All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 2-3 – Page 4
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El Naturalista plans to open a mono-brand store in Amsterdam...
El Naturalista plans to open a mono-brand store in Amsterdam on a joint venture basis this year.
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Karl-Heinz Müller, the founder of the Bread & Butter show...
Karl-Heinz Müller, the founder of the Bread & Butter show in Berlin, plans to open a new 14 oz. store of 350 square meters on the Schlüterstrasse in Berlin next month, selling jeans, shoes and other accessories. It will reportedly have a bar as well. His former 14 oz. store ...
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Shoes.com, the growing North American online shoe retailing group set...
Shoes.com, the growing North American online shoe retailing group set up by Roger Hardy in 2014, after his sale of a Canadian-based online store for eyeglasses and contact lenses to Essilor, wants to raise between $25 million and $50 million in private funding to help finance some new acquisitions, according ...
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Superga has announced Jack Guinness as the first male ambassador...
Superga has announced Jack Guinness as the first male ambassador to debut its men's core and premium collections. The London-born model, DJ and actor, has joined the Italian footwear brand for two seasons. In addition, Superga is launching a capsule collection designed with Yong Bae Seok, the Korean fashion and ...
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At Berluti, a brand in LVMH's portfolio, Alessandro Sartori –...
At Berluti, a brand in LVMH's portfolio, Alessandro Sartori – the current artistic director - could be replaced by Alexandre Mattiussi, according to reports on fashionmag.com. Mattiussi is the French designer who founded the AMI label in 2011. AMI is in fact the acronym for Alexandre Mattiussi, plus the last ...
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Lotus has announced a distribution agreement with Footex for Spain...
Lotus has announced a distribution agreement with Footex for Spain and Portugal, starting with the next autumn/winter collection. The Jacobson Group, which owns the English brand founded in 1759, will not provide sales figures but says it is currently sold in 3,000 retail stores in Europe, North America and the ...
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An Italian fashion designer, Fausto Puglisi, has signed an agreement...
An Italian fashion designer, Fausto Puglisi, has signed an agreement for the production of its first line of footwear with Sebastian. The collection will be distributed worldwide by Massimo Bonini through his showrooms in Milan and New York.
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Wolverine changes its brand structure again
Wolverine Worldwide announced the resignation of Jim Gabel, president of its Performance Group, saying that he is relocating back to Canada for personal reasons. He had joined Wolverine two years ago after running Adidas Canada.With his departure, Wolverine is again reshuffling its brand management structure, creating a new operating group, ...
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Yoox Net-a-Porter reorganizes after its merger
Yoox Net-a-Porter Group, the entity created following the merger of Yoox and Net-a-Porter, has reported a sales growth of nearly 31 percent over the course of 2015. The merger was effective Oct. 5, 2015. Sales were boosted by the increasing use by consumers of mobile phones and tablets for shopping. ...
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Deckers restructures after poor results
Besides Wolverine Worldwide, which will announce its financial results later this month, another big American multi-brand conglomerate, Deckers Brands, is changing its brand management structure, too. It is creating two new business units: the Fashion Lifestyle Group with Ugg and the recently acquired Koolaburra brand, and the Performance Lifestyle group ...
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Waldläufer, which launched a new logo and advertising concept at...
Waldläufer, which launched a new logo and advertising concept at the GDS show in Düsseldorf, will also relaunch its website in the next couple of weeks
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Marc Shoes has made adjustments to the product development and...
Marc Shoes has made adjustments to the product development and sourcing process to regain the confidence of some retailers that had stopped working with the German brand because of quality and delivery problems. Its shoes were previously made for the most part in India and some other Asian countries. Now ...
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Richter appointed Ad Timmers as new product manager on Jan....
Richter appointed Ad Timmers as new product manager on Jan. 12. He worked previously as product manager for Legero Superfit. In his new position at Richter, he replaces Judith Coule, who is now working as product manager for Superfit.
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Gabor and Camel Active record lower sales
Gabor Shoes has reported a 4.9 percent decrease in its sales to €393 million for 2015, including the wholesale-equivalent sales of its licensees. In terms of volume, the company delivered a total of 9.5 million pairs of shoes in 2015, down by 2.1 percent as compared to the previous year. ...
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The Danish Bestseller Group has agreed in principle to acquire...
The Danish Bestseller Group has agreed in principle to acquire a majority stake in Bianco Footwear, a Dutch-based group that has built up a network of more than 140 corporate and franchised stores in Scandinavia, the German-speaking countries, Poland and the Middle East. The stores sell only Bianco's private label ...
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Daniel Karpel, senior vice president, chief accounting officer and treasurer...
Daniel Karpel, senior vice president, chief accounting officer and treasurer of Caleres, had given notice that he will be leaving the company, formerly called Brown Shoe Co., on Feb. 16. Kenneth Hannah, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will serve as the company's principal accounting officer after his departure.
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Think!, the Austrian brand of shoes and accessories, recently opened...
Think!, the Austrian brand of shoes and accessories, recently opened showrooms in Copenhagen and Stockholm and aims to push its sales in the Scandinavian markets. The Austrian brand manages 18 franchised mono-brand stores in Austria and Germany and plans to open additional stores in Germany this year.
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Fly London launched its first collection of sneakers, encompassing 96...
Fly London launched its first collection of sneakers, encompassing 96 unisex models, at the GDS show in Düsseldorf this week
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El Naturalista recorded a sales increase of 8 percent to...
El Naturalista recorded a sales increase of 8 percent to €30 million in 2015, as compared to the previous year. For 2016, the Spanish shoe brand expects its sales to increase by another 10-12 percent. After setting up its own subsidiary in the U.S. two years ago, El Naturlista achieved ...
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Ferragamo’s Q4 sales beat expectations
Salvatore Ferragamo booked sales of €409.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, up by 9.0 percent in euros and by 2.1 percent in local currencies, against financial analysts' expectations of a turnover of €391.0 million. In the full year, the top line reached €1,430 million, up by 7.4 percent ...
