All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 17-18 – Page 4
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Analpa, the big Russian/American shoe company behind brands such as...
Analpa, the big Russian/American shoe company behind brands such as Kéddo, Bétsy and Elisabeth, has signed a footwear licensing contract for the characters from “Masha and the Bear,” one of the most famous animated series broadcast in Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe. The contract covers initially Russia, Belarus ...
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Bread & Butter will remain BBB
The organizers of the Bread & Butter show have decided to keep staging it in Berlin for the coming winter edition, which is now scheduled for Jan. 19-21, 2015, parallel to Premium, Panorama and Bright like in the past. The majority of exhibitors and trade visitors were skeptical about holding the event ...
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The members of Leder & Schuh's executive board have been...
The members of Leder & Schuh's executive board have been reduced from three to two following the resignation of the former chief executive, Peter Simma. The remaining two members, Heinzpeter Mandl and Werner Weber, will share the management of the Austrian company, which runs Humanic, Stiefelkönig and other shoe retail ...
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Drapers reports that Dune and Russell & Bromley have signed...
Drapers reports that Dune and Russell & Bromley have signed leases for the two Oxford Street stores in London being operated by La Senza, the lingerie retail chain, which is closing down all its former 55 shops in the U.K., franchised to Alshaya, a group based in the Middle East
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CCC Shoes & Bags, the leading Polish-based shoe retailer, is...
CCC Shoes & Bags, the leading Polish-based shoe retailer, is projecting a sales increase of 30 percent for this year after posting a sales increase of 33.0 percent to 855.9 million zlotys (€202.93m-$266.85m) for the first half of 2014, although the growth was limited to 17.7 percent in the second quarter. ...
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Original S.W.A.T, the American maker of tactical footwear, has purchased...
Original S.W.A.T, the American maker of tactical footwear, has purchased the majority of the assets of Tactical Holdings and Operations, the parent of Wellco and Altama. Terms were not disclosed. In July, Tactical Holdings filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware ...
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Antonio Brown, a young American designer of luxury sneakers, has...
Antonio Brown, a young American designer of luxury sneakers, has filed suit against LVMH in New York for alleged trademark infringement of its LVL XIII shoes. He claims that Vuitton has been marketing shoes that are confusingly similar to his models by placing metal nameplates across the toe boxes of ...
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Rack Rooms Shoes, the American shoe retail chain controlled by...
Rack Rooms Shoes, the American shoe retail chain controlled by Deichmann, plans to raise $50,000 for high school scholarships and donate $50,000 to local charities through its nationwide Shoes That Fit program. The chain is on target to raise more than $600,000 this year from customers' donations – up from ...
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The ANWR Group has introduced a special application to allow...
The ANWR Group has introduced a special application to allow consumers to use their smartphones to log into the websites of more than 4,900 affiliated shoe retailers in Germany through its www.schuhe.de domain. They can check the product ranges, and they can also participate in contests for special prizes. The ...
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The Dutch-based Macintosh Retail Group has sealed an agreement to...
The Dutch-based Macintosh Retail Group has sealed an agreement to sell all its 24 Scapino stores in Belgium as part of its “Rebalancing for Future Growth” program, but it will keep the chain's stores in the Netherlands. The terms of the transaction, which is set to take effect on Nov. ...
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The much-awaited free trade agreement between the European Union and...
The much-awaited free trade agreement between the European Union and Vietnam could be signed as early as next month, said José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, during a recent visit to Vietnam. In the past year, Vietnam's total footwear exports rose by 15 percent to nearly $8 billion. ...
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Bonis has extended its European licensing agreement with U.S. Polo...
Bonis has extended its European licensing agreement with U.S. Polo Association from shoes to handbags and small leathergoods
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Hans-Hermann Deters, who resigned a few weeks ago as one...
Hans-Hermann Deters, who resigned a few weeks ago as one of the managing directors of Ara Shoes, is returning to the sporting goods sector. Starting on Nov. 1, the 54-year-old will act as one of the joint managing directors of Sport 2000, the German cooperative of sporting goods retailers run ...
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Skechers has filed a suit against a shoe retail chain...
Skechers has filed a suit against a shoe retail chain based in San Francisco, DB Shoe Company, for allegd infringement of seven design patents utilized in its GOwalk line
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Roberto Botticelli introduced a new and more affordable brand of...
Roberto Botticelli introduced a new and more affordable brand of women's shoes, Roberta B, at theMicam in Milan. Made in Portugal, it uses interesting varieties of leather, but it is offered at about half the price than the regular collection.
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Gôrtz will adopt a new ERP system based on Microsoft's...
Gôrtz will adopt a new ERP system based on Microsoft's Dynamix AX platform by 2016 to implement its multi-channel retail program
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Camel Active is launching its footwear collection in France through...
Camel Active is launching its footwear collection in France through Bultel, a German distribution company that opened a subsidiary in France in 2006. The line will be sold in 25 points of sale in France. Bultel's objective is to sell the brand in a total of 80 to 100 points ...
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Action also among the fairs upstream
Le Cuir à Paris, the successful leather show in Paris that has grown to accommodate 430 exhibitors this week, has been renamed Première Vision Leather, a new name that would allow Première Vision, the leading international textile fair, to stage similar leather exhibitions around the world. PV is holding textile ...
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Wolverine Worldwide is again looking at new acquisition opportunities, but...
Wolverine Worldwide is again looking at new acquisition opportunities, but with 16 brands already in its portfolio, it is mainly targeting brands with an annual turnover of between $75 million and $100 million and the potential to reach the $500 million level. Company officials also told analysts at a recent ...
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Dr. Martens, which was acquired last year by Permira, posted...
Dr. Martens, which was acquired last year by Permira, posted a 30 percent increase in revenues to £209 million (€263.38m-$341.05m) for the financial year ended last March 31. Net earnings grew by 33 percent to £33.9 million (€42.72m-$55.33). The number of Dr. Martens stores around the world went up from 13 ...
