All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 15, Issue 6-7 – Page 2

  • Article

    Vietnam wants to increase local content

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade has urged local manufacturers to increase the production of raw materials for footwear inside the country. Currently, the footwear industry relies heavily on imported raw materials, making it vulnerable to the volatility of the market, but according to sources, it wants to satisfy at least 60 percent of ...

  • Article

    MBT makes a comeback with new executives

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    MBT is reporting on a successful global sales conference held in Hong Kong this week with all its distributors and its new country managers to present the brand's new autumn/winter 2013 collection. The brand, which has been taken over by Andy Chaw as previously reported in Shoe Intelligence, says also ...

  • News briefs

    Major changes are going to take place on the supervisory...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Major changes are going to take place on the supervisory board of Macintosh Retail Group, the Dutch parent company of Scapino, Brantano, Jones Bootmaker and other footwear chains, at the company's general shareholders meeting on April 25. A. Nühn, chairman of the board, and another director, J.E. Lagerweij, will have to ...

  • News briefs

    Magasin du Nord, the high-end department store in the center...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Magasin du Nord, the high-end department store in the center of Copenhagen, which is also called simply Magasin, has expanded its shoe department, located on its ground floor. With an extra 500 square meters, the store's second floor will be devoted to women's wear. The expansion has also ...

  • News briefs

    Frank Wright, the footwear brand owned by the Jacobson Group,...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Frank Wright, the footwear brand owned by the Jacobson Group, has continued to expand its international footprint with the appointment of agents for three new markets. Nick Dimitriadis will be covering Greece and Cyprus. Eduardo Viegas will take care of Portugal.

  • Short stops

    Henri Huck is the new distributor for the Högl brand...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Henri Huck is the new distributor for the Högl brand in France

  • News briefs

    Havaianas, the Brazilian brand of thongs, is putting out a...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Havaianas, the Brazilian brand of thongs, is putting out a limited edition style to celebrate its 50th anniversary. All of the proceeds will go to the Unicef Seal project, which works to improve the lives of children and adolescents in poor areas of Brazil. The company will make 50,000 pairs ...

  • News briefs

    Hi-Tec Sports won a prize as “outdoor footwear brand of...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Hi-Tec Sports won a prize as “outdoor footwear brand of the year” at the latest edition of the UK Industry Footwear Awards. Organized by Datateam Business Media for the industry, with the support of the British Footwear Association, the Society of Shoe Fitters and the magazine Footwear Today, the awards ...

  • News briefs

    Bill Sweasy, who is leaving as chief executive of Red...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Bill Sweasy, who is leaving as chief executive of Red Wing Shoe Company later this year, after 21 years at its helm, was awarded the Outdoor Inspiration Award during the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Jan. 24. Based in Red Wing, Minnesota, the company markets ...

  • Article

    The Dutch market underperformed Belgium and the U.K.

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

     The U.K. footwear market grew by 3.3 percent in value in 2012, with volume rising by 2.0 percent and prices by 1.3 percent, according to GfK data released by Macintosh Retail Group, the Dutch retailer that operates in that country as well as in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.The Dutch ...

  • News briefs

    Crocs has revealed that it is being investigated by federal...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Crocs has revealed that it is being investigated by federal authorities in the U.S. and Mexico in relation to its suspected failure to pay a total of $36.3 million worth of taxes and import duties during the 2006-10 period. The U.S. Customs & Border Protection agency is charging that Crocs ...

  • Short stops

    Frank Jung has been named international sales director of Müller...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Frank Jung has been named international sales director of Müller & Meirer, taking the place of Rainer Lüers, the former international director of Lloys, which has left the German company after two years in the job

  • Article

    Bata India posts double-digit growth in sales and profit

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Bata India recorded net profit of 17.16 billion rupees (€240. 6m-$312.5 m) for the full year ended last Dec. 31, up by 20.8 percent over the previous year. Net sales were up by 19.5 percent to INR184.12 billion (€2,581.0 m-$3,353.1 m). The company's performance was boosted by continued retail and wholesale ...

  • News briefs

    Ballin continues to expand in Eastern Europe. The Italian shoe...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Ballin continues to expand in Eastern Europe. The Italian shoe manufacturer has scheduled new openings in Saint Petersburg, Russia and Kazakhstan, at the Esentai mall in Almaty. In Kazakhstan, in particular, an area that the firm considers to be strategically important because of its proximity to China, Ballin has just ...

  • Article

    Spain's trade balance improves

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Spanish producers are evidently banking more and more on exports for their livelihood in view of a major decline in domestic consumption, which has seriously affected shoe imports into the country. Industry sources mention that the rate of decline may have reached as much as 25 percent. According to the national shoe ...

  • Article

    Australian TAF franchisee downplays shoe retailing

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    RCG Corp., the Australian master franchisee of The Athlete's Foot, has placed its other retail banner, Shoe Superstore, into voluntary administration, which is a local form of bankruptcy, and written off its investment in the chain. Selling brands such as Ecco, Geox, Merrell, Rockport and Naot, the shoe retail chain ...

  • News briefs

    Aster, the French brand of children's shoes, is celebrating its...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Aster, the French brand of children's shoes, is celebrating its 100th anniversary and for the occasion is launching a contest called “Crée la Dingo de tes rêves” (“Create the Dingo of your dreams”). Dingo is the name of the brand's first and best-known model, a leather sandal with six perforations ...

  • News briefs

    The China Leather Industry Association has reported that China exported...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    The China Leather Industry Association has reported that China exported 10 billion pairs of shoes in 2012, representing a 2 percent increase in volume compared with 2011. In value terms, footwear exports brought in revenues of $44.4 billion in 2012, up by 12.7 percent over the sales in the previous ...

  • News briefs

    Berluti, the high-end brand of men's footwear run by Antoine Arnault, son...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Berluti, the high-end brand of men's footwear run by Antoine Arnault, son of Bernard Arnault, is definitely in a high-speed development mode. In inaugurating a flagship store of 160 square meters in the Elements shopping mall of Kowloon in Hong Kong to accommodate the expanding range of its products, Berluti indicated that ...

  • News briefs

    Austria's leading shoe retailer, Leder & Schuh International, is pushing...

    2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Austria's leading shoe retailer, Leder & Schuh International, is pushing the expansion in Germany of one of its shoe retail chain, Shoe4You, while inaugurating a new store format in the Das Es shopping center of Essling. Seven new stores are planned in the first three months of 2013, and two additional stores ...