All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 12-13
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Tod’s has Roger Vivier in its sights
The Tod's group is ready to buy out the Roger Vivier license, which has become its star performer, from the family of its president, Diego della Valle. In the first quarter, the brand doubled its sales, while group revenues slipped slightly. Even though Roger Vivier's sales growth is expected to ...
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Louis Vuitton is opening a pop-up shop in the Italian...
Louis Vuitton is opening a pop-up shop in the Italian sea resort of Forte dei Marmi and plans to do the same in Capri and Portofino
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High prices and inventories in Russia
Recent signals of an economic slowdown in Russia, combined with interest rates of 14 to 15 percent and other elements, are leading Western shoe exporters to stop expecting further double-digit growth in the country. According to Darya Yadernaya, managing director of a Russian fashion consultancy, Esper Group, many Russian distributors ...
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Gant and Hamm Market Solutions have signed an international licensing...
Gant and Hamm Market Solutions have signed an international licensing agreement, to be effective from January 2014. Hamm will develop and design men's, women's and children's shoes under the Gant brand name, taking care of their production and international distribution. The first collection will be for spring/summer 2014. It will be ...
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Last month Pikolinos opened a pop-up store on Gansevoort Street...
Last month Pikolinos opened a pop-up store on Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District of New York. The Spanish company will use the location as a meeting point for its U.S. clients during the FFANY show between June 5 and 7. The company already opened a store in Naples, Florida ...
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Kelly Wallrich, former vice president of product at Keen Footwear,...
Kelly Wallrich, former vice president of product at Keen Footwear, is now doing the same job at Bogs Footwear
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A long new shoe fair in Moscow
Called Russian Shoe Week, the new trade show is set to last five days twice a year – from next Aug. 19 to the 23rd and on Feb. 17-21, 2014. It will take place in the modern Crocus Expo center on Moscow's ring road, which can now be reached by ...
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Who's Next, the French fashion fair, will have, for the...
Who's Next, the French fashion fair, will have, for the first time, a space exclusively dedicated to shoe companies at its next session on July 6-9, in cooperation with the French Federation of the Footwear Industry (FFC), which will promote the event internationally. The space will host about 250 shoe ...
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Metropolis will be the name of the new fair that...
Metropolis will be the name of the new fair that will group for the first time the Spanish shoe and leathergoods exhibition, Modacalzado+Iberpiel, and the Spanish Fashion Week (SIMM), in Madrid next Sept. 6-8.
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The Hub is the latest trade event for young fashion...
The Hub is the latest trade event for young fashion to hit the Asian scene, after the launch of Novomania in Shanghai in 2010 and Chic Young Blood in Beijing the following year. The first Asian edition of The Hub will take place in Hong Kong, which is regarded as ...
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Ecco Shoes' employees in Hong Kong have set a new...
Ecco Shoes' employees in Hong Kong have set a new Guinness World Record with a hand-woven mosaic made of shoelaces that celebrated the company's 50th anniversary along with the opening of an Ecco store in the downtown area of the city. A well-known local singer, Kelly Chen, was invited to officiate ...
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The Indian government has lowered the import duty on machinery...
The Indian government has lowered the import duty on machinery for the manufacture of leather and leathergoods from 7.5 percent to 5 percent. The Indian Council of Leather Exports said the move is an important step in the modernization of the sector, facilitating its growth in the long term.
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GDS, the shoe trade show in Düsseldorf, has redesigned its...
GDS, the shoe trade show in Düsseldorf, has redesigned its online presence. The newly designed website offers visitors up-to-date information by means of announcements, trade fair reports, picture galleries and interviews. The English version of the website was aligned with the new look as well.
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Steven Madden’s Superga sales double
The Steven Madden group said that sales of Superga, the Italian brand of sneakers for which it holds the license in the U.S. and Canada, more than doubled year-on-year in the first quarter. This was thanks to strong growth at retailers such as Zappos, Nordstrom's and Bloomingdale's. No figures were ...
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Dosenbach-Ochsner posts satisfactory results
Switzerland's leading shoe and sporting goods retailer, which trades under the Dosenbach, Ochsner Sport, Ochsner Shoes and Dosenbach+Sport banners, increased its total sales by 2.5 percent last year to 893 million Swiss francs (€719.0m-$932.9m). Dosenbach-Ochsner is the Swiss subsidiary of Deichmann, Europe's largest shoe retail company, and it has been exploring ...
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Gucci lost the latest round in a long-standing trademark dispute...
Gucci lost the latest round in a long-standing trademark dispute with Guess on May 2 when a court in Milan rejected all infringement claims brought by Gucci against the American brand. The Italian court ordered the cancellation of Gucci's diamond pattern, its G logo and “Flora” pattern trademarks, considering that ...
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Responding to increased demand for its products, Gabor is extending...
Responding to increased demand for its products, Gabor is extending its production capacities in Slovakia and Portugal, where 90 percent of its shoes are still manufactured. It is investing a seven-digit amount to amplify its production and logistic facilities at Banovce in Slovakia by the end of this year. Gabor manufactures shoes ...
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Weyco Group posts sharp profit decline
Weyco Group, the parent company of the Stacy Adams, Florsheim and Bogs brands, posted net earnings of $3.2 million in the first quarter of 2013, versus $3.9 million a year ago. Net sales were $73.6 million, down from $75.3 million.Weak trading conditions in North America led to a 2.5 percent ...
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Deckers’ income drops but results exceed expectations
Deckers Outdoor Corporation reports that its net income dropped to $1.0 million in the first quarter from $7.9 million in the first quarter a year ago due to higher operating costs, but the gross margin was 46.8 percent, up from 46.0 percent a year ago. Both sales and earnings per ...
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Kavat has decided to stop manufacturing shoes in Sweden. Its...
Kavat has decided to stop manufacturing shoes in Sweden. Its local factory, which employs ten people for the manufacture of prototypes and special orders, is being closed down, and operations will be concentrated on the company's plant in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Meanwhile, Kavat is entering the Chinese and Japanese markets, from which ...
