Kong, the new company created when Jimmy Choo bought out its joint venture partner Bluebell last year, will wholly manage the new ...
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Thomas E. Wenzel is the new chief executive of MBT...
Thomas E. Wenzel is the new chief executive of MBT Group, replacing Jan Stig Andersen. The seasoned executive has been interim manager and consultant at several companies since 2001, after holding important sales and marketing positions since 1982 at various companies including Henkel, Mars and Villeroy & Boch. Andersen, who ...
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Thomas Tang has joined Esprit as chief financial officer and...
Thomas Tang has joined Esprit as chief financial officer and executive director, succeeding Chew Fook Aun, who left last December for personal reasons. Tang, 56, was previously executive director and chief financial officer of Sino Land Company and Sino Hotel (Holdings), property developers. Esprit has appointed Thomas Tang Wing Young ...
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The city council of Chengdu, in the southern Chinese province...
The city council of Chengdu, in the southern Chinese province of Sichuan, has decreed that all the local tanneries must move elsewhere by 2015, along with other polluting industries
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Cheaney Shoes has opened its third London store in the...
Cheaney Shoes has opened its third London store in the Piccadilly Arcade in London's West End
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Outlast Technologies, the U.S.-based specialty company for so-called phase change...
Outlast Technologies, the U.S.-based specialty company for so-called phase change materials, has new owners: The investment company Golden Equity Investments based in Colorado as well. It is a relatively new private equity investor specializing in small and medium-sized companies that have their strengths in technologies for any industry and that ...
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There is some cautious optimism in the Spanish shoe industry....
There is some cautious optimism in the Spanish shoe industry. A survey conducted in January and February among the managers of 509 companies in the sector showed that 78 percent of them hope that their sales will remain stable or improve in the course of this year. Companies that work ...
