All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 16-17 – Page 3
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Rohde, the comfort shoe specialist from Germany, presented a new...
Rohde, the comfort shoe specialist from Germany, presented a new fashion shoe line at this year's GDS shoe in Düsseldorf to selected clients. Under a different label, Erich Rohde Schuhmanufaktur, Rohde launched a first capsule collection of 30 shoe models for spring/summer 2017. The new shoe line, which is made ...
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Vans has opened a skate park in the Swedish city...
Vans has opened a skate park in the Swedish city of Malmö
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Marcus Meyer has left as chief executive of Navyboot. Philippe...
Marcus Meyer has left as chief executive of Navyboot. Philippe Gaydoul, owner and chairman of the Swiss footwear brand, will assume the position until further notice. Meyer, a 56-year-old manager who has worked for many different companies, had held the role since last March.
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Leadership changes at Timberland, Smartwool and Vans
VF Corp. has announced several executive changes at some of its outdoor brands. At Timberland, Jim Pisani has been named the brand's new global president, effective Aug. 8. He replaces Stewart Whitney, who left the company in July after less than two years on the job. Since 2008, Pisani has ...
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Snipes, the German-based chain of sneaker stores, plans to enter...
Snipes, the German-based chain of sneaker stores, plans to enter the Italian market this autumn. The first store will be opened in Brescia, followed by another in Verona in 2017. Snipes already has 11 stores in Austria, 11 in Switzerland, 8 in the Netherlands and 5 in Spain. Italy will ...
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Supra has opened a multi-purpose creative space conceptualized by Chad...
Supra has opened a multi-purpose creative space conceptualized by Chad Muska in Los Angeles, called Melrose/Fairfax that includes a pop-up retail shop for its footwear and clothing
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Shoe Carnival’s performance weakens
Shoe Carnival posted profits and revenues for the quarter ended July 30, 2016 that came short of Wall Street's expectations, with sales increasing by just 1.7 percent over the year-ago quarter to $231.9 million. Comparative store sales increased by half a percent. Net income for the quarter was down by ...
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Caleres’ profits rise, but short of forecasts
Caleres posted earnings that jumped by 17.5 percent to $19.8 million in the quarter to July 30, 2016, or by 46 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected second-quarter earnings per share of 50 cents. The parent company of Famous Footwear and various footwear brands, previously called Brown ...
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The German-based GMS buying group reports an increase in centralized...
The German-based GMS buying group reports an increase in centralized settlements from €140.5 million in the first half of 2015 to €167 million after the first six months of this year. Affiliated members in Germany recorded a 16 percent sales increase in the first half of this year, and positive ...
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Four groups of buyers from Russia and Colombia who were...
Four groups of buyers from Russia and Colombia who were invited to the recent Francal show in São Paul made total purchases for $1.3 million, says Abicalçados, the Brazilian shoe industry association. At the subsequent GDS show in Düsseldorf, Brazilian firms had 353 contacts, up from 287 in July 2016, ...
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Indonesian footwear producers are building up capacity in Central Java...
Indonesian footwear producers are building up capacity in Central Java to cut production costs and compete with their industry rivals in Vietnam, according to footwearbiz.com. The website quotes Selalu Cinta Indonesia, a subsidiary of the Karet Murni Kencana Group, as saying that it is building a production unit in the ...
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Bru buys Hirica
Jean-François Bru, a footwear industry veteran who left the management of Groupe Royer a few months ago, has acquired 50 percent of the shares in Hirica, a profitable brand of comfortable women's pumps made in France, with big plans to build up the brand and boost its presence in foreign ...
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K- Swiss Global Brands is planning to relocate its global...
K- Swiss Global Brands is planning to relocate its global headquarters from Westlake Village, California to the Pac Mutual Building in downtown Los Angeles by Jan. 1, 2017. The new facility will house global operations for K-Swiss and the sister brands Supra, Palladium and Otz Shoes, as well as operations ...
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Katy Perry, a U.S. singer, has joined the Global Brands...
Katy Perry, a U.S. singer, has joined the Global Brands Group as a partner and will be launching her first shoe collection in spring 2017, comprising sneakers, sandals, stilettos and pumps
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Start-rite, the British brand of children's shoes, has a new...
Start-rite, the British brand of children's shoes, has a new finance director and corporate secretary, Andrew Staff. He reports to Ian Watson, who was appointed chief executive in February.
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Prada falls sharply, may have touched bottom
The Prada Group has reported a serious drop of 24.7 percent to €141.9 million in its underlying net earnings for the first six months of its financial year, ended on July 31, as total revenues collapsed by 15 percent to €1,554 million, with a drop of 13 percent in constant ...
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Jimmy Choo’s growth boosted by China, men’s shoes
The U.K.-based luxury shoemaker saw strong growth in the six months ended June 30, 2016 - despite what it described as a difficult trading environment for luxury goods - thanks to increasing sales of men's styles and a strong performance in China. It posted revenues that were up by 9.2 ...
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Sutor Mantellassi has opened a shop-in-shop at Le Bon Marché,...
Sutor Mantellassi has opened a shop-in-shop at Le Bon Marché, the department store in Paris, to be followed by a similar space at KaDeWe in Berlin in September
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Bogs’ sales tumble, Florsheim expands outside the U.S.
Weyco Group saw revenues from its Bogs footwear brand plummet by 47.0 percent in the second quarter. This comes after two consecutive quarters of weak results for the brand of boots - with sales down by 17.0 percent in the first quarter of 2016 and by 22.0 percent in the ...
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Skechers has opened a big flagship store inside the new...
Skechers has opened a big flagship store inside the new shopping district at One World Trade Center in New York City
