All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 14-15 – Page 2
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Vans has teamed up with Eley Kishimoto on a collection...
Vans has teamed up with Eley Kishimoto on a collection of wearable art, apparel and accessories. Mark Eley and Wakako Kishimoto, the husband-and-wife design duo, founded Eley Kishimoto in 1992. The maxim of the fashion house is “Print the World.” Working with the Vans' design team, Eley Kishimoto have applied ...
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Tamara Mellon, the co-founder of Jimmy Choo, has hired a...
Tamara Mellon, the co-founder of Jimmy Choo, has hired a new artistic director, Tania Spinelli, for her eponymous footwear line. After working for Tommy Hilfiger and Diane von Furstenberg, Spinelli has been developing a line under her own name, manufactured in the Venice region, which is going to be incorporated ...
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From next October, Jonas Ottosson will be the new chief...
From next October, Jonas Ottosson will be the new chief executive of Venue Retail Group, the big Swedish retailer of shoes and leathergoods that was previously called Wedins. The current CEO, Christel Kinning, will remain a board member. Ottosson comes from the sports sector, where he ran Peak Performance for ...
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Groupe Royer, which has owned the Charles Jourdan and Stéphane...
Groupe Royer, which has owned the Charles Jourdan and Stéphane Kélian brands since 2008, stopped the remaining production of their shoes in a small workshop at Bourg-de-Péage two years ago. A small French brand of women's shoes, Ellips, has reportedly bought the workshop to place it at the disposal of ...
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Cole Haan is launching a multi-channel digital and social campaign...
Cole Haan is launching a multi-channel digital and social campaign named “Prepare for Takeoff,” which highlights its ZeroGrand lightweight shoe, as part of the autumn 2015 collection. The campaign features three stars of the New York City Ballet - Sara Mearns, Megan Fairchild and Gretchen Smith - alongside two male ...
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Eleven people reportedly died when the building of a Chinese...
Eleven people reportedly died when the building of a Chinese shoe factory collapsed a few days ago. More than 30 of the 51 workers at the plant were injured. The factory is located at Wenling in Zejiang province.
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Turnaround in sight for Brazilian shoe exports?
Brazilian shoe manufacturers lost 30 percent of their export volume in the last few years, due in part to the strong value of their national currency and a desire to satisfy the growing domestic demand. As these two variables have changed, many Brazilian shoe companies have been looking again at ...
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Good quarterly results for some luxury brands
In contrast with the most recent predictions by Bain & Company, which call for a drop in the growth of luxury goods consumption to a range of 3 to 2 percent this year from 4 percent in 2014, Hermès and LVMH have both reported an acceleration in their sales of ...
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Duca del Cosma, the German brand of golf and golf-inspired...
Duca del Cosma, the German brand of golf and golf-inspired shoes and clothing, has filed for insolvency proceedings in a court at Landshut. Plans are to stabilize the financial situation and to look for professional investors with the help of Advantum Corporate Finance. The brand was launched in 2004 by ...
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Hotter, the British brand of comfort shoes, said its staff...
Hotter, the British brand of comfort shoes, said its staff is “walking on air” as it won a Queen's Award for International Trade on July 14, after securing a place in the Sunday Times International Fasttrack. The company, which remains the largest footwear manufacturer in the U.K., created 130 new ...
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A French manufacturer of safety and work boots, Etché Sécurité,...
A French manufacturer of safety and work boots, Etché Sécurité, was also affected by a fire, which damaged a rubber deposit on July 10, according to Hebdo Cuir. More than 50 firefighters activated themselves, preventing the fire from spreading to the shoe manufacturing factory itself.
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Further big gains for Skechers
Once again, Skechers USA surprised financial analysts by announcing a jump of 129.2 percent in net earnings for the second quarter on 36.3 percent higher revenues of $800.5 million. The gross margin was up by 0.9 percentage points to 46.8 percent, while the operating margin shot up to 14.0 percent ...
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With a view to increasing its production capacity, Berluti has...
With a view to increasing its production capacity, Berluti has moved its former plant, located in Ferrara, in Italy's Emilia Romagna, to an 8,000-square-meter facility at Gaibanella, a village in the outskirts of of the town. The new plant, which reportedly represents an investment of more than €10 million, employs ...
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Benedict Smith, who served as chief financial officer of Harrods...
Benedict Smith, who served as chief financial officer of Harrods between 2006 and 2012, has become the CFO of Hunter, the Scottish brand of wellington boots
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Roger Maes, the Belgian shoe industry expert who started up...
Roger Maes, the Belgian shoe industry expert who started up Shoeinfonet.com back in 1995, when very few people in the shoe industry used the internet, has re-launched his relational website with a better structure, better filters and search functions that seem to be appreciated by visitors. The website is probably ...
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Juan Ignacio Rivera Escribano, the vice president of Avecal in...
Juan Ignacio Rivera Escribano, the vice president of Avecal in Spain, has died following a short illness at the age of 58. Avecal, of which Rivera was also a founder member, is the footwear industry association of the Valencia region. Rivera was also at the head of Veri 2011, the ...
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Kering has appointed a German executive, Grita Loebsack, to the...
Kering has appointed a German executive, Grita Loebsack, to the new position of chief executive of “Luxury - Couture & Leather Goods emerging brands.” She will oversee Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Brioni, Christopher Kane, Stella McCartney and Tomas Maier, reporting directly to the group's chairman and CEO, François-Henri Pinault, who has ...
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Creating a new position, Pentland Brands has appointed Dave Grange...
Creating a new position, Pentland Brands has appointed Dave Grange as president for North America. He previously ran its licensed Lacoste Footwear operation in North America.
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Yet another Dutch shoe retail chain, Ardenberg, has run into...
Yet another Dutch shoe retail chain, Ardenberg, has run into financial difficulties, forcing it to file for insolvency. The company runs 49 stores in the Netherlands. Strong competition from online retailers is said to have been one of the reasons for its problems.
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In only a few years, annual deliveries of Desigual's colorful...
In only a few years, annual deliveries of Desigual's colorful footwear line have reached about half a million pairs. Starting with the spring/summer 2016 footwear collection, which is bigger and more mainstream than before, the Spanish fashion company is transferring 80 percent of the shoe production from China to Spain ...
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