All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 1-2 – Page 3
-
News briefs
Rizzolli and the new Lara Hampton line by Bruno Bordese...
Rizzolli and the new Lara Hampton line by Bruno Bordese will be among the new entries at the next GDS fair, scheduled for March 11-14. A couple of children's shoe brands, Pablosky from Spain and Nanga from Austria, will return to the show. New in the children's section will be ...
-
Short stops
Deichmann is cooperating with Caroline Blomst, a Swedish fashion blogger,...
Deichmann is cooperating with Caroline Blomst, a Swedish fashion blogger, for a limited collection of shoes to be sold exclusively in Deichmann's online store from March 2014
-
News briefs
Bernd Hummel, the licensee for KangaRoos in Germany and many...
Bernd Hummel, the licensee for KangaRoos in Germany and many other European countries, has restructured its distribution network in Eastern Europe. A sales agency, Magic Town is now responsible for the Polish market, which was previously covered by a local distributor. Office Shoe is the new distributor of the brand ...
-
News briefs
Petr Hlavacek, dean emeritus at the Tomas Bata University in...
Petr Hlavacek, dean emeritus at the Tomas Bata University in Zlin, died on Jan. 10 at the age of 63. The well-known Czech scholar started off as a footwear technician but spent most of his professional career at the university, conducting research on footwear hygiene, children's shoes and shoes for ...
-
News briefs
R.G. Barry Brands has promoted Jeff Cosgrove to head up...
R.G. Barry Brands has promoted Jeff Cosgrove to head up its Foot Petals business unit. He worked at U.S. Shoe Corp. in sales and operations and at Rockport as executive vice president of sales and marketing before joining R.G. Barry as vice president of sales, marketing and off-price sales.
-
Article
Jacobson and Pavers save parts of Barratts
Ten years ago, Barratts was a chain of 254 medium-priced shoe stores and 353 concessions operating in the U.K and Ireland. and owned by Stylo, a public company controlled by the family of its chief executive, Michael Ziff. It had just started to diversify into the discount segment through a ...
-
Short stops
KangaRoos launched its first collection of bags, consisting of four...
KangaRoos launched its first collection of bags, consisting of four models, as an add-on to its apparel and shoe collections at this year's winter edition of the Bread & Butter show.
-
News briefs
Chinese authorities are reportedly conducting an investigation into the causes...
Chinese authorities are reportedly conducting an investigation into the causes of a fire that took the lives of at least 16 workers at the Dadong Shoe factory in the town of Wenling, in Zhejiang province, on Jan. 14. Firefighters rescued more than 20 employees, and five of them were taken ...
-
News briefs
Emu Australia launched a new logo and brand identity at...
Emu Australia launched a new logo and brand identity at the winter edition of Bread & Butter in Berlin. The company had a new and bigger stand in the “urban fashion” Hall 2 at the fair, where it also presented its new brand claim, “ever natural,” for the first time. ...
-
News briefs
Asolando is a new distribution company in the U.K. formed...
Asolando is a new distribution company in the U.K. formed by Ken Bartle, former chief executive of Jones Bootmaker, and David Rist, former managing director of Hush Puppies in the U.K. The company is starting to do business as a distributor in the U.K. for the US Polo Association footwear ...
-
News briefs
Arvato, a subsidiary of the Bertelsmann publishing group, is taking...
Arvato, a subsidiary of the Bertelsmann publishing group, is taking over Netrada, a German e-commerce platform that recently filed for bankruptcy. Netrada operates more than 80 online stores in the fashion sector including those of Görtz, Esprit, C&A, Lacoste and Puma. Most of the 2,200 employees of Netrada should keep ...
-
Article
ANWR is expanding further
The biggest German and European cooperative of independent shoe retailers, the ANWR Group, had a positive business year in 2013. The total business volume, including the operations of ANWR Schuh, Quick Schuh, ANWR Garant International, Rexor, Goldkrone and Sport 2000, increased by about €250 million to a total of €7.8 ...
-
News briefs
The European Confederation of the Shoe Industry announces that the...
The European Confederation of the Shoe Industry announces that the next World Footwear Congress will take place Nov. 24-25 in Leon, Mexico. It will not coincide with the Mexican shoe show, Sapica, which is scheduled to be held at the same location on Nov. 5-7. Partly funded by local authorities, ...
-
News briefs
Dr. Martens has announced that, further to a statement made...
Dr. Martens has announced that, further to a statement made on Oct. 24, 2013, an investment vehicle backed by the Permira Funds has completed the acquisition of R. Griggs Group, the parent company and licensee-in-perpetuity of the Dr. Martens brand, for £300 million (€364.2m-$493.5m). In addition, the iconic British brand ...
-
News briefs
Andrew Lee has left as licensing, franchising and wholesale director...
Andrew Lee has left as licensing, franchising and wholesale director of Kurt Geiger, after working for the company since 2006, according to Drapers. The British retailer, which is owned by Jones Group, saw its sales rise by 9 percent to £230 million last year, thanks especially to a 21 percent ...
-
Article
Fewer exhibitors at Bread & Butter
The organizers of the Bread & Butter show, which took place on Jan. 14-16 at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin, have not yet issued a report on attendance levels. Anyhow, the visitors missed many of the big brands that previously exhibited in the main hall of the fair.Brands that ...
-
Short stops
Frank Stefan, sales director at Kennel & Schmenger, left the...
Frank Stefan, sales director at Kennel & Schmenger, left the company at the beginning of this year, and the German brand has not yet announced his successor
-
News briefs
Dansko, the American brand of clogs, has launched Boulder, a...
Dansko, the American brand of clogs, has launched Boulder, a new outdoor lifestyle collection for women. The shoes in the collection, conceived with performance characteristics for everyday use, feature Vibram rubber outsoles and are finished with waterproof nubuck leathers uppers. The Boulder footwear also incorporates DuPont's Sorona fiber moisture management, ...
-
News briefs
Crocs has signed a partnership agreement with Sympatex, German supplier...
Crocs has signed a partnership agreement with Sympatex, German supplier of membranes and other fibers and fabrics, for its first completely waterproof collection, including one model for men and one for children, to be sold from autumn 2014. Crocs' Ocean Minded by Crocs collection, which was introduced in spring/summer 2014, ...
-
Short stops
Richard Bahmayer is the new Austrian agent for TheFlexx...
Richard Bahmayer is the new Austrian agent for TheFlexx
