All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 21-22 – Page 3
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Deichmann is planning to open a big flagship store in...
Deichmann is planning to open a big flagship store in Munich around July 2019. Making ample use of large screens and omnichannel tools, it will occupy more than 2,000 square meters on two floors in the Joseph Pschorr Haus at 19-21, Neuhauser Strasse. The new flagship will take the place ...
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Strategic partnership between CCC and the Hamm-Reno Group
CCC Shoes & Bags, the fast-growing Polish-based shoe retail chain, and the German-based Hamm-Reno Group announced their signature on Nov. 24 of a wide-reaching strategic agreement that could end up with CCC obtaining control of the HR Group at a later stage. The deal is subject to several conditions including ...
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Bernd Hummel, the longtime licensee of Pentland Group for the...
Bernd Hummel, the longtime licensee of Pentland Group for the Kangaroos brand based in Germany, has widened the territory of the license to the markets of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, which was previously handled by another licensee, Viking Footwear. To help service the Nordic market, Bernd Hummel will work ...
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Famous for its quirky ideas for the brand, Bernd Hummel...
Famous for its quirky ideas for the brand, Bernd Hummel has come out with a limited edition of 408 pairs of Kangaroos sneakers, called Moonshine, whose colors and graphics are said to have been inspired by the illegal night-time production of alcohol in the U.S. The shoes have been placed ...
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Sympatex Technologies recently received the international B-Corp quality seal for...
Sympatex Technologies recently received the international B-Corp quality seal for above-average corporate management with a comprehensive approach and a social interest that extends outside the company itself. Sympatex is one of the first German companies in the textile industry to receive the seal, which rewards corporate concepts that, more than ...
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Balenciaga's Triple S sneaker got the highest number of searches...
Balenciaga's Triple S sneaker got the highest number of searches for shoe styles on Instagram through Lyst, which was used by 80 million shoppers in 120 countries so far this year for all kinds of fashion products. Balenciaga's ugly and chunky sneaker was followed in Lyst's ranking by the simpler ...
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Hermès has enlarged and renovated its store on avenue Georges...
Hermès has enlarged and renovated its store on avenue Georges V in Paris, which now covers 555 square meters on three levels
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Dragon, the Formula E (electric) auto-racing team, will now be...
Dragon, the Formula E (electric) auto-racing team, will now be known as Geox Dragon, thanks to a new long-term agreement with the Italian shoemaker. Geox will be supplying the Dragon team with outerwear and, of course, footwear. The Geox sole, with its heat- and humidity-reducing membrane, will be put to ...
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The Lorenz Shoe Group has received the prestigious Austrian Hermes...
The Lorenz Shoe Group has received the prestigious Austrian Hermes prize for economic achievement in the “successful family enterprise” category. It was founded by the Högl and Lorenz families in 1982, but the Högl family withdrew in 2000, with the Lorenz and Bachmaier families taking over all the shares and ...
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Setting its sights on China, Australian-based R.M. Williams signed up...
Setting its sights on China, Australian-based R.M. Williams signed up to sell its boots and leathergoods through Secoo, which claims to be Asia's largest e-commerce platform for luxury goods, notably as measured as sales per order. Three R.M. Williams collections by the Austrialian companies – Burnished, Craftsman and Signature Craftsman ...
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Sitoy buys A.Testoni
A Chinese leathergoods group, Sitoy, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the acquisition of an Italian high-end brand of men's and women's shoes, A.Testoni, from the founding family. No financial details were available.The move follows bigger transactions that have come from the Far East recently, such as the acquisition of ...
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Clarks performs well only in Asia
Clarks has decided to invest in a European distribution center within the European Union to protect the company from any future duties and tariff regimes following the U.K.'s planned exit from the European Union.Also, because of the trade tensions between the U.S. and China, the British company has stepped up ...
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Hermès and Kering continue to do well in Asia and generally
Like LVMH, whose third-quarter results were reported in our previous issue, both Hermès and Kering continued to perform well in the Chinese market and with Chinese tourists abroad during the period. Hermès launched its e-commerce operations in China last month.In terms of local currencies, Hermès' total revenues grew by 9.7 ...
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Is Brazil's export business finally turning around? The country's shoes...
Is Brazil's export business finally turning around? The country's shoes exports rose on a sequential basis by 11.2 percent in volume and 31 percent in value during the month of October, as compared to the previous month, reaching a level of 11 million pairs worth $93.8 million. As compared to ...
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Ara has opened a store in the center of Lisbon....
Ara has opened a store in the center of Lisbon. It's the fourth store directly operated by the German brand in Portugal, where it also has a factory producing 7,000 pairs per year. It also has ten shop-in-shops in local footwear stores.
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The European Commission has approved a set of free trade...
The European Commission has approved a set of free trade and investment agreements with Vietnam, submitting them to the member states and the European Parliament for final endorsement. Under the free trade agreement, both Vietnam and the European Union will eliminate 99 percent of their import duties on each other ...
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Timberland has appointed Christopher Raeburn, the British fashion designer, to...
Timberland has appointed Christopher Raeburn, the British fashion designer, to be its first global artistic director. He will be splitting his time between his own Christopher Raeburn brand, based in London, and Timberland's offices in New Hampshire, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Known for his green philosophy and use of recycled ...
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Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez,...
Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez, previously working as senior buying director for Europe and the Middle East at Nike, became vice president for Zalando's product line for woman. Diez succeeds Dalbir Bains, who left Zalando after four years. Before her career at Nike, Diez worked ...
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Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and leathergoods industry association, will organize...
Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and leathergoods industry association, will organize a trade mission to Ireland at the end of November, presenting collections and staging B2B meetings at the Portuguese Embassy in Dublin. Portugal's shoe exports to Ireland have grown by 60 percent to 576,000 pairs since 2010, but the U.K., ...
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Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, is...
Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, is expanding into Austria. The German buying group has launched a new internet platform there, called Schuhe.at, where affiliated retailers will be able to sell their products as of 2019.
