All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 19, Issue 7-8 – Page 3
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The Italian fashion industry forms an umbrella association
After two years of preparation, the Italian fashion industry has given birth to a common umbrella association for its apparel, footwear and accessories segments, called Confindustria Moda. The new confederation will be positioned above Sistema Moda Italia, which groups textile and apparel firms, and Fiamp (Federazione Italiana dell'Accessorio Moda e ...
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Galeries Lafayette inaugurated a new center for Asian tourist groups...
Galeries Lafayette inaugurated a new center for Asian tourist groups in Paris on March 15. The 2,800-square-meter store, called Shopping & Welcome Center, is located at 21 boulevard Haussmann. The center has been designed by Ora Ïto, the brand name of the French designer Ito Morabito. The center's façade and ...
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Tempe, the footwear arm of the Inditex group based in...
Tempe, the footwear arm of the Inditex group based in Elche, raised its turnover by 10 percent to €1.23 billion in the last financial year, to Jan. 31. However, its net profits declined by 14 percent to €94.8 million. Tempe, which produces or sources shoes for Zara and all the ...
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Robert Clergerie has appointed Perry Oosting as its chief executive...
Robert Clergerie has appointed Perry Oosting as its chief executive officer. He succeeds Eva Taub, who joined the French luxury house in 2012 after it was acquired by First Heritage Brands. Oosting served most recently as general manager for Hasselblad, the Swedish camera maker, but prior to that he had ...
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Sequential Brands has appointed Karen Murray as its new chief...
Sequential Brands has appointed Karen Murray as its new chief executive officer. Most recently, Murray served as president of VF Sportswear, a wholly-owned subsidiary of VF Corp. She replaces Yehuda Shmidman, who is stepping down from his position and as a member of the board of directors. Murray joined VF ...
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The ANWR Group cancelled one of its in-house fairs, ANWR Now,...
The ANWR Group cancelled one of its in-house fairs, ANWR Now, because not enough brands and exhibitors had registered for the show, which was scheduled to take place on April 11, apparently because German retailers were hesitating to place new orders through the cooperative. Nevertheless, they will be able to check ...
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Another minority shareholder of Deckers Brands has called for a...
Another minority shareholder of Deckers Brands has called for a sale of the company, charging that it has underperformed in the past three to five years. Mountain Capital Partners, which owns 3.3 percent of the equity, complained in particular about poor capital allocation decisions by Deckers' management, adding that there ...
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This year's Footwear Friends Annual Awards will be held in...
This year's Footwear Friends Annual Awards will be held in London on Oct. 18
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Geox has announced the appointment of Ernesto Esposito as its...
Geox has announced the appointment of Ernesto Esposito as its new designer for women's shoes. Esposito has a long experience in the luxury shoe sector, having worked for brands such as Bruno Magli, Sergio Rossi, Louis Vuitton, Chloé and Marc Jacobs. The first creations by Esposito are set to be ...
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Coach has announced the appointment of Joshua Schulman as brand...
Coach has announced the appointment of Joshua Schulman as brand president and chief executive of the Coach brand, a newly-created role, effective June 5. He will report directly to Victor Luis, the chief executive of Coach Inc., which also owns the Stuart Weitzman shoe brand. The change in leadership structure ...
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Minelli, part of Vivarte, announced the opening of its first...
Minelli, part of Vivarte, announced the opening of its first owned boutique in Belgium, near Brussels. The 65-square-meter boutique is located at the Woluwe Shopping Center, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. Minelli previously had three franchised stores in the country, located in Namur and Antwerp, which no longer exist. The new boutique was ...
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Hermès has announced it is rethinking its digital strategy in...
Hermès has announced it is rethinking its digital strategy in consideration of the significantly higher growth rate of e-commerce sales compared with the growth of the company's overall turnover. The announcement was made at the presentation of the company's annual results. During the latest Christmas season, for example, the Hermès ...
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Pascal Poulain, general manager of André, is looking for an...
Pascal Poulain, general manager of André, is looking for an investor to help him finance a management buyout of the French shoe retail chain, according to Le Figaro. André, which is one of the assets due to be divested by the Vivarte group, had a turnover of €124 million last ...
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Schuh & Schuh PKTS, the insolvent shoe retailing company that...
Schuh & Schuh PKTS, the insolvent shoe retailing company that was formerly known as Vögele Shoes, will close 15 of its 49 stores in Austria, affecting about 60 employees. Two stores in Innsbruck and Bad Ischl will be closed immediately, while the other 13 stores will be closed by the ...
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Russell & Brombley, the British shoe retailer, is opening its...
Russell & Brombley, the British shoe retailer, is opening its first store in Birmingham, located in the Bullring shopping center
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Anatomic & Co., the U.K.-based marketer of the Brazilian comfort...
Anatomic & Co., the U.K.-based marketer of the Brazilian comfort shoes by the same name, launched two styles of its collection of “sociable shoes” for men that was exclusively available on Kickstarter until April 23. One of them features an electric blue sole that is only offered in one size. ...
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Alteri sheds Jones Bootmaker and Brantano
Endless has acquired the business and assets of Jones the Bootmaker (Jones) from Alteri Investors for around £10.5 million (€12.6m-$13.5m). Almost simultaneously, Brantano UK, another property of Alteri, has filed for bankruptcy, protecting it from creditors after its failure to find a new investor. The two British shoe retail chains ...
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Bernard Arnault wants all of Christian Dior
The Christian Dior Group owns the Christian Dior brand directly, excluding its fragrances, through a subsidiary called Christian Dior Couture, and it has a stake of 40.9 percent in LVMH. This is because the family of Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive of LVMH, had first taken over Dior as ...
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The board of the Leiser Group decided to restructure all...
The board of the Leiser Group decided to restructure all its operating companies in the framework of bankruptcy protection proceedings, which the local court of Augsburg granted on March 24. Three trustees from the Schneider Geiwitz law firm, Arndt Geiwitz, Patrick Wahren and Christian Plail, are guiding the group's new ...
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BBI Distributions has become the exclusive agent for Steve Madden...
BBI Distributions has become the exclusive agent for Steve Madden in France
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