All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 3-4 – Page 3
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Footway buys Brandos
A Swedish online retailer of shoes based in Stockholm, Footway Group AB, has become Scandinavia's largest online shoe retailer after acquiring the struggling Brandos, which sells shoes and other fashion products.Brandos is the second acquisition in the last two years for Footway, which has a clear goal of becoming the ...
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Carmen Steffens, the Brazilian brand of women's shoes, opens a...
Carmen Steffens, the Brazilian brand of women's shoes, opens a boutique in a neighborhood of Tunis
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Hunter, the successful British brand of rubber boots, is expanding...
Hunter, the successful British brand of rubber boots, is expanding its line of apparel, which was featured in a big catwalk show in London a few days ago
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Première Vision, the world's biggest organizer of textile fairs, has...
Première Vision, the world's biggest organizer of textile fairs, has acquired full ownership of Le Cuir, the growing leather show in Paris that has been held at the same time. PV had already bought another simultaneous fair for fashion accessories, Modamont. Representatives of the leather sector will continue to be ...
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Bartle and Phillips buy Shoon
Two veterans of the British footwear sector, Ken Bartle and Peter Phillips, have acquired Shoon, one of the best-known shoe retail chains in the U.K. The seller is the GA Europe subsidiary of Great American Group, which had supported Stephen Sanders, a former director of Shoon, in the management buyout ...
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R.G. Barry reports improved margins, thinks international
The export business is still very small at R.G. Barry, but higher international shipments and higher sales of Dearfoams slippers to warehouse clubs like Costco or Sam's Clubs allowed the company's footwear segment to offset the negative effect of a softer business with department stores and low-priced retail channels in ...
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Gordon Zacks, who is credited with turning R.G. Barry Corp....
Gordon Zacks, who is credited with turning R.G. Barry Corp. into the world's largest producer of soft and washable slippers, died after a brief illness at his home in Ohio at the age of 80. He joined the family business in 1955 and became its president a decade later. He ...
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Pretty Ballerinas opened a mono-brand store in Hong Kong at...
Pretty Ballerinas opened a mono-brand store in Hong Kong at the beginning of January having opened a mono-brand store in Tokyo in September. The company owns both stores. For 2014, Pretty Ballerinas plans to open a mono-brand store in Paris. Pretty Ballerinas has 57 mono-brand stores worldwide, 50 percent of ...
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Pretty Ballerinas has opened its first store in Hong Kong...
Pretty Ballerinas has opened its first store in Hong Kong
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Saks Fifth Avenue has opened “Saksneaks,” an in-store shop on...
Saks Fifth Avenue has opened “Saksneaks,” an in-store shop on the seventh floor of its New York City flagship department store, exclusively devoted to high-end sneakers. The department store said that the move follows a three-year period of great success for the whole dress/designer sneaker business, especially for men's shoes. ...
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Mexican authorities are investing a lot of money to stage...
Mexican authorities are investing a lot of money to stage the next World Footwear Congress in the Mexican city of Léon next Nov. 24-25. Their representatives co-signed the agreement for its organization with Jean-Pierre Renaudin, president of the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) and other members of the ...
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Vans has taken over its distribution in Germany and Austria,...
Vans has taken over its distribution in Germany and Austria, previously covered by sales agents, by employing seven sales representatives
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Johannes Merkl has assumed the post of general manager at...
Johannes Merkl has assumed the post of general manager at Mirapodo, the German online shoe retailer run by the Otto Group. Merkl previously worked as head of online marketing for the German online platform Rakuten. Before joining Rakuten, he was working as sales manager at Baur Versand, a German mail ...
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The regional sections of Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry federation...
The regional sections of Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry federation that was previously called Anci, are collecting signatures from their member companies to help support the demand for mandatory labels of origin for shoes imported into the European Union. Assocalzaturifici estimates that such a regulation would raise Italy's shoe production ...
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Ara and Lloyd believe in partnerships
Based on preliminary figures, the Ara Group's sales increased by one percent last year to around €576 million with the delivery of nearly 7.0 million pairs of shoes, 0.6 percent more than in the previous year. The export ratio rose slightly to 45 percent.Within the group, Ara Shoes' sales rose ...
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Brazil will be the Focus Country at the next APLF-MM&T...
Brazil will be the Focus Country at the next APLF-MM&T show in Hong Kong
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The British Footwear Association (BFA) has announced the winners of...
The British Footwear Association (BFA) has announced the winners of its second Accelerated Development Programme, its annual mentoring scheme. The selected companies this year are Govan Originals and Gothenburg Boots. The winners were chosen after an interview process from a shortlist of some of the best emerging footwear brands in ...
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Andreas Heydt is the new international sales manager of Salamander,...
Andreas Heydt is the new international sales manager of Salamander, a new position within the company, which belongs to Ara Shoes since 2009. He will also be responsible for Lurchi's sales outside Germany, and he will focus especially on the expansion of the two brands in eastern markets including China. ...
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Kennel & Schmenger (K&S) will open its eighth mono-brand store...
Kennel & Schmenger (K&S) will open its eighth mono-brand store in Munich in April. All its mono-brand stores in Germany are company-owned with its most recent one opened in Wiesbaden in mid-2013. More are planned in 2014.
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Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) has announced its...
Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) has announced its new leadership team. Greg Tunney, president and chief executive at RG Barry Corporation, will continue to serve as chairman of the association. Rick Muskat, principle of Deer Stags Concepts, will take the helm as FDRA's vice chairman, while Ed Rosenfeld, ...
