All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 2+3 – Page 4

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    GMS, the relatively young German buying cooperative, increased by 20 percent...

    2013-01-31T00:00:00Z

    GMS, the relatively young German buying cooperative, increased by 20 percent to €151 million the amount of centralized settlements in behalf of its 1,200 affiliated specialty shoe retailers in 2012. In the previous year, they had reached €126 million. In Germany, the amount of centralized settlements increased from €124 million in 2011 to €131 ...

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    Macintosh to close 100 shoe stores, mainly in the Netherlands

    2013-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Macintosh Retail Group, the big Dutch non-food retail group, has decided to close 110 stores, of which about 100 will be shoe shops. The other 10 or so stores slated for closure are part of its Living division, which includes home decoration stores.The group will also write down about €48 ...

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    Clarks opened about 100 new mono-brand stores in Europe last...

    2013-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Clarks opened about 100 new mono-brand stores in Europe last year. About 15-20 new stores were opened with Clarks' Eastern European distribution partners in Poland, Russia and the Ukraine. In Germany, four new mono-brand stores were opened in 2012. Altogether, there are now 20 mono-brand Clarks stores in Germany, most ...

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    Vietnam's footwear exports grew by 10.6 percent in 2012 compared...

    2013-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Vietnam's footwear exports grew by 10.6 percent in 2012 compared with the same period in the previous year, according to the Vietnam Leather and Shoes Association (Lefaso). The European Union, the U.S. and Japan are still the three major export markets. In 2013 the industry has set a target of ...