All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 1-2 – Page 2
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The management of Deckers Brands, parent company of Ugg, Teva,...
The management of Deckers Brands, parent company of Ugg, Teva, Sanuk and Hoka One One, won a 10-month fight against one of its investors at the company's annual meeting on Dec. 14, where all its directors were re-elected. The activist investor, Mercator Capital Management, had proposed that some or all ...
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Bruno Magli, the Italian luxury shoe brand, was one of...
Bruno Magli, the Italian luxury shoe brand, was one of the sponsors of this year's Beach Polo World Cup in Miami, the world's largest beach polo tournament, which was held on the sands of South Beach on Jan. 6-7. The event saw the participation of top polo players such as ...
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A Spanish footwear brand, Sixtyseven, has made a donation of...
A Spanish footwear brand, Sixtyseven, has made a donation of €5,087 to finance a study into the benefits of physical exercise to prevent breast cancer. The donation represented 5 percent of the proceeds from the sale of two models from the firm's autumn/winter 2017/18 collection.
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Peter Cuneo, chairman of the board of directors at the...
Peter Cuneo, chairman of the board of directors at the Iconix Brand Group, has assumed the role of executive chairman. He has been on the board since October 2006 and served as interim chief executive from August 2015 to April 2016. In his new role, he will focus on evaluating ...
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Bernd Hummel licenses Homeboy
Bernd Hummel, the big German-based licensee of Pentland Brands for Kangaroos, has taken over the European license for Homeboy Loud Couture, an iconic German brand of streetwear that was taking care of its footwear line in-house. The first line developed by Bernd Hummel will be sold during the spring/summer 2019 ...
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World Footwear notes that Belgium remains one of the main...
World Footwear notes that Belgium remains one of the main trading platforms for footwear in Europe. It produced only one million pairs in 2016, according to the World Footwear Handbook, but in the first half of 2017 it exported 133 million pairs of shoes worth €2.97 billion, up by 3.9 ...
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Snipes, a subsidiary of Deichmann, has opened its first Belgian...
Snipes, a subsidiary of Deichmann, has opened its first Belgian store in Antwerp
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The Russian government is pushing for the use of barcodes...
The Russian government is pushing for the use of barcodes on footwear, starting on June 1 with a voluntary test conducted by Zenden and other major Russian shoe retailers. An alternative project for the use of RFID chips has been dropped, at least for the time being. The use of ...
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Vibram's wrap-around sole, the Euroshiki, has won two design awards...
Vibram's wrap-around sole, the Euroshiki, has won two design awards in Italy and China
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Christian Louboutin has been awarded damages by the Delhi High...
Christian Louboutin has been awarded damages by the Delhi High Court in a case for infringement of trademark of its famous red sole by Kamal Family Footwear and Adra Steps, two dealers in women's footwear in Delhi. Louboutin had found Kamal and Adra Steps using its signature design “red sole” ...
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Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry association, has persuaded its members...
Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry association, has persuaded its members and a laboratory, Cimac, to collect 2,500 pairs of shoes that have been sold in Africa or through charity shops to help finance a primary school project in Malawi. Conducted in partnership with a non-profit organization, Humana People to People, ...
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Nous, a new concept store around streetwear and high-tech, has...
Nous, a new concept store around streetwear and high-tech, has been launched in Paris by a group of former workers of Colette's Parisian boutique, led by Sébastien Chapelle and Marvin Dein. The opening comes just a few weeks after the closure of Colette's Parisian boutique on Dec. 20, where Chapelle ...
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The Indonesian Footwear Association (Aprisindo) is urging the government to...
The Indonesian Footwear Association (Aprisindo) is urging the government to improve infrastructures and reduce taxes to make the local footwear industry more competitive and attract new investments. Projecting an increase of only 6 to 7 percent in the country's shoes exports in 2018, remaining below the 10 percent growth level ...
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Prada has appointed Nicola Antonacci as its new South Europe...
Prada has appointed Nicola Antonacci as its new South Europe regional director. Antonacci will be responsible for Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey, and will be based at Prada's headquarters in Milan. Prior to this new role, Antonacci was Prada's managing director for the U.S. He joined Prada as head ...
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Pony has announced a collaboration with Michael Michalsky, a well-known...
Pony has announced a collaboration with Michael Michalsky, a well-known German fashion designers who served many years ago as creative director of Adidas. The fruits of the collaboration will be shown at the Seek trade show during next month's Berlin Fashion Week. The presentation will coincide with the establishment of ...
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Leder & Schuh improves
Reporting on a new, profitable growth trend, Leder & Schuh, the Austrian parent company of the Humanic and Shoe4You retail chains, says that its sales went up by 3.6 percent to €374 million in the past financial year. In contrast, the group had reported a sales decline of 3.6 percent ...
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In spite of the ambitious goals set by the government...
In spite of the ambitious goals set by the government of Bangladesh for the sector over the next few years, which wants its output to grow by least 15 percent a year (Shoe Intelligence Vol. 19 N° 23+24 of Dec. 23), the country's total exports of leather and leather products ...
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The market situation seems to be improving almost everywhere
That's what has transpired from the statistics and forecasts that we have read or heard over the past few days about the economy in general, the fashion sector or its footwear segment. The U.K. was the only notable exception, due evidently to the lingering efects of the Brexit vote in ...
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The super model Bella Hadid will again be the ambassador...
The super model Bella Hadid will again be the ambassador for Giuseppe Zanotti's spring/summer 2018 campaign
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Gallery Shoes, the new trade fair in Düsseldorf, is adding...
Gallery Shoes, the new trade fair in Düsseldorf, is adding yet another temporary hall at its venue in Areal Böhler to accommodate a growing list of exhibitors at its next edition on March 11-13. The show will showcase the collections of more than 500 brands. More than 30 of them ...
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