All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 14-15
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Short stops
United Nude has opened a pop-up shop in the SoHo...
United Nude has opened a pop-up shop in the SoHo district of New York City
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New managers for Merrell and Royer
Rob Griffiths, 51, has been appointed by Wolverine Worldwide as the new general manager of Merrell for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). After working for Stylo Instep, Ellesse, Umbro, Bench and Esprit, Griffiths joined Wolverine at the end of 2013 as vice president and general manager of its ...
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Kingmaker weighs retail pullout
Like the much larger Yue Yuen group, the Kingmaker Group is involved in the shoe manufacturing business as well as in retailing in China. Announcing a new management and a big drop in its shoe retailing sales, the Hong Kong-based company said it will review the retail business this year, ...
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New top management for Josef Seibel
Sylvia Klemens and Uwe Decker will be the new joint chief executives of Josef Seibel and its Romika Shoes subsidiary. Together, they will manage the sales, marketing and product development division for all the brands belonging to the Josef Seibel group. Klemens worked previously for Peter Kaiser and Waldläufer, where ...
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News briefs
In its third high-profile hire in recent months, Keen has...
In its third high-profile hire in recent months, Keen has appointed Tyler LaMotte to the new position of global vice president of brand marketing. Prior to Keen, LaMotte served as Apple's senior marketer, in charge of worldwide product marketing. He also worked at Patagonia as global business unit director for ...
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News briefs
Shoepassion.com, a three-year-old German internet store that has physical shops...
Shoepassion.com, a three-year-old German internet store that has physical shops in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Warsaw, plans to start selling its private label of handmade men's shoes to wholesale clients in Germany and abroad. The project was presented during the Fashion Week in Berlin on June 28-30 at ...
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A slimmer GDS starts tomorrow
The summer edition of the GDS shoe show will run in Düsseldorf from tomorrow for three days with a total of 740 brands, down from 800 a year ago. Tag it!, the simultaneous private label show, will have 170 exhibitors. With its Studio, Highstreet and Pop Up areas, the GDS ...
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Vivarte will shrink further
The new management headed up by Stéphane Maquaire is reportedly going to propose to Vivarte's shareholders tomorrow a new business plan for the next five years that may involve the shutdown of about 100 out of the 680 discount-oriented shoe stores of its Halle aux Chaussures chain.The idea would be ...
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News briefs
The production of tanning, footwear and leathergoods manufacturing machinery by...
The production of tanning, footwear and leathergoods manufacturing machinery by the Italian industry grew by an estimated 1.93 percent to €528 million in 2015, according to the industry's trade association, Assomac, with the number of companies operating in the sector rising by five to 240, employing 4,100 people. The industry's ...
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News briefs
Superga opened a new flagship store in Milan at the...
Superga opened a new flagship store in Milan at the end of May. Franchised stores were opened in Barcelona at the beginning of July and in Singapore two months previously. The new stores in those two cities are the brand's second stores in Spain and Singapore. Superga has 250 stores ...
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News briefs
Zalando has posted preliminary figures showing that its revenues in...
Zalando has posted preliminary figures showing that its revenues in the second quarter grew by between 24.0 and 26.0 percent over the year-ago quarter to €909-€924 million. The online fashion retailer expects to report adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) of €68 to €88 million for the period - ...
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The Federation of Spanish Footwear Industries (Fice) has reached an...
The Federation of Spanish Footwear Industries (Fice) has reached an agreement with two trade unions over the pay and conditions that industry workers will benefit from between now and 2018. Footwear makers in Spain will offer their workers a 1 percent salary increase in 2016, then a further 1.2 percent ...
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Wendy Kahn, who is running the Valentino Fashion Group in...
Wendy Kahn, who is running the Valentino Fashion Group in the U.S. and Canada, has been appointed by Coach as the new chief executive of Stuart Weitzman, the shoe company that it took over at the beginning of 2015. With effect from Sept. 13, Kahn will take the place of ...
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Hermès shows resilience, except in fashion
In contrast with other luxury goods companies and brands, Hermès International reported a better-than-expected increase of 8.1 percent in local currencies in its turnover during the second quarter ended June 30. In terms of euros, sales rose by 8.9 percent to €1.25 billion.The growth was driven by the leathergoods and ...
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News briefs
Steve Madden has established a new joint venture for the...
Steve Madden has established a new joint venture for the distribution of its products in Europe. The partner in the new company, Steve Madden Europe, is SPM Shoetrade, a Dutch trading company based at Nieuwkuijk that has showrooms also in Brussels and Mainhausen, Germany. Its European website, stevemadden.eu, is undergoing a ...
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Frank Hartmann, a former manager of Messe Düsseldorf who ran...
Frank Hartmann, a former manager of Messe Düsseldorf who ran the GDS until 2009, is participating in the launch of a new “European Shoeshow” that is supposed to take place in March and September every year. The first session is scheduled in Cologne for next March 12 -13. It will ...
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Skechers shares tumble as domestic performance disappoints
Skechers' earnings declined by 7.1 percent to $74.1 million in the second quarter ended June 30, missing Wall Street expectations. After the market close on Thursday July 21, the company's share price plunged by 15.3 percent.Revenues showed a lower-than-expected gain of 9.7 percent over the same quarter last year, rising ...
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Tod’s posts new, disappointing figures
Non-European visitors spent 16.8 percent less than a year ago in Europe during the month of June, according to a study by Global Blue and Barclays, following a trend already spotted in previous months. The monthly score included declines in tax-free shopping of 17.6 percent in France, 18.2 percent in ...
