All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 2+3 – Page 2
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Joan Mascaró, the head of Calzados Ferreries, a local Spanish...
Joan Mascaró, the head of Calzados Ferreries, a local Spanish footwear brand, was murdered in Minorca on Jan. 17. A local fisherman confessed to the murder, which is being called a crime of passion. Mascaró's father and uncle founded Calzados Ferreries, then his uncle started the brand Jaime Mascaró, which ...
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Filanto turns into a trading company, called Safil Group
A new company, called Safil Group, is set to take over many of the assets of Filanto, completing the transformation of the big former Italian shoe manufacturer into an international trading company. The new company was formed only last month, a few weeks before the Expo Riva Schuh show in Italy, ...
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The last edition of Inspiramais, the young Brazilian fair for...
The last edition of Inspiramais, the young Brazilian fair for materials and components related to the footwear and leather sectors, was attended by more than 8,000 visitors, up sharply from around 3,000 in February 2012 and over 5,000 in June 2012. Part of the reason was the fact that it ...
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The ownership and management of Birkenstock Orthopedie, the holding company...
The ownership and management of Birkenstock Orthopedie, the holding company of the Birkenstock group, has changed. Stefan Birkenstock, one of the three Birkenstock brothers who have been running the company lately, has pulled out of the top management and sold some of his shares to his brothers Alex and Christian.They ...
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Vagabond is making a big push in emerging markets. The...
Vagabond is making a big push in emerging markets. The Swedish footwear brand opened a subsidiary in St. Petersburg last autumn to support its business in Russia, where its collections are sold through wholesale accounts and three own retail stores. Vera Kasapoglu is managing the new office. Vagabond is also setting up its ...
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Flip Flop, the brand owned by Bernd Hummel, plans to open...
Flip Flop, the brand owned by Bernd Hummel, plans to open three additional stores in Germany in 2013, probably in Munich and Frankfurt. Meanwhile, Flip Flop has signed a distribution contract with the sales agency of Karin van Dijk for the Dutch market, where the first collection will be in stores ...
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Berlin's trade show landscape has changed
This year's Berlin Fashion Week was different. The new Panorama trade fair, held at the Berlin ExpoCenter Airport in Schönefeld, opened its doors for the first time. The Bread & Butter show reduced the number of brands exhibiting at its winter edition by about 100 to 560, closing two halls. ...
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Hub opened its first mono-brand store in Berlin at the...
Hub opened its first mono-brand store in Berlin at the beginning of the Bright trade show, where it presented its new shoe collections. The store is the first one by this Dutch footwear brand outside its domestic market. In the basement, Hub offers artists a platform to present their work ...
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BNS Bergal, Nico and Solitaire signed a joint venture in Mainz with...
BNS Bergal, Nico and Solitaire signed a joint venture in Mainz with Granger's, the British manufacturer of shoe care products, to cover the German and Austrian markets with a single sales team. The companies will be exhibiting for the first time together at the Ispo show in Munich at the beginning of February.
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Mixed attendance at Florence and Paris shows
The weather conspired with the economic landscape to keep many visitors away from Pitti Uomo in Florence on Jan. 8-11 and from the redesigned Who's Next Paris fair on Jan. 19-22. The fog shut down the airport in Florence on the eve of the local menswear fair. Exceptionally heavy snowfalls ...
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Brazilian manufacturers ask for better import protection
A deteriorating trade balance is leading Brazilian shoe manufacturers to ask the federal government for measures intended to make the existing anti-dumping duties on Chinese footwear and components more effective. They continue to complain about apparently blatant cases of “triangulation” through Vietnam, Indonesia and also Paraguay, a country where no ...
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Tod’s meets growth expectations, helped by Asia
Tod's, the Italian luxury holding company, continued to enjoy strong growth in 2012, with its consolidated sales up by 7.8 percent to €963.1 million, according to preliminary data. They were lifted by the strong performance of the Roger Vivier brand, whose sales grew by 104.2 percent to €74.5 million, and the company's main ...
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Ara Shoes raised its sales slightly last year to more...
Ara Shoes raised its sales slightly last year to more than €570 million, compared with €557 million in the previous year, according to preliminary figures, but this was mainly due to the acquisition of Delka, one of Stiefelkönig's former shoe retail chains in Austria. Sales grew by 1.2 percent in ...
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Delcam Crispin has expanded its sales team with the appointment...
Delcam Crispin has expanded its sales team with the appointment of Ian Evans as marketing executive. He will be in charge of the global marketing for the Crispin range of design and manufacturing software, as well as the development of its new website. He will be based at the Birmingham ...
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FitFlop has appointed Mirko Ostendorfer as its country manager for...
FitFlop has appointed Mirko Ostendorfer as its country manager for Germany, where its brand is called Fitwear because of a trademark dispute with Flip Flop, the German brand owned by Bernd Hummel. The new German subsidiary of the British company, which has been expanding its range, took over its local ...
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Walter Steiger has appointed Natascia Rendelli as general manager for...
Walter Steiger has appointed Natascia Rendelli as general manager for the U.S., to oversee all aspects of the firm's business in the country. Rendelli was previously vice president of the wholesale at Casadei and also worked for Giuseppe Zanotti Design and Aperlai Paris. Her immediate tasks will include the brand's ...
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Sequential Brands Group has announced that it has closed the...
Sequential Brands Group has announced that it has closed the merger of Heelys into a subsidiary of Sequential. The company had entered into an agreement, dated Dec. 7, 2012, to acquire Heelys through a merger and in cash, subject to a number of terms and conditions that have since been fulfilled. ...
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Karl Lagerfeld, Fendi's artistic director, announced that the Italian fashion...
Karl Lagerfeld, Fendi's artistic director, announced that the Italian fashion house will finance the renovation of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, one of the symbols of the city and of its cultural and artistic heritage. The 300-year-old monument was famously featured in a scene of one of Federico Fellini's iconic ...
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Coach has announced that it will focus on footwear to...
Coach has announced that it will focus on footwear to boost its slowing sales growth. The company will relaunch the shoe corners at 170 of its 356 stores in March. The installation of new shoe salons to showcase its footwear is already under way. The U.S.-based leathergoods brand reported sales of ...
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India's Council for Leather Exports (CLE) has announced a plan...
India's Council for Leather Exports (CLE) has announced a plan to build a testing laboratory at the leather cluster of Ranipet in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The laboratory, which will test the quality of the exports prior to shipment, is currently under construction. According to the Indian Department ...
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