All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 10-11 – Page 4

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    De Tommaso is about to be sold to an American...

    2016-05-24T00:00:00Z

    De Tommaso is about to be sold to an American buyer whose identity is yet to be revealed. According to reports by Quotidiano della Calabria, an Italian newspaper, the negotiations for the sale of the brand are in the final stages. The financial details have not been disclosed either, but ...

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    Shoe exports from Spain fell by 6.9 percent in February...

    2016-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Shoe exports from Spain fell by 6.9 percent in February as compared to the same month a year ago, with decreases in France, Germany, the U.K., Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan and Poland. The sudden decline follows a long series of increases in Spanish exports. Officials of Fice, the ...

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    Portugal's shoe exports increased by 2 percent in the first...

    2016-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Portugal's shoe exports increased by 2 percent in the first quarter of 2016, rising to €402 million with a volume of 22 million pairs. They went up in nearly all the major markets. They improved by 2.4 percent in the rest of the rest of the European Union, rising by ...

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    Vietnam's shoe exports reportedly rose by 17 percent in 2015...

    2016-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Vietnam's shoe exports reportedly rose by 17 percent in 2015 to more than US12 billion, and more than 70 percent of them were athletic footwear. The U.S. accounted for 33.9 percent of the export flow, the European Union 33.1 percent, China 6.3 percent and Japan 5 percent.

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    Jones Bootmaker is changing the look of 15 of its...

    2016-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Jones Bootmaker is changing the look of 15 of its 105 stores in the U.K., with a clearer segmentation of the product offering. Meanwhile, the creditors of Brantano UK, are reportedly poised to get only three pence for every pound sterling that they are owed in the current bankruptcy proceedings. ...

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    German shoe retailers suffered a big drop of 13 percent...

    2016-05-24T00:00:00Z

    German shoe retailers suffered a big drop of 13 percent in their sales during the month of March as compared to the same month of the previous year, which had already shown a negative trend, according to the Institut für Handelsforschung. This has led to a 5 percent decline for ...

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    Ferragamo’s Q1 sales slip but profitability rises

    2016-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Salvatore Ferragamo reported a 1.8 percent drop in its first-quarter results to €321.5 million, due to a decline in its retail business. At constant currency rates, the top line fell by 2.4 percent. Sales at Ferragamo's own retail sales around the world declined to €191.7 million, down by 3.6 percent ...