All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 13-14 – Page 2
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During the last two years, the design engineers at Millennium...
During the last two years, the design engineers at Millennium Printing and the packaging team at Euro Brand Management have been working with Geox' senior marketing and sourcing teams in order to design, test and deliver a packaging program for children's shoes that will reduce the company's transportation costs and its CO² emissions. After ...
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The Percassi group has decided to shut down one of...
The Percassi group has decided to shut down one of its ten Vergelio shoe shops, located on Milan's important Corso Vittorio Emanuele. The group, which runs many other retail banners, bought the Vergelio chain two years ago with the intent to develop it into a multi-channel operation in Italy and ...
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Ecco has struck a joint venture deal with its French...
Ecco has struck a joint venture deal with its French retail partner, L.S. Diffusion, which opened its first retail store in the country in 2014. The joint venture will change its name to Ecco France and will be led by Laura Steinmetz, who has been running L.S. Diffusion since then. ...
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Tati, the French cut-price shop, is to be sold to...
Tati, the French cut-price shop, is to be sold to Gifi. The verdict was handed down by the appeals court of Bobigny on June 26. Eram had announced earlier this year that it had decided to sell Agora Distribution, the loss-making unit which owned Tati and other brands including Fabio ...
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Giesswein launches new merino sneaker line with crowdfunding
Giesswein, the Austrian manufacturer that is known for its colorful slippers and hats, launched its first collection of outdoor shoes through a crowdfunding campaign. Since the beginning of the campaign in February, Giesswein has sold about 1,000 pairs of its new collection of sneakers, made with merino wool.The campaign cost ...
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Marc Preusser will be the new German country manager for...
Marc Preusser will be the new German country manager for Fitflop, replacing Mirko Ostendorfer after he leaves at the end of September. Preusser has worked for Levi's, VF Corporation and Desigual.
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Vögele Shoes is continuing its expansion in Switzerland. It recently...
Vögele Shoes is continuing its expansion in Switzerland. It recently opened a new store in Zurich based on a hybrid physical and internet model. Through an information point, clients can get access to an app in the store and take a look at the complete product range. The customer can ...
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Zalando continues its shopping spree with the takeover of yet...
Zalando continues its shopping spree with the takeover of yet another start-up, Anatwine. The European e-commerce giant first acquired a 20 percent stake in this British software firm in May, but announced in July that it was taking over the company entirely. The purchase price has not been made public. ...
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The Hamm Reno Group has confirmed the takeover of six...
The Hamm Reno Group has confirmed the takeover of six Vögele shoe stores in Austria. Schuh & Schuh PKTS, the Austrian company formerly known as Vögele Shoes, filed for insolvency at the beginning of this year. An out-of-court restructuring process was not successful and the group did not find an ...
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Igedo will concentrate on its Düsseldorf shows
Igedo will concentrate in the future on only two trade shows – the Gallery Fashion show for apparel, which will take place in Düsseldorf at the end of July, and Gallery Shoes. Messe Düsseldorf, which dropped its former GDS shoe show earlier this year, has in fact agreed to sell ...
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Havaianas will test-market a swimwear collection in stores in France,...
Havaianas will test-market a swimwear collection in stores in France, Italy and Portugal next year and plans to start distributing boardshorts and bikinis from 2019 onward
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Colette, the famous Parisian store, is going to close its...
Colette, the famous Parisian store, is going to close its doors on Dec. 20, after 20 successful years of operation, simply because its founder and buyer, Colette Rousseaux, is going to retire. A terse press release says she “has arrived at an age where it is the time for her ...
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Clarks will resume production in the U.K.
Clarks will open a new production unit in the U.K., more than a decade after moving manufacturing abroad. The new facility, which is expected to be operational early next year, will be located at the company's headquarters in Street, Somerset, where Clarks began in 1825.The manufacturing unit will produce up ...
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New high-profile managers and directors at Clarks
Clarks has appointed new heads for its operations in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, while revamping the board of directors. Jack Quinlan is joining the U.K.-based shoe brand as regional president for Asia-Pacific, while Ben Fletcher has been appointed managing director of the European region, starting in August.Quinlan comes from ...
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Eram will be selling its products online in China via...
Eram will be selling its products online in China via the Boutique France operated by the French Post Office on the Tmall internet platform. Eram is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. Tmall is the marketplace for foreign companies of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. Tmall is also a doorway ...
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Leomil will be offering a new line of children's shoes...
Leomil will be offering a new line of children's shoes in various European markets and the Middle East in the early winter of 2018 that is inspired by Shimmer & Shine, a popular animated pre-school cartoon series by Nickelodeon. It will be an extension of a partnership with Viacom International ...
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Elisabet will be manufacturing children's shoes for Tommy Hilfiger starting...
Elisabet will be manufacturing children's shoes for Tommy Hilfiger starting with the spring/summer 2018 collection. The agreement covers Europe, Middle East and Africa. The first Tommy Hilfiger by Elisabet collection was presented at Pitti Bimbo in Florence on June 22. Elisabet is based in Monte Urano, near Fermo, Italy.
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More management changes at Hunter
A couple of top executives are leaving Hunter Boots, starting with Niall Sloan, who will join Escada as its new global design director in August, replacing Daniel Wingate who left at the beginning of the year. Sloan worked as design director at Hunter, for four years and oversaw the design ...
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MBT switches to distributors in Central Europe
Experienced industry officials have set up new distribution companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to take over sales of MBT shoes from the German and Swiss subsidiaries of Masai Distribution, the Singapore-based subsidiary of Star 360 that bought the global assets of the former Swiss-based Masai group in 2012.Oliver Fischer, ...
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Carl-August Seibel and Philip Seibel will open a sneaker store,...
Carl-August Seibel and Philip Seibel will open a sneaker store, called Fourty Tree, in Hauenstein on July 22. Covering 200 square meters, the store will feature apparel and shoes of brands such as Adidas, Puma, Nike, Reebok and Diadora. Carl-August Seibel is the chief executive of the Josef Seibel Group, ...
