All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 24
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Sneakersnstuff (SNS), the Swedish specialist retailer of sneakers, opened a...
Sneakersnstuff (SNS), the Swedish specialist retailer of sneakers, opened a spacious new international store in Berlin on Dec. 9 in a former restaurant-concert hall, adding to its stores in Malmö, Stockholm, London and Paris
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Sending out a new signal that they may be turning...
Sending out a new signal that they may be turning around after several years of declines, Brazil's shoe exports continued to improve in November, rising by 12 percent in volume and by 12.7 percent in value as compared to the same month of 2015. With this new monthly sales increase, ...
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Philippe Model will open stores under new management
Philippe Model has appointed Andrea Pesaresi as its new general manager. The move is part of the brand's broader plan to develop internationally, which comes on the heels of new investments. Alessandro Benetton's 21 Investimenti fund acquired a 70 percent stake in this brand of high-end sneakers in July, with ...
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Rocket Internet narrows losses at main start-ups
Rocket Internet, the German e-commerce investor, is seeking to reassure investors by announcing a fall in its losses and a reassuringly big cash pile as it prepares to place some of the start-ups in its portfolio on the stock market. Founded in Berlin in 2007, Rocket has built up dozens ...
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Görtz opened six new stores this year, one more than...
Görtz opened six new stores this year, one more than initially planned, taking the total door count up to 160 units, and the German shoe retailer is planning to open up to ten more in 2017. Among other investments, it will open a big new store in the Upper West ...
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While women are still its main target, the French San...
While women are still its main target, the French San Marina chain of shoe shops will also try to appeal to male customers next spring by using the image of a well-known French rugby player, Frédéric Michalak, in its advertising.
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Wolverine sells Robeez, lays out the Way Forward
The management of Wolverine Worldwide had already hinted that it was considering the divestiture of some non-core assets, while promising shareholders that it was going to do its best to attain an operating margin of 12 percent by the end of 2018 through a variety of measures.After the discontinuation of ...
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Inescop, the Spanish institute for footwear research, will work with...
Inescop, the Spanish institute for footwear research, will work with the Arsutoria design school to present and demonstrate its design software at international fairs. Arsutoria's teachers have been holding courses at Inescop since the 1990s.
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PFI, the well-known footwear testing laboratory in Pirmasens, will be...
PFI, the well-known footwear testing laboratory in Pirmasens, will be testing leather and leathergoods in accordance with the leather standard by Oeko-Tex from January 2017. The new leather standard was introduced at the beginning of November by Oeko-Tex, the well-known international association of independent research and testing institutes focused on ...
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India and Pakistan struggle with their footwear exports
The latest data from the Council for Leather Exports (CLE) show that the decline in India's exports of these products continued during the financial year ended last March 31. And ICRA, an India-based investment information agency, thinks the outlook remains poor for the world's second-largest footwear manufacturing country, which made ...
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Exercising an option, the J&F group has raised its stake...
Exercising an option, the J&F group has raised its stake in Alpargatas from 67% to 85.7%
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The new European Shoe Show, which will hold its première...
The new European Shoe Show, which will hold its première in Cologne on March 12-13, hosting between 150 and 170 exhibitors, has set the schedule for its next event. It will be held on Sept. 24 and 25, one week after theMicam in Milan and just before the ANWR Fashion ...
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The next edition of the Expo Riva Schuh fair near...
The next edition of the Expo Riva Schuh fair near V erona, Italy, will start on Jan. 14 with a conference on what we have learned in the last decade about e-commerce for fashion and footwear products
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SLEM, the Dutch-based educational institution for the shoe industry, is...
SLEM, the Dutch-based educational institution for the shoe industry, is organizing a conference on April 20-21, 2017 at its head office in Waalwijk as part of its series of so-called Sleminars on the Future of Footwear Manufacturing. The conference will cover the use of robots in shoe manufacturing in the ...
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Dr. Martens relocates
Airwear International, the parent company of Dr. Martens, will consolidate its operations in London, currently dispersed at three offices in Camden Town, by opening a new European head office in the Camden Wharf area of the city. The relocation to the new headquarters will probably take place in mid-April. The ...
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A new museum dedicated to the footwear industry and its...
A new museum dedicated to the footwear industry and its history has been inaugurated in Portugal. The Footwear Museum, which opened its door on Nov. 5, is located in S. João da Madeira, a region of historic significance for the Portuguese shoe industry. Besides an exhibition of 500 shoe models ...
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Independent shoe retailers are losing market share in a declining...
Independent shoe retailers are losing market share in a declining footwear market in France, according to a market research institute, Xerfi. Their sales fell by an estimated 6.5 percent in the past year, but the rate of the decline should be limited at 3 percent in 2017 before rising by ...
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Kering is the first luxury group, and first French company,...
Kering is the first luxury group, and first French company, with certified science-based targets. The group has been approved by the Science Based Target (SBT) initiative as the first luxury group to create science-based goals for the reduction of its carbon footprint. The SBT initiative was formed by the Carbon ...
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Santoni is launching its first clothing line. The Italian luxury...
Santoni is launching its first clothing line. The Italian luxury brand has hired Marco Zanini, who will create a line labelled “Santoni edited by Marco Zanini,” for men and women. The line will be presented during women's Fashion Week in Milan, in February. Prior to joining Santoni, Zanini worked for ...
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Lotto and Stonefly draw closer together
Lotto Sport Italia and Stonefly will remain two distinct legal entities. Specializing in athletic footwear and casual comfort shoes, respectively, and they will keep their brand positioning distinct. They will also continue to be based at their present offices in Trevignano and San Gaetano di Montebelluna, which are not far ...
