All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 2-3
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Moreschi says it is opening a store on Moscow's Red...
Moreschi says it is opening a store on Moscow's Red Square
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Kurt Geiger will offer kids’ shoes
Kurt Geiger has announced plans to get into the children's footwear market for the first time. According to reports by Drapers, the kids' debut collection is set to launch in autumn/winter 2015. The new junior line will include mini versions of some of Geiger's classics and innovative shoes, which have ...
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Sneaker Freaker, the leading magazine for sneakers, has organized a...
Sneaker Freaker, the leading magazine for sneakers, has organized a special exhibition on sneakers at the four-day Ispo Munich trade show starting on Thursday. It will illustrate the history of the sneaker trend, which is said to be going back to 1875 with the first canvas-rubber shoes, through a series ...
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Liberty grows more slowly, focusing on the Indian market
Liberty Shoes, the second-largest shoe company in India after Bata, has downscaled the expansion of its domestic retail network. According to an executive of the company, the group should end up with about 150 new Liberty stores throughout the country opened in the course of its current financial year, ending ...
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Good turnout in Florence, not in Paris
At around 24,000, the number of buyers at the Pitti Uomo fair in Florence on Jan. 13-16 was 15 percent higher than a year earlier, with increases of 17 percent from Italy and 11 percent from the rest of the world. Including other types of visitors, total attendance reached a ...
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Expo Riva Schuh moves into publishing
Expo Riva Schuh, the biggest international trade show for low and medium-priced footwear, is securing its future through long-term contracts with exhibitors from China and India, the world's two largest manufacturing countries. It is also moving into publishing with an agreement that gives it editorial control over Foto Shoe 30, ...
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A new three-year project in the framework of EU's Erasmus+...
A new three-year project in the framework of EU's Erasmus+ program, entitled “High-End Shoe (HES) - Innovative Training for Luxury Footwear Manufacturing,” aims to train footwear technicians and designers for the luxury footwear industry. The kick-off meeting of the project took place on Jan. 22-23 in S. Joao da Madeira, ...
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E-commerce platforms will be more unified
Zalando is offering to host British brands and retailers on its own e-commerce platform, displaying and selling their stock and handling orders, payments, returns and customer care. Guest brands and retailers must provide free delivery and offer free returns within 100 days.Zalando is already hosting more than 170 brands and ...
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Shoe Zone doubles profits on lower sales
Pre-tax earnings jumped by 124 percent to £11.4 million (€15.1m-$17.2m) at Shoe Zone, the biggest value-priced shoe retailer in the U.K., in the financial year ended last Oct. 4. Shoe Zone went public on the Aim counter of the London Stock Exchange last May, as reported, indicating plans to expand ...
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Ralph Lauren has decided to stop marketing a line of...
Ralph Lauren has decided to stop marketing a line of 36 sneakers, following a series of judicial complaints filed by Converse against several brands and retailers last autumn, including Aldo, H&M and Walmart, charging counterfeiting of its Chuck Taylor styles. Reportedly, Ralph Lauren and Converse decided to settle the matter ...
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Ribatt will run Crocs
Gregg Ribatt, a seasoned executive who helped to strongly build brands such as Sperry Top-Sider and Stuart Weitzman, has started to act as the new chief executive of Crocs. He takes the place left vacant by the retirement of John McCarvel last spring.Andrew Rees will remain president and will report ...
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Skechers creates a subsidiary for Eastern Europe
Skechers USA will switch from third-party distributors to a wholly-owned operation for its business in Central and Eastern Europe. Called Skechers CEE, the new subsidiary will be based in Budapest. It will be run by Peter Dulic, who has been taking care of Skechers for nearly 20 years, launching the ...
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Matt Rock, managing director of Pentland's lifestyle division, which comprises...
Matt Rock, managing director of Pentland's lifestyle division, which comprises Kickers, Ted Baker Footwear and Boxfresh, is now global supply chain director for all the group's brands. The chief for Ellesse, Red or Dead and Kangaroos, Marco Ellerker, will take over as managing director of the lifestyle division. Among another ...
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Office has received an official warning by the Information Commissioner's...
Office has received an official warning by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the U.K. after personal data of more than one million of its customers were left exposed due to a hacking incident. According to the ICO, the hacker bypassed the technical measures the multichannel shoe retailer had put ...
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Church's shoes will be on sale for the first time...
Church's shoes will be on sale for the first time in India following a distribution agreement of the British brand with Heel & Buckle, an Indian luxury retailer. Heel & Buckle has currently three multi-brand footwear stores in Mumbai, Delhi and Gurgaon, but has plans to open at least 10 ...
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Falc, parent company of Naturino, is working on a children's...
Falc, parent company of Naturino, is working on a children's line named under its Voile Blanche brand for adult men and women
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New challenges for two German managers
Stephan Krug, a 52-year-old German executive with lots of experience in the footwear and sporting goods sectors, has been appointed chief executive of Sabu Schuh & Marketing, the German cooperative of shoe retailers, effective July 1. He will take over from Ralph Hanus, who is going to move to Gabor ...
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The work of Roger Vivier will be celebrated by a...
The work of Roger Vivier will be celebrated by a special exhibition at the Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum in Waalwijk, which will open on Feb. 21. A section of the exhibition, entitled Shoe Treasures – Roger Vivier, will be dedicated to Vivier's creations for Christian Dior. The designer made ...
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Repetto has collaborated with Disney to celebrate a new motion...
Repetto has collaborated with Disney to celebrate a new motion picture of Cinderella coming out this March. The first collaboration between the French ballet shoes company and Disney has taken shape as a limited edition “Cinderella Dream Ball” collection, designed by the famous House of Dance. The collection is composed of ...
