All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 21, Issue 11-12 – Page 2
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Camper is looking for a new creative director following the...
Camper is looking for a new creative director following the departure of Romain Kremer, who last signed off the Spanish company's autumn/winter 2019/20 collection. He had been working with the company since 2009, acting as a consultant until he was made creative director in 2014.
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The Yoox Net-a-Porter Group has launched a contest called Incredible...
The Yoox Net-a-Porter Group has launched a contest called Incredible Girls of the Future for women aged 16 to 25 years who aspire to become entrepreneurs. The contestants have to develop a fashion app by July, the first of its kind to support sustainable development in the industry. The winner ...
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Calico turns to its domestic market
An Indian manufacturer of leather and shoes, Calico, exports 95 percent of its production, mainly to Europe. It started selling locally in September 2018 but currently only offers safety footwear for the Indian market under the Torp brand. Safety shoes represent 30 percent of the firm's total revenues, including leather.“There's ...
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Mixed quarter for Caleres
Caleres recorded a drop of 18.8 percent in adjusted net earnings to $15.0 million for the first quarter of 2019, ended on May 4. The adjusted Ebitda margin fell by 0.2 percentage points to 3.7 percent, due primarily to a number of headwinds including unseasonable weather conditions that forced its ...
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Desma has started to build a new factory at its...
Desma has started to build a new factory at its production site in Achim, near Bremen. The new factory building will have an area of 12,000 square meters with an additional 4,500 square meters of office space. The company plans to conclude the project by autumn 2020. The so-called “factory ...
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The number of brick-and-mortar stores for footwear and clothing has...
The number of brick-and-mortar stores for footwear and clothing has shrunk considerably in Italy in the last eight years. Since 2011, 3,300 shoe stores and over 13,000 clothing stores have been closed, according to a study by Confesercenti, the Italian retailers' association. On the other hand, the share taken by ...
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Rocky Brands off to a good start
Thanks to the implementation of several measures to cut cost and boost growth - including the update of its manufacturing capabilities in 2017 - Rocky Brands' retail sales recorded double-digit growth during the first quarter of 2019, while the wholesale business posted a solid gain. The gross margin and profits ...
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Mixed start of the year for Designer Brands
The situation was not very different for Designer Brands, the American shoe retailing group previously called DSW, which reported a 28.4 percent increase in its net income to $31.2 million for the quarter ended on May 4. The company's operating margin (Ebit) declined by 0.4 percentage points to 5.0 percent, ...
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Ram launches domestic brands
Ram Fashion Exports, a large Indian shoe company that is manufacturing about 8,000 pairs a day, believes that domestic sales could represent half of its sales in about two to three years' time, compared with 15 percent currently.Ram has 30-40 foreign clients, largely in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, with ...
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Keen launches an ecological plastic boat tour
True to its motto “Better Takes Action,” Keen Footwear is launching a new, original broad-based environmental campaign in key European countries, heralding a new round of activities this year through a so-called “Better Takes Action Boat Tour.”An Amsterdam-based project partner of Keen, which goes by the name “Plastic Whale,” has ...
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Manolo Blahnik's creations will be on display at the Wallace...
Manolo Blahnik's creations will be on display at the Wallace Collection in London, next to works of art from the museum's collection. The exhibition, entitled “An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik at the Wallace Collection,” will run from June 10 to Sept. 1. Besides presenting the creative process of the Spanish ...
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Bikkembergs has entrusted the production and worldwide distribution of children's...
Bikkembergs has entrusted the production and worldwide distribution of children's shoes to Elisabet, the shoe manufacturer based in Monte Urano, in Italy's Marche region. The contract will start with the spring/summer 2020 collection, which will be presented at Pitti Bimbo in Florence, on June 20-22, 2019.
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Görtz, the big German shoe retailer that changed ownership and...
Görtz, the big German shoe retailer that changed ownership and management last year, and BNS Bergal, the German company behind the Nico and Solitaire brands of footwear accessories, have developed a new line of shoe care products for sneakers. It will be available in all Görtz stores from June and ...
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Birkenstock recently opened its manufacturing sites in Görlitz and Bernstadt...
Birkenstock recently opened its manufacturing sites in Görlitz and Bernstadt to a group of journalists from 13 countries, as reported by Fashion Network. The journalists were given a tour of the company's facilities in May. It was the first time that the company had granted access to its production facilities ...
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Brazilian footwear is benefiting from the trade war with China
Things seem to be looking up for Brazilian footwear. From January to April of this year, the industry exported 44.16 million pairs valued at $343.8 million, a 9.4 percent increase in pairs combined with a 0.1 percent decrease in dollars. The chief importer was the U.S., which has been purchasing ...
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In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram...
In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram has launched its own internet retail account internationally under @shop. Its own team recommends products such as shoes, handbags and pullovers, tracking trends and posting their pictures on its social media platform, which is owned by Facebook, just like its ...
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Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because...
Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because it is losing about 20-30 million transactions per year, which equals about €1 billion in sales, due to a lack of stock in its own warehouses. Zalando is already working with more than 1,000 shops in Germany, but wants to ...
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The battle for control of Netshoes, the Brazialian e-tailer, is...
The battle for control of Netshoes, the Brazialian e-tailer, is escalating. As reported in our last issue, Magazine Luiza initially made a bid for Netshoes at $2.00 per share, valuing the company at $62 million. Late last month, Grupo SBF, which owns the big Centauro chain of sporting goods stores, ...
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Bata India, Relaxo, Liberty post strong results
Three big Indian shoe retailers – Bata India, Relaxo and Liberty Shoes in order of size – posted strong results in the full year ended on March 31 but registered a slowdown in the final quarter.India's largest footwear retailer, Bata India, reported a 7 percent increase in its sales to ...
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Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first...
Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first French monobrand store at the end of July. As reported by fashionnetwork.com, the 50-square-meter shop will be located in Paris' Marais district, at 12 rue du Temple.
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