All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 21, Issue 11-12 – Page 3

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    Sugi International, the footwear trading company based in Hong Kong,...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Sugi International, the footwear trading company based in Hong Kong, has signed a two-year, worldwide agreement with Franklin & Marshall, which will also see Sugi take over the brand by 2022. Franklin & Marshall, founded in 1999 by Giuseppe Albarelli and Andrea Pensiero, is an Italian streetwear and sportswear manufacturer ...

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    Weak exports from Bangladesh’s leather industry

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Bangladesh's leather industry recorded an 8.7 percent decline in its export revenues to $837 million for the ten months ended on April 30. This was well short of the turnover needed to meet the government's target of $1.1 billion for the fiscal year ending July 31.According to the Bangladesh Tanners' ...

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    HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, and a...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, and a German trade union, IG BCE, concluded last month a new collective labor agreement, valid until 2025, for the German footwear industry. In September 2016, IG BCE had terminated all collective agreements as well as wage and salary agreements for the ...

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    Last month, Birkenstock received the renowned Art Directors Club award,...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Last month, Birkenstock received the renowned Art Directors Club award, for a series of short films called Birkenstories. The films, produced in-house, show longtime fans of Birkenstock's sandals from around the world. The Art Directors contest is one of the biggest creative competitions in the German-speaking world and is considered ...

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    Keen Footwear appointed Dieter Klingenberg last month to the recently...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Keen Footwear appointed Dieter Klingenberg last month to the recently created position of sales and business development director for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and Scandinavia. Simultaneously, Perry Laukens was appointed to the newly created position of sales and business director for the U.K., France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and nine ...

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    VF Corp. has appointed Cameron Bailey as vice-president of global...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    VF Corp. has appointed Cameron Bailey as vice-president of global supply chain, effective June 1. He replaces Tom Glaser, who has left VF after 18 years to take over the role of chief operations officer at Tapestry, formerly known as Coach Inc. Bailey has spent his entire career in manufacturing ...

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    Ferdinand Richter, the Austrian children's shoe producer, has appointed another...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Ferdinand Richter, the Austrian children's shoe producer, has appointed another seasoned executive, Thomas Ridder, to the position of joint managing director. He will work together with Josef Renner, who had been appointed to the same position in April. Renner has been involved in sales at Legero since 2001. Prior to ...

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    La Halle has announced the departure of Philippe Thirache, who...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    La Halle has announced the departure of Philippe Thirache, who has been the president of the big French apparel and footwear retailer since 2016. Thirache has been replaced with immediate effect by Stéphane Roche, who has been the managing director of Vivarte, La Halle's parent company, for the past two ...

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    Inditex, the owner of Zara, has announced the promotion of...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Inditex, the owner of Zara, has announced the promotion of Carlos Crespo to chief executive. Crespo, who was most recently the company's chief operating officer, will take over some of the functions of Pablo Isla, who had the dual role of chief executive and chairman. The company is now splitting ...

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    Pierantonio Regeni, a former official of Ernst & Young who...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Pierantonio Regeni, a former official of Ernst & Young who has served as chief financial officer of Lumberjack for the past five years, is leaving to take a similar post at Calzaturificio Scarpa, reporting to Diego Bolzonello, the former chief executive of Geox who became the CEO of this Italian ...

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    Hugs & Co., a British footwear brand, has launched the...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Hugs & Co., a British footwear brand, has launched the TS1, a new environmentally friendly driving loafer made with old tires. The shoe combines Italian leather uppers with soles made from waste tire material. According to the brand, the repurposed material adds durability and grip. The TS1 collection comprises eight ...

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    OrthoLite, the American insole specialist, has hired Milton Brice as...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    OrthoLite, the American insole specialist, has hired Milton Brice as chief financial officer and Mark Coffield as general manager for Vietnam, where OrthoLite has recently inaugurated a manufacturing plant. Brice has previously worked for The Hershey Company in Asia and South America. Coffield, who will lead Ortholite's new Vietnamese factory, ...

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    Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has announced that his company should be delivering packages with drones “within months.” Speaking at Re:Mars – the e-tail behemoth's conference on machine learning, automation, robotics and space, held on June 4-7 in Las Vegas – Wilke said that Amazon's latest ...

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    Also a growing market for foreign brands

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Among the U.S. brands, Crocs entered the Indian market in 2008 and is now sold in over 1,500 single-brand and multi-brand points of sale in 150 cities. The company has just appointed a new general manager for India, Sri Lanka and Nepal, Sumit Dhingra, who previously worked for Arvind Fashions. ...

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    The Signa Retail group is taking over all the shares...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    The Signa Retail group is taking over all the shares it doesn't own in the joint venture it formed last year with Hudson's Bay Company of Canada, called Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, including the real estate that was previously shared. It is reportedly paying about one billion euros for the assets. ...

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    Fabi has commissioned the agency of Rainer Barth with the distribution...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Fabi has commissioned the agency of Rainer Barth with the distribution of its main brand in the German, Swiss and Austrian markets, starting with the spring/summer 2020 season, according to Schuhkurier. Modeist, the Munich-based agency of Marion Timothy, will market the company's other more casual brand, Barracuda. Due to ongoing difficulties ...

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    After a beta test in France that began a year...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    After a beta test in France that began a year ago, Google is taking its Shopping Actions experience to the U.S. With this application, customers are able to buy products online from a brand or a retailer through their own Google account, without registering for the service and without leaving ...

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    After the opening of its ninth store in Turin, the...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    After the opening of its ninth store in Turin, the Italian PittaRosso chain has launched its first private label footwear collection, called P Essential, for the current spring/summer season, which includes models for everyday life, ballerinas and sandals

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    Kurt Geiger has appointed Adam Schneider, formerly at Lloyd Shoe...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Kurt Geiger has appointed Adam Schneider, formerly at Lloyd Shoe and Debenhams, as its new own-label head of menswear

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    CCC acquires Gino Rossi

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    CCC Shoe & Bags, the fast-growing Polish retailing group, announced on May 24 the acquisition of a 90.02 stake in another Polish shoe company, Gino Rossi, through an equity increase worth 60.2 million zlotys (€14.1m-$16.0m). It had already made a strategic cooperation agreement with the company last September, allowing CCC ...