All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 1-2
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The Russian Shoe Week is over. As we reported at...
The Russian Shoe Week is over. As we reported at the time, Nazim Mustafaev, the former director of the Mosshoe trade show, held it as an alternative fair in the Crocus City center last August at the same time as Euro-Shoes in Moscow, but it attracted only a handful of ...
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Satra has launched a new website, www.wholeshoetest.com, offering a wide...
Satra has launched a new website, www.wholeshoetest.com, offering a wide range of tests to help brands and manufacturers evaluate the performances of six types of finished footwear items. Each section presents a photographic example of a typical shoe with interactive ‘hotspots' that pinpoint key features for testing, accompanied by video ...
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Indian wages go up
Demands for higher wages and better working conditions are migrating from China, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia to India, the world's second-largest manufacturer of footwear, which had remained relatively unscathed so far. Observers feel that the internet has led to an easier and quicker exchange of information among workers on ...
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Red Wing Shoes opened two franchised mono-brand stores in October...
Red Wing Shoes opened two franchised mono-brand stores in October in Munich and London. The company has six franchised stores now in Europe including those in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Berlin and Hamburg, and plans to have others in place in the near future. Another mono-brand store was opened on a franchise basis ...
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Toms Shoes presented its first full range of winterized products...
Toms Shoes presented its first full range of winterized products at the Bread & Butter show held in Berlin on Jan 14-16. The brand plans to develop its charity “One for One” in Europe, too. It has developed a winter boot for children, which will be donated to kids in ...
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Zalando plans to open a second factory outlet store in...
Zalando plans to open a second factory outlet store in Germany. While its store in Berlin is open only for Zalando's online clients, the new outlet in Frankfurt, covering 1,000 sqm, will be open for everyone.
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A top fashion model, Sam Rollison, is the face of...
A top fashion model, Sam Rollison, is the face of LK Bennett for the spring/summer 2014 collection ++ Sioux, which is already an official supplier of the German Olympic team, has announced an endorsement deal with Kati Wilhelm, a successful German biathlon champion
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Exports help the Italian shoe industry to return to growth
The Italian footwear sector experienced a slight growth in the first nine months of 2013 but the gap between domestic and foreign demand has become abysmal. While a number of foreign markets started making up for 2012 losses, especially in the third quarter, consumption collapsed on the Italian front, showing ...
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Holster’s sandals expand their footprint
Holster, the Australian brand of luxury thongs, is expanding its footprint in Europe and the rest of the world including the U.S., where it has received the first order from the Nordstrom chain of department stores through its local distributor for the coming spring/summer season. The brand already has a ...
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The next edition of Global Shoes, the sourcing fair organized...
The next edition of Global Shoes, the sourcing fair organized by Messe Düsseldorf, will start on March 11, one day before the GDS. The organizers want to attract contract shoe manufacturers from Portugal and other European countries to the show, which is changing its name from Global Shoes to Tag ...
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Pitti Uomo, the menswear fair held in Florence earlier this...
Pitti Uomo, the menswear fair held in Florence earlier this month, reports higher attendance levels than a year ago. Based on preliminary figures, the number of Italian visitors, which had declined in 2013, rose by 4 percent this time to around 13,000. The number of foreign buyers went up to ...
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Platform is a new shoe-specific trade show due to be...
Platform is a new shoe-specific trade show due to be staged in the Westbury Hotel, in the Mayfair district of London, on Feb. 9-10. The brands exhibiting there include Audley, C.Doux, Coclico and Beyond Skin. The show is running parallel to Pure London, where Highline United Europe will return as ...
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Flavio Zanonato, Italy's economic development minister, supported the third edition...
Flavio Zanonato, Italy's economic development minister, supported the third edition of theMicam Shanghai, due to be held next March 24-26, in a presentation during an official visit to Beijing earlier this month
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Deckers will invest more in marketing and DTC
Deckers Outdoor Corp. told investment analysts at the ICR conference that it expects gross margins to increase by one percentage point this year, but the group will increase marketing expenditures to boost sales growth, especially for Sanuk and to support international expansion.The group will also invest in new stores for ...
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Sperry Top-Sider has signed a sponsorship deal with Slater Trout,...
Sperry Top-Sider has signed a sponsorship deal with Slater Trout, a professional stand-up paddler from Florida
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Daphne International Holdings expects to report a significant decline in...
Daphne International Holdings expects to report a significant decline in earnings and a low single-digit net margin on sales for 2013, due in part to extraordinary charges for the closure of some stores and higher inventory writeoffs. Same-store sales were down by 10.4 percent for the full year and by ...
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Crocs opened two new mono-brand stores in Dijon and Rennes...
Crocs opened two new mono-brand stores in Dijon and Rennes in France at the end of the last year, both owned by the brand itself
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Couromoda wants to upgrade
No more air conditioning problems at Couromoda during the hot month of January, and probably no more power breakdowns due to tropical rainfalls. The annual Brazilian trade show in São Paulo, where the nation's industry tends to collect orders for 35 percent of its annual turnover, will move next year ...
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CORRECTIONS: Waalwijck is in the Netherlands. The exact name of...
CORRECTIONS: Waalwijck is in the Netherlands. The exact name of the outgoing president, chief executive and board member of Crocs is John McCarvel.
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Rocket Dog continues to restructure its European sales network. The...
Rocket Dog continues to restructure its European sales network. The American brand will mainly re-enter markets through partnerships with local distributors in countries where it previously used sales agents. New distributors have been hired in Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Israel and Greece which were previously served by sales agents. Rocket Dog ...
