All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 18, Issue 6-7
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Timberland opened its sixth London store at Oxford Street on...
Timberland opened its sixth London store at Oxford Street on March 31, hoping to connect with a wider audience and younger consumers
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Minna Parikka has opened a pop-up shop in the Harrods...
Minna Parikka has opened a pop-up shop in the Harrods department store in London from March 25 to May 8 to celebrate the launch of its first full children's line. The spring 2016 collection for toddlers and teenagers is priced between $145 and $275. It will feature some of the ...
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Hunter has opened its second flagship store in the world...
Hunter has opened its second flagship store in the world in Tokyo. It measures nearly 300 square meters on two floors and is located in the new Tokyo Plaza building in the Ginza district of the Japanese capital.
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Prada has opened a shop-in-shop at the New York flagship...
Prada has opened a shop-in-shop at the New York flagship of Saks Fifth Avenue. To celebrate the opening, Prada is presenting its exclusive made-to-order Décoletté collection in the new space from April 2 to 10.
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Ipanema is opening a pop-up shop in the flagship store...
Ipanema is opening a pop-up shop in the flagship store of the Galeries Lafayette department store chain in Paris
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The U.K. Leather Federation and the University of Northampton have...
The U.K. Leather Federation and the University of Northampton have announced a joint initiative to set up a doctoral program focusing on hexavalent chromium, or Chrome VI. The project, funded by a three-year grant, is expected to start by the end of the year. The university's Institute for Creative Leather ...
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Higher prices help Italian and Spanish exporters
Spanish shoemakers are gaining ground against the Italian industry in the rest of Europe, but they are losing market share in the rest of the world. For Spanish shoe companies, the European Union came to represent 64.8 percent of their total export revenues last year, up from 63.4 percent in ...
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Italian shoemakers expect some stability
Italian shoemakers are generally expecting stable business conditions for the first half of 2016, according to a survey made by their trade association, Assocalzaturifici. Orders collected in the last quarter of 2015 were up by about 0.5 percent in volume overall as compared to the same period of 2014, with ...
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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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The Inditex group, which owns Zara, Massimo Dutti and other...
The Inditex group, which owns Zara, Massimo Dutti and other fast-fashion chains, reports that Tempe, the subsidiary that takes care of development, sourcing and distribution of all the shoes and accessories sold in the group's 6,000-plus stores around the world, raised its turnover last year by 15.9 percent to €1.12 ...
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Giuseppe Zanotti has doubled the surface of its flagship store...
Giuseppe Zanotti has doubled the surface of its flagship store in New York
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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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ShoeVita, a German online shop for customizable women's shoes, has...
ShoeVita, a German online shop for customizable women's shoes, has started a cooperation with the recently-renovated store of Vögele Shoes in Zurich, according to Textilwirtschaft. With the help of trained advisors, customers can do their customization on a selection of models in a dedicated area of the store. The Design ...
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CTC expands, strikes a deal with an Italian lab
The Lyon-based Centre Technique du Cuir (CTC), which claims to be the world's biggest testing and quality control institute specializing in the leather sector, has expanded its premises and signed an interesting collaboration agreement with Polo Tecnologico Conciario (PO.TE.CO), a similar specialized institute based at Santa Croce sull'Arno, in the ...
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Crocs has taken over the distribution of its products on...
Crocs has taken over the distribution of its products on the Austrian market. Starting on April 1, it has also acquired seven Crocs stores in the country. It plans to set up its own sales team, which would become operational from next June. Crocs already distributes its products directly in ...
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Some Dutch retailers are thriving and expanding, in contrast with...
Some Dutch retailers are thriving and expanding, in contrast with the recent bankruptcies of Macintosh Retail Group and Unlimited Sports Group. Wolkyshop will open its first brick-and-mortar shop in the U.K. this April, in the seaside resort town of Brighton. The Dutch shoe retailer has also just launched its U.K. ...
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Euromonitor traces global consumption trends
The footwear market in the Middle East and Africa is offering strong opportunities for growth, according to Euromonitor International, which made an interesting presentation of recent of future global trends at the Expo Riva Schuh fair at Riva del Garda, Italy in January.The speaker, Bernadette Kissane, noted in particular that ...
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Ziylan takes a share in Reno’s parent company
Ziylan, the biggest shoe retailer in Turkey, with interests in manufacturing and brands, has agreed to acquire an undisclosed minority stake in the Hamm-Reno Group (HR), the second-largest shoe retail company in Germany, along with a financial investor, Capiton, and individual managers. Capiton will have majority control of the group.Officials ...
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Vibram, in collaboration with InStep NanoPower, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia...
Vibram, in collaboration with InStep NanoPower, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia and the University of Wisconsin, has developed an inexpensive prototype that is capable of converting kinetic energy into electrical energy, which can in turn be used to power smartphones or other electrical devices. Termed the Hero (for “Harvesting of Energy ...
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A Dutch court has transferred a trademark lawsuit pitting Christian...
A Dutch court has transferred a trademark lawsuit pitting Christian Louboutin against Deichmann to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg for a verdict in the case. The lawsuit dates back to 2013, when the Dutch subsidiary of Deichmann launched a model of high-heeled shoes with a red shoe sole ...
