All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 10-11 – Page 3
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Crocs turns around in the quarter
Crocs surprised investors with better-than-expected sales and profits for the first quarter ended March 31. Its revenues increased by 6.5 percent over the corresponding period a year ago to $279.1 million. On a constant-currency basis, they gained 9.2 percent. The company said this performance was driven by the positive response ...
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Aquazzura, a fashionable five-year-old shoe brand based in Florence, has...
Aquazzura, a fashionable five-year-old shoe brand based in Florence, has opened a store in New York. The brand already has stores in London and Florence. One of the founders is a Colombian designer, Edgardo Osorio, who develops the collections.
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Ferragamo appoints Eraldo Poletto CEO
Salvatore Ferragamo has chosen Eraldo Poletto as the successor of its long-time chief executive, Michele Norsa, who will step down on Aug. 2 after 10 years in the job. Norsa, who has been running the Florence-based shoemaker since 2006, accompanying its stock market introduction in 2011, will continue as a ...
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Dario Predonzan has been appointed chief operating officer of Dirk...
Dario Predonzan has been appointed chief operating officer of Dirk Bikkembergs, the Italian-based fashion company that went under the control of a Chinese group, Canudilo. A former manager of Nike Italy and Marlboro Classics, Predonzan left a few months ago as global sales director of Diesel for shoes and accessories. ...
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ANWR Now, one of the in-houses fair of the ANWR...
ANWR Now, one of the in-houses fair of the ANWR Group, attracted only about 100 visitors from 70 retailers at its last edition who came over to Mainhausen on Apr. 12 to place orders for the next autumn/winter season from the 140 exhibiting brands. It was the last fair for ...
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Another manager of Pomellato, the Italian jeweler, is joining Sergio...
Another manager of Pomellato, the Italian jeweler, is joining Sergio Rossi, which recently went under new ownership. Giuseppe Pinto, the 48-year-old chief operating officer of Pomellato is going to act in a similar function at the Italian shoe company. He will report to Riccardo Sciutto, formerly with Pomellato, who became ...
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Deckers Brands has announced “with mixed feelings” the departure of...
Deckers Brands has announced “with mixed feelings” the departure of Gianni Georgiades in the coming months, after six years with the company, where he served lately as managing director of Ugg for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Georgiades is reportedly planning to join Coach in the summer to ...
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Crocs has announced that a ruling last year in the...
Crocs has announced that a ruling last year in the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court has been selected by China's Supreme People's Court as one of the top 50 leading intellectual property (IP) cases of 2015, and as one of the top 10 leading IP cases of the Shanghai Courts. In ...
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Baldinini has announced the launch of a new collection of...
Baldinini has announced the launch of a new collection of pens in partnership with Visconti, a Florence-based brand specializing in fine writing instruments. The collaboration, which marks Baldinini's first co-branding initiative, will result in the creation of 11 models of handcrafted pens. Baldinini said the move is part of the ...
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The Skechers Performance Los Angeles Marathon has announced a strategic...
The Skechers Performance Los Angeles Marathon has announced a strategic partnership with Venice Marathon, which is meant to further its global reach and highlight the Sketchers running events on an international scale. Both races boast international fields that draw from more than 60 countries worldwide. The 2016 Venice Marathon is ...
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Schuh & Sport Mücke, the big German shoe and sporting...
Schuh & Sport Mücke, the big German shoe and sporting goods retail chain that was acquired by ANWR in May 2014, will not be converted to a public limited company, reports Schuhkurier. Affiliated members of the ANWR Group had until April 22 the chance to send non-binding declarations of intent ...
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Church & Co. is giving four students from the University...
Church & Co. is giving four students from the University of Northampton the chance to have their own shoe designs made up into as finished shoes. Heather Jenkinson, Laura Pickering, Stacie Franks and Adele Jolley, who are working on their final-year collections on the university's footwear program, applied to take ...
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Alpargatas performs relatively well
Alpargatas posted upbeat results for the first quarter of 2016, despite the ongoing low consumption rate and other economic problems in Brazil. Total revenues increased by 9.3 percent to 1,011.6 million reais (€251.1m-$281.9m) during the quarter ended March 31 for the company that owns the Havaianas and Dupé brands of ...
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Alibaba posts the fastest sales growth in the last four quarters
Alibaba posted revenues of 24.18 billion yuan renminbi (€3,295.3m-$3,692.5) in the fourth quarter ended March 31, recording strong growth in mobile users, active buyers and transactions. Revenues increased by 39 percent compared with the same period last year, the highest revenue growth rate for the past four quarters. Net income ...
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Skechers has filed a lawsuit against Eliya, the maker of...
Skechers has filed a lawsuit against Eliya, the maker of Bernie Mev footwear, for marketing and distributing footwear that allegedly infringes on its Skech-Air by Skechers product line. The suit, which has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, states that Eliya is selling ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo has filed a legal suit against Vince Ferragamo,...
Salvatore Ferragamo has filed a legal suit against Vince Ferragamo, the former Los Angeles Rams football quarterback, who is operating a similarly-named winery. His wine is sold with the “Tenuta di Ferragamo” name. The Italian fashion house accuses the former football player of infringing its trademarks, as the wine's name ...
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Pollini, the high-end footwear brand of the Aeffe Group, suffered...
Pollini, the high-end footwear brand of the Aeffe Group, suffered a 3.7 percent decline in sales on a currency-neutral basis in the first quarter ended March 31, down to €7,456,000. As a group, Aeffe reported 3.5 percent growth in consolidated revenues to €33.1 million, with a decline of only 2.8 ...
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Anti-counterfeiting group won’t admit Alibaba
The International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) has stated in a public letter that it is suspending the new class of membership under which Alibaba had recently joined. The Washington-based organization, whose mission is to fight counterfeiting and piracy, disclosed the decision on May 13 after the Associated Press (AP) reported that ...
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Stuart Weitzman, which was acquired by Coach one year ago,...
Stuart Weitzman, which was acquired by Coach one year ago, contributed sales of $79 million to the parent company's results for its third quarter, ended March 26, with double-digit growth in Europe and China and lower sales gains in Japan and the rest of Asia. The brand generated a gross ...
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Peter Bolliger has returned to Kurt Geiger as chairman, according...
Peter Bolliger has returned to Kurt Geiger as chairman, according to Drapers magazine, following the chain's recent acquisition by Cinven. The Swiss manager worked for Kurt Geiger between 1990 and 1994. He then joined C&J Clark in 1994 and acted as its chief executive from 2002 until his retirement in ...
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