All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 23-24
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Timberland partners with Singapore-based tire maker
Timberland has announced a collaboration with Omni United to create a co-branded line of car tires under the Timberland and Radar Tires brands. As part of the collaboration, the rubber tires will be recycled at the end of their lifecycle to make the outsoles of Timberland shoes. The announcement was ...
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Lloyd Shoes has received a prize as one of the...
Lloyd Shoes has received a prize as one of the three best companies in Germany for its human resources strategy
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Schuh will move into Germany
With its German name, the British shoe retailer owned by Genesco had to choose Germany for its long-awaited expansion into the European continent. According to Retail Week, it has agreed to open its first German store in Oberhausen early next year and is exploring further opportunities in the northern part ...
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Italy stands to make fewer shoes this year
The Italian shoe industry is facing the likelihood of a “triple-dip recession “ of sorts this year, according to Cleto Sagripanti, president of Assocalzaturifici, as a survey conducted by the Italian shoe industry association indicates that the production of footwear in the country may decline for the year. A survey ...
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Hermès is taking over the premises of a famous restaurant...
Hermès is taking over the premises of a famous restaurant in Cannes to open a store which also be the brand's first one to host a café Nicholas Kirkwood, the shoe designer who fell under the control of LVMH in September 2013, has opened his fourth boutique in the Shin ...
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The European Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market, OHIM,...
The European Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market, OHIM, refused a request made by Lidl, the German discount stores company, for the annulment of a registered Crocs trademark. The authority rejected the argument, made by Lidl, that the Crocs shoe models only feature a variation of a design that ...
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DSW revises full-year guidance upward
DSW posted a 5.8 percent sales increase to $670 million in the third quarter ended Nov. 2. Sales rose by 2.6 percent on a comparable store basis from a year ago. They grew in all major categories, with especially good performances in women's footwear, which recorded its first positive comparable ...
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The organizers of the GDS show have developed a new...
The organizers of the GDS show have developed a new concept for retailers, which will be introduced at the coming Feb. 4-6 edition. The “design trendsetter” project, realized in cooperation with an Italian agency, Honegger, will present 20 collections of selected designers including Christina Martini and Nikolas Minoglou, Nicole Brundage, ...
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Deichmann plans to open its first store on the Spanish...
Deichmann plans to open its first store on the Spanish island of Mallorca by February 2015
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EU postpones decision on origin labeling
The Competitiveness Council of the European Union postponed a decision on the establishment of mandatory country of origin labels for non-food products to 2015 at a meeting in Brussels on Dec. 4. Italian shoemakers are disappointed because Italy is holding the presidency of the EU Council in the second half ...
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There is a plan to revive Empreintes, the international convention...
There is a plan to revive Empreintes, the international convention in branding and brand-building. Its 2013 edition had been cancelled. The next edition is now planned for March 19-20 in the campus of the Kedge Business School in Bordeaux.
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Prada's profits continue to fall but footwear sales are higher
Prada's profit margins continued to decline in the third quarter ended Oct. 31 as the company suffered from flat overall sales and the cost of building up the group's retail network.The group opened about 250 directly-operated stores (DOS) over the past three years, nearly doubling the network to a total ...
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Footwear News has elected Skechers USA “Company of the Year.”...
Footwear News has elected Skechers USA “Company of the Year.” Giuseppe Zanotti is “Designer of the Year,” Vans is “Brand of the Year” and Stuart Weitzman is “Marketer of the Year.” The magazine quotes Wayne Kulkin, the new chief executive of Stuart Weitzman, as saying that spending on all kinds ...
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Ferragamo is launching its first collection of shoes for...
Ferragamo is launching its first collection of shoes for girls in some of its stores in major cities around the world
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The development of skills in the textile, clothing and footwear...
The development of skills in the textile, clothing and footwear sectors was discussed on Nov. 28 in the Final Conference of the European Sector Skills Council for Textile, Clothing, Leather and Footwear (ESSC TCLF) by representatives of the industry and the European Commission. The European Skills Council (ESSC), which is ...
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Zappos has made a remarkable move into the fertile “click-and-mortar”...
Zappos has made a remarkable move into the fertile “click-and-mortar” retail channel by opening its first physical store as a 20,000-square-foot pop-up shop in Las Vegas. This special store will stay open 24 hours a day and seven days a week through to Dec. 31. It features 16 different areas ...
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Italian Holding Moda (IHM), the company led by Cleto Sagripanti,...
Italian Holding Moda (IHM), the company led by Cleto Sagripanti, has set up a U.S. subsidiary, IHM USA Corp., to help Italian fashion brands to penetrate the market. It will start with Alberto Fermani, the footwear brand it acquired in 2013, as well as the lines of Kallisté, another company ...
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The Chinese government plans to create three new free-trade zones...
The Chinese government plans to create three new free-trade zones in the provinces of Guangdong and Fujian and in the port city of Tianjin, modeled after the Shanghai free zone set up one year ago
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Fratelli Rossetti is opening its first stores in China together...
Fratelli Rossetti is opening its first stores in China together with a partner for the northern part of the country, Songlei Group, which is involved in real estate and other sectors. They have a franchising contract with a joint venture for specific projects. The store opened in Harbin in September ...
