All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 16, Issue 9-10 – Page 4
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Micro-Pak, a manufacturer of anti-fungal product based in Hong Kong,...
Micro-Pak, a manufacturer of anti-fungal product based in Hong Kong, has filed a civil lawsuit against YCM, a competitor based in Taiwan, on allegations that its product contains toxic poisons and chemicals that are contaminating shoeboxes entering the U.S. The suit was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court amid ...
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Vietnamese shoe plants shut down in anti-Chinese protest
Many shoe and apparel factories in Vietnam were shut down in the last few days due to violent riots. They have apparently nothing to do with wages or social security payments, like those that paralized Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings' factories in China a few days earlier.In Vietnam, the issue ...
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Anne-Marie Gaultier has been appointed by Bally to the new...
Anne-Marie Gaultier has been appointed by Bally to the new position of vice president of global marketing and communications. Based in London, she reports to Frédéric de Narp, who was appointed last September as chief executive of the Swiss company, owned by Labelux. Gaultier has been in charge of marketing ...
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Crocs has appointed a new president, Andrew Rees, who founded...
Crocs has appointed a new president, Andrew Rees, who founded an led a global management consulting company for 14 years after working at Reebok International as vice president of strategic polanning and vice president of retail operations. Crocs' current chairman, Tom Smach, has agreed to act as interim chief executive ...
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Franz Gustav Andersson, who founded Gerli together with Bruno Heim...
Franz Gustav Andersson, who founded Gerli together with Bruno Heim in 1973, has passed away at the age of 91. The partners began by importing shoes from Spain into the German market. They founded and registered the Dockers brand of casual shoes for the European market in the middle of ...
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Totes Isotoner Corporation have been sold to Freeman Spogli &...
Totes Isotoner Corporation have been sold to Freeman Spogli & Co. and Investcorp for an undisclosed amount. The company was purchased from MidOcean Partners and Bruckmann Rosser Sherrill & Co. Founded in 1923 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Totes Isotoner is the world's largest marketer of umbrellas, gloves, slippers and ...
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Deckers Outdoor Corporation will take over Wave & Motion, the...
Deckers Outdoor Corporation will take over Wave & Motion, the Germany agency that has been representing Ugg in Germany and Austria, as of the coming month of July. Dieter Westphal, who founded the agency 15 years ago, will continue to run the operation with its 18 employees. Its showrooms in ...
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Premium and Bread & Butter have announced their dates for...
Premium and Bread & Butter have announced their dates for January 2015, avoiding overlaps with each other and with other important fashion fairs in Europe. The two Berlin shows will take place a couple of days later in January than its dates of the last couple of years. Premium will take ...
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Crocs does better in Europe than in the Americas
Crocs suffered a 68.5 percent drop in net profit to $9.1 million in the first quarter as its total revenues rose by only 0.2 percent to $312.4 million for the period, ended on March 31, with a 1.5 percent increase in terms of local currencies. The company sold 2 percent ...
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Phoenix Footwear, the American shoe retailer, has blamed the long...
Phoenix Footwear, the American shoe retailer, has blamed the long and cold winter in many parts of the U.S. for a sales decline of 1.4 percent to $5.7 million in the first quarter. The gross margin remained flat at 37 percent. Net earnings fell by 34 percent to $171,000.
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Amazon shuts Javari
Amazon, which remains the largest online retailer in Europe for all kinds of products, has decided to shut down Javari, the dedicated online shoe shop that it had launched in some countries three years ago in a reaction to Zalando.Customers logging into the website in France, Germany, the U.K. and ...
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Alpargatas expands in Europe and into apparel
Alpargatas has taken over the distribution of its products in the German-speaking and Benelux countries, starting with orders placed for the spring/summer 2015 season. The Brazilian company is readying the launch of its first line of apparel under the Havaianas brand in connection with the opening shortly of new stores ...
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The Crown Estate has allowed Hunter Boots to open its...
The Crown Estate has allowed Hunter Boots to open its first global flagship store on the classy Regent Street in London. It will occupy around 5,000 square feet of space at 83 Regent Street from next autumn. The Crown Estate manages properties on Regent Street worth £8.1 billion (€9.91bn-$13.59bn). It ...
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A daily newspaper in Alicante, La Verdad, published an article...
A daily newspaper in Alicante, La Verdad, published an article on April 7 where it reported a police raid on 42 shoe manufacturing firms in the region of Valencia. It said that 60 percent of them were operating without the necessary permits, using undeclared workers including illegal immigrants. Javier Garcia ...
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Alibaba plans a big IPO
The Chinese e-commerce giant has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission as a prelude to its planned initial public offering in the U.S. The Alibaba Group said in the statement that it plans to raise one billion dollars in the IPO, but it has not ...
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Alan White, who retired as chief executive of N Brown...
Alan White, who retired as chief executive of N Brown at the end of last year, has been appointed chairman of Hotter Shoes, following the recently reported investment by a private equity firm, Electra, in the British producer of comfort shoes. White, who is also serving as a non-executive director ...
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Flip Flop has announced a master franchise agreement with the...
Flip Flop has announced a master franchise agreement with the team behind Happy Toes Caribbean. The agreement calls for the establishment and development of at least 20 new shops throughout the islands. The first shop is planned to open in Aruba later this year. The agreement also covers the management ...
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Jacobson Group has hired an agency, Tschannerl Consulting, to handle...
Jacobson Group has hired an agency, Tschannerl Consulting, to handle sales of its Gola brand in Germany
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Geox starts growing again
Geox booked a 2.3 percent increase in first-quarter sales to €268.5 million, up by 3.1 percent at constant currency rates, putting an end to three years of continuous declines and beating the management's expectations. The group confirmed its expectation that full-year sales will rise to €800-805 million from €754.2 million ...
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Aeffe - Alberta Ferretti shines on the stock market thanks...
Aeffe - Alberta Ferretti shines on the stock market thanks to the interest of private equity investors. The stock recorded a first boom last Apr. 30, with a 16.47 percent increase to reach €1.01, followed by another rise on May 2 to €1.15. The Italian fashion house is reportedly meeting ...
