All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 22-23 – Page 4
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OluKai has announced a strategic investment in Melin, a lifestyle...
OluKai has announced a strategic investment in Melin, a lifestyle headwear brand based in Southern California. The move is part of OluKai's plan to establish itself as an incubator for quality-driven consumer product brands. Melin, which was founded by longtime friends Brian McDonell and Corey Roth in 2013, derives its ...
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OrthoLite, the provider of comfort and performance insoles, has announced...
OrthoLite, the provider of comfort and performance insoles, has announced the launch of a new marketing campaign called “The Secret Inside.” The images within the campaign showcase the key features of OrthoLite technology in different concepts including Breathe, Comfort, Rebound, Reduce, and Style. The campaign also illustrates OrthoLite's proprietary open-cell ...
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André, the French shoe retail banner that belongs to the...
André, the French shoe retail banner that belongs to the struggling Vivarte group, has opened the first store in Greater China though a local partner, and 13 more stores are due to follow during the balance of this year. Measuring 40 square meters, the first store is located in The ...
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CCC Shoes & Bags, the rapidly expanding Polish shoe retailer,...
CCC Shoes & Bags, the rapidly expanding Polish shoe retailer, has placed Gerald Zimmermann in charge of its development in Germany, taking the place of Fabian Kampa who is leaving the company. Zimmermann will continue to be responsible for the CCC Austria subsidiary, which also covers Croatia and Slovenia. He ...
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Alteri Investors, the company that recently bought the Jones Bootmaker...
Alteri Investors, the company that recently bought the Jones Bootmaker and Brentano chains in the U.K., is said to be among the companies potentially invested in the Aurora Fashion Group, which owns important fashion chains such as Oasis, Warehouse and Coast
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Big drops in Alpargatas’ sports business
The continued economic problems in Brazil helped Alpargatas to sell more of its cheap rubber sandals under the Havaianas and Dupé brands in its domestic market in the third quarter. Volumes increased by 0.8 percent to 57.0 million pairs. Sales of other products under the Havaianas brand name grew by ...
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Eno Polo moves from Alpargatas to GBG
Eno Polo, the 49-year-old president of Alpargatas EMEA, has left the Brazilian company to run a new European subsidiary of Global Brands Group (GBG), the New York-based company that started in 2005 as the wholesale business of Li & Fung and was spun off more than four years ago to ...
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Genesco has agreed to sell its SureGrip Footwear subsidiary to...
Genesco has agreed to sell its SureGrip Footwear subsidiary to Shoes For Crews (SFC), a leading American provider of slip-resistant footwear. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Using a proprietary technology, SureGrip produces and markets a broad line of occupational, slip-resistant shoes for the hospitality, grocery, foodservice, healthcare ...
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Russian tourists’ luxury purchases are going up again
In October, for the first time in nearly three years, purchases of luxury goods by Russian tourists worldwide increased, according to figures published by Global Blue, the tax-free shopping specialist. Conversely, Chinese tourists, whose purchases account for around 40 percent of the world luxury market, still recorded a slight decrease, ...
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Repetto has decided to suspend its women's ready-to-wear line after...
Repetto has decided to suspend its women's ready-to-wear line after the spring/summer 2017 collection. First launched in the spring of 2013, it has not been faring well, according to the company's management because of difficult price positioning for a French-made product. It is reportedly more confident about the saleability of ...
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Adrian Margelist has left the top management of Liebeskind after...
Adrian Margelist has left the top management of Liebeskind after only about half a year in the post
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The Bos Group is adding the distribution of CAT Footwear...
The Bos Group is adding the distribution of CAT Footwear in the German-speaking and Benelux countries to that of other brands of Wolverine Worldwide - Keds, Pro Keds, Sperry and Wolverine – under a new distribution contract starting on Jan. 1. Bos is setting up a new fully owned subsidiary, ...
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Like Gabor, its Camel Active line of footwear will not...
Like Gabor, its Camel Active line of footwear will not exhibit at the GDS fair in Düsseldorf, scheduled for Feb. 7-9, but it will have a stand for the first time at the Palazzo dei Congressi of the Expo Riva Schuh show in Italy, which is scheduled for Jan. 14-17. ...
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Hi-Tec to be acquired by Cherokee
Cherokee Global Brands (CGB), a U.S. company specializing in apparel sales and licensing, has agreed to take over nearly all of the assets of Hi-Tec Sports International for an aggregate purchase price of about $95.8 million from the Van Wezel family, and to transform the Dutch-based sports and outdoor footwear ...
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The Dutch shoe market seems to be recovering. According to...
The Dutch shoe market seems to be recovering. According to GfK, retail sales of footwear grew by 4.4 percent in the Netherlands during the second quarter of this year, with increases of 3.5 percent for women's shoes, 4.9 percent for men's shoes and 7.2 percent for children's shoes.
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According to reports in the local media, the Indonesian government...
According to reports in the local media, the Indonesian government may raise excise taxes on exports of unprocessed and semi-finished leather to restrict sales abroad, amid a shortage of the raw material locally. The excise taxes currently range between 15 and 16 percent. The amount of the possible tax increase ...
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Luisaviaroma, the famous retailer of original apparel and accessories in...
Luisaviaroma, the famous retailer of original apparel and accessories in the center of Florence, has become a big international online store. Its global sales are expected to reach €160 million this year, only €2.4 million of which are generated by its physical store, first opened in 1930. The rest is ...
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Première Classe, the accessories section of the Who's Next show...
Première Classe, the accessories section of the Who's Next show in Paris, will again have Hall 3 all to itself to accommodate its 800 exhibitors at its next edition on Jan. 20-23
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Stuart Weitzman experienced a marginal sales increase to $88 million...
Stuart Weitzman experienced a marginal sales increase to $88 million in the first quarter ended Oct. 1 from $87 million in the year-ago period, due to a change in the timing of wholesale deliveries The gross margin generated by the brand went up to 58.4 percent from 56.8 percent, but ...
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Boot Barn swings back to profit in Q2
Western boots are apparently escaping the downturn in boot sales in the U.S. Boot Barn's second quarter earnings swung back into the black as the American retailer specializing in western boots posted profits of $479,000 in the three months to Sept. 24, rebounding from a loss of $3.3 million in ...
