All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 17, Issue 8-9
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Red Wing Shoes is one of the recipients of the...
Red Wing Shoes is one of the recipients of the Manufacturing Executive 2015 Manufacturing Leadership 100 Award (ML 100), in the Supply Chain Leadership category. ML winners and their technology partners will be honored at a gala in Carlsbad, California, on June 4, at the conclusion of the 11th annual ...
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Yoox merges with Net-a-Porter
Creating a profitable new online retailing group with an annual turnover of about €1.3 billion, Compagnie Financière Richemont has agreed to merge Net-a-Porter, the online luxury fashion retailing platform based in the U.K. that it has been controlling since 2010, through an exchange of shares into the more down-market online ...
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Macintosh sees lower sales, rising market shares
Macintosh Retail Group, the Dutch-based parent company of Brantano, Manfield, Scapino and other shoe retail chains, reported a sales decline of 1.7 percent to €184.4 million in the first quarter as compared to the same period a year ago. In the 368 shoe and clothing stores that it intends to ...
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Oasis has teamed up with Keds to launch a new...
Oasis has teamed up with Keds to launch a new line of summer sneakers. The collection consists of four shoes in different prints including a floral print lace-up sneaker, a classic nautical striped sneaker, two sneakers featuring tropical prints and floral bird prints, and an animal print skater-style shoe. The new ...
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Red Wing Shoes has opened a store in Osaka, its...
Red Wing Shoes has opened a store in Osaka, its second one in Japan
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Shoe Zone has warned investors that it will report lower...
Shoe Zone has warned investors that it will report lower sales and profits for the six months ended April 4, due to the mild weather in the autumn. Volumes increased as average prices went down, the British discount retailer said, giving as an example women's preferences for lower-prices ankle boots ...
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Pure Shanghai, an international trade show for women's wear and...
Pure Shanghai, an international trade show for women's wear and accessories that premiered last October as the Chinese version of Pure London, has agreed to join Chic, theMicam Shanghai and other events on Oct. 13-15
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Zalando opens a high-tech hub in Ireland, improves results
Zalando is setting up its first research and technology center outside Germany in Dublin to use the data collected by the online retailer to identify short-term trends in consumer demand for certain items, for example after a major event or the appearance of a celebrity wearing a particular shoe or ...
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Madden posts higher retail sales
Steven Madden posted a 6.3 percent sales increase to $323.9 million in the first quarter ended March 31. The company said revenues for the wholesale footwear business excluding acquisitions were down in the first quarter, while there was a significant improvement in sell-through at its retail partners compared with the ...
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Rocket Internet plans to move its head office next year...
Rocket Internet plans to move its head office next year to a new building in Berlin, across from the former Checkpoint Charlie, where it will also house some of the companies it owns and new start-ups
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Harald Neisser will run Rohde
A veteran of the German shoe industry, Harald Neisser, was appointed chief executive of Rohde on April 1, replacing Oliver Kraxner who is leaving the company at the end of May after conducting a major reorganization program over the past five years that has restored it to profitability and made ...
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LVMH's growth softens, Vuitton recovers
LVMH's organic growth slowed down further in the first quarter of 2015 to 3 percent as compared to the same period a year ago. It has been going down steadily in the last three years, falling from 9 percent in 2012 to 8 percent in 2013 and 5 percent in ...
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Pentland Group has made an investment in Isa Pia, an...
Pentland Group has made an investment in Isa Pia, an up-and-coming American shoe designer who is already supported by the CFDA fashion incubator program of New York, according to Footwear News. She launched her first collection in 2011. After the introduction of her brand at major New York department stores ...
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Netshoes, the world's largest internet retailer for sporting goods, has...
Netshoes, the world's largest internet retailer for sporting goods, has secured $45 million in new funding from Riverwood Capital and the International Finance Corporation, which belongs to the World Bank, to further expand its presence in Argentina and Mexico. It should also help the Brazilian company to develop its own ...
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Idana, the German private label specialist that has taken on...
Idana, the German private label specialist that has taken on a license for Bruno Banani shoes, has opened a sourcing office in Vietnam
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Kering has further restructured Gucci's management team, making several promotions....
Kering has further restructured Gucci's management team, making several promotions. Micaela Le Divelec, who has filled several roles at the company including those of chief financial officer and chief corporate operations officer, has become executive vice president and chief consumer officer, a new role where she will supervise all the ...
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Toms is going to open its first London store in...
Toms is going to open its first London store in Soho next month. It will join other brands such as Adidas Originals, Dr. Martens and Superga on Foubert's Place. Toms already has a British web store and several key accounts including Office and Schuh.
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Salvatore Ferragamo's first store in Scandinavia has just opened in...
Salvatore Ferragamo's first store in Scandinavia has just opened in Copenhagen on 180 square meters inside the centrally located Illum department store. Tod's has also opened a shop-in-shop in the Illum store, which is owned by Italy's La Rinascente since February 2013.
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Prada sees same store sales falling sharply
The Prada Group's sales fell by a high single digit on a comparable store basis in the full year ended on Jan. 31, putting pressure on the group's profitability. The company outlined the return to positive comparable store growth as its “number one priority” this year.The group finished the financial ...
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Robert Gentz, an executive of Zalando has told a German...
Robert Gentz, an executive of Zalando has told a German newspaper that he would like to see his company being able to deliver a package to the customer within 30 minutes after the order
