All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 13-14
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Strong results for Pentland
Pentland Group reports a 14 percent increase to £376 million (€424.2m-$493.4m) in its operating profit before amortization of intangibles and extraordinary items for the year ended Dec. 31. The net value of its assets went up by 22 percent to £1,276 million (€1,439.6m-$1,674.3m).Total group revenues rose by 25 percent to £3.6 ...
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Pentland will license Karen Millen
Pentland Brands has signed a contract to be the global footwear licensee for Karen Millen. The British women's fashion brand, which was previously developing a footwear line for sales on its website and in its single-brand stores, had appointed earlier this year IMG to secure new licenses in other segments ...
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Uzbekistan sets sights on the leather shoe industry
The manufacture of leather shoes in Uzbekistan is set to double its production in the next two years from last year's level of 17 million pairs, according a development program recently adopted for the industry by the government of this former Soviet country, headed up by Shavkat Mirziyoyev since February ...
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The Portuguese shoe industry is making a pitch for the...
The Portuguese shoe industry is making a pitch for the U.S. market with a delegation of exhibitors at Project Sole in New York on July 22-24, followed by FN Platform at Magic in Las Vegas on Aug. 13-15. The Portuguese shoe industry federation, Apiccaps, is organizing the trade mission together ...
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Havaianas has opened a “Make Your Own” pop-up store in...
Havaianas has opened a “Make Your Own” pop-up store in Selfridges' department store in the Trafford Centre mall of Manchester
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Italy looks at the new generations
The young people working in Italian family businesses are contributing growth ideas and opportunities to the sector. This is the main finding of a study conducted by Assocalzaturifici in collaboration with LIUC Business School based in Castellanza, in Italy's region of Lombardy. The results of the study, entitled “Family businesses? ...
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Kurt Geiger moves into Germany
Kurt Geiger, the London-based shoe label, is expanding into the German market, launching its autumn/winter shoe collection in August with a few selected retailers. Pop-up stores are due to stay open for one month at the Breuninger stores in Stuttgart and Düsseldorf between August and September. The KaDeWe department store ...
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A new plan for French slipper manufacturing
A new company, called La Manufacture Charentaise, has been started in France for the development, production and distribution of the typical “charentaise” slippers of four companies in the eponymous region: Rondinaud, Degorce, Laubuge and Ferrand. All four of them were more or less insolvent lately.Based at Rondinaud's factory at Rivière, ...
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Following in the footsteps of Selfridges on the same street,...
Following in the footsteps of Selfridges on the same street, the John Lewis department store on London's Oxford Street is reportedly going to feature a dedicated shoe department, but it will be operated in cooperation with Kurt Geiger
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Guido Fluri, the former majority shareholder of Pasito-Fricker, the Swiss shoe...
Guido Fluri, the former majority shareholder of Pasito-Fricker, the Swiss shoe retailer previously owned by Görtz, recently sold the majority of his shares to various unnamed private investors. Pasito runs 25 stores in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and in Tessin, the Italian-speaking part of the country. Fluri acquired the Swiss ...
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More and more fashion labels are launching their first technical...
More and more fashion labels are launching their first technical or performance-oriented sneakers. One of the most recent entries was Christian Louboutin with a line called “Run Lubi Run,” launched in Paris for the spring/summer 2019 season.
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Expo Riva Schuh has reported a slight increase in the...
Expo Riva Schuh has reported a slight increase in the number of visitors to more than 12,000 at its 90th edition last month. This included delegations of buyers from Croatia, Serbia, Russia and the Ukraine through a program partly funded by Ice, the Italian Trade Commission. The show hosted 1,474 ...
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Hermès is experimenting with a store for shoes only. It...
Hermès is experimenting with a store for shoes only. It will offer 150 styles of shoes for six months alone at a 115-square-meter site on Green Street, in the Soho district of New York. The styles were created by Hermès designer, Pierre Hardy, and two versions of its mules and ...
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Obuv Rossii invests in a Siberian EVA factory
Obuv Rossii, the big Russian shoe manufacturer and retailer that recently went public, plans to invest 760 million rubles (€10m-$12m) to start a new factory at Linevo, a village in the province of Novosibirsk, focusing on the production of EVA footwear. The product range will include rubber sandals, clogs and ...
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Stella performs well in Europe
Stella International's branded business had a strong performance in Europe in the second quarter, with retail sales in the region growing by 25.0 percent to $4.0 million. The Hong Kong-based company launched Stella Luna in Europe in 2012 and followed up two years later with a more casual brand, What ...
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Thomas Lange, who started Keen Europe together with Richard Litzel...
Thomas Lange, who started Keen Europe together with Richard Litzel and two other managers 13 years ago, is leaving the company in mid-October to become the new general manager of GEB, a German voluntary group of shoe retailers specializing in higher-end footwear. The members include big names like Prange and ...
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Tamaris has enlisted Nazan Eckes, a well-known German TV moderator,...
Tamaris has enlisted Nazan Eckes, a well-known German TV moderator, as its testimonial for its autumn/winter 2018/19 Heart & Sole line of high-heel shoes. The digital and print campaign will kick off in September. On July 4, during the Berlin Fashion Week, Tamaris organized an event on the rooftop of ...
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Sneakers and the internet drive the German shoe market
According to a study conducted by the Institute for Retail Research (IFH) in Cologne together with the BBE, the German consultancy for the retail industry, athletic footwear and canvas lifestyle shoes still represent the best-selling segment of the shoe industry. The study also confirms that the online retail business keeps growing, ...
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Indian producers target the domestic market
The Indian domestic market is expected to grow to 4.5 billion pairs from 2.25 billion over the next five years, with consumption doubling to four pairs per person per year, according to data released by India's Council for Leather Exports (CLE). The average price per pair is expected to continue ...
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Dr. Martens has taken over the distribution of its products...
Dr. Martens has taken over the distribution of its products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as part of its strategy to get closer to the consumer. The brand's parent company, Airwear International, is going to set up a sales and marketing office for the region in Düsseldorf, reporting to Daniel ...
