All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 17-18
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Russians are rushing for sneakers
Sneakers and other types of sports shoes are rapidly replacing a large part of the classical footwear used in Russia, and this trend is expected to continue at least until 2020, according to several market studies and the local media.In the most recent selling season, this type of product accounted ...
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Zalando works with a U.S. sneaker retailer
Zalando has struck its first transatlantic retail alliance by extending its partnership program with retailers to a premium American retailer of sneakers and streetwear, Stadium Goods, which tends to offer the latest limited editions of hot products at its two physical stores in New York and on its website in ...
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Pollini is opening a new store in Rome, on via...
Pollini is opening a new store in Rome, on via Cola di Rienzo, with a dedicated area for its Heritage line
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TheMicam, which is still the world's largest shoe show, will...
TheMicam, which is still the world's largest shoe show, will start on Sunday, presenting the latest offerings of about 1,400 companies from around the world. It will again give a special highlight to the luxury segment of the market, welcoming for the first time the shoe collections of four big ...
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Golden Goose has opened a store in Venice, located on...
Golden Goose has opened a store in Venice, located on Calle Vallaresso near its head office, and on on Melrose Street in Los Angeles
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Shoe retailers in Germany will get a selection of products...
Shoe retailers in Germany will get a selection of products for their stores from Nike if they belong to ANWR or Sabu Schuh & Marketing, the two major voluntary groups in the sector, starting from the spring/summer 2018 season. Nike will issue a single bill to each of the two ...
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WMS, the organization that manages the German measuring standard for...
WMS, the organization that manages the German measuring standard for children's footwear by this name, said goodbye to its former president, Jochen F. Obrecht. He was appointed as the new president of the WMS working group in May 2012. Under his leadership, the WMS, which is licensed by the German ...
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Görtz, the German shoe retailer, and Wortmann, the German shoe...
Görtz, the German shoe retailer, and Wortmann, the German shoe producer that owns the Tamaris, Jana, Caprice, Be Natural and Marco Tozzi brands of footwear, will join forces to optimize the availability of products at the point of sale. Their collaboration has been steered by a German business consultancy, Hachmeister ...
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Gallery Shoes had a good start
Many of the 500-odd brands that exhibited at the Gallery Shoes fair in Düsseldorf on Aug. 27-29 found that they had made a good investment in the new trade show, which was attended by around 9,200 professional visitors. The management of the fair had predicted between 8,000 and 10,000 visitors.The ...
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Kangaroos is relaunching some popular sneaker models from its former...
Kangaroos is relaunching some popular sneaker models from its former men's collections under the slogan “The Rebirth of Cool,” and its German licensee, Bernd Hummel, is going to make some of them at its own factory in Pirmasens for special clients. Bernd Hummel plans to release six styles in March ...
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Phoenix Footwear narrows its net loss
Phoenix Footwear, the American company specializing in comfort women's and men's footwear, reported a net loss of $612,000 for the first six months ended July 1. The company, which owns Softwalk and Trotters, narrowed its net loss from $737,000 for the first six months of 2016. The loss before interest, ...
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For the first time, the Poznan Fashion Fair in Poland...
For the first time, the Poznan Fashion Fair in Poland will be welcoming Spanish footwear companies this year. The edition of the trade show took place in the Polish city on Sept. 5-7. Spain's shoe exports to Poland reached €66 billion last year. According to Icex, the Spanish agency for ...
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Sports shoes lift German shoe exports
The latest federal trade statistics show a huge 25.1 percent increase in Germany's shoe exports to €2.79 billion for the first five months of this year as compared to the same period a year ago, when they went up by 11 percent. However, industry officials indicated that the boom in ...
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Portuguese exports go up in value and volume
Shoe exports from Portugal rose by 6.4 percent in value and 7.0 percent in volume during the first half of 2017, going up to a level of 43 million pairs worth €960 million for the period. They are now covering 152 countries around the world.If the positive trend is confirmed ...
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Momad Shoes, the Spanish shoe show is expecting a larger...
Momad Shoes, the Spanish shoe show is expecting a larger number of visitors for its upcoming edition, which will take place at IFEMA-Feria de Madrid on Sept. 22-24. The organizers of the trade show said visitors who have registered online are up by nearly 10 percent as compared to the ...
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ISM Search, the European U.K.-based executive recruitment and head-hunting service...
ISM Search, the European U.K.-based executive recruitment and head-hunting service specializing in the sporting goods sector, recently conducted a survey among its candidates in the industry to find out the relevant factors in the successful hiring and retention of key talents. According to ISM, it is the first survey of ...
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German retailers are embracing omni-channel
Pushed by the competition from pure players in the online space like Amazon and Zalando and by the new digital services offered by the two biggest cooperatives of independent shoes retailers, ANWR and Sabu, multi-channel retailers have gained a share of 25 percent in the German online market for shoes, ...
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Mephisto reports that a special edition of two vintage sneakers...
Mephisto reports that a special edition of two vintage sneakers created for the Concepts sneaker store of Concepts International in Boston sold out in only 30 minutes. The two styles were more contemporary and colorful versions of the brand's iconic Match model in premium leather, one in mint and the ...
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Netshoes, which remains the largest pure e-commerce player in the...
Netshoes, which remains the largest pure e-commerce player in the Brazilian market and in Latin America, booked a 15 percent increase in net sales to 461.3 million Brazilian reais (€123.7m-$146.7m) in the second quarter ended June 30, but the quarterly net loss grew to R$35.2 million (€9.4m-$11.2m) from R$33.6 million a year ...
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DSW’s shares rocket on strong sales
DSW's share value jumped by 18.4 percent after the American shoe retail chain posted earnings for the second quarter that largely exceeded Wall Street estimates. Its net income rose by 14.4 percent over the year-ago quarter to $28.6 million, after pre-tax charges totalling $3.2 million related to the acquisition of ...
