All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 16-17 – Page 5
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Peta Germany, the animal rights organization whose headquarters are in...
Peta Germany, the animal rights organization whose headquarters are in Norfolk, U.S., accused Gabor in its current campaign of using leather from India for its shoe production, causing animal suffering. Gabor rejects the accusation as misleading, causing harm to its reputation. In an online petition, Peta writes that Gabor is ...
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Ferragamo is reportedly considering to name Paul Andrew as its...
Ferragamo is reportedly considering to name Paul Andrew as its new footwear designer. According to WWD, the British designer could soon become the first-ever creative director of shoes at the Italian luxury fashion house. Andrew, 37, began his career at Alexander McQueen, before moving to New York in 1999 to ...
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Jones Bootmaker and Brantano UK, both owned by Alteri Investors,...
Jones Bootmaker and Brantano UK, both owned by Alteri Investors, have outsourced their warehousing and store deliveries to the DHL facility in Hams Hall, near Birmingham. Their warehouse in Coalville, Leicestershire was closed at the end of July. The two footwear firms have also moved their joint head office from ...
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Boom for Alpargatas’ rubber sandals in Brazil
Strong sales under the Havaianas brand in Brazil helped Alpargatas to raise its total revenues by 8.4 percent to 1,010 million reals (€281.0m-$316.9m) for the quarter ended June 30. Domestic sales were up by 18.5 percent over the year-ago quarter to R$570.5 million (€158.9m-$179.0m), despite a backdrop of low consumption ...
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The good results of Alpargatas and Grendene reported in this...
The good results of Alpargatas and Grendene reported in this issue are attributed by some observers to the fact that Brazilian customers are looking for rubber sandals and other cheap shoes because of declining disposable income in the midst of economic and political uncertainty. A market research company, Iemi, has ...
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Aldo has opened a new type of “connected store” in...
Aldo has opened a new type of “connected store” in the new Westfield World Trade Center of New York. Among other features, it has a click-and-collect option that goes as far as telling the customer who will attend him or her at the store. The shoes will be sourced from ...
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German Sport Marketing (DSM) has terminated the sponsorship agreement with...
German Sport Marketing (DSM) has terminated the sponsorship agreement with Sioux, which had previously announced that it is no longer sponsoring the German Olympic Sports Association, DOSB, after 44 years of cooperation. Since the Olympic Games in 1972, Sioux has been the outfitter of the German Olympic team, which wore ...
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Weak quarter for Timberland affects VF sales guidance
The outdoor and action sports business at VF Corp brought in mixed results for the second quarter ended July 2, combining sales increases for The North Face and Vans, and a decline for Timberland, caused by the Americas and Asia-Pacific.The group said it was broadly on track but the Timberland ...
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Adidas Originals is opening this week a new flagship store...
Adidas Originals is opening this week a new flagship store on Spring Street in New York City
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Gary Adam, president of international sales at Rocky Brands, has...
Gary Adam, president of international sales at Rocky Brands, has left the company
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Logan is coming out with a more contemporary and active-oriented...
Logan is coming out with a more contemporary and active-oriented line of shoes, called G di G, which has been designed by Paola d'Arcano, who is running the Italian company together with her husband Giorgio, and two other former collaborators
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Hermès has acquired an unspecified minority stake in Pierre Hardy,...
Hermès has acquired an unspecified minority stake in Pierre Hardy, a French brand of luxury shoes named by a designer who had been responsible for Hermès shoes in the 1990s and for those of Balenciaga in 2001 and 2002. Hardy created his own label in 1999, making an annual turnover ...
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Sator Capital, a Rome-based private equity house, has acquired a...
Sator Capital, a Rome-based private equity house, has acquired a further 35 percent stake in L'Autre Chose from the Boccaccini family, the founders of the Italian retailer, raising its stake in the business to a total of 84 percent. The Boccaccinis will retain the remaining 16 percent. L'Autre Chose sells ...
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The ANWR Group has acquired a minority stake in a...
The ANWR Group has acquired a minority stake in a Dutch online shoe retailer, Topshoe.nl, which was founded in 2011 by Han Landmann. Currently, more than 40 shoe retailers with 80 stores and over 400 shoe labels are affiliated members of Topshoe.nl, which offers a platform to market the retailers' ...
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Berluti, part of LVMH, has appointed Haider Ackermann as its...
Berluti, part of LVMH, has appointed Haider Ackermann as its new creative director, with immediate effect. The first Berluti collection by the Colombian designer will be introduced at the Paris fashion week in January. He replaces Alessandro Sartori, who left the brand in February and later joined Ermenegildo Zegna. Berluti, ...
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According to a survey conducted by Mirapodo, the German online...
According to a survey conducted by Mirapodo, the German online retailer, in cooperation with RC Research & Consulting, a market research institute in Bielefeld, sneakers and booties are the most popular shoe models in Germany. The most popular shoe model for men is the sneaker. Particularly clients in Berlin, Bremen ...
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Grendene grows by 8% thanks to domestic boost
Grendene posted gross revenues for the second quarter of the year that were up by 8.1 percent over the year-ago quarter to 462 million Brazilian reais (€130.0m-$144.8m). The Brazilian group attributed this performance to the fact that the economic situation in Brazil is showing signs of improvement, with gross revenues ...
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U.K. online retail is expected to grow by 42 percent...
U.K. online retail is expected to grow by 42 percent from 2016 to 2021, driven by the strong growth of the clothing & footwear market, which continues to dominate the online channel. According to Research and Markets' report “E-Retail in the UK 2016,” the clothing & footwear sector is expected ...
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In the summer of 2015, the organizers of Who's Next...
In the summer of 2015, the organizers of Who's Next - Première Classe, WSN Développement, launched an operation in partnership with rail operator IDtgv to transport buyers and influencers from the South of France to Paris. This year, they have added a second train. Along with the Marseilles and Aix-en-Provence ...
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Phoenix Footwear saw sales increase by 4.5 percent to $4.2...
Phoenix Footwear saw sales increase by 4.5 percent to $4.2 million in the second quarter to July 2. The increase was driven by growth in the company's e-commerce, independent, and internet-based channels of distribution. The net operating loss for the period of $539,000, a decrease of $112,000 as compared to ...
