All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 2-3 – Page 3
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Zalando will stage its Berlin festival in September
Zalando, which bought the bankrupt Bread & Butter trade show in Berlin last June, says it will stage the first consumer-oriented B&B show on Sept. 2-4 at Arena Berlin, where the Bright and Seek trade shows were held last month. Zalando was looking for a new site for its fashion ...
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Vincent Wauters, a brilliant Belgian-born manager who worked wonders in...
Vincent Wauters, a brilliant Belgian-born manager who worked wonders in the sports sector recently, has been named as the new chief executive of Hunter, the British brand of boots, indicating that it should be able to keep up with its strong momentum. Wauters will start on March 1, taking the ...
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Carlo Calenda, Italy's Deputy Minister for Economic Development, has been...
Carlo Calenda, Italy's Deputy Minister for Economic Development, has been tapped as the country's new ambassador to the European Union, replacing Stefano Sannino. Calenda had recently been chosen to chair the first committee of the Italian fashion and accessory (“Comitato della moda e dell'accessorio italiano”), launched on Dec. 23, 2015. ...
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Tod’s beats market expectations
Sales rose by 11.4 percent to €250.1 million for the Tod's group in the fourth quarter of 2015, outpacing the top-line performance of the first nine months of the year as well as beating investors' expectations by about €15 million. The quarterly sales pushed up full-year revenues by 7.4 percent ...
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Frans Riera, who previously worked for Zara, joined Pretty Ballerinas...
Frans Riera, who previously worked for Zara, joined Pretty Ballerinas in September to work on the brand's first sneaker collection, developed for spring/summer 2016
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Pretty Ballerinas opened a new company-owned mono-brand store in Barcelona...
Pretty Ballerinas opened a new company-owned mono-brand store in Barcelona in December
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Gimmi Baldinini, at the head of the Baldinini shoe brand,...
Gimmi Baldinini, at the head of the Baldinini shoe brand, was honored with a Triumph International award - in the category “Economy” - from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) during a ceremony that was held at the Russian Embassy in Rome on Jan. 29. Alessandro Cabella, the general ...
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Brand Trade, the German distributor of BMO Australia, is now...
Brand Trade, the German distributor of BMO Australia, is now also taking care of the Australian brand's sales in the U.K., Poland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium and Luxembourg via independent sales agents, which were engaged in the past six months. The Australian brand of handmade sheepskin boots has been ...
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Moda Made in Italy, the shoe show organized by Assocalzaturifici...
Moda Made in Italy, the shoe show organized by Assocalzaturifici in Munich, will start a little sooner than planned in September. It will run on Sept. 9-11, at the same time as Essenz, instead of a previously set schedule of Sept. 11-13. This should allow the same buyers to visit ...
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Jimmy Choo posts record revenues, driven by Asia
Jimmy Choo posted record revenues of £318 million (€404.7m-$459.8m) in the year to Dec. 31, representing a 7 percent increase over the previous year, driven by consistent growth in Asia. Shoes accounted for 75 percent of sales. Men's shoes, which accounts for 7 percent of the revenues, were the fastest ...
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Ara Shoes moved the management of its distribution in Italy...
Ara Shoes moved the management of its distribution in Italy and Eastern Europe from its subsidiary in Austria back to its headquarters in Germany. Gunter Teeuwen and Frank Lüttig, export area managers of Ara Shoes, will cover sales in these territories. Teeuwen will take care of Italy, while Lüttig will ...
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Dr. Martens has appointed Chris Cavanagh as manager in charge...
Dr. Martens has appointed Chris Cavanagh as manager in charge of distributors for Europe and the Middle East. Before joining Dr. Martens, Cavanagh worked as director of product and marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Deckers Brands. After appointing Leslie Lane as the new president of Dr. ...
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Ara appointed Sam Spears president of Ara Shoes for U.S....
Ara appointed Sam Spears president of Ara Shoes for U.S. and Canada at the beginning of this year, replacing Chris Iorio, who has retired from the company at his own request. Spears has worked in the footwear industry for the past 25 years. Before joining Ara, he acted as national ...
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Uwe Janzen was appointed to the new position of sales...
Uwe Janzen was appointed to the new position of sales director for Europe and the Middle East at Pikolinos on Jan. 1. In the past eight years, Janzen worked in a similar position at Ecco. In his new role at Pikolinos, Janzen will be responsible for the development of Pikolinos' ...
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Geox is pursuing a new phase of diversification into apparel...
Geox is pursuing a new phase of diversification into apparel with two new product lines that were presented at the Pitti Uomo and Pitti Bimbo fairs in Florence last month. One is Nordplus, a line of high-end jackets for men and women with “dynamic transpiration.” The other one is a ...
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ANWR’s online platform moves to a higher stage
ANWR Schuh is replicating its successful partnership with Skechers and Geox on its schuhe.de online portal by working with the Dutch shoe brand Bullboxer. Starting on April 20, ANWR and Bullboxer will launch a TV campaign to market four different models of Bullboxer shoes that customers can also buy at ...
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European court judges anti-dumping regulations invalid for some imports
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has issued a much-awaited judgment in a case led by Puma and Clarks, in which regulations imposing anti-dumping duties on imports of certain footwear from China and Vietnam from April 2006 until March 2011 were declared invalid.The ruling was issued upon a request from ...
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Anne-Katrin Hummel has temporarily left her position of chief executive...
Anne-Katrin Hummel has temporarily left her position of chief executive and creative director of Flip Flop, the brand owned by Bernd Hummel, German licensee of Kangaroos. She is the elder daughter of Bernd Hummel, and she has just given birth to his first grandson, Oskar Hummel.
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Andrea Montelpare, the Italian children's shoe specialist located in the...
Andrea Montelpare, the Italian children's shoe specialist located in the Marche region, has announced two new licenses for girls' shoes with two Italian fashion brands, Ermanno Scervino and Marni. The first lines, developed for autumn/winter 2016/17, were presented at last month's Pitti Bimbo fair in Florence. As previously reported, Montelpare ...
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Analysts started to notice the first price increases in the...
Analysts started to notice the first price increases in the Swedish shoe retail sector toward the end of last year. Sales of footwear in Sweden dropped by 4.1 percent in October compared to the same period the previous year, according to HUI Research. They fared slightly better in November, but ...
