All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 17-18 – Page 3

  • News briefs

    DTLR, an urban lifestyle retailer based in Hanover, in the...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    DTLR, an urban lifestyle retailer based in Hanover, in the Baltimore area, is merging with Philadelphia-based Sneaker Villa, also a urban lifestyle retailer. The merged company will comprise nearly 240 stores across 19 states and the District of Columbia, spanning the East Coast from New York to Florida, the Midwest, ...

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    Linda Bennett buys back her business

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Linda Bennett has regained control over LK Bennett, the British women's footwear and apparel retail and wholesale company that she founded 27 years ago with a focus on accessible luxury. She has bought back the controlling stake she had sold to Phoenix Equity Partners and Serius Equity in 2007 in ...

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    Athleisure helps Stella pull off strong results

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Stella International saw revenues for the six months to June 30 advance by 5.7 percent to $762.4 million. Volumes also rose, with 27 million pairs of shoes shipped - an increase of 6.3 percent over the year-ago period.The company attributed this performance to increasing demand for “fashion athletic products” and ...

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    Hunter Boots has appointed Daniel Shaw as its new design...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Hunter Boots has appointed Daniel Shaw as its new design director, replacing Niall Sloan who has moved to Escada after four years with the British company. Shaw previously ran the design studio of Christopher Raeburn. He has also been an associate lecturer at the London College of Fashion since 2015.

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    Wolverine Worldwide has appointed Stewart Whitney as vice president and...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Wolverine Worldwide has appointed Stewart Whitney as vice president and managing director of its Asia-Pacific division. He comes from Timberland, where he led its Asia-Pacific business for six years before becoming president of the brand in 2014. He left Timberland in July of last year, when he was replaced by ...

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    Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and shoe components industry association, launched...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and shoe components industry association, launched earlier this year a campaign called Iconic, focusing on the universe of iconic characters from movies and music. So far the campaign has featured Victoria Guerra, interpreting iconic characters to present women's footwear. Now the campaign to promote Portuguese shoes ...

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    A new anti-discounting program for Marc Shoes

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Berkemann, the German producer of comfort shoes, has been struggling in various ways to turn around Marc Shoes since it acquired the brand six years ago. It has now decided to strike an interesting new partnership with its retail clients, called “New Ways,” offering to take back any merchandise they ...

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    Footwear Friends will host its annual awards ceremony for young...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Footwear Friends will host its annual awards ceremony for young designers in London on Oct. 18. The jury will meet on Sept. 28 to examine the proposals, which are said to of “extraordinarily good quality” this time. Dune, Clarks, Pentland, the University of Northampton and the British Footwear Association will ...

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    Cole Haan has announced a long-term retail, wholesale and e-commerce...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Cole Haan has announced a long-term retail, wholesale and e-commerce distribution agreement with Sitoy Retailing, a subsidiary of Sitoy Group Holdings, for Greater China. Sitoy will bring Cole Haan to consumers in Hong Kong, Macau and China through various retail channels from summer 2017. The deal covers all distribution of ...

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    Lloyd Shoes has announced the development of an electronically extended...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Lloyd Shoes has announced the development of an electronically extended aisle as part of its multichannel strategy. The German shoe brand developed the in-store ordering system together with Sinner Schrader Commerce and Novomind. The system is intended to enable employees in Lloyd stores to view the entire online portfolio and, ...

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    Skechers has announced a partnership with Camila Cabello on a...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Skechers has announced a partnership with Camila Cabello on a new global marketing campaign. The Cuban-born American singer and songwriter will be the face of Skechers' women's footwear category. The campaign, which will appear in Spanish and English, is scheduled for launch later this month. Cabello, who is 20, started ...

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    Wolverine Worldwide has announced that it is partnering with the...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Wolverine Worldwide has announced that it is partnering with the American Red Cross, the Two Ten Footwear Foundation and the United Way to help victims of Harvey, the hurricane that made landfall in the U.S. at the end of August. The firm said it will contribute more than $2.6 million ...

  • Short stops

    Berluti has opened its first store in the Los Angels...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Berluti has opened its first store in the Los Angels area, located in Beverly Hills

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    Bangladesh has its first shoe show and big ambitions

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    The shoe and leathergoods industry of Bangladesh is organizing the country's first footwear trade show in November while the Bangladeshi government is considering the launch of a major program to promote the growth of the sector, which has been scoring encouraging advances on the export front in recent years.Bangladesh's footwear ...

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    Prada is changing its financial year to align it with...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Prada is changing its financial year to align it with the calendar year, which will result in an 11-month reporting period in 2017. Until last year, Prada's financial year ran from Feb. 1 to Jan. 31. For this year, the financial year started on Feb.1 but will end on Dec. ...

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    Alibaba will have its shopping mall

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Paying homage to the growing hybrid online-offline retail trend, the Alibaba Group disclosed plans to set up its own shopping center on the east side of the big Chinese city of Hangzhou, where it has its own world headquarters.The More Mall, as it will be called, will feature the physical ...

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    Prada posts poor results, ahead of its digitalization

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    The Prada Group announced a disappointing set of first-half results, sending the stock down by 14 percent on the day on the Hong Kong stock exchange, where it is listed. An investment broker, CLSA, downgraded the stock to “sell,” claiming that the group has been unable to ride the luxury ...

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    Shoe Carnival raises outlook after better-than-expected results

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    After a difficult start to its fiscal year, when sales tumbled by more than 23 percent in the first quarter, Shoe Carnival enjoyed a better second quarter, which sent its shares up by 13 percent. In the three months ended July 29, the American shoe retailer's sales were up by ...

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    China’s Huajian will invest more in Africa

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Huajian's chairman, Zhang Huarong, recently met with the director general of the United Nations International Development Organisation (Unido), Li Yong, who reportedly commended the big Chinese shoe manufacturing group for its contribution to industrial development in Africa.Huajian is working alongside Unido to promote technical education and training programs in Africa, ...

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    The digital trend affects Genesco and others

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    The major American shoe retail chains posted mixed results for their latest quarter through the end of July, due in part to a quick shift in consumption patterns from traditional shopping in the malls to online purchases, which is benefiting pure players like Zappos and its parent company, Amazon. However, ...