All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 15-16 – Page 3
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Sales of footwear in the U.K. suffered the biggest monthly...
Sales of footwear in the U.K. suffered the biggest monthly year-on-year decline in 14 months during the month of July, according to the British Retail Consortium. Retailers attributed this to a lack of seasonal inventories, which had sold out during the end-of-season sales in June. Children's shoes performed better than ...
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Joseph Seibel plans to close down the big and expensive...
Joseph Seibel plans to close down the big and expensive Leiser store that it recently opened in Frankfurt, and to introduce iPads in its smaller stores to complement the assortment with an electronic ordering function
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Ricosta, the big German brand of children's footwear, opened its...
Ricosta, the big German brand of children's footwear, opened its first mono-brand store in Beijing, managed by a local partner, on Aug. 1
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Brax, a German brand of clothing, is collaborating with Belmondo,...
Brax, a German brand of clothing, is collaborating with Belmondo, a subsidiary of Görtz, for the development and the launch of its first line of shoes for men and women. Under a licensing agreement, the line will be made available this August in 25 Görtz stores and 32 Brax stores ...
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Two industry veterans license Avirex and Momo Design
Avirex, a sportswear brand, and Momo Design, a brand of motorcycle helmets, are well known in Italy and enjoy some recognition outside the country. Two veterans of the shoe industry, Massimiliano Rossi and Ramon Artigas, have set up a new company, S&D Consulting, that is licensing these two brands for ...
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Christian Louboutin is releasing an assortment of nail polish, the...
Christian Louboutin is releasing an assortment of nail polish, the first products in his newly-minted beauty line. Early in his career, the French designer famously grabbed some nail polish from an assistant and painted the sole of a shoe he was working on to make it more vibrant. And thus, ...
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Österreichische Schuhwirtshaft, the Austrian shoe retailers' association, has named Legero...
Österreichische Schuhwirtshaft, the Austrian shoe retailers' association, has named Legero as Best Supplier for 2014
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Artcraft, the Italian distributor of Crocs, Teva and many other...
Artcraft, the Italian distributor of Crocs, Teva and many other foreign shoe brands, is adding Toms Shoes to its large portfolio
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The Art Company has put out a special collection of...
The Art Company has put out a special collection of unisex shoes for its 20th anniversary. The sole of the colorful shoes is encapsulated in another, transparent sole. Art, which exports 90 percent of its production, has also presented two styles of men's shoes stemming from its collaboration with a ...
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Bisgaard, the Danish brand of children's shoes, recently appointed a...
Bisgaard, the Danish brand of children's shoes, recently appointed a former accountant, Henrik Kusk Jeppersen, to the newly created position of chief financial officer. His tasks were previously covered by Bisgaard's chief executive, Henrik Thomsen. The brand works together with 10 different factories in Portugal, with which it is currently ...
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Bain Capital and Apax Partners are preparing to make bids...
Bain Capital and Apax Partners are preparing to make bids for Toms Shoes in the final round of negotiations over the company's sale, according to The Financial Times of London. They are said to be offering to pay between $600 million and $700 million to the company's founder, Blake Myckoskie. ...
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United Nude is currently looking to open another store in...
United Nude is currently looking to open another store in the Netherlands by the end of this year and a franchised store in Paris, also by then or at the beginning of 2015. Jointly owned by the Clarks family and the Dutch designer Rem Koolhaas, nephew of the famous Dutch ...
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Skechers surprises analysts
On average, financial analysts were anticipating a turnover of $508 million for the second quarter, but Skechers reported sales of $587.1 million, up by 37.1 percent from the year-ago period. Net earnings beat their most optimistic projections by a long shot, recording a jump of 439 percent to $34,802,000.The gross ...
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Werner Weber has joined the executive board of Leder &...
Werner Weber has joined the executive board of Leder & Schuh, the Austrian parent company of Humanic, Stiefelkönig and other shoe retail chains. Taking the place of Peter Horvath, who is leaving the company at his own request after 22 years, he will sit on the executive board next to ...
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BBC International, the big American footwear licensee based in Florida,...
BBC International, the big American footwear licensee based in Florida, has taken over Feiyue, a Chinese brand of colorful, vulcanized sneakers that was relaunched by French entrepreneurs in 2006. The terms of the transaction have not been divulged. BBC is upgrading the collection, using fashion-forward styles and premium materials, for ...
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Payless ShoeSource, the big American shoe retail chain that was...
Payless ShoeSource, the big American shoe retail chain that was formerly owned by Collective Brands, has sold Airwalk to Authentic Brands Group (ABG), along with three other brands – Hind, Vision Street Wear and Above the Rim – that had not been taken over by Wolverine Worldwide from Collective at ...
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A Portuguese brand, Cubanas, plans to expand in South America...
A Portuguese brand, Cubanas, plans to expand in South America with sales starting in spring/summer 2015. It is currently finalizing agreements with local distributors and agents in Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Costa Rica. Cubanas will also set up a subsidiary in Brazil, where it signed a deal with a local ...
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Strong growth for Bogs in North America and Florsheim in...
Strong growth for Bogs in North America and Florsheim in Australia were insufficient to prevent a 3.0 percent drop in total revenues to $62.9 million at Weyco Group for the second quarter ended June 30. Operating profit fell by 8 percent to $3.4 million, but net earnings were flat at ...
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The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) and TÜV...
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) and TÜV Süd, the German-based firm specialized in safety testing, have released the Global Footwear Product Safety Guide. The manual, which is claimed to be the first of its kind, covers chemical and physical testing requirements and suggests certain protocols for the ...
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Softer growth for Alpargatas
The growth in Alpargatas' net revenues softened in the second quarter to 5.2 percent as domestic sales rose by only 0.4 percent to 550.9 million Brazilian reais (€181.00m-$241.72m) as compared to the same period a year ago. Its sales of Havaians and Dupé sandals in the country were off by 7.3 ...
