All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 14-15
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Italian shoe industry launches new initiatives
Cleto Sagripanti, president of Manas, was confirmed as president of Assocalzaturifici for a further two years at the annual meeting of the Italian shoe industry association a few days ago. A former candidate for the post from the Venice region, Franco Ballin, was elected as honorary president. The Italian shoe ...
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Genesco has new plans in the online space
Schuh, the British shoe retail chain bought by Genesco in 2011 for £125 million (€147.4m-$195.6m), suffered a 20 percent decline in its sales during the first quarter of the U.S. parent company's financial year, ended May 4. A tough comparison was set by last year's scores which also created an ...
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Left Shoe opens its first U.S. flagship
The Left Shoe Company of Finland has announced the opening of its first American flagship store, offering a full service for custom-made men's shoes. The 1,700-square-foot store is located in Los Angeles at 8473D Melrose Avenue, in a world-renowned shopping area. Previously called Left Foot Company, the firm developed, many ...
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Polish retailer enters new markets
CCC, the large Polish shoe manufacturing and retail group, is going to open its first store in Austria next month. Located at Donau City on the fringes of Vienna, it will be followed by others in downtown Vienna and at Simmering as part of a plan to open 100 doors ...
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El Naturalista has entered the Mexican market, further expanding its international...
El Naturalista has entered the Mexican market, further expanding its international presence. The Spanish shoe brand, which is well-known for its ecological shoe production, is now available at six points of sale in Mexico, four of which are in the Mexican capital. Mexico is the first South American country for the Spanish brand. El ...
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Due to floods in the southern and eastern parts of...
Due to floods in the southern and eastern parts of Germany, only 63 retail members and 19 delegates of Sabu Schuh & Marketing came to the 61st general assembly of the German buying group on June 8. Sabu recorded an annual surplus of €2.45 million in 2012. As expected after a record ...
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PPR, the French-based parent company of Puma and Volcom, is...
PPR, the French-based parent company of Puma and Volcom, is now listed on the Euronext stock exchange as KER. The company's annual shareholders meeting on June 18 is set to change the company's name to Kering.
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Cole Haan continues to work with Nike despite the fact...
Cole Haan continues to work with Nike despite the fact that does not longer belong to the world's largest sports brand. For example, Cole Haan is incorporating the Lunarlon sole developed by Nike in a new formal shoe with colored laces that will be available online from next month. The ...
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Church's has opened its first single-brand in Stockholm
Church's has opened its first single-brand in Stockholm
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A tough start and good prospects for multi-brand shoe retailing in China
The Chinese shoe retailing scene continues to be dominated by single-brand stores in shopping malls and department stores. However, only a few relatively strong brands are able to get the best locations and Chinese customers are beginning to ask for a choice among multiple brands under the same roof, especially ...
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Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays the shoe-obsessed character of Carrie...
Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays the shoe-obsessed character of Carrie Bradshaw in the “Sex and the City” TV series, has signed up with Manolo Blahnik to market her own line of shoes. Inspired by the ‘seventies and ‘eighties, and notably by “old-school” labels like Charles Jourdan and Maud Frizon, the ...
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Prada buys stores in London and St Petersburg
Prada's capital investments in the first quarter ended April 30 were up sharply to €178.0 million from €55.0 million a year earlier partly due to the purchase of the premises of its London store on Old Bond Street and for a future location in Saint Petersburg.In a conference call, the ...
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Manfred Kindler is leaving as buying director of Leiser, the...
Manfred Kindler is leaving as buying director of Leiser, the German shoe retail chain taken over by Josef Seibel. The group is reorganizing operations at Leiser and its sister chain, Schuhhof.
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A small Italian brand of women's shoes, Paolo Simonini, suffered...
A small Italian brand of women's shoes, Paolo Simonini, suffered the destruction of its factory near Viareggio in Tuscany by a fire during the night of June 4. Nobody was injured. A report in leatherbiz.com says that a fire destroyed also the leather chemicals factory of Veco at Monticello Conte ...
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Paul Janssen, the former general manager of Hugo Boss's shoe...
Paul Janssen, the former general manager of Hugo Boss's shoe division who has been responsible lately on Sioux executive board for the development of the German company's collections, will be leaving the company after the expiration of his three-year contract at the end of June. Another former member of the executive ...
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Berluti celebrated earlier this week the start of construction work...
Berluti celebrated earlier this week the start of construction work on a new factory of 20,000 square meters in the Italian city of Ferrara to make its high-end shoes. It will employ 290 persons compared with 150 at the present factory. It should become operational in mid-2014 and it may ...
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Reshuffle in Berlin’s trade show landscape
The Berlin Fashion Week is going to take place very soon, during the first week of July. As Berlin's trade show landscape has changed a lot since this winter, it has become more difficult to decide where to exhibit and where to look for new brands or for the golden oldies. So we ...
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Italian tax police in the Northern city of Bergamo has...
Italian tax police in the Northern city of Bergamo has shut down the Myfashiondream.com e-commerce platform, which was selling more than 65,000 fashion products including handbags, shoes, belts and eyewear, after a judge signed a seizure order because of its criminal activities in the trade and introduction of counterfeit products ...
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Ralph Rieker has been re-elected president of HDS, the German...
Ralph Rieker has been re-elected president of HDS, the German shoe and leathergoods industry federation, for another two-year term. The extremely popular and diplomatic German executive has already served in this position since the retirement of Philip Urban in 2007. He remains chief executive of Ricosta, the family-owned brand of ...
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Gimmi Baldinini, founder of the shoe company that bears his...
Gimmi Baldinini, founder of the shoe company that bears his name, is said to be interested in acquiring a majority stake in the Rimini airport on the Adriatic coast because it has helped his company and others in the Marche region to build up a strong business in Russia. Baldinini's ...
