All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 14, Issue 9-10 – Page 4
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Aigle has opened a new concept store at the bottom...
Aigle has opened a new concept store at the bottom of the high-traffic Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris. The 130-square-meter store is described as an intermediary stage toward a new retail concept that will be presented in mid-2013. A subsidiary of the Swiss Maus Frères group, Aigle already has about ...
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After opening the first store in London a year ago,...
After opening the first store in London a year ago, Nicholas Kirkwood has opened a second one in the Meatpacking District of New York
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After a relatively successful show in March, Mosshoes has decided...
After a relatively successful show in March, Mosshoes has decided to move its September session to earlier dates, in response to the demands of many exhibitors and visitors. The Moscow fair will take place on Sept. 10-13 – in between GDS and Micam – instead of the previously scheduled timing ...
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Enzi, a men's footwear brand based in Africa that touts...
Enzi, a men's footwear brand based in Africa that touts itself as being ethically sourced, is going to launch in the U.K. this summer. The first shoe, the Menelik, will be available in May. It was produced by artisan craftsmen in Ethiopia using leather and other materials sources from Africa. ...
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Rohde says it will stop acting as the footwear licensee...
Rohde says it will stop acting as the footwear licensee of Daniel Hechter after the end of this year., due to diverging strategic orientations. The collaboration has lasted 15 years, but it has generated lately less than 10 percent of the revenues of the German shoe company, which lost ...
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Wolverine acquires Collective’s shoe brands
Wolverine Worldwide, parent company of Hush Puppies, Merrell and other brands, announced on May 1 that it has won the bidding process for the Performance + Lifestyle Group (PLG) of Collective Brands, which includes four iconic shoe brands - Saucony, Sperry Top-Sider, Stride Rite and Keds – forming what the ...
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LVMH is set to acquire one of its major suppliers...
LVMH is set to acquire one of its major suppliers of leather, Tanneries Roux of France, which has been working for group brands such as Louis Vuitton, Loewe and Céline. Founded in 1803, it is based in the French shoe city of Romans, specializing in calf leather. Last year it ...
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Lollipops, the French brand of clothing, shoes and accessories, is...
Lollipops, the French brand of clothing, shoes and accessories, is reportedly cutting in half the investments required by new store franchisees in Spain to encourage them to open single-brand shops despite the difficult economic situation in the country
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Earnings drop by 54% at Deckers
Deckers Corporation, the owner of footwear brands such as Teva, Ugg and Sanuk, suffered a remarkable decline in net income in the first three months of its financial year: Profit decreased by 54 percent to $7.7 million compared with last year's first quarter. Besides its expansion at retail, especially for ...
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Portland-based LaCrosse Footwear has reported a sales increase of 32...
Portland-based LaCrosse Footwear has reported a sales increase of 32 percent to $33.3 million for the first three months of its financial year through March 31, thanks in part to four additional business days compared with last year's period. Net profit was around $0.6 million, compared with a net loss ...
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Bakers Footwear has reported a net profit of $3.4 million...
Bakers Footwear has reported a net profit of $3.4 million for the fourth quarter of its financial year, ended last Jan. 29, down by 34.6 percent from the level of one year earlier. The American shoe retailer's sales fell by 8 percent to $53.6 million, with a same-store decrease of ...
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Zalando started up its Belgian online store on April 25,...
Zalando started up its Belgian online store on April 25, after opening its Swedish store on April 11. Like the Berlin-based company's other national websites, they both offer a wide selection of shoes and clothing. However, the customer can only return a purchase within 30 days, instead of the 100-day ...
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Basicnet gets 22 stores
Basicnet has won a bid to take over the leases of 22 outlets and discount stores, mostly located in Italian factory outlet centers, that the bankrupt Mariella Burani Fashion Group had taken over from the former Gruppo Finanziario Tessile. They will be rebranded in the next ten months to sell ...
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Deichmann has launched a contest among 20 advertising agencies for...
Deichmann has launched a contest among 20 advertising agencies for the “golden idea” of a campaign celebrating its 100th anniversary next year. It is offering to reward the winning idea with a check for €2,000 and the agency itself with €10,000.
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PPR’s comparable luxury sales rise by 17.8%
PPR's core luxury, sport and lifestyle units posted a 23.2 percent increase in sales in the first quarter to €2.345 billion. On a comparable basis, the growth was limited to 11.6 percent. Including Fnac and other retail operations but without Redcats, which is about to be sold, PPR's overall ...
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Weyco Group's sales increased by 16 percent to $75 million...
Weyco Group's sales increased by 16 percent to $75 million in the first quarter, thanks in part to the acquisition of Combs and its Bogs brand in March 2011, which lifted its North American wholesale revenues to $56.6 million for the period. Stacy Adams and Nunn Bush performed well too, ...
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The next Expo Riva Schuh show, scheduled for June 16-19...
The next Expo Riva Schuh show, scheduled for June 16-19 in the pleasant Italian town of Riva del Garda, will host about 1,200 companies on 32,000 square meters of net exhibition space. Of those, more than 800 will come from 40 countries outside Italy. According to the organizers, the fair ...
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A 16.4 percent increase in the number of visitors from...
A 16.4 percent increase in the number of visitors from China and Hong Kong helped to limit at 7.1 percent the decline in attendance at the recent Micam show in Milan. Double-digit drops were recorded from Spain, the U.K. and the Netherlands. The details are in the table below. We ...
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Sabu reports an 11.5 percent increase in its retail members'...
Sabu reports an 11.5 percent increase in its retail members' sales for the first quarter. The centralized settlements of the German cooperative increased slightly over the period, but they are expected to decline in the second half of this year, based on preliminary orders so far.
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The ANWR Group aims to take over 100 percent of...
The ANWR Group aims to take over 100 percent of the shares of Garant Schuh + Mode through a squeeze-out process. The German-based retail cooperative, based at Mainhausen near Frankfurt, currently holds 90.42 percent of the shares of its German subsidiary Garant Schuh + Mode, which is based in Düsseldorf. ...
