All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 23-24 – Page 2
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Pense Media Corp., the owner of Footwear News, Women's Wear...
Pense Media Corp., the owner of Footwear News, Women's Wear Daily and Vanity Fair, has announced a strategic investment in Wenner Media, which controls Rolling Stones, the iconic publication for the American pop and music culture founded in 1967
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Ricosta is the latest company to have signed-up for the...
Ricosta is the latest company to have signed-up for the enterprise resource planning portal offered by ANWR and Sabu. The German children's shoe company said that customers will receive invoices via the system from January 2018. Invoices will be transmitted electronically to an independent service provider, Raw. Retailers can apply ...
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Gabor Shoes has launched an online marketplace in collaboration with...
Gabor Shoes has launched an online marketplace in collaboration with selected retail partners in Germany. The platform allows them to avoid the expense of creating their own online shops, while benefiting from the growing online sales traffic. Gabor provides the infrastructure for the marketplace, including high-quality images and product information, ...
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Clarks unveils new in-store inventory system
Clarks has turned to a patented, fast-reading barcode software to develop a new in-store scanning solution to improve response times and the related productivity. The Stock Assist app is based on technology provided by Scandit, a developer of mobile data capture solutions. It will be implemented at the suppliers' factories ...
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The Italian government partners with Yoox in U.S. and China
The Italian trade promotion agency, Istituto per il Commercio Estero (Ice), has entered into a partnership with Yoox Net-a-Porter to promote exports by small and medium-sized enterprises in the fashion sector. The project, which is called Hidden Italian Gems, aims to help 100 SMEs boost their sales in the U.S. ...
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Prada has launched a new web store in China for...
Prada has launched a new web store in China for its various product lines, featuring a personal adviser. The goods can be paid for through Alypay or WeChat, and they can be picked up at a store. The move is part of the group's belated investment in e-commerce, which is ...
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The sale of the Zhong Shan manufacturing operations in China,...
The sale of the Zhong Shan manufacturing operations in China, which was intended to move more production to Vietnam and Cambodia, caused Kingmaker's sales to fall to 594.1 million Hong Kong dollars (€64.1m-$76.0m) in the first half ended Sept.30 from HKD 1,013.9 million in the same period a year ago. However, ...
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Indian children stitch shoes for the global market
Children as young as eight are reportedly missing school to labor in hazardous conditions in Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal, to supply shoes for the global market. A report from the Fair Labor Association (FLA), iMentor and the Stop Child Labour Coalition (SCL), investigated conditions and called on ...
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Wayne Kulkin, a former chief executive of Stuart Weitzman, has...
Wayne Kulkin, a former chief executive of Stuart Weitzman, has launched his own lines of luxury sneakers. Kulkin, a self-confessed “sneakerhead” since he was a teenager, set up a company for this purpose, called StreetTrend, earlier this year with the backing of an investor, Hilco Global. The sneakers will be ...
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Run by Giorgio Presca, the former chief executive of Geox,...
Run by Giorgio Presca, the former chief executive of Geox, and taken over by Carlyle last February, Golden Goose expects to post a significant double-digit sales increase this year compared with the €130m reached in 2016
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Cole Haan has opened a new, large store at Central...
Cole Haan has opened a new, large store at Central World in Bangkok through its Southeast Asian partner, Star 360
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CCC plans further expansion
CCC, the fast-growing Polish chain of shoe and leathergoods stores, aims to keep the momentum rolling in 2018 by investing strongly in new shops. While announcing its results for the third quarter, it also said it plans to enter at least three new markets in 2018, but company officials declined ...
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CORRECTION: The figures used in our casual footwear chart for...
CORRECTION: The figures used in our casual footwear chart for Stonefly were not quite right. In terms of euros, the Italian brand had a turnover of €78 million in 2016, slightly down from €80 million in the previous year.
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Internet marketplaces lose a case in the ECJ
A ruling issued by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg in favor of Coty earlier this month could help build up a case for other brands premium or luxury brandsagainst the unauthorized sale of their products on third-party online retailing platforms like Amazon or eBay.Asked for its opinion ...
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Kavat has capped off a strong year by taking the...
Kavat has capped off a strong year by taking the Best Retail Concept of the Year award at the Habit Fashion Awards. The jury announced the decision at the event in the Cirkus in Stockholm in November. The Swedish shoe company's stores have a convincing straightforward, minimalist concept that exemplifies ...
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The Primetime Shoes trade show is cancelled
The new Primetime Shoes trade show, which was scheduled to celebrate its premiere in Frankfurt with about 200 exhibitors on Jan. 27-29, was one of the most discussed topics after the launch of the new Gallery Shoes show in Düsseldorf this past summer. Yan Belyaev, who has been organizing the ...
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A petition calling for improved conditions for workers and transparency...
A petition calling for improved conditions for workers and transparency in the global shoe and clothing industries has gathered 13,606 signatures. The petition, with the title “Tell us who made our shoes,” was delivered to the European Parliament on Nov. 20 by Change your Shoes, an NGO coalition supported by ...
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Momad has brought its Metrópolis and Shoes trade shows closer...
Momad has brought its Metrópolis and Shoes trade shows closer to companies during a series of traveling meetings that have taken place across Spain and Italy over the last few weeks. Momad Metrópolis and Momad Shoes, both organized by Ifema, are a hub for the clothing and footwear industries. The ...
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Footasylum, the British shoe retail chain that recently went public,...
Footasylum, the British shoe retail chain that recently went public, will open next year its second women's store, covering 7,200 square feet in Manchester's Arndale Center
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Brazilian footwear production has resumed its growth with an increase...
Brazilian footwear production has resumed its growth with an increase of 4.5 percent in the first seven months of this year, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), although there was a slowdown in the growth during the month of August. According to Abicalçados, the Brazilian Shoe ...
