All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 20-21
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TheMicam keeps on internationalizing
The latest edition of TheMicam in Milan hosted 1,581 exhibitors last month, a little higher than one year ago thanks to a larger number of foreign firms. It occupied 68,000 square meters of space, more or less the same as one year ago.The number of foreign visitors went up to ...
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A good momentum for Portugal
Footwear exports from Portugal grew by 4 percent in the first half of this year to €789 million. Apiccaps, the national shoe manufacturers association, points out that this should be the third year in which the sector has shown an increase, building up to growth of 20 percent from the ...
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Mephisto opened two new mono-brand stores in Germany, managed by...
Mephisto opened two new mono-brand stores in Germany, managed by local partners, in Berlin and Lüneburg in August this year. Mephisto has a total of 874 mono-brand stores worldwide, 105 of them in China, about 100 in France and 35 in Germany. Altogether 36 new stores were opened in the ...
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Red Wing has opened its fourth German store in Munich...
Red Wing has opened its fourth German store in Munich
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The Merchant House International Group is moving a footwear production...
The Merchant House International Group is moving a footwear production line from China to the U.S., in response to strong U.S. retail demand for its men's leather boots and shoes. The sourcing group will open its first U.S. footwear manufacturing facility in Jefferson County, Tennessee, replacing a footwear line from ...
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Fly London plans to open its third store in the...
Fly London plans to open its third store in the U.K. by the spring of 2014. The Portuguese shoe brand recently opened a new mono-brand store in London, which is owned and managed by the company. Fly London currently manages six mono-brand stores in Europe – two in Portugal, one ...
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The trade flow with Germany goes up
At the GDS fair, the federation of the German footwear and leathergoods industry, HDS/L, presented more detailed sales, export and import figures than those we already published in the last issue of Shoe Intelligence.Shoe imports into Germany increased by 3.9 percent to 297 million pairs in the first half of ...
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Thomas Ridder has finally left the HR Group, the parent...
Thomas Ridder has finally left the HR Group, the parent company of Hamm Market Solutions and Reno, where he has been acting as a member of the executive board since May 2011. Citing personal reasons, he had been placed on a leave of absence since January. Ridder previously worked in ...
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Momad Metropolis, the new fair held in Madrid last Sept....
Momad Metropolis, the new fair held in Madrid last Sept. 6-8, welcomed a total of 17,423 buyers, 11 percent of whom came from abroad. Organized by Ifema, it put together for the first time the former Modacalzado + Iberpiel with Simm, an international fashion fair, accommodating a total of 1,300 ...
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Spanish shoe exports hit record levels
Footwear exports from Spain grew by 12.4 percent in value during the first half of this year, as compared to the same period of 2012. At €1,154 million, they reached the highest level in at least 15 years, slightly overtaking a previous peak of €1,119 million for the first half ...
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Manas is now run by an experienced outsider
The family that owns Manas has appointed an outsider, Luciano Bagnobianchi, as its new chief executive, taking the place of Cleto Sagripanti who is focusing now on other products. Besides having a second two-year mandate as president of the Italian shoe industry federation, Sagripanti is now running Fiamp, the umbrella ...
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Wolverine reports record results, quits the Dominican Republic
Wolverine Worldwide saw its net profits jump by 65.9 percent to $54.4 million excluding extraordinary items in its third quarter, ended on Sept. 7, leading the group to forecast higher earnings than previously expected for the full financial year. The quarterly revenues nearly doubled to a record level of $716.7 ...
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Rocket Dog has moved its European head office in the...
Rocket Dog has moved its European head office in the U.K. to Camden, in central London, in order to provide easier access for its distributors. In restructuring the brand's sales network in Europe, Rocket Dog hired Derek Bowen as managing director for Europe at the end of 2011 and now ...
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One Distribution, the producer of Supra footwear, has opened a...
One Distribution, the producer of Supra footwear, has opened a new sourcing and development facility in Dongguan, China. The new 3,000-square-foot office facility has a staff of 17 and is headed by Udi Shiloah, Supra's vice president of footwear, who has moved to China to supervise operations. ODR will oversee ...
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Kavat recently released a newly designed website. The website now...
Kavat recently released a newly designed website. The website now features its adult collection, offering 10 models in different colors, which was presented for the first time at the Bread & Butter show in Berlin in July. Kavat engages in marketing activities in Sweden and Germany. The company was the ...
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Vivarte’s sales decline slows down
The shoe retail chains controlled by the Vivarte group had mixed sales results during the company's latest financial year, ended on Aug. 31, but a company spokesman pointed out that their performance was satisfactory in a market that declined by an estimated 3.3 percent in France during the period.Excluding discontinued ...
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More investment in Zalando and Dafiti
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) has acquired a 2 percent stake in Zalando, with an option on another 2 percent. The Canadian fund is joining the group of investors behind the big German-based online retailer of shoes and other fashion products through a capital increase at the same time ...
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As reported previously in Shoe Intelligence, Heelys is currently undergoing...
As reported previously in Shoe Intelligence, Heelys is currently undergoing a makeover under the ownership of Sequential Brand Group, which acquired the brand of wheeled footwear on Jan. 25. Previously, it was owned by a public company, Heely Sports Inc. Sequential Brands signed a worldwide licensing agreement with BBC International, ...
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The latest edition of Cuir à Paris, the Parisian leather...
The latest edition of Cuir à Paris, the Parisian leather and fur trade show, held on Sept. 17-19, saw the number of visitors increase by 21.5 percent and that of exhibitors by 8 percent compared with the September 2012 edition. The stand surface area was increased by 23 percent. The ...
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LVMH takes control of Kirkwood
LVMH has acquired a majority stake in Nicholas Kirkwood, the brand of luxury shoes named after its British designer, who was born in Germany 33 years ago. He launched it in 2004 together with a business partner, Christopher Suarez, and he has won numerous awards. Suarez will continue to act ...
