All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 17-18 – Page 2
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Olympikus drives Vulcabras’ improved results
Vulcabras, the Brazilian company that owns the Azaleia and Dijian brands of women's footwear as well as the Olympikus brand of sports shoes, continued to improve its results in the second quarter ended June 30, with a big jump in the net profit to 77.6 million reais (€20.7m-$24.7m) from R$2.3 ...
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Dr. Martens is offering a full refund or a replacement...
Dr. Martens is offering a full refund or a replacement for a certain number of products from its Vegan range, made at a factory in Vietnam, that were sold until recently in North America as well as in some European countries, China, Australia and New Zealand. The products in question ...
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Fashionette, the e-tailer specializing in designer handbags, has launched a...
Fashionette, the e-tailer specializing in designer handbags, has launched a revamped online shop in the U.K., which follows the relaunch in Germany earlier this year. The new website features expanded editorial content and is optimized for mobile devices. Fashionette was recently honored with the Shop Usability Award 2017, a German ...
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Deichmann invests internationally, online and offline
On the 25th anniversary of its entry into the Austrian market, Deichmann has restated its global ambitions. As reported in Shoe Intelligence in March, the company plans to invest €232 million this year in infrastructures at the international level, including logistics, information technology and e-commerce.At the anniversary event in Vienna, ...
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Sabu, the German cooperative of independent shoe retailers, has launched...
Sabu, the German cooperative of independent shoe retailers, has launched on Sept. 1 a new e-learning platform to train people working in the shoe retail sector. The platform was developed in cooperation with HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, and ANWR, the other major German retail cooperative. It ...
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Spanish shoe exports continue to drop in value
After falling in 2016, Spain's exports of footwear declined by a further 1.3 percent to €1,376.6 million in the first six months of 2016, due to a slight drop in the average export price. In terms of volume, they went up by 2.3 percent to 87 million pairs. Exports of ...
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The HR Group consolidates logistics
The Hamm Reno Group has slashed its workforce by approximately 120 as part of ongoing restructuring efforts in the face of stiff competition from e-tailers. As reported in July, the group had already announced its decision to eliminate a redundant logistics structure by closing the distribution center at the company's ...
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Hartmut Schelchen, founder of Schelchen, the German company that owns...
Hartmut Schelchen, founder of Schelchen, the German company that owns the Pedag brand of footwear insoles, passed away at the age of 87. He seized the chance of the economic miracle after the second world war to set up his own production. It was always important for him to manufacture ...
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Who's Next Première Classe, the French fashion exhibition in Paris,...
Who's Next Première Classe, the French fashion exhibition in Paris, reported an increase in attendance for the first time in three years. According to the organizers, the number of visitors grew by 10.1 percent to 42,122. The reports from the show were generally positive, except for the fact that there ...
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Famous Footwear pushes up Caleres’ revenues
Caleres' revenues grew by 8.7 percent to $677 million for its second quarter ended July 29, 2017, exceeding analysts' forecasts for sales of $668.9 million.This was partly due to the acquisition last December of Allen Edmonds, the American brand of high-end men's shoes, and to strong sales at the company's ...
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Vögele Shoes recently introduced an online calculation system for children's...
Vögele Shoes recently introduced an online calculation system for children's shoes. According to the Swiss shoe retail chain, more than 80 percent of children's shoes are actually smaller than indicated. On Vögele Shoes' website, parents can enter the length and width of their children's feet. The Swiss retail chain then ...
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Hunter Boots is releasing a first collaborative limited-edition line of...
Hunter Boots is releasing a first collaborative limited-edition line of backpacks in rubberized leather, featuring ironic and naïve hand-drawn designs by a makeup artist, Isamaya Ffrench, which is being sold exclusively in London's Dover Street Market. Raised in Cambridge, the designer is a consultant for Tom Ford's beauty line. As ...
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Manolo Blahnik is planning to open his first dedicated men's...
Manolo Blahnik is planning to open his first dedicated men's store in London's Burlington Arcade, next to a shop that he opened for both genders last year, according to Women's Wear Daily
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Manolo Blahnik is starring in a new documentary film, “Manolo,...
Manolo Blahnik is starring in a new documentary film, “Manolo, The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards.” Meanwhile, a retrospective exhibition of more than 200 styles by the Spanish 74-year-old shoe designer is travelling around the world. After stops in Milan and St. Petersburg, it is now being shown in ...
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Birkenstock made a big splash in New York City with...
Birkenstock made a big splash in New York City with its Birkenstock Box in association with Barneys New York, which designed the interior of the freight container and co-created a limited-edition line of Birkenstock shoes and added some of its own merchandise. The company's new mobile retail concept remained open ...
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The traditional price gap for luxury goods between China and...
The traditional price gap for luxury goods between China and Europe is shrinking. According to a study by Deloitte, the gap has shrunk by a quarter over the last 12 months. Key results of the study were reported by The Financial Times in early September. An increasing number of Chinese ...
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Michele Norsa, the former top manager of Benetton Sportsystem and...
Michele Norsa, the former top manager of Benetton Sportsystem and Sergio Tacchini who worked as managing director of Salvatore Ferragamo for ten years until last year, has agreed to serve as vice president of Gruppo Biagiotti, helping the young Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna after the sudden death last spring of her ...
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Privatized, Belle will tackle its non-athletic footwear business
Belle International Holdings, the big Chinese retailer which operates more than 20,000 footwear and sports stores, was delisted from the Hong Kong stock exchange on July 27, after a privatization process that turned Hillhouse Capital Group into the company's majority shareholder.Belle had been listed for about a decade but a ...
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Vivarte’s La Halle is becoming a profitable business
The Vivarte group is targeting a turnover of €1.2 billion and Ebitda of €100 million by 2020 for La Halle, its restructured chain of low-cost apparel and footwear stores, which made an estimated loss of about €1 million on sales of €1 billion in the financial year ended last month.The ...
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Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global...
Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global meat and leather empire around JBS, has been put in jail in Brasilia on charges of graft and other serious crimes. A Brazilian Supreme Court judge suspended the immunity that had been granted to the businessman in a plea bargain ...
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