All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 10-11 – Page 2
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Crocs posts double-digit sales growth
Crocs reported first-quarter revenues of $311.7 million, up 14.7 percent on the first quarter of 2012, or 16.6 percent higher on a constant-currency basis. The record performance was attributed by the company to innovative products, the success of the company's multi-channel strategy and the global reach of its business. During ...
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Counterfeits were detected at ten different stands during this year's...
Counterfeits were detected at ten different stands during this year's Global Shoes trade show, which took place at the same time as the GDS show in Düsseldorf last March. Both fairs are organized by Messe Düsseldorf. Customs investigators confiscated 437 shoe samples, 237 of them were found at one single stand. Three ...
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Superga will continue with Steven Madden
Superga has extended its licensing agreement for the U.S. and Canada with Steven Madden for at least ten years. The new contract stipulates minimum guaranteed royalties on the basis of a turnover of at least $100 million over the period, with a commercial target of $250 million at wholesale.The two ...
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Two major U.S. footwear companies, Skechers and Deckers Outdoor Corporation,...
Two major U.S. footwear companies, Skechers and Deckers Outdoor Corporation, the owner of Ugg, Teva and other brands, are subject to a series of cases of alleged misconduct by a staff member of their auditing company, KPMG. Skechers has already announced that it no longer works with KPMG. The separation followed the ...
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Sioux will be offering larger shoe sizes from the coming...
Sioux will be offering larger shoe sizes from the coming autumn/winter season. The new collection includes 16 styles for women and 30 styles for men in larger sizes. Shoes for women can now be purchased up to size 10.5 and for men up to size 15.
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The latest edition of Euro Shoes Premiere Collection, the shoe...
The latest edition of Euro Shoes Premiere Collection, the shoe show held in Moscow on Feb. 19-22, attracted a total of 6,500 visitors according to the organizers, who pointed out that the figure was certified by a German and an international verification institute. More than 400 brands were shown on ...
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Footwear and clothing retailers in the U.K. had a “dismal”...
Footwear and clothing retailers in the U.K. had a “dismal” March as the cold weather froze sales, leaving sandals and summer skirts on the shelves. According to the figures released last April 9. in the BRC/KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, U.K. retail sales grew by 1.9 percent during March on a ...
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Jones Group to close stores and reduce staff
The Jones Group, the owner of Nine West, Easy Spirit and a number of other retail banners and brands, has announced a series of measures to improve profitability that will involve, among others things, the closure of 170 stores and a 6 percent reduction in its workforce.The announcement followed the ...
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Clarks climbs toward a premium international position
C&J Clark, alias Clarks, has reported on a pretty good financial year, making the management confident that its recent investments and the reorganization of the company's structure will lead to further progress in the next five years of its business plan, especially from 2015 onwards.As part of this reorganization, Clarks ...
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Genesco to withdraw from Chicago Stock Exchange
Genesco has announced that it intends to voluntarily withdraw the listing of the company's common shares from the Chicago Stock Exchange. The American company's common stock will continue to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The decision aims to streamline operations and eliminate the duplication of administrative requirements ...
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Eram, the French shoe retail chain, is launching an innovative...
Eram, the French shoe retail chain, is launching an innovative marketing campaign based on a short musical film that will be broadcast on Dailymotion, the French video-sharing platform. The video, titled “Ce qui fait marcher les filles” (Tr.: “What makes girls walk”), is the story of five girls, played by ...
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Fratelli Rossetti plans to launch a new marketing campaign next...
Fratelli Rossetti plans to launch a new marketing campaign next autumn, developed by Independent Ideas, the creative agency of Lapo Elkann from the family that owns Fiat. Featuring male and female models dancing in a room in a ‘sixties atmosphere, it is aimed at injecting a more playful spririt into ...
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A Portuguese company that markets a line of shoes called...
A Portuguese company that markets a line of shoes called Chocolate Negro has won a case against a British company, itnk tm, that wanted to register a brand with the name Choocolate. The Portuguese firm, AS - Industria de Calçado, had registered the Chocolate Negro brand name through the European ...
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GMS, the young German buying group, presented a new trade...
GMS, the young German buying group, presented a new trade concept, SportXtreme. Like Intersport or Sport 2000, which work with Sabu and ANWR, respectively, SportXtreme is meant to be an alternative for specialist sporting-goods stores. Eighty existing clients of GMS are currently interested in implementing the new concept. A pilot store will ...
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The number of domestic buyers at last month's Sapica show...
The number of domestic buyers at last month's Sapica show in León increased by 12 percent to 9,813 as compared to a year ago, but apparently they ordered fewer pairs of sandals because of relatively mild weather conditions. The Mexican shoe show also welcomed 517 buyers from abroad, 28 percent ...
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Four employees were killed and one was critically burnt when...
Four employees were killed and one was critically burnt when a major fire engulfed a shoe factory in Mangolpuri, in outer Delhi, in the early hours of March 12. Reportedly, the factory was being illegally run on the ground floor of a four-storey residence. Police said that a short-circuit in ...
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Frank Schmitz is the new head of sales at Bugatti...
Frank Schmitz is the new head of sales at Bugatti Shoes from the beginning of this month. In the previous eight years, he has worked for Ecco; the last four years as sales director of the brand. Holger Land, previously head of sales at Bugatti Shoes, has left the company ...
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Office London, the British chain of young fashion shoe shops,...
Office London, the British chain of young fashion shoe shops, opened its first store in Germany at the end of the last month. It measures 167 square meters and is located in the Centro shopping center in Oberhausen. A second, slightly smaller store was opened in mid-April in on the ...
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Cloggs, the British online shoe retailer taken over by JD...
Cloggs, the British online shoe retailer taken over by JD Sports Fashion a few weeks ago, has closed down its only physical store in Birmingham and made an offer to its staff of 35 to leave the company with special conditions. Reportedly, JD has also hired Andy Scott as a ...
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Sanuk, the shoe brand recently purchased by Deckers Outdoor Corporation,...
Sanuk, the shoe brand recently purchased by Deckers Outdoor Corporation, has opened its first flagship store in Santa Monica, California. Measuring about 1,000 square feet, the space resembles that of an unfinished basement and features exclusive products by the brand and a special playful and artistic decor.
