All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 20, Issue 5-6 – Page 3
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A new Clergerie Paris flagship store has just opened at...
A new Clergerie Paris flagship store has just opened at 901 Madison Avenue in New York, joining 15 other stores that have been trading under the Robert Clergerie banner in the U.S., France, Switzerland, Spain and the U.K. At the age of 83, the founder of the brand, Robert Clergerie ...
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Lloyd launches a new store concept in China
After a long search for a suitable location, Lloyd Shoes has opened a 70-square-meter concept store in Bremen, where the brand was founded 130 years ago. It has also launched an interesting new retail concept in China.To celebrate the opening of the Bremen store, Lloyd held a draw for invited ...
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The outgoing chief executive and managing director of Tod's, Stefano...
The outgoing chief executive and managing director of Tod's, Stefano Sincini, will receive a €3.7 million severance package when he leaves the group at the next annual shareholder meeting, to be held on April 16 or 26. The package includes €1.8 million for a two-year non competition clause valid in ...
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Wolverine Worldwide has named Greg Tunney, a former chief executive...
Wolverine Worldwide has named Greg Tunney, a former chief executive of RG Barry and current president of the Two Ten Foundation, as president of its Hush Puppies brand, replacing Bill Mirecki who is moving to Asia to foster the growth of the Merrell brand in the region
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Cheaneys is opening its ninth store in London in October,...
Cheaneys is opening its ninth store in London in October, with a different design. It will join Paul Smith, Nike, Carhartt, Sweaty Betty and other single-brand stores in a new shopping district in London, called the Coal Drops Yard, near King's Cross and the St. Pancras railway station.
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Ferragamo’s chairman takes over as the CEO leaves
Salvatore Ferragamo's board of directors has given the power to run the company on an interim basis to its chairman, Ferruccio Ferragamo, after the company's short-lived chief executive, Eraldo Poletto, stepped down on March 8 both from his job and the board. He was replaced on the board by Giacomo ...
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Zalando invests in new markets, categories and infrastructure
Zalando wants to move into two unidentified new European markets as part of multi-faceted investments targeting a sales increase of 20 percent to 25 percent and continuing market share gains this year.The German online fashion retailer raised its turnover by 23.4 percent to €4,489 million in 2017, driven by a ...
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Permactum, a new holding company formed last summer to carry...
Permactum, a new holding company formed last summer to carry out the reorganization of Schlatholst, has filed for insolvency proceedings. The Germany shoe retailer has reduced the number of its stores to 12 from 22 in 2015, when it first filed for insolvency.
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Caleres posts strong results
Caleres, the owner of the Famous Footwear retail chain and brands such as Naturalizer, Sam Edelman and Franco Sarto, ended its financial year on a high note, with improvements in sales, margins and earnings.Consolidated sales reached $774.7 million for the fourth quarter ended Feb. 3, up by 9.8 percent from ...
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Converse opened a hotel-inspired pop-up in a five-floor building in...
Converse opened a hotel-inspired pop-up in a five-floor building in London, in the heart of Shoreditch, on Feb. 16-17. The project, hosted at 155 New North Rd, Hoxton, celebrated in particular the brand's One Star trainers. The two-day “Converse One Star Hotel” featured exclusive One Star products from the spring ...
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Rocky Brands returns to profitability
After recording heavy losses in 2016, Rocky Brands' profits improved significantly in the fourth quarter and the full year. Net income came in at $4.4 million, as compared to a net loss of $634,249 for the year-ago quarter. Due to the recently enacted tax reform, Rocky recognized a one-time income ...
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Munich, the Spanish brand of sports and lifestyle footwear, has...
Munich, the Spanish brand of sports and lifestyle footwear, has opened its 9th store in Barcelona, raising the number of directly operated stores in Spain to 15. Located in the Splau di Cornelià shopping center in the district of Llobregat, the 45-square-meter experiential store makes use of methacrylate to spread ...
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Skechers was honored as Ladies Brand of the Year for...
Skechers was honored as Ladies Brand of the Year for the second year in a row in the British Footwear Industry Awards. Among other honors, it was also praised as Leader in Customer Service for the first time.
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Pavers is buying Jones Bootmaker
Pavers is buying Jones Bootmaker from Endless, a private equity firm, for an undisclosed amount. The deal has been made through a pre-pack administration, a procedure which enables to sell a business as a “going concern” without affecting the continuity of business operations. The assets of the company are marketed ...
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Bogs' struggles continue
Bogs did not manage to reverse its fortunes during the latest quarter, after several months of decline. The brand's revenues for the three months ended Dec. 31 fell by 10 percent from the year-ago quarter. The management said that the fourth quarter looked very promising during the early November cold ...
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Humanic’s parent performs better
Announcing its intention to open up to 50 new stores in the medium term in Austria and neighboring countries, Leder & Schuh reported a big improvement in operating earnings (Ebit) for last year to €15 million from €12 million in 2016, in spite of investments of €10 million for the ...
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Central Trade Germany, the company run by Bernd Hillen, has...
Central Trade Germany, the company run by Bernd Hillen, has commissioned Widmann Trading as the Austrian agent for Blundstone
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Erica Vilkauls, a former merchandise director of L.K. Bennett, has...
Erica Vilkauls, a former merchandise director of L.K. Bennett, has been appointed chief executive of the British brand of shoes and accessories. Next month, she will replace Darren Topp, who has held the post since September 2016. Topp was credited with an outstanding job at the company after it returned ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo has been handed a default judgment by a...
Salvatore Ferragamo has been handed a default judgment by a New York court in a counterfeit and trademark infringement lawsuit it filed last year against the 60 unidentified holders of dozens of counterfeit-selling websites, after none of the defendants responded to the lawsuit or appeared in court. The court has ...
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Sonja Bata, the widow of Thomas J. Bata and the...
Sonja Bata, the widow of Thomas J. Bata and the founder of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, died at the age of 91. First established in 1995, the museum hosts more than 13,000 shoe models from 45 centuries and from all over the world that she helped collect, frequently ...
