All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 5-6 – Page 2
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Crocs posts higher sales but earnings plunge
Crocs saw its revenues increase by 1.6 percent to $228,673 in the fourth quarter of 2013. For the full year, the American footwear company's revenues increased by 6.2 percent to $1,192,680. On a constant currency basis, the increase was of 4.1 percent and 8.8 percent in the fourth quarter and ...
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DSW improves earnings by cutting costs
DSW announced that its fourth-quarter profit rose by 3.5 percent as softer sales were offset by reduced costs. For the quarter ended Feb. 1, the American shoe retailer reported a net profit of $28.1 million, including a net after-tax loss of $0.7 million from its luxury test, up from $27.1 ...
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Van Haren, the Dutch shoe retailer controlled by the Deichmann...
Van Haren, the Dutch shoe retailer controlled by the Deichmann group, achieved a record turnover of nearly €140 million last year, up by 5.1 percent. The number of pairs sold increased by 108,000 to a total of 6.1 million. The Dutch company opened six new stores in the course of ...
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Steven Madden continues to grow, except at retail
Steven Madden has reported a consolidated sales increase of 7.1 percent to $1,314 billion for the year ended Dec. 31. Net earnings rose to $132.0 million from $119.6 million, but excluding extraordinary items, it reached a level of only $131.4 million for the year.In the fourth quarter, the company's sales ...
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New multi-brand store concept for Ugg’s parent
Deckers Outdoor Corporation announced this week the opening of its first Brand Showcase store at the company's new headquarters at Goleta, in the Santa Barbara area of California. Measuring more than 8,000 square feet, it features an extensive range of products across all its brands: Ugg Australia, Teva, Sanuk, Tsubo, ...
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Grenson opened the company's largest store in London in February,...
Grenson opened the company's largest store in London in February, at 40 Lamb's Conduit Street. It features a G:lab for partial shoe customization and repairs. It was the company's third opening in London and is being followed by another in the Soho district of the city this month.
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Didier Drouet has stepped down as chief executive of LK...
Didier Drouet has stepped down as chief executive of LK Bennett. The French executive had been appointed to the post in September 2012 after working for L'Oréal, Cartier, Salvatore Ferragamo, Stéphane Kélian and Emilio Pucci. Robert Besoussan, who remains one of the main investors in the British shoe retailer, has ...
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Dieter Meyer, a former chief executive of Lloyd Shoes, has...
Dieter Meyer, a former chief executive of Lloyd Shoes, has passed away at the age of 76. Together with his brother Gerrit, he was involved with the German company for more than 40 years. He left the company after its sale to Are Shoes in 1998. Meyer was also for ...
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Reno, the shoe retail chain from Germany with more than...
Reno, the shoe retail chain from Germany with more than 400 stores in the country, is offering its customers an interesting new smartphone app that allows them to compare the prices of shoes in its stores with the offers made by online retailers. The price comparison can be done immediately in ...
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Ecco is opening its first French store on Paris' central...
Ecco is opening its first French store on Paris' central Avenue de l'Opéra. Another one will open shortly in Strasbourg. The Danish brand has about 200 wholesale customers in France but has many more clients in Germany and other European countries further north and further east.
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The Polish CCC chain wants to double in size
CCC plans to double the total surface of its stores by additional 200,000 sqm between now and 2015, investing about 200 million zlotys (€48.0m-$66.3m) in new stores. It wants to consolidated its leadership in Poland and reach the leadership in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.This increasingly international Polish shoe ...
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Prada will be opening its first ever Pradasphere café in...
Prada will be opening its first ever Pradasphere café in May this year. The café, located at Harrods London, on the fourth floor of the iconic Knightsbridge store, will be inaugurated alongside the Pradasphere exhibition, featuring a retrospective on the various activities of the Italian luxury brand, from fashion and ...
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The Merkur Shoe Group (MSG), a German buying group for...
The Merkur Shoe Group (MSG), a German buying group for shoe retailers, is taking over 23 of the 56 shoe shops of Fink Schue + Sport, the insolvent German retailer. They are not touching any of the eight sporting goods stores that have been operated by Fink. Members of MSG will be ...
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Brown Shoe’s sales decline in the fourth quarter but profit grows
Brown Shoe Company reported revenues for the fourth quarter ended last Feb. 1 of $600 million, down 3 percent from the prior-year period, affected by severe winter weather, which hurt sales of running shoes while helping to drive boot sales.However, the company's own wholesale brands continued to make progress and ...
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Clarks is collaborating with Norton, the British motorcycle firm, on...
Clarks is collaborating with Norton, the British motorcycle firm, on a new collection of biker boots for men for autumn/winter 2014. Key styles in the collection, which is branded Clarks and Norton, are Mellor Top and Norton Zip. Mellor Top features a double stichdown construction, thick hardware and a layered ...
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Premium, the fashion trade show held simultaneously with the Bread...
Premium, the fashion trade show held simultaneously with the Bread & Butter show in Berlin, has decided to concentrate on Berlin and Munich as locations for its shows and to end its activities in Düsseldorf from this summer. The kick-off fashion show for the start of the order season will ...
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A British footwear brand, John White, has launched a range...
A British footwear brand, John White, has launched a range of ten men's shoes under the “Made in England” label that has reportedly been well received by British buyers, although it is mainly targeted at clients in the U.S., Russia and Asia. They are manufactured at a factory in Northampton ...
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Macintosh Group boosts wholesale operations
The Dutch-based retail group launched the contemporary Marc Fisher line of footwear in Germany, the Benelux and the Nordic countries plus the U.K. under an exclusive new distribution contract at the GDS fair in Düsseldorf earlier this month. Macintosh Retail Group is already the exclusive distributor of Steven Madden in ...
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Floris van Bommel plans to open six mono-brand stores, owned...
Floris van Bommel plans to open six mono-brand stores, owned and managed by the Dutch company itself, in Germany in the next two years
