All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 12-13 – Page 4
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Ron Fromm, chairman of Brown Shoe Company, has been designated...
Ron Fromm, chairman of Brown Shoe Company, has been designated as the new president of Ffany, the long-standing shoe show in New York, after the planned retirement at the end of 2014 of Joe Moore, who has led it for many years. Fromm will start to get involved in the ...
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Defying what it described as volatile market conditions, Bata India...
Defying what it described as volatile market conditions, Bata India has seen its net profit rise to INR38.46 billion (€532.7m-$687.1m) over the quarter ended March 31, representing a 6.8 percent increase against the same period of last year, driven by store openings and improved merchandise. Sales were up by 11.9 percent ...
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CMH Consulting, Management and Handel, a company based in Kufstein,...
CMH Consulting, Management and Handel, a company based in Kufstein, Austria, has become the licensee for Superga in Germany and Austria, where the brand has been sold lately directly by its parent company in Turin, Basicnet. CMH has hired two new agents to represent the brand – Adventure Modeagentur for ...
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Grendene’s founders take a step back
Outside managers are taking over the reins at Grendene, the parent company of Ipenema, Grendha, Melissa and Rider, which is controlled by another part of the Grendene family than Vulcabras (see the article below). Rudimar Dall Onder, the company's chief industrial and sales officer, has been promoted to the position ...
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Vulcabras hires Bischoff to relaunch Azaleia
One of the best Brazilian shoe designers, Jorge Bischoff, has been appointed by Vulcabras as creative director of Azaleia, the group's brand of women's shoes. Bischoff, who is expected to continue to design for his own brand, has worked for several other brands in the past on a freelance basis.Vulcabras ...
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Brown Shoe sells Avia and Nevados
Brown Shoe Company had bought these two brands and two others, And 1 and Ryka, through the acquisition of American Sports Goods for $145 million in February 2011. Eight months later, it sold And 1, a brand of basketball products, for $55 million. This time it is selling Avia, a ...
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While planning to launch its international online store in August,...
While planning to launch its international online store in August, starting with Europe, Selfridges has introduced a special ‘click-and-collect' service for its four department stores in London, Birmingham and Manchester. Customers can order items online and try them out at a specific store and day before taking them home. They ...
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Christoph Fülscher has assumed the position of IT manager at...
Christoph Fülscher has assumed the position of IT manager at Ludwig Görtz, the big German chain of shoe stores. Previously, he worked for Amplifon, a retail chain for hearing aids. He began his career at Hermes Logistik Group, working as project manager and introducing software solutions and a data warehouse. ...
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Asos has launched its Russian e-commerce operation and plans to...
Asos has launched its Russian e-commerce operation and plans to launch a website for the Chinese market next October. The British e-tailer reported a 33 percent increase in revenues to £359.7 million (€425.6m-$546.7m) for the six months ended last Feb. 28, with sales outside its domestic market representing 61 percent ...
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Skechers turns around in the quarter
In the first quarter, Skechers booked a 28.6 percent increase in overall group sales to $451.6 million, with double-digit growth for all the sales channels, but its second-quarter results are likely to be affected by the early Easter holiday, which fell in the first quarter, and back-to-school deliveries shifting into ...
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Strong growth for Arezzo
Arezzo & Co., a Brazilian company went through a major change of management in a generational change a few weeks ago, reported a 24.6 percent increase in net sales to 201.0 million reais (€76.9m-$98.9m) for the first quarter, as compared to a year ago, and its net profit jumped by ...
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The “made in Spain” label is highly appreciated by national...
The “made in Spain” label is highly appreciated by national consumers. A survey of the Spanish population conducted by Opinea shows that 78 percent of them are willing to spend more for a product made in the country. Among those, half would spend 5 percent more and one-third 10 percent ...
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Heike Discher has joined the board of management of ANWR...
Heike Discher has joined the board of management of ANWR Garant International (AGI), along side its two joint chief executives, Robert Natter and Matthias Grevener. AGI is the new company that took over operating the former Ariston Nord West Ring, becoming a limited liability corporation in April. Discher, 36, served her ...
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Skechers has announced the appointment of BDO USA as the...
Skechers has announced the appointment of BDO USA as the company's new independent auditors, replacing KPMG which resigned after the discovery of unlawful activities by one of its partners. Skechers points out that the resignation was not related to its financial statements, but nevertheless, BDO will re-audit the company's statements ...
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Prada will probably open a store in Angola next year,...
Prada will probably open a store in Angola next year, said the company's chief executive, Patrizio Bertelli, at the company's recent annual shareholders' meeting in Milan, pointing to the fact that the African continent is “starting to give the first signs” of progress in the luxury goods sector. He said ...
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Humanic, the major shoe retail banner of the Austrian Leder & Schuh group,...
Humanic, the major shoe retail banner of the Austrian Leder & Schuh group, has opened a concept store in a new shopping center in the center of Munich, encompassing 1,200 sqm. on two floors. At the store, Humanic offers its customers a new self-service tool, called ‘Humanic Concierge,' that allows customers to search for ...
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Bain & Company expects the global luxury goods market to...
Bain & Company expects the global luxury goods market to increase by between 4 and 5 percent this year to €222 million, after increases of 10 percent in euros and 5 percent in local currencies last year. Leathergoods, shoes and other accessories should grow by 7 percent, similarly for watches ...
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Bestseller, the Danish group that owns J. Lindeberg, Jack &...
Bestseller, the Danish group that owns J. Lindeberg, Jack & Jones, Selected, Vero Moda and other brands, will have a huge stand of 6,000 square meters at the next Bread & Butter show, taking place in Berlin on July 2-4. Observers are wondering whether the organizers of the young fashion ...
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The legal battle between Thomas Ridder and Leder & Schuh comes to an end
Leder & Schuh reports that the Austrian Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that Thomas Ridder is no longer a shareholder of the company, which owns Humanic, Stiefelkönig and other shoe retail chains. The court had already decided in June 2012 that it was right for the company to dismiss Ridder ...
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Brown Shoe Company, the big American shoe retailer that owns...
Brown Shoe Company, the big American shoe retailer that owns the Famous Footwear chain of shoe shops, had bought a brand of hiking shoes, Nevados, Avia and some other brands in February 2011 through the acquisition of American Sports Goods for $145 million. Eight months later, it sold one of ...
