All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 16-17 – Page 2
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Stella sees increasing foreign demand
Stella International Holdings has reported a 12 percent increase in shoe deliveries to 23.7 million pairs during the first half of this year, due to increased demand from U.S. and European clients who are beginning to refill their depleted inventories.Average selling prices for footwear increased by 0.7 percent on the ...
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Pep Guardiola has signed a personal endorsement deal with Gore-Tex...
Pep Guardiola has signed a personal endorsement deal with Gore-Tex as brand ambassador. The Spanish football coach, who is currently the trainer of FC Bayern München, will represent the Gore-Tex brand and Gore branded apparel and footwear globally for the next four years. During this period, Guardiola will also be ...
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Simac Tanning Tech will start one day earlier than scheduled...
Simac Tanning Tech will start one day earlier than scheduled in Milan next February. It will run from Tuesday through Thursday on Feb. 23-25.
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Lir, the investment vehicle of Mario Moretti Polegato, is considering...
Lir, the investment vehicle of Mario Moretti Polegato, is considering new acquisitions. With a capital basis of around €370 million, Lir is the parent company of Geox and Diadora, which are both performing better than before. The idea is to acquire fashion-oriented companies that focus on innovation and have potential ...
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Deichmann is exporting its Myshoes store concept from Germany and...
Deichmann is exporting its Myshoes store concept from Germany and Switzerland to Austria
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Ipanema has launched a new footwear line in collaboration with...
Ipanema has launched a new footwear line in collaboration with Philippe Starck, the French furniture designer
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Sympatex is introducing a further development of its Sympatex Climate...
Sympatex is introducing a further development of its Sympatex Climate Technology at Lineapelle this week that allows the development of laminated waterproof and windproof knitted legs, taped with just one seam to the heel
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William Wong, the Chinese entrepreneur who started the Italian Fashion...
William Wong, the Chinese entrepreneur who started the Italian Fashion Galleria project in Chengdu in 2009, has decided to close all its six multi-brand shoe shops in the city after mounting losses. He is blaming high real estate costs, softer consumption trends and lack of support from Italian brands. Wong ...
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What will happen to leather prices, China ... and retail?
These are some of the big questions being raised by shoe industry officials in an increasingly challenging economic environment. To begin with, they are wondering whether they will be able to offer leather shoes at more reasonable prices in the near future.Just before its start last week, the organizers of ...
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Ferragamo may open smaller stores in China
Representing about 45 percent of its turnover during the first half of this year, the Asia-Pacific region remained the biggest market for Salvatore Ferragamo. At constant exchange rates, revenues from the region, excluding Japan, declined by 4.1 percent in the first half of 2015, as deteriorating sales trends in Hong ...
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LVMH has hired Ian Rogers as its new chief digital...
LVMH has hired Ian Rogers as its new chief digital officer. He joins from Apple, where he has served as a music senior director. Rogers is supposed to lead the expansion of LVMH's online retail presence. He will start working at the French luxury group in October. He takes over ...
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CCC moves into e-tailing
CCC, the rapidly expanding Polish chain of shoe shops, has acquired a 74.99 percent stake in a Polish online shoe retailer, Eobuwie, for about 130 million zlotys (€30.8m-$34.5m). It has an option on additional shares. In contrast with the physical CCC stores, which only sell its own private label products, ...
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Shoe Carnival posts strong profit growth
Shoe Carnival is starting to generate profits from its e-commerce initiatives, which are helping the American shoe retailer to open smaller stores of about 5,000 square feet, or half the size of most of its 400 locations. Browsing through the internet before visiting its stores has increased conversions and reduced ...
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Caleres reports improved sales and margins
Caleres, formerly known as Brown Shoe Co., reported consolidated sales of $637.8 million for the second quarter ended Aug. 1, up by 1.1 percent compared with the same period last year. They generated net earnings of $16.8 million, but excluding non-recurring expenses, net earnings were $22.1 million, 22.4 percent above ...
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Kat Maconie, the British shoe designer, says she has received...
Kat Maconie, the British shoe designer, says she has received a “significant investment” from her Chinese licensing partner, Phoenicia International Trading. She declines to specify the conditions but says she continues to hold a majority share in her company. A British venture capital fund had already invested in her firm ...
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Piccadilly, the Brazilian manufacturer of synthetic shoes, is launching a...
Piccadilly, the Brazilian manufacturer of synthetic shoes, is launching a collection of clogs, called Piccadilly Spa, that incorporate two different insoles. One is the massaging sole, which generates a sensation of massage by activating the reflexology points of the foot. The other is a moisturizing sole with microcapsules containing aloe ...
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The Brazilian footwear sector was well represented at Expo, the...
The Brazilian footwear sector was well represented at Expo, the World Fair in Milan, from Aug. 24 to Sept. 4 through the “Brazilian Footwear & Ipanema@Expo” initiative. This export promotion initiative was developed by the Brazilian Footwear IndustryAssociation (Abicalçados) in partnership with the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) ...
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The government of Brazil has sent a delegation to Indonesia...
The government of Brazil has sent a delegation to Indonesia to determine whether the country has a market economy and to check out any relations that local shoe producers may have with Chinese producers. Opponents of the current anti-dumping duties on Chinese shoes have in fact proposed Indonesia as the ...
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As part of its omni-channel strategy, Deckers Brands is opening...
As part of its omni-channel strategy, Deckers Brands is opening two temporary Ugg stores in Boston and near New York City that offer between 500 and 550 items and provide access through a digital kiosk to Infinite Ugg, an online store with plenty of other models to choose from. They ...
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Frank Wright, one of the brands of the Jacobson Group,...
Frank Wright, one of the brands of the Jacobson Group, has announced rebranding of its military-inspired crest logo with a more contemporary feel
