All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 4-5
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Start-rite has sold One Small Step
Start-rite Shoes has sold One Small Step to Step2wo, the London-based premium kid's shoe label. Start-rite reportedly made the decision to sell the business, which it had acquired in 2011, in order to focus on its core brand. One Small Step has eight stores and four concessions across the U.K. ...
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Wolverine reports mixed results
Wolverine Worldwide reported overall declines in revenues of 7.1 percent to $751.2 million for the fourth quarter and 2.5 percent to $2.69 billion for the full financial year ended Jan. 2. On an underlying basis - before currency conversions, retail store closures and the phase-out of Patagonia footwear - the ...
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Internet World has granted a prize to Schuhe.de, the online...
Internet World has granted a prize to Schuhe.de, the online platform of the ANWR Group, as the e-tailer with the highest level of innovation
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The Salvatore Ferragamo Group is expanding the use of radiofrequency...
The Salvatore Ferragamo Group is expanding the use of radiofrequency identification chips (RFID) for the authentication of its products. The move is expected to help the Italian fashion house effectively prevent counterfeiting, as the chips allow Ferragamo items to be both authenticated and tracked through the supply chain. The tags ...
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Ifema, the organizer of the restyled Momad Shoes exhibition in...
Ifema, the organizer of the restyled Momad Shoes exhibition in Madrid on March 4-6, says it met its expectations with a total of nearly 5,500 visitors, ten percent of whom came from four countries outside Spain. Out of them, 45 percent came from Portugal, followed by Italy, France and Germany. ...
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John Haugh, a former executive of Luxottica and Mars, will...
John Haugh, a former executive of Luxottica and Mars, will be the new president and chief executive of Iconix Brand Group, the company that owns many sports and fashion brands including Umbro, Starter, Ocean Pacific and Danskin. On April 1, he will take the place left vacant last August by ...
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Zalando exceeds targets, sets new goals
Zalando claims to have reached a market share of 5 percent in the German shoe retail market, indicating that last year it had a domestic turnover of around €600 million in this product segment, after only eight years in the market. Zalando describes footwear as its most mature category in ...
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Xti's marketing manager, Maria Escamez Marco, received a special prize...
Xti's marketing manager, Maria Escamez Marco, received a special prize on March 8 from the city of Yecla in connection with the International Mother's Day. The Spanish shoe company was rewarded for the way in which it reconciles the work of mothers with their family lives. Its 7-year-old Ludoteca offers ...
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Tod’s slows down store openings
The management of Tod's said that it is comfortable with financial analysts' expectations of an increase of about 5 percent in this year's sales to nearly €1,090 million. The company estimates that it will continue to benefit from foreign currency exchange rates, but the impact will be less significant than ...
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Genesco reports higher sales, but earnings are down
Genesco reported a sales increase of 4.4 percent to $932.2 million for the fourth quarter ended Jan. 30. Sales for the Schuh Group of $122.2 million were down by 2 percent. The company's earnings from continuing operations of $46.7 million were down from $51.8 million for the fourth quarter of ...
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Goodiez is taking over the distribution of Kickers' shoes for...
Goodiez is taking over the distribution of Kickers' shoes for adults in Germany and Austria
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VF disappoints investors
The usually buoyant Outdoor & Action Sports coalition of VF Corp. suffered a 3 percent drop to $2.1 billion in its sales during the fourth quarter ended Jan. 2, largely due to the warm weather conditions that also hurt Wolverine Worldwide, Deckers Brands and other companies with the exception of ...
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Helen Thomson started last month as managing director of Toms...
Helen Thomson started last month as managing director of Toms Shoes for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), taking the place of Martin Johnston who left last summer after a little over a year in the position. She comes from Ecco, where she had led its EMEA business out ...
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Jill Williams is leaving as finance director of Pittards...
Jill Williams is leaving as finance director of Pittards
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For the first time, the European Confederation of the Footwear...
For the first time, the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) is organizing a trade show at the Ritz Carlton Hotel of Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, on April 5. It will be part of a two-day trade mission conducted under the slogan “European Footwear: More than Fashion” with ...
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Xti Footwear is trading up. The Spanish company says it...
Xti Footwear is trading up. The Spanish company says it successfully launched the first collection of Carmela, a new brand of premium women's leather footwear, at the recent Momad Shoes show in Madrid, for the next autumn/winter season. Contrary to most of Xti's other products, which are mostly made in ...
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Luis Onofre, one of the up and coming Portugese shoe...
Luis Onofre, one of the up and coming Portugese shoe designers, has launched a new global online store
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Is Steve Madden making a comeback in Europe?
For the first time in recent memory, Steve Madden had a big booth at theMicam show in Milan last month, evidently with the intention of playing a stronger role in Europe and other markets. Company officials said they could not make any comments at this stage. Three of its stores ...
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Heavy discounts granted to Russian clients have led to a...
Heavy discounts granted to Russian clients have led to a drop in the profitability of the Aeffe group, whose sales declined last year by 7 percent to €268.8 million, as previously reported. The consolidated operating margin before amortization (Ebitda) fell to 7.2 percent of sales from 10.2 percent in the ...
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Robert Clergerie has teamed up with the Paris fashion house...
Robert Clergerie has teamed up with the Paris fashion house of Sonia Rykiel for a new capsule collection of three styles retailing between €470 and €530. They will be sold in the stores of the two brands from next June. Both labels are owned by First Heritage Brands.
