All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 21-22 – Page 4
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Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's fast-growing German internet platform, has signed...
Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's fast-growing German internet platform, has signed a cooperation agreement with Mirapodo. Retailers affiliated with Schuhe.de will be able to offer their product lines through Mirapodo. ANWR has recently signed similar agreements with Amazon, Zalando, eBay and Spartoo, the French online shoe retailer that has agreed to ...
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Santoni has announced that Marco Zanini, its clothing designer, will...
Santoni has announced that Marco Zanini, its clothing designer, will be leaving the brand. The two parties have decided to end their collaboration at the natural end of the contract. Zanini has been in charge of the ready-to-wear collections of the Italian shoe brand for four seasons. He accompanied Santoni ...
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Kering has announced Ginevra Elkann as a new independent member...
Kering has announced Ginevra Elkann as a new independent member of its board of directors. Her nomination will be submitted to shareholders for approval at the next Annual General Meeting, to be held on April 24, 2019. She replaces Laurence Boone, who has resigned following her appointment as chief economist ...
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John Saunders has announced his wish to leave as chief...
John Saunders has announced his wish to leave as chief executive of the British Footwear Association (BFA) by the end of February, after the usual round of footwear trade show, triggering a search for his successor. Indicating that he is evaluating a couple of other options in the commercial field, ...
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Steve Madden’s sales are lifted by Anne Klein
Thanks to robust growth in its core Steve Madden Women's wholesale business, the Steve Madden group once again posted upbeat results in the third quarter. The wholesale accessories business was the standout, with sales increasing by nearly 20 percent on the back of a robust increase in Steve Madden handbags ...
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The president of Assocalzaturifici, Annarita Pilotti, met with Italian Prime...
The president of Assocalzaturifici, Annarita Pilotti, met with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the inauguration of Obuv' Mir Koži, the international exhibition for shoes and leather products in Moscow, and discussed with him of the difficult situation that Italian shoe companies exporting to the region are still facing. This ...
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Foster & Son has opened a new shoe factory in...
Foster & Son has opened a new shoe factory in Northampton, the first new shoe factory in decades in the U.K. The firm chose Oct. 25, the feast of St. Crispin, patron of industry, to inaugurate the facility. The factory currently employs eight workers, but the company plans to increase ...
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As planned, Joseph Cheaney & Sons has opened a store...
As planned, Joseph Cheaney & Sons has opened a store in the new Coal Drops Yard shopping district of London
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Karl-Heinz Müller, the founder of the Bread & Butter show,...
Karl-Heinz Müller, the founder of the Bread & Butter show, has canceled the L.O.C.K. trade show that was scheduled to take place on Jan. 15-17, 2019, at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin. In a statement, Müller says that there were uncertainties surrounding the rental of the airport's Hangar 7 ...
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Important changes at Alpargatas
After working for the Brazilian group for 21 years and running it for the last 15 years, Márcio Luiz Simões Utsch, whose name is generally shortened to Márcio Utsch, is planning to leave as chief executive of Alpargatas in the early part of the first quarter of 2019. Roberto Funari, ...
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Richemont teams up with Alibaba, Kering goes solo
Richemont, which recently acquired Yoox Net-A-Porter (YNAP), has signed a joint venture with Alibaba to offer luxury brands on a new e-commerce website of Alibaba, the Tmall Luxury Pavilion. Mobile apps will be launched in China for YNAP's Mr. Porter and Net-A-Porter websites with Alibaba's technology, logistics, payment and marketing ...
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Lowa has announced that Alexander Nicolai will join the top...
Lowa has announced that Alexander Nicolai will join the top management on Jan. 1 as joint managing director alongside Werner Riethmann, the German company's longtime chief executive, and Rudolf Limmer and Matthias Wanner, the commercial director and international sales manager. Nicolai has been heading up design and product development at ...
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Joya and Kybun have recently signed a cooperation agreement. The...
Joya and Kybun have recently signed a cooperation agreement. The Swiss brands of comfort shoes will from now on have a common warehouse in order to serve customers faster and more efficiently. In order to meet the planned expansion outside its domestic market, Switzerland, Kybun will move to additional offices ...
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Toms comes out against gun violence
Blake Mycoskie, founder of Toms Shoes, appeared earlier this month on a very popular American TV program, The Tonight Show, and took a stance in a contentious debate. Weeping as he recalled recent shootings on American soil – particularly the one in Thousand Oaks, California, about 30 straight-line miles from ...
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Bally has opened a store in Buenos Aires, after a...
Bally has opened a store in Buenos Aires, after a long absence from the market
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Trade tensions affect Chinese e-tailers
Investors have become more cautious toward China's two biggest e-tailers, the Alibaba Group and JD.com, citing their growing competition and the escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and China.In reporting its results for its second quarter ended on Sept. 30, which showed the lowest growth rate of the past two ...
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Obuv Rossii adds more doors in Russia than planned
Russia's major shoe retailer, Obuv Rossii, opened 51 directly-operated stores (DOS) and 20 partner stores under the Lisette and S-TEP banners in the third quarter of 2018. In total, 36 percent of all DOS were launched in Central Russia, another 34 percent in Siberia, 29 percent in the Urals and ...
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Michael Kors, which acquired Jimmy Choo in November of last...
Michael Kors, which acquired Jimmy Choo in November of last year, reported better than expected revenues from the brand for the second quarter of its financial year, ended on Sept. 30, with double-digit growth on a pro forma basis. A contribution of $116.7 million from Jimmy Choo helped boost the ...
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Stuart Weitzman's sales declined by one percent to $95 million...
Stuart Weitzman's sales declined by one percent to $95 million in the first quarter of Tapestry's financial year, ended on Sept. 29. The drop was attributed to ongoing development and delivery delays, but the management said that production levels and shipments have now stabilized. The total revenues of the group, ...
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Diego Della Valle, whose family owns 61.5 percent of Tod's,...
Diego Della Valle, whose family owns 61.5 percent of Tod's, has “categorically” ruled out selling the company or any of its assets. In an interview with the daily La Repubblica, Della Valle, who is also chairman and co-chief executive of the company, said that he would be willing to buy ...
