All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 12-13 – Page 3
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Birkenstock USA has appointed Scott Radcliffe as vice president of...
Birkenstock USA has appointed Scott Radcliffe as vice president of marketing for the Americas, a newly-created position. Most recently, he served as vice president of marketing for Lifefactory. In his new role at Birkenstock, he will develop and implement all marketing programs to support the brand's growth across retail, wholesale, ...
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Vans is launching a new collection of shoes, apparel and...
Vans is launching a new collection of shoes, apparel and accessories for men and women in cooperation with Nintendo. The “Vans x Nintendo” collection, showing images from well-known Nintendo games, like Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Donkey Kong and The Legend of Zelda, is available online and in selected sporting ...
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Shoe Carnival delivers another strong quarter
Shoe Carnival posted another strong quarter, with sales increasing by 3.0 percent to $260.5 million and comparable store sales up by 2.7 percent - the seventh consecutive quarterly increase for the American shoe retail chain.Revenues were driven by continued strength in athletic footwear, along with unseasonably warm temperatures, which boosted ...
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Bata shows progress in sustainability and moves to an annual reporting cycle
Bata has announced that from 2016, it will move to an annual reporting cycle on its sustainability efforts, and will work toward aligning information with the internationally recognized framework developed by the Global Reporting Initiative. Meanwhile, the company has released its second Sustainability Review, which covers 2014 and 2015. The ...
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Shoes For Crews (SFC) has announced it has filed a...
Shoes For Crews (SFC) has announced it has filed a letter of intent to acquire Mozo Shoes from Chinook Asia. Mozo, which specializes in slip-resistant culinary footwear, will remain as a separate brand, and will maintain its design ethos and product line. The transaction is expected to close sometime this ...
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DSW has announced the resignation of Mary Meixelsperger, senior vice...
DSW has announced the resignation of Mary Meixelsperger, senior vice president and chief financial officer, adding that she is leaving to pursue another opportunity. She will be replaced on an interim basis by Jared Poff, vice president of finance, business development and treasure of DSW since January 2015. He has ...
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Skechers has announced a new multi-year partnership deal with Howie...
Skechers has announced a new multi-year partnership deal with Howie Long. The sportscaster and former NFL defence player, who won the Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders in 1984, will appear in a campaign to promote Skechers men's footwear collections. The first television commercial is scheduled to launch in time ...
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Angelo Ruggeri, who has been working as design director of...
Angelo Ruggeri, who has been working as design director of Sergio Rossi since 2013, is leaving the company, where he also ran the men's division. His departure follows the acquisition of the Italian footwear brand by Investindustrial and the appointment of a new chief executive and a new chief operating ...
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Anatomic develops a “sociable shoe”
Anatomic & Co., the Brazilian brand of English-designed, comfortable men's shoes, is rebranding and repositioning itself as “the world's most sociable shoe.” Ghetz, the U.K.-based company that markets the line in Europe, the U.S. and other markets around the world, is going to offer an application that allows the wearer ...
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Atom buys Shoemaster + Molina & Bianchi
Italy's Atom Group announced in recent days agreements to acquire controlling interests or full ownership in two other major suppliers to the footwear industry, Molina & Bianchi and Shoemaster, in line with a strategy to integrate the various stages of the manufacturing process for a more automated shoe factory of ...
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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. ANWR is now proposing to its general assembly, due to be held in Rotterdam on June 20, to keep it ...
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Birkenstock is upgrading all sales procedures
Birkenstock launched what a spokesman calls a “quality offensive” on the sales front at its international sales meeting in Dresden a few days ago, as it continues to move from a production-driven company to a market-driven brand.After investing tens of millions of euros on the product and the supply chain, ...
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New international structures for Aldo
Aldo Shoes has decided to drop its former territorial franchising and licensing system to develop its international store network, as it did not work out as it wanted. It is going for an omni-channel strategy in a bid to double its sales outside North American in the next few years, ...
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Skechers USA is sueing once again Eliya over the designs...
Skechers USA is sueing once again Eliya over the designs of its Bernie Mev Gummies shoes, claiming that they infringe on the design patents for the pillow-celled sole of its own Skech-Air shoes. The two companies had stipulated a settlement over their dispute last year, but Skechers is taking Eliya ...
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DSW revises guidance down after a disappointing quarter
DSW has revised down its sales and profits projections for the full year after posting lower-than expected results for the quarter ended April 30. The U.S. footwear retailer now forecasts revenue growth of between 6.0 to 7.0 percent instead of 8.0 to 10.0 percent. In addition, the gross margin is ...
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After opening a pop-up store in Amsterdam, Eureka, the Portuguese...
After opening a pop-up store in Amsterdam, Eureka, the Portuguese shoe brand has opened its first German store as a franchise in Düren, near Cologne
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Zalando has acquired a minority stake in Le New Black,...
Zalando has acquired a minority stake in Le New Black, a Paris-based B2B fashion platform provider. Le New Black's founders, Vidya Narine and Bernard Coulombel, still own a majority stake in the company. Le New Black, founded in 2010, hosts digital showrooms from 250 contemporary and high fashion brands, which ...
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According to Textilwirtschaft, Snipes, the German-based chain of sneaker stores,...
According to Textilwirtschaft, Snipes, the German-based chain of sneaker stores, will launch a new store concept under the Onygo banner this September. It is dedicated exclusively to women and girls. The first store of 2,000 sqm will be opened in a shopping center in Oberhausen, near Duisburg, in a former ...
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The presidents of the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA),...
The presidents of the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC), and Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) signed a joint statement in New York, calling for the inclusion of meaningful provisions in the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which will stage ...
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Genesco’s profit up 7%
Genesco, the parent company of Journeys, Schuh, Lids Sports and Johnston & Murphy, reported earnings of $10.6 million for the quarter ended April 30, an increase of 7.1 percent over the year-ago quarter. Revenues decreased by 2.0 percent to $649 million, partly due to the divestiture of the Lids Team ...
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