All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 12-13 – Page 3
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Drapers says that Malcolm Collins has left as buying director...
Drapers says that Malcolm Collins has left as buying director for footwear and accessories at New Look after 16 years with the British fast fashion chain
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E-Land leads K-Swiss to buy OTZ
Shortly after closing its $170 million acquisition of K-Swiss, the American company that owns the K-Swiss and Palladium labels, E-Land has appointed a new management that has declared a clear interest in acquiring additional brands that can be “globally relevant.”Losing no time, K-Swiss has announced the takeover of OTZ, a ...
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Karl-Heinz Müller, chief organizer of the Bread & Butter trade show in...
Karl-Heinz Müller, chief organizer of the Bread & Butter trade show in Berlin, is re-launching the online store for his 14 oz. retail concept. It was started as an online store in November 2011, offering only a small range of jackets from the American brand Woolrich but after disappointing results, the e-commerce operation was closed ...
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The Dune Group continues its international expansion. The British shoe...
The Dune Group continues its international expansion. The British shoe retailer has hired Richard Kelsey to take care of its new operations in the U.S., where it wants to find wholesale customers for its collections and open an online store and a flagship store in the second half of this ...
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The Brazilian shoe industry hopes that it will finally recover...
The Brazilian shoe industry hopes that it will finally recover in export markets, as its foreign sales grew by 21 percent to 10.18 million pairs worth US$88.14 million in April as compared to the same month one year ago, after many months of declining exports. This brings the total volume ...
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Veja will launch its ecological footwear collection in Brazil under...
Veja will launch its ecological footwear collection in Brazil under the name “Vert,” the French word for green. The French company produces its shoes in Brazil, using wild Amazonian rubber and eco-tanned leather created with vegetable extracts such as acacia. However, it cannot use the Veja brand name in Brazil ...
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Faris Momani is leaving Navyboot, the Swiss brand of shoes...
Faris Momani is leaving Navyboot, the Swiss brand of shoes and leathergoods. The company's owner, Philippe Gaydoul, is taking over the management as of June 1. Momani has been running Navyboot since March 2011.
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Euro Brand Management, the German distribution company of Luigi Grosso,...
Euro Brand Management, the German distribution company of Luigi Grosso, has announced that its chief operating officer, Massimo Amato, is leaving and returning to Rome for personal reasons
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Liebeskind, the German brand of clothing, handbags, shoes and other...
Liebeskind, the German brand of clothing, handbags, shoes and other accessories from Berlin, continues its international growth path. The company opened a pop-up store in Barcelona on May 17 and will keep it open for the next two months. The 40-square-meter store is situated in a former bakery in Born, a ...
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Scarosso, an Italian brand of men's and women's shoes founded...
Scarosso, an Italian brand of men's and women's shoes founded by two German students in Milan three years ago as their business project at Milan's Bocconi University, is opening a pop-up store in Stockholm next August, coinciding with the local fashion week. The company, which sells hand-made and customized shoes ...
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JJ Shoes, a Dutch brand of women's shoes, has filed...
JJ Shoes, a Dutch brand of women's shoes, has filed for insolvency
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Ipanema, the brand of rubber sandals of Grendene, will be...
Ipanema, the brand of rubber sandals of Grendene, will be the official footwear sponsor of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim in Miami for this year and the next two
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New name and new initiatives for Bordeaux brand-building conference
Jean-Pierre Renaudin, president of the French shoe industry federation (FFC) and the new president of the European shoe industry federation (CEC), is taking new initiatives to internationalize Empreintes, the interesting convention on brand-building in Bordeaux of which he is also the president. For its next edition, scheduled for Oct. 24-25, ...
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New investors have refinanced the sales operations of Blenzo, a...
New investors have refinanced the sales operations of Blenzo, a Dutch company specializing in the sale of indoor slippers, mules and outdoor shoes that had been has been declared bankrupt by a local court last February. The new owners have made a non-exclusive agreement with Intermedium Shoes to help the ...
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David Kahan is the new chief executive officer of Birkenstock...
David Kahan is the new chief executive officer of Birkenstock USA, a position that has been vacant for some time. The appointment is part of a company-wide restructuring process, as reported by Shoe Intelligence previousLy. One of the objectives for the reorganization is to bring all brands, including Birki's, Tatami, Alpro, Footprints ...
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Huajian, a big Chinese footwear manufacturer, has committed to spending...
Huajian, a big Chinese footwear manufacturer, has committed to spending $2 billion to set up a “shoe city” on the outskirts of Addis Ababa within a decade. According to the British daily The Guardian, Huajian's ambition is to turn Ethiopia into a global hub for the shoe industry, supplying the ...
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Gioseppo has opened a store in Beirut, Lebanon
Gioseppo has opened a store in Beirut, Lebanon
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Sarah Thornley has been named merchandising director at LK Bennett....
Sarah Thornley has been named merchandising director at LK Bennett. She previously worked at Harvey Nichols, Burberry and Matches, a British chain of luxury goods stores. At Burberry, she acted as European and online merchandising director.
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Wolfgang Goerlich of Brazil has been unanimously re-elected as president...
Wolfgang Goerlich of Brazil has been unanimously re-elected as president of the International Leather Council, with Italy's Rino Mastrotto acting as vice president
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Tonino Ciannavei has been elected as the new president of...
Tonino Ciannavei has been elected as the new president of the footwear branch of Confidustria, the Italian employers' federation, for the province of Macerata, one of Italy's leading footwear manufacturing areas. He succeeds Cleto Sagripanti, now at the helm of the Italian shoe industry association, which is being renamed as ...
