All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 19-20 – Page 2
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Tod's denies speculation that the company is for sale...
Tod's denies speculation that the company is for sale
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Consumers in Europe predominantly look for comfort in shoes. This...
Consumers in Europe predominantly look for comfort in shoes. This is one of the key findings from the three-year project Fit to Comfort (Fit2Com), funded by the European Commission's Erasmus + program. The results of the project were presented in a workshop on “Skills and Competencies of the future” last ...
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Want Shoes, a shoe retailer in Cologne that started selling...
Want Shoes, a shoe retailer in Cologne that started selling its women's products three years ago simultaneously via Instagram and through its own physical shoe store, has now launched its first online store, want-shoes.de, offering the same brands that are sold in the store, including Pomme d'Or, Fru.it, Ash, Aeyde, ...
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More Chinese and U.S. visitors at Micam
The world's largest footwear trade show closed its 86th edition last month with a total of 45,424 visitors, slightly down from the levels of September 2017, but up from last February, when Micam Milano coincided with the Chinese New Year.The numbers supplied by the organizers show a 4.3 percent increase ...
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LVMH performs well, despite China worries
LVMH reported a 14 percent increase on a comparable basis in the sales of its Fashion and Leathergoods division for the third quarter of 2018. This was one percentage point higher than the increase posted in the previous quarter and two points better than what financial analysts had expected.Strong brands ...
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Rubin Ritter, joint chief executive and finance director of Zalando,...
Rubin Ritter, joint chief executive and finance director of Zalando, has sold some of his shares in the company for the third time so far this year, after a further decline in the share price
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Geox has recruited an Italian freestyle windsurfing champion, Riccardo Marca,...
Geox has recruited an Italian freestyle windsurfing champion, Riccardo Marca, as the new brand ambassador for its “Geox Next Generation” project. The brand is recruiting young, talented Italian athletes whose lifestyle and passion for sport reflects a pursuit of freedom and wellbeing, and Marca, aged 23, is the first to ...
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CCC unveils new strategies
Partly supported by acquisitions and stronger online sales, CCC Shoes & Bags' total revenues grew by 11 percent to the equivalent of about €590 million in the first nine months of this year.Its management outlined the direction in which the fast-growing company is going during a recent presentation to investors. ...
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Toni Pons' new distribution center in Catalonia, Spain, has storage...
Toni Pons' new distribution center in Catalonia, Spain, has storage capacity for up to 100,000 pairs of shoes, which will allow the company to expand the store franchising side of its business. Located in Girona, near the corporate headquarters of the Spanish brand of lounge shoes, the distribution center covers ...
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StockX comes to Europe with fresh cash
Started in Detroit just two years ago as a marketplace for rare, second-hand sneakers, StockX has secured funding of $44 million from GV and Battery Ventures, with the stated purpose of expanding its business in international markets.The company, which provides a marketplace for verifiably authentic sneakers, has just launched an ...
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The German Cartel Office is expected to rule on the...
The German Cartel Office is expected to rule on the proposed merger of the Karstadt and Kaufhof department store operations by Nov. 9, but it may take three months longer if an anti-trust investigation is required
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Jan Marc Stührmann, chief executive of the Canvasco and Tobago...
Jan Marc Stührmann, chief executive of the Canvasco and Tobago brands of handbags, has launched a new footwear label together with Friedmann von Stein, well known in the shoe industry for his work on brands like Joop, Bogner, Nurage and Marc Cain. The new label, called Mythoo, will be priced below ...
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Stonefly has hired a Canadian-based distributor, Sole Mio Footwear, to...
Stonefly has hired a Canadian-based distributor, Sole Mio Footwear, to market its shoes in North America. That company also distributes Art, Neosens and Loints of Holland. Stonefly had a strong position in the comfort segment of the shoe market in the early part of the millennium, with annual sales of ...
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Kendall + Kylie shoes move from Marc Fisher to Pajar Canada
Pajar Canada has taken on the footwear license for two well-known American fashion and TV celebrities, the sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, who are part of the ubiquitous Kardashian family clan. Pajar obtained the global rights for Kendall + Kylie footwear from its previous licensee, Marc Fisher Footwear, last month, ...
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The Cambodian garment and footwear industries have a new monthly...
The Cambodian garment and footwear industries have a new monthly minimum wage. The country's Labor Minister has announced that the minimum salary will be $182, which represents a 7 percent increase from the current amount of $170. The new monthly minimum wage will be effective Jan. 1, 2019. In 2012, ...
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Tod's has revealed a new concept called Tod's Factory, which...
Tod's has revealed a new concept called Tod's Factory, which consists of mini-collections designed by different talents. The first designer in the series will be Alessandro Dell'Acqua. In mid-November, the Italian fashion house will start selling the Alessandro Dell'Acqua x Tod's collection, which comprises seven items of clothing and nine ...
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Caleres buys Vionic
Caleres, the parent company of the Famous Footwear chain previously called Brown Shoe Company, continues to make acquisitions in the brands segment of its business, this time adding a proprietary comfort technology that will be integrated into its product design, brand development and global sourcing infrastructure.The latest prey is the ...
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The German-based GMS buying group has launched a new service...
The German-based GMS buying group has launched a new service for affiliated retailers to reduce old stock and to provide them with cash. The retailers decide which merchandise they want to get rid of, and GMS collects the old stock free of charge, but gets a commission on the sale ...
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Brazil exports less, targets China
Brazil's footwear exports declined by 10.7 percent in volume and by 12.0 percent in value in the first nine months of 2018. They went down to 78.9 million pairs worth $700 million, despite the ongoing devaluation of the local currency against the dollar.Higher exports to Argentina, which became the biggest ...
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Euro Brand Management has obtained FSC certification in the field...
Euro Brand Management has obtained FSC certification in the field of the supply chain and trade of packaging materials and controlled wood under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) scheme. The audit report was made by Tüv Nord Cert, an independent FSC certification body. The certificate will be valid until 2021. ...
