All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 4-5 – Page 2
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Ludwig Görtz has stepped down as chairman of the Hamburg-based...
Ludwig Görtz has stepped down as chairman of the Hamburg-based shoe retailing group bearing his family's name, but he will continue to have a seat on the supervisory board. The group's new investors, Afinum, have elected a member of the supervisory board and a former chief executive of Takko, Stephan ...
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CTCR, the shoe technology center for La Rioja region of...
CTCR, the shoe technology center for La Rioja region of Spain, is planning to start a total of 32 new projects for the years 2015 and 2016. They will require total investments of €10,334,000, with the share of public subsidies declining. In the next three years, CTCR will concentrate its ...
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Strong showing for VF's footwear brands
Vans and Timberland, the two major footwear brands of VF Corporation, rose strongly on a global basis in the fourth quarter of 2014 and for the year as a whole, although the growth was more muted in Europe.For the whole year, Vans went up by 17 percent in terms of ...
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Veja, the French brand of ecological shoes, has developed a...
Veja, the French brand of ecological shoes, has developed a kid's sneaker in organic cotton in cooperation with Bobo Choses, a Spanish brand of children's clothing
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We missed the election last December of Frank Boehly as...
We missed the election last December of Frank Boehly as chairman of the Conseil National du Cuir (CNC), the umbrella organization of the French leather industry that groups 19 different federations along the supply chain. He replaces Paul Batigne, who has become honorary chairman. Boehly, 63, has been in shoe ...
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Zalando moves into the black for the year
Zalando announced a few days ago that it made an annual operating profit at group level for the first time last year, and not only in Germany where it had already become profitable before. The news sent Zalando's quotation on the stock exchange up sharply, opening at €23.72 in early ...
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Görtz is going to completely refurbish its big, original flagship...
Görtz is going to completely refurbish its big, original flagship store in Hamburg this year. The German shoe retailer will also develop a new e-commerce platform together with an e-commerce agency in Hamburg, Commerce Plus, to start-up later this year. This is part of a new omni-channel strategy where online ...
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Simple has been reintroduced through a partnership between Harbor Footwear...
Simple has been reintroduced through a partnership between Harbor Footwear and Denis Ryan, the footwear veteran who acquired the Simple trademark and intellectual property rights from Deckers in late 2014. The ethical footwear firm closed in 2011 and is scheduled to relaunch this autumn. The full collection of men's and ...
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Daniela Sarnacchiaro, who was been working as head buyer for...
Daniela Sarnacchiaro, who was been working as head buyer for women's shoes at Breuninger, has been appointed to a similar position at Bartu, a subsidiary of the German Tretter shoe retailing group
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Management buyout for Bata’s French stores
François Le Ménahèze, who acted as chief executive of Bata France between 2008 and 2011 and came back a few months ago to help solve its financial problems, has won an auction for most of its stores, many of which are in prime locations.Following the insolvency of Bata's French subsidiary ...
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G-Star Raw will take back fully the development and sale...
G-Star Raw will take back fully the development and sale of its footwear lines from its licensee, Overland Shoes, starting in November. Based in the U.K. and run by a seasoned industry official, Stephen Palmer, Overland has been the licensee of the denim brand for nine years. Overland has been ...
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Besson, La Halle aux Chaussures and other online and offline...
Besson, La Halle aux Chaussures and other online and offline retailers are offering this spring four models of Brigitte Bardot shoes licensed by Albena
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Art, the Spanish shoe brand that is well-known for its...
Art, the Spanish shoe brand that is well-known for its colorful styles, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a line of sophisticated black shoes and with a re-engineered version of a mountain boot that it had launched in the 1990s. It is made with two moulds, one of which has ...
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Wolverine turns around in the quarter
Wolverine Worldwide reported a net profit of $10.7 million for the fourth quarter of its financial year, ended on Jan. 3, compared with the loss of $1.7 million suffered in the same period a year ago. The turnaround occurred in spite of a year-on-year increase in extraordinary restructuring charges to ...
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Skechers USA has been sued by Under Armour, a big...
Skechers USA has been sued by Under Armour, a big and growing American sports brand. The lawsuit alleged that a sports circuit training commercial “slavishly copies” a highly successful “Protect This House” campaign released by Under Armour five years ago. Skechers will not comment on pending litigation.
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Prada has launched “A Future Archive,” a comprehensive online catalogue...
Prada has launched “A Future Archive,” a comprehensive online catalogue of its show photos and campaign videos going back to 1987. The online resource, created as part of Prada's website revamp, features images of the young Kate Moss, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell, as well as most of the other ...
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Deichmann has appointed Manfred Kroneder to its executive board, reporting...
Deichmann has appointed Manfred Kroneder to its executive board, reporting directly to the group's chief executive, Heinrich Deichmann. Creating a new position for him, it has made Kroneder the group's director of purchasing, logistics and information technology, saying that the move was a reaction to the company's ongoing expansion in ...
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Brown Shoe Co. has appointed a new senior vice president...
Brown Shoe Co. has appointed a new senior vice president and chief financial officer, Kenneth Hannah, to replace Russ Hammer, who has been with the company since May 2012. Hannah served most recently as executive vice president and chief financial officer of the J.C. Penney Company. He previously worked in ...
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Tata International has announced that it will establish a new...
Tata International has announced that it will establish a new factory near Chennai. The facility will involve an initial investment of around $4 million and will have an annual production capacity of two million pairs, bringing the group's total shoe production capacity to around 8.5 million pairs a year. The ...
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Marc Shoes has announced that its general manager, Christian Feldbausch,...
Marc Shoes has announced that its general manager, Christian Feldbausch, will soon leave the company. He did not show up at Marc's booths at Expo Riva Schuh and the GDS. Bernd Hillen, a former manager of Birkenstock who joined Marc's parent company, the Berkemann group, in August, is taking over ...
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