All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 22-23 – Page 2
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Van Wezel relaunches Duca del Cosma
As previously reported, Frank van Wezel, the Dutch owner of the Hi-Tec Sports brand, bought the Duca del Cosma brand of golf and golf-inspired shoes a few months ago after it ran into financial problems (Shoe Intelligence, vol. 18, n° 18+19). Van Wezel has just sold the Hi-Tec brand (see ...
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Deichmann is considering a possible entry into the French market,...
Deichmann is considering a possible entry into the French market, where it may open its first stores in the course of next year. The German shoe retailer already has a presence in 24 countries with a total of more than 3,700 stores. At the end of last year, 1,390 of ...
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Moldovan supplier competing with Rohde?
A German shoe producer, Alois Beck, announced the establishment of a joint venture for the development, production and sale of a collection of women's and men's lounge shoes that will be made in Moldova by a local manufacturer, Floare, with an annual capacity of 1.6 million pairs. The new collection ...
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Éram has come up with an innovative concept for customers...
Éram has come up with an innovative concept for customers who would like to play shoe designers by harnessing the power of 3D printing technology. In partnership with a design agency, Unistudio, the brand presented at Paris Retail Week in September a new technology that will initially allow customers to ...
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Zalando is testing an on-demand collection service for customers in...
Zalando is testing an on-demand collection service for customers in Paris who wish to return their online purchases. The free service allows customers to set up appointments with couriers for a pick up within thirty minutes or at a convenient time during the week, from 9am to 8pm seven days ...
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The growth of the Zalando clones in emerging markets is...
The growth of the Zalando clones in emerging markets is slowing down, but their losses are declining. Citing macroeconomic problems in Latin America, the Middle East and Russia, the Global Fashion Group (GFG) said its revenues rose by only 16 percent in constant currencies during the third quarter, reaching €250 ...
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Click-and-collect sales in the U.K. are expected to grow by...
Click-and-collect sales in the U.K. are expected to grow by 64 percent over the next five years, driven by clothing and footwear, new research has shown. According to Verdict Retail, click-and-collect spending on clothes and footwear will grow to 85 percent of all click-and-collect purchases in the country over the ...
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Vietnam gains on China, but TPP is nearly dead
Shoe exports from Vietnam rose by 6.0 percent to €6.23 billion in the first six months of 2016, says Lefaso, the country's shoe industry association. Increases were recorded in all categories except for leather shoes, whose exports declined by 11 percent because of the growing importance of athletic footwear in ...
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Don Grimes, the former chief financial officer of Wolverine Worldwide...
Don Grimes, the former chief financial officer of Wolverine Worldwide who left last year to join Neiman Marcus in June 2015 as chief operating officer, executive vice president and CFO, has resigned now from this post
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Cheaney's store in Jermyn Street, London is offering customers a...
Cheaney's store in Jermyn Street, London is offering customers a chance to customize a pair of handmade shoes. The so-called “1 of 1” program allows customers to choose among five shoe styles, and then to select their favorite leather, the colors of the upper, sole, laces and lining, and even ...
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Chanel is opening the first single-brand store that is completely...
Chanel is opening the first single-brand store that is completely dedicated to footwear in Honolulu, occupying 100 square meters in the Ala Moana shopping center. It is located right next to a regular Chanel store of 600 sqm., which has been redesigned. The brand already opened an ephemeral shoe shop ...
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Zalando has started construction of a new distribution center in...
Zalando has started construction of a new distribution center in a Polish town near the German border, Gryfino, that is set to start operations in the autumn of 2017, with an investment of €150 million. This not far from another Polish town, Kolbaskowo, where Amazon is setting up its third ...
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Sergio Rossi has unveiled a short movie to celebrate the...
Sergio Rossi has unveiled a short movie to celebrate the holiday season. The clip, which is entitled “The Magic Kingdom,” features the models Lou Shoof, Nataliya Bulycheva and Bhumika Aurora. The trio dances around the Italian factory of the luxury footwear brand, chasing the rabbit or trying to sneak through side doors ...
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Caleres improves sales and margins
Caleres posted strong results for the quarter ended Oct. 31, 2016, with improvements to revenues, margins and earnings. The parent company of Famous Footwear and various footwear brands, previously called Brown Shoe Co., saw sales increase by 0.5 percent to $732.2 million over the year-ago quarter, or by 2.1 percent ...
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India’s currency reshuffle hits local leather businesses
The leather and footwear businesses in India were among the first to bear the brunt of the government's decision in November to discontinue its biggest denomination currency notes overnight in a move that it says will curb corruption and black money. In a surprise announcement on Nov. 8, Prime Minister Narendra ...
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Görtz will concentrate on its retail business in the future...
Görtz will concentrate on its retail business in the future and discontinue the wholesale operations under its Belmondo brand. Belmondo was founded in 1986 as a subsidiary of Görtz, taking care of the brand as well as footwear licensing agreements with Brax and Bellybutton. Görtz has about 160 stores in ...
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The business climate in Germany is said to be recovering...
The business climate in Germany is said to be recovering for the first time since November 2015
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Patrick Buchanan, former marketing director of Creative Recreation, has...
Patrick Buchanan, former marketing director of Creative Recreation, has become the new director of global marketing for K-Swiss
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A British shoe retailer, Soletrader, has launched a collection of...
A British shoe retailer, Soletrader, has launched a collection of 16 models of premium footwear made in Portugal in association with a London-based menswear designer, Simon Carter
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Possible turnaround in Brazil’s shoe exports
Recovering from the downward trend of the last few years, Brazilian footwear exports went up by 18.2 percent to $84.3 million during the month of October as compared to the same month of 2015. They also increased by 1.2 percent in volume to 10.2 million pairs, due to a decline ...
