All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 16-17 – Page 3
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Chaussures Noël of France has sold its Sledgers brand of...
Chaussures Noël of France has sold its Sledgers brand of men's shoes to a shoemaker in the Philippines, Primer, and is reportedly negotiating the disposal of its military boot business and its remaining French factory at Argueyrolles. As previously reported, Noël has already transferred its Umbro license to Groupe Royer. ...
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Padders, the British brand of comfort shoes, has restarted U.K....
Padders, the British brand of comfort shoes, has restarted U.K. production on a Desma direct injection machine that had been left dormant prior to a change of ownership and management 18 months ago, starting with a line of waterproof walking shoes. It has yet to reach its capacity of 3,000 ...
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Gianvito Rossi has opened his very first boutique worldwide in...
Gianvito Rossi has opened his very first boutique worldwide in New York City, at Madison Avenue and 75th Street, and he is looking for locations in Milan, Paris, Hong Kong and London
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The board of Skechers USA has decided to implement a...
The board of Skechers USA has decided to implement a three-for-one stock split on Oct. 15, subject to shareholders' approval at its annual meeting on Sept. 24. The price of its shares nearly tripled in the past 12 months. At its stock market close of $142.73 yesterday, it gave the ...
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Bullboxer has opened a pop-up shop on Rosenthalerstrasse in Berlin,...
Bullboxer has opened a pop-up shop on Rosenthalerstrasse in Berlin, in cooperation with the Aktiv Schuh chain
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Mike De Bell, former chief sales officer for Crocs, has...
Mike De Bell, former chief sales officer for Crocs, has been recruited by Xero Shoes to act as vice president of global sales. As previously reported, John McCarvel, Crocs' former chief executive and president, has become chairman and lead investor in the young American company. Dennis Driscoll, former head of ...
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Floris van Bommel opens up shop in Utrecht, Belgium...
Floris van Bommel opens up shop in Utrecht, Belgium
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The GDS was stable, but could have been more crowded
Breaking its silence on attendance figures, the GDS reported a total of 15,500 registered visitors for its latest session in Düsseldorf, or about the same as in the summer of 2014. Of those, 46 percent came from outside Germany, down from 48 percent a year ago. About a quarter of ...
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Rudy Haslbeck has left Birkenstock, where he had been engaged...
Rudy Haslbeck has left Birkenstock, where he had been engaged for the last two years as head of product and design. The German company indicates that his department is going to reorganized, following the appointment on June 1 of Yvonne Piu as general manager in charge of marketing and product.
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Kresmir Zovak, who has been working on sales for Salamander...
Kresmir Zovak, who has been working on sales for Salamander since the beginning of 2011, has been promoted to the executive board of the company, taking the place of the retiring Norbert Breuer. Prior to Salamander, the 39-year-old manager worked for Marc Shoes, Ara Shoes and Gabor. Jens Keller remains ...
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Feiyue, a brand of BBC International, is teaming up with...
Feiyue, a brand of BBC International, is teaming up with Peanuts on a limited-edition collection of canvas shoes coming this holiday season. Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other characters of the famous comic strip will be featured with a vintage touch, on a washed out comic strip-like background in black and ...
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Zalando cancels B&B consumer festival
As we previously reported, the big Berlin-based e-tailer bought the bankrupt Bread & Butter trade show in the former Tempelhof airport of the German capital a few months ago, saying that it was planning to turn the event into a big consumer-oriented fashion festival. It has now announced the cancellation ...
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Bally has collaborated with J. Cole on a new boot...
Bally has collaborated with J. Cole on a new boot and backpack. The JC Hiker boot is available in seven different suede and leather styles in colors including beige suede, grey suede, dark grey, mustard, dark brown, caper and white. The Trek backpack is a water-resistant green nylon backpack which ...
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Saks Fifth Avenue plans to open its first footwear-only store...
Saks Fifth Avenue plans to open its first footwear-only store in the autumn of 2016, under an as-yet unspecified name. It will cover about 1,300 square meters at 20 East Elm Street in Greenwich, Connecticut, not far from its local department store. The store will probably offer a larger assortment ...
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TheMicam shrinks, wants to be more attractive
The number of visitors at Europe's leading shoe trade show continues to decline. Organizers announced today that 30,801 visitors registered at theMicam last week, or 9.9 percent below the level of 34,176 visitors reported a year ago. The management of the fair indicated that there were considerable drops in the ...
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Nick Beighton, finance director of Asos, is promoted to the...
Nick Beighton, finance director of Asos, is promoted to the position of chief executive, replacing Nick Robertson, co-founder of the British online retailer, who becomes a non-executive director
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Ars Sutoria has changed its name to Arssutoria, sporting a...
Ars Sutoria has changed its name to Arssutoria, sporting a more modern logo
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Wolverine Worldwide has appointed John Coe as managing director of...
Wolverine Worldwide has appointed John Coe as managing director of its London-based subsidiary, taking the place of Dan LeVesconte, to “drive continued growth” for its brands in the region. As general manager of Chaco since March 2011, Coe has been running Wolverine's fastest-growing brand. He gained international experience as president ...
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Sympatex Technologies has appointed Derek Spingler vice president for North...
Sympatex Technologies has appointed Derek Spingler vice president for North America, responsible for sales and marketing
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HK loses appeal as a market for Tod’s
Tod's reiterated its criticisms of the situation in Hong Kong, where sales are being stifled by the Chinese government's policies toward the former British colony and landlords refusing to acknowledge the situation by cutting rental fees.Emilio Macellari, chief financial officer at Tod's, said that all the measures taken by the ...
