All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 2+3
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Liberty plans to step up store openings
With a total of about 500 stores all over India, 125 of which are directly owned and managed, Liberty Shoes regards itself as the second-largest retailer for family footwear in the Indian market after Bata. The number of new stores increased by 150 in 2012 and should expand at a ...
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Paquetá gets out of Via Uno, pushes sports retailing
Grupo Paquetá has sold its 60 percent interest in Via Uno, one of the major Brazilian brands of women's shoes, back to its founder, Cesar Minetto, who owned the remaining shares. Paquetá, a large Brazilian group that is also involved in other operations, acquired its stake from Minetto a couple of ...
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News briefs
Harald Neisser, a German industry veteran who left the top...
Harald Neisser, a German industry veteran who left the top management of Leiser a few weeks ago, is now representing the Evado brand of women's shoes in all the German-speaking countries, starting with the autumn/winter season. Owned and developed by an Italian company run by Mariano Renzi, Multimoda of Casetta ...
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GDS gives up on Shanghai show
Messe Düsseldorf announced earlier this week that it will not organize the previously planned GDS Select show in Shanghai next Apr. 17-19. The abdication is a victory for the new Micam Shanghai exhibition, due to be held on Apr. 9-11, which has already has received more than 200 bookings.Fabio Aromatici, ...
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News briefs
A new technical and professional hub for the footwear industry...
A new technical and professional hub for the footwear industry will be built in Vigevano, near Pavia, in Italy's northwest. The project has been officially launched with the signature of a letter of intent by representatives of local authorities, Fondazione di Piacenza e Vigevano, and Anci. The hub will be ...
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Fly Flot and Valleverde are restructuring
A couple of years ago, the Italian press had announced the planned creation of a new comfort shoe empire combining the slippers and clogs of Fly Flot with the comfort shoes of Valleverde and the orthopedic shoes of Sanagens. Supported by various institutional investors, the business plan was meant to ...
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Ferragamo and LVMH raise prices as more tourists shop in Europe
On average, luxury goods are a third cheaper in Europe than in China, where prices are inflated by local taxes, and the gap can be even higher with Brazil, which has high import duties in place.Ferragamo will raise its retail prices in Europe over the next months in reaction to ...
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News briefs
Members of the Merkur Group founded a new enlarged German...
Members of the Merkur Group founded a new enlarged German buying group for large shoe retailers, the Merkur Shoe Group (MSG), at the beginning of this year. All the members of MSG are shareholders of the new company. Members of MSG are Fink Schuhe+Sport, Leiser, Salamander, Schuhof, Sutor, Schuhpark Fascies, Fritz Frank Schuhe+Sport ...
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The upcoming edition of the GDS trade show in Düsseldorf,...
The upcoming edition of the GDS trade show in Düsseldorf, running on March 13-15, will see a renewed children's area, with dedicated stands undergoing some “lifting.” The event will host some 180 children's collections including Richter, Däumling, Pinocchio van Hilst, Falc/Naturino, Bisgaard, Primigi, clic! and Cherie. New entries will include ...
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Vivarte has named Véronique Makarian as director of the fashion...
Vivarte has named Véronique Makarian as director of the fashion division of the group. The French shoe and fashion conglomerate owns a number of fashion brands including Caroll, Kookaï, Naf Naf, Chevignon and others. Makarian was previously director general at Georges Rech Apostroph. She had also spent about ten years ...
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The Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade...
The Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade Commission (ICE) are to launch over the next few months a new campaign to promote Made in Italy products in Germany, called “Italy Lives in Premium.” The initiative will be hosted by the three luxury department stores of the Karstadt ...
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India's exports of leather, leather footwear and leathergoods declined by...
India's exports of leather, leather footwear and leathergoods declined by 2.2 percent in the first eight months of the current financial year, which ran from April through November 2012, compared with the same period in 2011. According to India's Council for Leather Exports (CLE), the drop to $3.2 billion was ...
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The designer Kevin Sefton and Diana Currie, managing director of...
The designer Kevin Sefton and Diana Currie, managing director of Buchanan Bespoke Footwear of Scotland, launched a new brand of men's shoes entirely made in Scotland at the Pitti Uomo fair in Florence this month. Called Govan Originals, the new Scottish luxury line is made by hand Govan, an industrial ...
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Le Cuir à Paris, the trade show devoted to the...
Le Cuir à Paris, the trade show devoted to the leather industry, is readying its 24th edition, to be held on Feb. 12-14 at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition center. So far 348 exhibitors have signed up, or 21 percent more than a year ago. They include returnees such as ...
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Short stops
Deckers Corporation is said to be contemplating an increase in...
Deckers Corporation is said to be contemplating an increase in the number of stores from 78 to 200 by 2015, mostly for its Ugg brand
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Nicholas Kirkwood introduced his debut collection of men's shoes, Nicholas...
Nicholas Kirkwood introduced his debut collection of men's shoes, Nicholas Kirkwood Men's, as part of the U.K. collections, in London on Jan. 8. Kirkwood, who is also Pollini's designer, launched his eponymous luxury women's footwear label in spring 2005. Similarly to his women's range, craftsmanship plays a key role in ...
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Hispanitas will launch its first collection of men's shoes for...
Hispanitas will launch its first collection of men's shoes for autumn/winter 2013-14. The new line is expected to include about 45 classic leather models, which will be proposed at a price range between €95 and €249 at retail. Recently, the Spanish firm presented its children's collections at the winter session ...
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Irregular Choice opened a sales office and a mono-brand store...
Irregular Choice opened a sales office and a mono-brand store in Hong Kong last year. The Hong Kong office, which employs 10-15 people, is meant to serve as a stepping-stone for the expansion of the British brand into China and other Asian markets. Irregular Choice also opened three new stores in the ...
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Red Wing Shoes has changed the color of the leather it...
Red Wing Shoes has changed the color of the leather it uses for its heritage collection back to the way it was in the '70s. As usual, the leather and the shoes are made in Red Wing's own tannery in Minnesota. Red Wing Shoes opened two franchised mono-brand stores in two Asian cities, Taipei ...
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Pajar Canada, which showed for the first time at the Premium...
Pajar Canada, which showed for the first time at the Premium show in Berlin instead of Bread & Butter, has created a European sales subsidiary, Pajar Europe, which has taken over the direct distribution of the Pajar brand in the Benelux countries, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. The European office and its new showroom ...
