All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 21-22 – Page 2
-
News briefs
Hermès has unveiled its first-ever Chinese e-commerce site. The site...
Hermès has unveiled its first-ever Chinese e-commerce site. The site offers ready-to-wear clothing for women and men, fragrances, shoes, jewelry, as well as its signature handbags except for its Kelly and Birkin models, which are not available. According to reports by Jing Daily, the overall design of the new Chinese ...
-
News briefs
Rainer Worbs, chief executive of Roland and MyShoes, the German...
Rainer Worbs, chief executive of Roland and MyShoes, the German shoe retailers that are part of the Deichmann group, will retire on June 30, 2019. At MyShoes, Helén Billkrantz, who recently joined the company as executive director, responsible for purchasing, will replace him. The 44-year-old previously worked as chief buyer ...
-
News briefs
Compagnie Vosgienne de la Chaussure (CVC), the French shoe manufacturing...
Compagnie Vosgienne de la Chaussure (CVC), the French shoe manufacturing company previously owned by Vivarte, may be able to stave off its liquidation. The bankruptcy court that is handling the case announced on Nov. 6 that it had received an offer for its takeover. Prodded by a former manager of ...
-
Article
Changing roles at Clarks
As previously reported, Clarks parted ways with its former chief executive, Mike Shearwood, as of June 25 because of repeated instances of inappropriate behavior. He was immediately replaced by Stella David, who has been a member of the board for six years, pending the recruitment of a new CEO. She ...
-
Article
Vivarte sells its remaining shoe retail chains
After the disposal this year of its André and Besson chains of shoe stores and the Naf Naf brand of women's clothing, which we have already reported, the French Vivarte group announced on Nov. 5 that it will be selling its three remaining shoe retail banners – Minelli, San Marina ...
-
News briefs
CCC plans to launch its main online footwear store, Eobuwie.pl,...
CCC plans to launch its main online footwear store, Eobuwie.pl, on the stock exchange in Warsaw. The website generated revenues of around €58 million in the latest quarter.
-
News briefs
Continuing a trend toward larger premium physical stores, CCC has...
Continuing a trend toward larger premium physical stores, CCC has opened a flagship of more than 1,000 square meters in the Max City shopping center of Pula in Croatia. It is the company's 25th store in the country.
-
Article
The casual footwear market speeds up
Like the athletic brands, the more casual footwear brands enjoyed stronger growth in 2017 than they had done in the previous year, boosted by increased demand for comfort and good looks. According to our annual study of the segment, the casual branded shoe market enjoyed a sales increase of 7.2 ...
-
News briefs
The German Cartel Office has endorsed the merger of the...
The German Cartel Office has endorsed the merger of the Karstadt and Kaufhof department store chains. They will be run by a joint venture being formed between the Austrian-based owner of Karstadt, Signa, and the Canadian-based Hudson's Bay Co., which took over Kaufhof three years ago. The operational management will ...
-
Short stops
Christian Louboutin has put out a capsule collection of shoes...
Christian Louboutin has put out a capsule collection of shoes and handbags that are meant to be coordinated with seven different skin colors and tones
-
News briefs
Lenci Calzature, an Italian contract manufacturer from the region of...
Lenci Calzature, an Italian contract manufacturer from the region of Tuscany, has reportedly announced that it plans to dismiss its remaining 70 employees and cease operations. Last January, Lenci Calzature already asked government authorities to help it to pay the wages of its employees, indicating that it was planning to ...
-
News briefs
Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to...
Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to integrate online and offline channels as part of its evolution from an online retailer to an open ecosystem, or platform. Through Connected Retail, Zalando's fashion partners can take orders from Zalando customers themselves and ship the goods directly from their ...
-
Article
Obuv Rossii starts a stock buyback
Russia's major shoe retailer, Obuv Rossii, plans to spend 900 million rubles (€12m-$15m) to buy back some of its shares on the Moscow Stock Exchange, as the price of its shares hit record lows, Obuv Rossii said in a statement on its website.As of July 2018, 44 percent of the ...
-
News briefs
Jeton Bujupi, former chief executive at Hamm Market Solutions, responsible...
Jeton Bujupi, former chief executive at Hamm Market Solutions, responsible for operations and sales, will be leaving the company at his own request at the end of February 2019. Bujupi has worked for the German-based family business for the past 20 years. Since 2003, he has been a member of the ...
-
News briefs
The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show...
The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show for streetwear, sneakers and skateboarding, which was acquired by the Premium Group in July 2015 and is held at the Arena Berlin fairgrounds, will not take place next January. According to the organizers of the show, the break will be ...
-
News briefs
The Brazilian e-tailer Netshoes has reported a net loss of...
The Brazilian e-tailer Netshoes has reported a net loss of 136.4 million Brazilian reais (€31.9m-$36.5m) for the third quarter of this year, roughly triple the net loss reported a year ago. Sales for the period were down 3 percent to R$ 417.8 million (€97.8m-$111.7m), while the gross margin shrank fourfold ...
-
News briefs
Deckers' latest lawsuit reveals that counterfeiters of its Ugg brand...
Deckers' latest lawsuit reveals that counterfeiters of its Ugg brand boots typically change the name of their domain or marketplace and move funds offshore as soon they realize that a suit is coming. To counter such tactics, Deckers is asking an Illinois District court to grant certain requests before the ...
-
Short stops
Hunter Boots has launched a collection of rubber shoes for...
Hunter Boots has launched a collection of rubber shoes for children inspired by Mary Poppins in connection with the launch of a new Disney movie featuring the famous English character
-
Short stops
Kurt Geiger is opening a store in Birmingham's Bullring shopping...
Kurt Geiger is opening a store in Birmingham's Bullring shopping center
-
Article
Dr. Martens continues to make big strides
Sales increased by 20 percent to £348.6 million (€394.3m-$447.4m) at Dr. Martens during the financial year ended on March 31. Ebitda went up at an even stronger rate of 33 percent, raising the Ebitda margin by 1.4 percentage points to 14.3 percent.Much of the sales growth came from the opening of ...
