All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 21, Issue 11-12 – Page 4

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    According to a German newspaper, Express, Birkenstock wants to expand...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    According to a German newspaper, Express, Birkenstock wants to expand its operations in Cologne, where it will be moving some 200 employees currently working in Rahms near Neustadt-Wied. Consequently, the staff of Birkenstock's site in Rahms will be cut in half before its eventual shutdown in the future. As of ...

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    According to a recently published survey by Lyst, the London-based...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    According to a recently published survey by Lyst, the London-based search engine for fashion items, the share of consumers searching for fair and sustainable fashion increased by 80 percent in 2018, as compared to the previous year. Finnish consumers were found to have the strongest awareness for sustainable clothes, followed ...

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    Tapestry, the New York based luxury accessories and lifestyle group...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Tapestry, the New York based luxury accessories and lifestyle group whose holdings include Stuart Weitzman, has hired Thomas A. Glaser to be its chief operations officer. Glaser will have full charge of the supply chain and functional oversight of product development and manufacturing resources, distribution, logistics, replenishment, e-commerce fulfillment and ...

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    Italy is suffering from a 30 percent unemployment rate among...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Italy is suffering from a 30 percent unemployment rate among young people, 7 percent higher than the EU average. Nevertheless, Italian companies often find it hard to recruit, especially in certain sectors, including shoe and leather goods firms. According to an estimate by Fondazione Altagamma, based on Unioncamere figures, Italian ...

  • Short stops

    Timberland plans to open between 25 and 30 new directly...

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Timberland plans to open between 25 and 30 new directly owned and franchised stores in Europe

  • Article

    Indian leather shoe exports up by nearly 1%

    2019-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Exports of leather footwear rose by 0.95 percent to the equivalent of $1.8 billion in the ten months from April 2018 to January 2019, while overall exports of leather products dropped by 1.10 percent to $4.5 billion, according to the Indian Council for Leather Exports (CLE). Exports of leather shoes ...