All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 13-14 – Page 6
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Jacobson Group has appointed Victoria Dunlop to act as house...
Jacobson Group has appointed Victoria Dunlop to act as house account manager of the British company's four-year-old London office, a new position where she will be focusing on private label collections for major accounts. The office had been created in 2010 as a design hub. With the new appointment, it ...
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Hardy Capital Partners and some prominent Canadian investors have acquired...
Hardy Capital Partners and some prominent Canadian investors have acquired a couple of online stores for footwear. They have bought OnlineShoes.com, a relatively old and profitable virtual shoe shop based in Seattle, and ShoeMe.ca, a virtual shoe retailer across the U.S.-Canadian border in Vancouver. Together, the two online retailers are ...
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LaCrosse Footwear has acquired White's Boots, another American company that...
LaCrosse Footwear has acquired White's Boots, another American company that makes custom-made boots for logging and other commercial applications at its own factory in Spokane, Washington. The new owner will keep the factory and the store of the brand, where consumers can watch the manufacturing process. It will also retain ...
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Eurazeo, the biggest institutional shareholder in Moncler, has reported acquired...
Eurazeo, the biggest institutional shareholder in Moncler, has reported acquired a 10% stake in Desigual for €285 million
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Ute Østerby, former key account manager with Novi Footwear, has...
Ute Østerby, former key account manager with Novi Footwear, has been appointed sales manager of Micropak for Scandinavia and the German-speaking region
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Fly London expects to sell about one million pairs of...
Fly London expects to sell about one million pairs of shoes by the end of this year. In terms of value, this would represent an increase of 15 percent as compared to 2013, when the brand recorded total sales of €34 million. In the first half of this year, sales ...
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About 90 percent of the exhibition space has already been...
About 90 percent of the exhibition space has already been reserved for Momad Metropolis, the comprehensive fashion fair organized by Ifema in Madrid for Sept. 12-14. Among the companies showing in the footwear section, Ifema lists Pikolinos, Desigual, Estefanía Marco, Pertini, Pons Quintana, Cressy, Hispanitas, Marian, Robert Clergerie, Gioseppo, Vidorreta, ...
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The 86th edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence, on...
The 86th edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence, on June 17-20, ended with attendance figures on the upswing. The trade fair was officially opened by Italy's new Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, himself a former mayor of Florence. It was the first time that Pitti Uomo was opened by the ...
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Luxury spending in Russia may fall by 4-6%
Fondazione Altagamma, the Italian luxury goods industry trade association, focused on Russia in its conference in Milan on July 8. Russia is the tenth ranking luxury market in the world and the fifth largest in Europe, with a market worth €5.8 billion in 2013, up 5 percent on 2012, but ...
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A special performance bonus has been agreed for almost 4,500...
A special performance bonus has been agreed for almost 4,500 workers in the footwear cluster of the Riviera del Brenta near Venice, thanks to strong demand for the shoes made in the area and the high productivity rates achieved. Under an agreement reportedly signed by Acrib, the local associations of ...
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Walter Giesswein passed away on July 3 at the age...
Walter Giesswein passed away on July 3 at the age of 81 years. Together with his wife Elisabeth, he founded Giesswein Walkwaren in Austria in 1954 and led it for many years, passing it on to their children in 2002.
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More than 250 international brands will participate in the Pure...
More than 250 international brands will participate in the Pure London show on Aug. 3-5
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The restoration of the Colosseum in Rome, a €25 million...
The restoration of the Colosseum in Rome, a €25 million project financed by Diego Della Valle of Tod's, can move forward with the Gherardi construction group following a ruling by Italy's highest administrative court, the Council of State, on a legal battle brought by a rival contractor, Lucci. The court ...
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Timberland plans to reopen on Aug. 22 a completely revisited...
Timberland plans to reopen on Aug. 22 a completely revisited version of its global store on London's Regent Street. The new and more lifestyle-oriented design of the store will be rolled out to the new and refitted stores from next year on.
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At the shareholders' general meeting on June 22, Quick Schuh...
At the shareholders' general meeting on June 22, Quick Schuh announced a slight decrease of 0.4 percent to €169.4 million in total sales from all the 350 Quick Schuh stores in Germany and Austria. Sales in Germany accounted for €154.5 million. On average, a Quick Schuh store is 289 sqm and has ...
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Jim Fox, who has worked for Dansko since 2006,...
Jim Fox, who has worked for Dansko since 2006, was named Chief Financial Officer of the Year in the Philadelphia Business Journal
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Royer has donated 2,600 models of Charles Jourdan and Stéphane...
Royer has donated 2,600 models of Charles Jourdan and Stéphane Kélian shoes to the International Shoe Museum in Romans. Visitors will have a chance to see part of these new acquisitions in the chapel of the French museum until the end of September. Founded in 1971, the museum houses shoes ...
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Nike has reported a 15.8 percent sales increase for Converse...
Nike has reported a 15.8 percent sales increase for Converse to $410 million for the fourth quarter ended May 31, up by 16 percent on a currency-neutral basis. The operating profit (Ebit) generated by the brand went up by 5.6 percent during the period. For the full financial year, Converse ...
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Gucci and the City of Florence announced on June 13...
Gucci and the City of Florence announced on June 13 that ten tapestries dating back to the sixteenth century have now been refurbished using proceeds from the Gucci Museum and will be exhibited in the Sala dei Duecento in the Palazzo Vecchio, the town hall of Florence and a symbol ...
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The Aug. 10-12 Moda Footwear fair in Bimingham will feature...
The Aug. 10-12 Moda Footwear fair in Bimingham will feature an improved children's shoe section
