All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 10-11
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Zalando opened a temporary store in Milan's via Vigevano, in...
Zalando opened a temporary store in Milan's via Vigevano, in the lively Navigli district, between April 9 and 14, coinciding with the Milan Design Week. The store aimed at increasing the visibility of the German e-commerce retailer in a country where customers are not accustomed to buying online. Only 25 ...
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New management for Vagabond
Anders Odén has become chief executive of Vagabond International, replacing Mats Nilsson, who remains chairman of the Swedish company. Odén joined Vagabond ten years ago as financial manager, but left it one year later to run a company that made timber-frame houses. He returned to Vagabond in 2008, running its ...
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Zalando is starting a partnership program with local retailers and...
Zalando is starting a partnership program with local retailers and brands in Austria. In the framework of a strategic cooperation, retailers and brands have the opportunity to present their products on the Zalando platform. Such a partnership program has existed in Germany since the end of 2011. The model has ...
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Portugal outperforms Italy and Spain
With a total of 71 million pairs, shoe exports from Portugal grew by 4.5 percent in value in 2012 to just over €1.6 billion. Apiccaps, the Portuguese shoe industry association, noted with pride in its bulletin that this compares with increases in value of 0.4 percent for Spanish shoemakers and ...
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LVMH posts weaker quarterly growth
The fashion and leathergoods division of this other luxury giant saw its sales growth slow considerably in the first quarter. The unit posted a 0.4 percent increase in sales to €2.4 billion, against 17 percent growth in the same quarter a year ago. It was the lowest quarterly sales growth ...
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Hermès’ sales are up but leathergoods post weaker growth
Hermès International performed better than PPR and LVMH in the latest quarter. The company announced that its overall sales for the three months ended March 31 increased by 10.3 percent to €856.8 million. Currency fluctuations produced a negative impact of €19 million on revenues for the quarter. On a currency-neutral ...
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A good start for theMicam Shanghai
The first edition of the Micam Shanghai was hailed as a success by executives of Anci, the Italian shoe industry association which is changing its name to Assocalzaturifici Italiani. Held from April 9 to 11, it attracted a total of 4,504 visitors for a total of 5,880 visits to the ...
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Vivarte, the large French retail group that owns shoe retail...
Vivarte, the large French retail group that owns shoe retail chains such as André and Minelli, has appointed a new finance director, Jérôme Baniol, who will report to Didier Couerbe, secretary general and deputy managing director. He worked previously at Rexel. Another new key appointment is that of Antoine Menet, ...
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Vivarte, the large French retail group that owns shoe...
Vivarte, the large French retail group that owns shoe retail chains such as André and Minelli, has appointed a new finance director, Jérôme Baniol, who will report to Didier Couerbe, secretary general and deputy managing director
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Wide-ranging reorganization for France’s Groupe Royer
Groupe Royer, the largest French brand owner and licensee in the footwear sector, is launching a major reorganization plan after posting a small net loss for 2012, the first one in its recent history. Declining to quantify it, a spokesman for the company attributed it to a drop of about ...
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Footwear is one of Kering’s stars
Kering, the French conglomerate that is changing its name from PPR, reported on a relatively lackluster quarter, with its Luxury Division growing less rapidly than before and the Sports & Lifestyle Division suffering a sales decline. As a result, the revenues from the group's continuing operations increased by only 1.0 ...
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Grand opening for Superga's first store in Hong Kong
Superga, the Italian brand of sneakers, opened its first flagship store in Hong Kong on March 30. Located at Harbour City, Hong Kong's most popular shopping mall, the 700-square-foot store features the full Superga collection, consisting of more than 100 styles from classic to special editions for men, women and ...
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The organizers of Essenz, a new shoe fair in the...
The organizers of Essenz, a new shoe fair in the Munich Order Center (MOC), have decided to shorten its duration from three to two days and run it on Sept. 22-23, immediately after the GDS fair in Düsseldorf (Sept. 11-13) and theMicam (Sept. 15-19) in Milan. The organizers have positioned ...
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Erik Lemaitre, a French executive who worked with Reebok, Lacoste...
Erik Lemaitre, a French executive who worked with Reebok, Lacoste Footwear and Upla, has launched a new brand of sneakers, called Barons Papillom, together with an Italian investor, Giovanni Fontana Giusti, who worked for Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally. The first collection consists of five styles retailing from €119 to €475 ...
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Wolverine's sales double
Wolverine Worldwide reported last week a doubling in its quarterly revenues to $645.9 million for the period ended March 23 thanks to its acquisition last October of Sperry Top-Sider, Saucony, Stride Rite and Keds. On a pro-forma basis, assuming that it already owned those brands at the beginning of 2012, ...
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Dosenbach-Ochsner, the large Swiss sporting goods and shoe retailer owned...
Dosenbach-Ochsner, the large Swiss sporting goods and shoe retailer owned by Deichmann that holds a European license for the Fila brand, has signed a distribution contract with Footwear International Distribution, a subsidiary of the Dutch Unlimited Sports Group (USG) group, for the sale of Fila branded lifestyle footwear in the same territory ...
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Nicholas Kirkwood has developed his first model of men's shoes...
Nicholas Kirkwood has developed his first model of men's shoes for a special shoe sale at Selfridges' flagship department store in London, which opened an expanded men's shoe department last autumn, as part of a “Shoe Carnival” that ran until April 21. He also developed a limited edition of women's ...
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Prada has inaugurated its first store in Rio de Janeiro...
Prada has inaugurated its first store in Rio de Janeiro
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Daphne International Holdings, one of the largest shoe retail groups...
Daphne International Holdings, one of the largest shoe retail groups in China, has reported a decline in sales of 2.5 percent on a same-store basis for the first quarter ended March 31 compared with the same quarter last year. The women's footwear manufacturer and retailer attributed the fall to the ...
