All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 3-4 – Page 2
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The number of visitors at Couromoda grew slightly to nearly...
The number of visitors at Couromoda grew slightly to nearly 35,000 at its latest edition in São Paulo on Jan. 15-18, and their quality reportedly improved. About 2,500 of them came from abroad. The show hosted more than 1,000 brands, and 70 percent of the exhibitors have decided to come ...
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has received a complaint filed...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has received a complaint filed by China on the European Union's rules on calculating what constitutes dumping. The document says that, since China acceded to the WTO, it had been agreed that specific price-comparison rules would apply for the country for a transitional period of ...
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Vagabond opened a company-owned store in Hamburg last October. The...
Vagabond opened a company-owned store in Hamburg last October. The Swedish shoe brand, which has over 35 mono-brand stores worldwide, most of them in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, will open its fifth store in Germany in the Centro shopping mall in Oberhausen this April. Vagabond will own and manage the ...
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Santoni is launching its first clothing line during the women's...
Santoni is launching its first clothing line during the women's Fashion Week in Milan this month. The Italian brand of high-end shoes has hired Marco Zanini to create a line for men and women, labeled “Santoni edited by Marco Zanini.” Prior to joining Santoni, Zanini worked for Schiaparelli, Rochas, Versace, Halston ...
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Who's Next-Première Classe has seen its number of visitors decrease...
Who's Next-Première Classe has seen its number of visitors decrease by 7 percent from the January 2016 edition. W.S.N. Développement, the organizers of the Parisian trade show, said that for its latest edition, which was held in Paris on Jan. 20-23, a total of 45,192 people visited the event, down ...
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Jimmy Choo posts higher sales, helped by the weak pound
Jimmy Choo has announced a 15 percent jump in sales to £364 million (€290.9m-$340.5m) for the full year to Dec. 31, 2016, helped by the weak pound and sales growth in Asia and Europe. At stable currency exchange rates, the sales increase was of 2 percent.Retail revenues were up by ...
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Lloyd has a new deal in China
As reported by Shoe Intelligence one year ago, Lloyd signed an exclusive distribution contract for ten years with Kingwood in China in 2015. Kingwood is also the exclusive Chinese distributor for Gabor, Sioux and Zilli, a French luxury brand. Lloyd previously had a distribution contract with a Hong-Kong-based company, Fairton.As ...
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Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings has dismissed Chen Kuo-Lung, the chief...
Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings has dismissed Chen Kuo-Lung, the chief financial officer of its 62.41 percent owned distribution and retail subsidiary, Pou Sheng International, and its chief executive, Kwan Heh-Der, has resigned. The reason given by Yue Yuen is the discovery of “certain incorrect sales data,” but the discrepancies with ...
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The European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) has obtained...
The European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) has obtained funding from the European Commission under its Erasmus+ program for a new project to establish a qualification profile for “luxury footwear manufacturing technicians.” A few companies will be invited to follow selected modules for the related training program in a ...
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Fitflop is launching a global campaign starring Uma Thurman, the...
Fitflop is launching a global campaign starring Uma Thurman, the American actress and model. It is intended to promote Fitflop as a brand of fashion comfort shoes “for superwomen,” as the tagline suggests. The concept was developed by a new global brand director, Shubhankar Ray, who joined the London-based company ...
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Mephisto launched a new ecological shoe line, called “Nature is...
Mephisto launched a new ecological shoe line, called “Nature is future” at the GDS show in Düsseldorf earlier this week. Featuring an insole made of natural cork and other 100 percent ecological materials, the line is made in France. Sandals with a cork insole will be launched in the summer. ...
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Calzaturificio Brué has reportedly obtained a license for the production...
Calzaturificio Brué has reportedly obtained a license for the production and distribution of Bruno Magli shoes for Europe, Russia and the other CIS countries, starting with the next autumn/winter season. The Italian shoemaker, which is located in the Marche region, should also supply the collection in Asian markets. More in ...
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Lulu Guinness is bringing out a small footwear collection, coordinated...
Lulu Guinness is bringing out a small footwear collection, coordinated with the British designer's handbags
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New look, new high-end brands for theMicam
Five big luxury brands – Gucci, Fendi, Salvatore Ferragamo and Tod's – have agreed to exhibit at theMicam, the world's largest shoe show, for the first time in a long time, if ever before. It's not sure what they will present, but they will have a space in a new ...
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Sequential Brands has revealed multiple new categories for Joe's, its...
Sequential Brands has revealed multiple new categories for Joe's, its lifestyle brand, including footwear and intimate apparel. The brand management company, based in New York, will launch a full line of men's and women's footwear in partnership with ACI International, the global footwear distributor, this spring. The new line will ...
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Safia Minney has joined Po-Zu, the London-based brand of sustainable...
Safia Minney has joined Po-Zu, the London-based brand of sustainable footwear, as managing director in a bid to develop its marketing and its wholesale business. She will work as managing director of the company alongside its founder, Sven Segal, who remains as chief executive. Minney is the woman who founded ...
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Joya, the Swiss brand of comfort shoes, is launching an...
Joya, the Swiss brand of comfort shoes, is launching an interesting B2B platform where retailers can exchange Joya shoes that are sold out or out of stock. Partnering retailers receive a login and are able to offer Joya shoes or place a request for a certain model. A newsletter sent ...
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Tamaris, the main brand of the Wortmann group, is cooperating...
Tamaris, the main brand of the Wortmann group, is cooperating with Marcel Ostertag, a well-known German fashion designer, for the development of a new line in its new autumn/winter 2017/18 shoe collection that will be called “Tamaris by Marcel Ostertag.” The collection was presented for the first time in a ...
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More shoe brands show in Berlin
There were more than 200,000 visitors at the rising number of fashion-related trade shows that took place during the Berlin Fashion Week from Jan. 17 to 19, or 11 percent more than a year ago. Those that featured shoe brands were Bright, Seek, Premium and Panorama.More than 50,000 people visited ...
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Smart packaging can bring big benefits
Many shoe companies that source their products from Asia have started to reconsider the packaging process even before the latest increases in Asian paper prices (see the previous article in this issue) in order to cut costs as well as carbon emissions, offsetting in part the rising labor wages in ...
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