All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 1-2 – Page 2
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Marc Shoes has signed a distribution contract with Sports Connection...
Marc Shoes has signed a distribution contract with Sports Connection of Denmark for the Danish and Swedish markets. The 75-year-old German company has a lot of potential for higher sales outside the German-speaking countries, which currently represent only about 5 percent of its turnover, compared with a ratio of around ...
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Tod's is offering its first range of men's clothing for...
Tod's is offering its first range of men's clothing for the next autumn/winter season, which was shown at Milano Moda Uomo. It will be expanded later on. The Italian shoe brand had done the same in the women's segment the previous season.
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The combined sales of textiles, clothing and footwear stores climbed...
The combined sales of textiles, clothing and footwear stores climbed by 1.2 percent in volume and 4 percent in value in the U.K. in December as compared to the same month a year earlier, according to the Office for National Statistics. A strong Christmas selling season contributed to boost total ...
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Lür Holler is the new sales manager for Clarks in...
Lür Holler is the new sales manager for Clarks in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, filling a vacant position. He previously worked as a sales manager for Geox. Prior to that, he was involved with Belmondo, a brand of women's shoes owned by Görtz.
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Clarks has split from its former distributor in Russia and...
Clarks has split from its former distributor in Russia and plans now to expand in the former Yugoslavian countries and Romania and Bulgaria in 2014 from its office in Poland
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Christian Louboutin has opened a store in Tokyo
Christian Louboutin has opened a store in Tokyo
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Wealthy Chinese to spend less or flee
Chinese millionaires are expected to buy fewer luxury goods again this year, confirming a trend that will further complicate things for high-end brands and retailers, many of which had made China one of their priorities. Luxury firms are already struggling with a slowing economy in China and a clientele that ...
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Rocket Dog, the U.S.-based producer of women's and children's footwear,...
Rocket Dog, the U.S.-based producer of women's and children's footwear, has hired Scott Weaver as vice president of sales in charge of the kids business. He was previously general manager of Steve Madden Kids. Prior to that, he acted as the president for Superga North America at Steve Madden, where ...
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Robert Polet, the former chief executive of the Gucci Group,...
Robert Polet, the former chief executive of the Gucci Group, is investing an unspecified amount in Scarosso, a fast-growing German online shoe shop founded three years ago by two young managers, Moritz Offeney and Marco Reiter. It specializes in the sale of high-quality men's and women's shoes from the Marche ...
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Hub has changed its sales structure in Germany from indirect...
Hub has changed its sales structure in Germany from indirect to direct distribution. The Dutch shoe brand has employed two sales representatives for the German market, Stefan Grün and Matthias Heydorn, who previously worked for Camper. In the U.K., where the brand has been selling its collections for two seasons, ...
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Jallatte is taken over by a former CEO
Franco Uzzeni, the owner of U-Power, an Italian-based supplier of work and safety shoes, clothing and accessories, has taken over the leading French producer of safety shoes, Jallatte, and its manufacturing operations in France. Uzzeni, who knows Jallatte well because he ran it between 2000 and 2005, is also in ...
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A Swiss investment fund buys Bruno Magli
Da Vinci Invest, an investment firm run by Hendrik Klein in Zurich, is the new owner of Bruno Magli. The surprise move comes after reports last October that Fortelus Capital Management, the British fund that acquired the Italian shoe company in 2007, had started exclusive negotiations with an Asian consortium ...
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The Samwer brothers, who participated in the launch of Zalando...
The Samwer brothers, who participated in the launch of Zalando and other shoe and fashion e-commerce platforms through Rocket Internet, are reportedly contemplating the start-up of an online bank and a virtual furniture store called Home24
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Clarks is cooperating with Patternity, a British organization founded by...
Clarks is cooperating with Patternity, a British organization founded by a photographer and art director, Anna Murray, and by a product designer, Grace Winteringham, for the design and development of its Clarks Originals collection for autumn/winter 2014/15
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Brazilian brands shift their focus from the domestic to the foreign market
For the last three years, the Brazilian shoe industry has been pulled primarily by growing domestic consumption levels, while its export sales have been dampened by foreign competition and the high value of the Brazilina real. The latest figures from Brazil seem to indicate a reversal of this trend, due ...
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Roy Goossens has joined Wolverine Worldwide as brand manager responsible for...
Roy Goossens has joined Wolverine Worldwide as brand manager responsible for the Cat Footwear and Sebago brands in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands. The 53-year-old, who started working for Wolverine in December, had worked since January 2006 for Bosum Trading, handling sales of O'Neill, Marutti, Wolverine and Australian footwear in ...
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Lelli Kelly, the Italian brand of children's shoes, is offering...
Lelli Kelly, the Italian brand of children's shoes, is offering to handle the distribution in the U.S. for other brands in the same segment that don't compete with its line. It is discussing collaboration with two Spanish firms, although its four-year-old U.S. sales subsidiary in Seattle is profitable. Its main ...
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Munich, the Spanish brand of sneakers, has opened its first...
Munich, the Spanish brand of sneakers, has opened its first two stores in China through a distributor as part of a new phase of development in Asia. They are located in Shanghai and Nanjing. The brand has also opened a shop-in-shop in the Lotte department store of Seoul and found ...
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Reef, the surf brand owned by VF Corporation, is celebrating...
Reef, the surf brand owned by VF Corporation, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with the relaunch of the first sandal, called Smoothy, featuring the script “Reef Brazil Authentic Surf Sandals.” The model was made at factory in São Paulo for the founders of the brand, the Argentinian brothers Fernando and ...
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Hub, the Dutch footwear brand, presented a new logo at...
Hub, the Dutch footwear brand, presented a new logo at the Bread & Butter and Bright shows in Berlin. It will only be featured at first on a newly created themed collection launched under the “rapid transit” slogan for autumn/winter 2014/15. From summer 2015, the brand will be putting the new ...
