All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 6-7 – Page 3
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Roger Hardy, the Canadian investor who bought the Shoes.com website...
Roger Hardy, the Canadian investor who bought the Shoes.com website south of the national border after selling a big international eyewear web shop, has re-launched its website with a new design and an expanded offer of more than 450 brands. Customer reviews, videos and improved product images facilitate the viewer's ...
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Strong year-end spurt for Bogs’ and Florsheim’s parent
A 69 percent increase in sales of Bogs shoes in the U.S. and Canada, driven by women's and children's boots, helped Weyco Group to post a 21 percent sales increase to $95.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2014, with 27 percent higher revenues from the North American wholesale segment.In ...
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Four big shareholders of Zalando have sold a total of...
Four big shareholders of Zalando have sold a total of 17.9 million shares, representing 7.3 percent of the equity, through Morgan Stanley. They were sold at an average price of €23.75 to institutional investors through an accelerated private placement process. The sellers are Global Founders, Holtzbrinck Ventures, AI European Holdings ...
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Calçados Pedreira, the Portuguese company behind the Nobrand line of...
Calçados Pedreira, the Portuguese company behind the Nobrand line of shoes, had launched a new and trendier collection called No Studio. Presented at the GDS and at theMicam in Milan and Shanghai with a good response from the market, it mainly consists of women's shoes made at other factories in ...
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Through a local partner that has been working for the...
Through a local partner that has been working for the Spanish firm since 1999, 24Hrs of Spain has built up a nice network of 130 stores in China. They are generally placed in good locations. Like in other markets, the company offers reorders with quick deliveries from Spain.
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Shoe brands have been granted a dedicated hall at Momad...
Shoe brands have been granted a dedicated hall at Momad Metropolis, the multi-sector trade show in Madrid whose next edition will take place on Sept. 11-13. The representatives of the footwear sector will no longer have to share the space with apparel and accessories companies. After the latest edition of ...
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Bally has named Claudia Cividino as its new chief executive...
Bally has named Claudia Cividino as its new chief executive for the Americas. Cividino will be based in New York and will report to Frédéric de Narp, Bally's chief executive, who plans on having sales in the region double over the next five years. Cividino will lead the expansion of ...
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Ballin has reopened its store on via Santo Spirito in...
Ballin has reopened its store on via Santo Spirito in Milan, doubling its space and featuring a new look
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Toms has introduced a new product category, the Toms Bag...
Toms has introduced a new product category, the Toms Bag Collection, to help address the issue of maternal health worldwide. For every Toms bag purchased, the brand will help provide a safe birth for a mother and baby in need in areas including Haiti, Bangladesh, India, and Ethiopia. In practical ...
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Bally has opened a store on the exclusive Avenida Presidente...
Bally has opened a store on the exclusive Avenida Presidente Masaryk in Mexico City, with around 340 meters on two levels
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Like other department stores in Europe, Au Bon Marché in...
Like other department stores in Europe, Au Bon Marché in Paris has inaugurated a new shoe floor, covering 2,000 square meters
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Female employees attack Birkenstock for past discrimination
It was apparently no secret that women were being discriminated at Birkenstock in terms of payment and treated differently from men, as they were at various other companies throughout Europe. In the case of Birkenstock, which insists on making all its products in Germany, they were earning about one euro ...
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The union representatives of Vivarte have asked its new shareholders...
The union representatives of Vivarte have asked its new shareholders to take an attitude of social responsibility in the possible reorganization of the group, which manages 16 shoe and fashion retail chains including André, Minelli, San Marina, La Halle, etc. They complain about a lack of information and consultation on ...
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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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LK Bennett has appointed Tracy Stone as group commercial director,...
LK Bennett has appointed Tracy Stone as group commercial director, effective Feb. 16. She will report directly to the chief executive, Robert Bensoussan. Stone was most recently global sales and distribution director at Gant, the Swedish lifestyle brand. In her new role at LK Bennett, she will be responsible for ...
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ANWR Group is putting together a working group to help...
ANWR Group is putting together a working group to help define future strategies. It will be made up of retail members of different sizes from various regions of Germany including Ingo Hänel of Schuh-Beck in Römerstein, Claus Heinrich of Schuh-Heinrich Johann Heinrich from Kiel, Thomas Huber of Schuhhaus Raab in ...
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ANWR First Order, the house fair of the ANWR Group...
ANWR First Order, the house fair of the ANWR Group in Mainhausen, welcomed a total of about 1,400 visitors from 510 companies on Feb. 24-26. The score is roughly comparable with that of the previous edition, which saw about 1,500 visitors from 500 firms. With 270 brands represented by 200 ...
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Crocs is looking at another transition year
Crocs booked a net loss of $4,926,000 for last year against net income of $10,420,000 in the previous one. Sales were basically flat at $1,198.2 million. They were down everywhere except in Europe, where they grew by 13 percent to $147.6 million. The results were in line with expectations in ...
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SGS, the global inspection and certification company, has announced the...
SGS, the global inspection and certification company, has announced the opening of a new footwear testing laboratory at SGS Gunesli, Istanbul. The lab is located in a geographically strategic spot where it can serve the growing needs of the consumer goods industry in Turkey, Western Asia and Eastern Europe. The ...
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Macintosh Retail Group has announced that it intends to appoint...
Macintosh Retail Group has announced that it intends to appoint J.G.A. Seyger as its new chief financial officer. Seyger, 44, has been acting as chief financial officer ad interim since Nov. 1, 2014. Prior to joining Macintosh, he worked at TNT Express, where he held various senior financial management positions, ...
