All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 2-3 – Page 2
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The UITIC convention in Chennai was a success
The 19th International Technical Footwear Congress of the International Union of Shoe Industry Technicians (UITIC), which took place in Chennai on Feb. 3-5, attracted a record of 560 delegates from 28 countries, and around 170 of them came from outside India. The foreign contingent was twice as high as that ...
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In its centennial year, Keds is launching the Keds Collective,...
In its centennial year, Keds is launching the Keds Collective, a group of celebrated industry leaders who are intended to represent the brand's commitment to powerful women, creativity and self-expression. The Keds Collective features a diverse group of inspiring women from the fashion, music, art, and technology sectors, among which ...
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Richter raised the production capacity of its own factory in...
Richter raised the production capacity of its own factory in Partizánske, Slovenia, from a daily production of 1,150 pairs to 1,600 pairs per day in the last 4-6 months. In 2015, Richter sold a total of 850,000 pairs of shoes, 600,000 were made in the company's own factory in Slovenia. ...
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Marc Cain launched its first in-house shoe collection at the...
Marc Cain launched its first in-house shoe collection at the Panorama show in Berlin in January
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Martin Krist, global business manager in charge of Esprit's shoe...
Martin Krist, global business manager in charge of Esprit's shoe division, has left the group after 17 years at its helm. A successor has not yet been named. The company, which has gone through numerous changes in the top management, credited Krist for establishing Esprit as a major brand in ...
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Poseidon, a German start-up business created last September in Freiburg,...
Poseidon, a German start-up business created last September in Freiburg, presented a new e-commerce service for retailers at the GDS show in Düsseldorf this week. By means of a presentation device installed in the stores, end consumers can browse through the product range sold by the retailer. The presentation device ...
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Bullboxer will move its shoe production to Italy and Portugal,...
Bullboxer will move its shoe production to Italy and Portugal, starting with full spring/summer 2017 collection. The autumn/winter 2016/17 collection was already partly made in the two countries. Previously, Bullboxer was working together with production partners in Romania and China. The Dutch brand will also launch a B2B online platform ...
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Genesco is selling its Lids Team Sports business to BSN...
Genesco is selling its Lids Team Sports business to BSN Sports in a further effort to improve the profitability of its Lids Sports Group of stores. The proceeds will be mainly used to finance a new program to buy back up to $100 million of its common stock. It has ...
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Bruce Katz, a co-founder of Rockport, has opened a new...
Bruce Katz, a co-founder of Rockport, has opened a new office in Costa Mesa, California for his new line of comfortable and functional men's shoes, called Samuel Hubbard, which are made in Portugal. The line, which was launched in 2014, takes its name from the Hubbard Shoe Company, a children's ...
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Luxury footwear brands like Instagram
Looking at the various social networks that luxury goods companies and their consumers use nowadays on a daily basis, Instagram seems to be preferred for communicating about the brands' values and heritage. This is what has emerged from a recent research by FiloBlu, specializing in omnichannel retailing, and its international ...
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Tamara Mellon wins a case which might save her eponymous brand
Tamara Mellon, the former chief creative officer of Jimmy Choo, has won a case against a trio of British investors who had backed her new fashion business, Tamara Mellon Brand (TMB). The co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, David Ross, Icap's boss Michael Spencer and Lord Marland, the former Tory trade minister, ...
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Hub, the Dutch footwear brand, moved the production of its...
Hub, the Dutch footwear brand, moved the production of its shoe collection from China to Vietnam six months ago. A production partner in Vietnam now takes care of Hub's full shoe collection. The company was previously working with various production partners in China. Only shoes with leather outsoles, a small ...
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Iconix Brand Group, the owner of Umbro, Candie's and several...
Iconix Brand Group, the owner of Umbro, Candie's and several other brands, has adopted a short-term shareholder rights plan after a sharp decline in its share price in recent months. Sports Direct International (SDI), the British retailer, acquired indirect economic interests amounting to 14.4 percent in Iconix in the last ...
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Liebeskind, the German brand of clothing, handbags, shoes and other...
Liebeskind, the German brand of clothing, handbags, shoes and other accessories from Berlin, hired a new designer, Annette Koelling, to restructure and enhance the company's shoe collection for autumn/winter 2016/17. The brand recently moved its shoe production from Asia to Italy. The founders of Liebeskind, Semih Simsek, Johannes and Julian ...
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Ten Points, the shoe brand from Sweden, signed distribution contracts...
Ten Points, the shoe brand from Sweden, signed distribution contracts for Canada and South Korea in October. Tin Shack, the company that is also selling Blundstone and El Naturalista in Canada, will take care of sales in the country from this year. YS International will cover the Korean market for ...
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Nobrand, the unconventional Portuguese brand of shoes, opened its first...
Nobrand, the unconventional Portuguese brand of shoes, opened its first franchised store in Medellin, Colombia, last autumn. Aegis, the local distributor, with whom the company has worked since 2014, plans to open a total of six stores in the Latin American country, starting with a store in Bogota in the ...
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Palladium, the French brand owned by K-Swiss, launched its first...
Palladium, the French brand owned by K-Swiss, launched its first premium shoe collection made in Portugal at the Seek show in Berlin last month
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New trade pacts will boost shoe trade with Vietnam
Representatives from the 12 countries participating in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) signed an agreement in principle to implement it in Auckland, New Zealand on Feb. 4. The deal is meant to lead to the elimination of duties on all products made and traded within the region, including the U.S. and ...
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Birkenstock cancels order stop
The moratorium on new orders that was announced by Birkenstock on Oct. 30 last year was formally lifted at the start of the GDS show in Düsseldorf. From last November to this February, Birkenstock stopped taking orders for any of its products, due to bottlenecks in the supply chain.Birkenstock again ...
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Many shoe brands at a good fashion week in Berlin
The Berlin Fashion Week, which ran on Jan. 19-21, was said to have been a successful platform for retailers and manufacturers to meet around the new autumn/winter 2016/17 collections. The absence of Bread & Butter gave a boost to the other trade shows in town.The Premium trade show welcomed a ...
