All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 4-5 – Page 3
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Skechers has announced a new footwear collection inspired by the...
Skechers has announced a new footwear collection inspired by the Star Wars movies. Styles will include slippers, sneakers and boots, some of which featuring light-up effects. The products will be available starting this autumn in Skechers retail stores and at Skechers.com. Distribution will later expand, moving into the holiday season, ...
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Andrea Guerra, who left last September as chief executive of...
Andrea Guerra, who left last September as chief executive of Luxottica, has been elected as a member of the board of directors of Coach, the American leathergoods company that agreed to take over Stuart Weitzman in January. Guerra as also become a strategic adviser to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. ...
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Aiming for greater efficiencies, Leder & Schuh, the Austrian shoe...
Aiming for greater efficiencies, Leder & Schuh, the Austrian shoe retailing group that owns Humanic, Stiefelkönig and other chains, is laying of 65 of the 300-odd employees at its head office in Graz
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Rafeeque Ahmed, president of the Farida group, was unanimously elected...
Rafeeque Ahmed, president of the Farida group, was unanimously elected to a two-year term as chairman of India's Council for Leather Exports, taking the place of R.K. Jalan of Arvind Footwears. Subash Kapoor was elected vice chairman.
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Melissa is partnering once again with Jason Wu. This time...
Melissa is partnering once again with Jason Wu. This time the Brazilian shoe brand is teaming up with the young American designer for the creation of a summer 2015 capsule collection. The new line includes a total of six designs, in multiple shades, which include a black sandal with hot ...
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After cancelling the January edition of its show and declaring...
After cancelling the January edition of its show and declaring his company insolvent, Karl-Heinz Müller, the maverick organizer of Bread & Butter has announced his plans to stage a summer edition of the show on July 2-4, charging lower booth rental fees and changing the segmentation of the offer. It ...
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Reportedly, Dune is going to add soon three stores in...
Reportedly, Dune is going to add soon three stores in Riyadh and Jedda, Saudi Arabia, to the 25 locations that it already has in the Middle East
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Groupe Royer has finally reached an agreement for the acquisition...
Groupe Royer has finally reached an agreement for the acquisition of Noël Soccer, the subsidiary of the Noël group that holds the Umbro license for France. Noël is known in the shoe market primarily for its Sledgers and Babybotte brands. As previously reported, a French court pronounced the insolvency of ...
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NeroGiardini invests in Russia, grows abroad
Well-established European shoemakers such as Baldinini, Rieker or Wortmann, and high-end brands such as Pakerson, are selling less than before in Russia and Ukraine because of the difficult economic, political and monetary situation in those countries, but apparently, they are suffering less than many other less well-known companies. Judging from ...
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Deichmann grows more abroad than in Germany
The Deichmann group has reported a 6 percent increase in its global revenues to €4.9 billion for the past year, with same-store sales rising by 2.1 percent. Total net sales reached €4.2 billion. In terms of volume, its stores around the world, which grew from about 3,500 to 3,600 - ...
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has named Brown...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has named Brown Shoe Co. as Company of the Year for 2015
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Portuguese exports grow by 8%
Portugal's shoe exports went up by 8 percent in value last year to €1,869.8 million, according to the country's shoe industry association, Apiccaps. They increased by 7 percent in the rest of the European Union and by 12 percent elsewhere, including a 51 percent increase in the Americas.As usual, the ...
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Last Dec. 31, Xavier Noël, former president of the French...
Last Dec. 31, Xavier Noël, former president of the French footwear group that bears his name, passed away at the age of 85. He was the son of the company's founder and the father of the current chief executive, Patrick Noël. During his tenure at the helm of the company, ...
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The Micam sees 3.8% drop in attendance
The world's largest shoe exhibition, which ended in Milan on Wednesday, suffered a 3.8 percent decline in the total number of visitors to a total of 32,112 people as compared to a year ago, when theMicam was still held during the month of March.One of the reasons for the drop ...
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Starting the autumn-winter 2015/2016 season, Vic Matié will be represented...
Starting the autumn-winter 2015/2016 season, Vic Matié will be represented by two brands, Vic Matié and 87 Vic Matié, where “87” stands for 1987, the brand's year of creation. The Vic Matié collection uses precious materials and atypical designs, and is meant to represent research and innovation through distinctive models. ...
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A good 2014 in Germany
A 12.9 percent sales increase in the domestic market to €1,915 million allowed German shoe companies to raise their total turnover by 8.8 percent to €2,518 million in 2014, according to the German shoe and leathergoods industry federation, HDS/L. However, the industry's sales abroad dropped by 2.4 percent to €617.4 ...
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Yoox posted a 15 percent increase in revenues to €524...
Yoox posted a 15 percent increase in revenues to €524 million last year. More than half of the revenues came from Europe, with Italy alone generating €86.1 million. Sales in North America were worth €115.2 million. The biggest growth, however, came from the “Other countries,” which registered an increase of ...
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Wortmann grows by 1% but the future is uncertain
Wortmann reports an increase of 1.1 percent to €504.1 million for the first six months of its financial year, ended Nov. 30. Based on the current order book, the company predicts that its sales will grow slightly for the full year to around €1,018 million, with the turnover outside Germany ...
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The Prada brand falls by 1.6%
Gucci is not the only victim of a changing luxury goods market. According to preliminary figures, the Prada Group suffered a one percent decline in revenues to €3,552 million for the financial year ended on Jan. 31. The management blamed mainly the weakness of the European economy and declining demand ...
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Aeffe has reported essentially flat revenues of €251.1 million for...
Aeffe has reported essentially flat revenues of €251.1 million for 2014, up by only 0.2 percent, but its footwear and leathergoods operations, which include Pollini, recorded growth of 19.5 percent. The total turnover, which also includes fashion brands such as Alberta Ferretti, Emanuel Ungaro and Moschino, would have increased by ...
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