All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 2-3 – Page 5

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    33 Joints, the British company led by Malcolm Nathan, became...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    33 Joints, the British company led by Malcolm Nathan, became the footwear licensee of Ben Sherman in December. For the past 4-5 years, Motley Shoe Company had been the licensee of the British shoe brand. The brand is distributed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic by Deluxe Distribution, ...

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    ANWR grows by 3.7%

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The ANWR Group booked a 3.7 percent increase in its total “business volume” last year to €8.5 billion. The German-based cooperative retailing group achieved this performance in spite of a drop of 1.7 percent to €1.65 billion in the combined centralized settlements of its shoe-related buying groups: ANWR Schuh, Garant, ...

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    The January 2016 edition of Who's Next-Première Classe, which was...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The January 2016 edition of Who's Next-Première Classe, which was held in Paris on Jan. 22-25, suffered from a 16 percent decline in the number of visitors as compared to the January 2015 edition. Figures came as no surprise. The organizers of the event had foreseen a troubled edition, due ...

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    Skechers USA was named 2015 Company of the Year and...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Skechers USA was named 2015 Company of the Year and honored with a design award for athleisure by the American Footwear Plus magazine. Meanwhile, Skechers continues to invest is sports sponsorships. While extending its contract with Meb Keflzighi, the American running champion, through 2023, the brand is since Jan. 1 ...

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    Magnus Bubini, a manager with 20 years of experience in...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Magnus Bubini, a manager with 20 years of experience in the footwear industry, is the new chief executive for Rockport in Scandinavia since last month.  He and began working for Rockport in 2011 and was most recently key accounts manager for the Nordic countries. Rockport has two stores in Scandinavia. ...

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    Ash, the 15-year-old Italian footwear brand, is opening a new...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Ash, the 15-year-old Italian footwear brand, is opening a new flagship store in Tokyo. Another store will be opened in Macau in the next couple of months. Karen Queck, previously working as vice-president for marketing and communications for Greater China and Southeast Asia at Ralph Lauren, joined the brand as ...

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    With 15,200 daily passages through its turnstiles, the number of...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    With 15,200 daily passages through its turnstiles, the number of visitors at the GDS fair held in Düsseldorf earlier this week was reportedly down by about 7 percent from a year ago. About 44 percent of them came from outside Germany. A total of 800 brands exhibited at the trade ...

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    Revenues from footwear and leathergoods increased by 11.4 percent to...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Revenues from footwear and leathergoods increased by 11.4 percent to €95.5 million in 2015 at Aeffe, the parent company of Pollini and other brands. According to preliminary figures, the group's total revenues went up by 7 percent to €268.8 million, up by 5.1 percent in local currencies. Sales increased by ...

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    Joya, the comfort shoe brand from Switzerland, moved 10 percent...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Joya, the comfort shoe brand from Switzerland, moved 10 percent of its production to Turkey. Joya works together with a local partner in Turkey for the production of small shoe collections, more fashionable designs as well as limited editions. The plan is to increase the production in Turkey to 20-30 ...

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    Coach has reported a 4 percent sales increase to $1.27...

    2016-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Coach has reported a 4 percent sales increase to $1.27 billion in the second quarter ended Dec. 31, attributing the progress in part to an above-average increase at Stuart Weitzman, a label that the company bought at the beginning of 2015. In spite of warm weather conditions, its boots sold ...