All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 21, Issue 13-14 – Page 3
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Schuh Mücke, the big German shoe and sporting goods retail...
Schuh Mücke, the big German shoe and sporting goods retail chain within the ANWR Group, has reported a decrease in sales of 6.5 percent to €97.2 million for 2018, as compared to the previous year. Sales increased by 6.7 percent in 2017 as compared to 2016. The sales figure for ...
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The family-owned Kienast Group has won a bidding race for...
The family-owned Kienast Group has won a bidding race for a strategic investment in the insolvent Schuhpark Fascies chain of shoe shops in Germany. On June 30, the district court of Münster repealed the chain's bankruptcy proceeding, and the creditors of Schuhpark Fascies have now approved the investment from Kienast. As part of ...
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Flip Flop, the German shoe brand of Bernd Hummel, is...
Flip Flop, the German shoe brand of Bernd Hummel, is putting out a special model replicating the design of the Mercedes X-Class series. It can be ordered through the online store of Mercedes-Benz.
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Bernd Hummel, the German-based licensee of Kangaroos, has encouraged customers...
Bernd Hummel, the German-based licensee of Kangaroos, has encouraged customers to donate their sneakers to homeless people by delivering them until July 16 to any of four stores: in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne or Munich. The action was coordinated together with the Sneaker Freaker magazine, the Seek show in Berlin and ...
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Working with a local partner, Berkemann has opened two stores...
Working with a local partner, Berkemann has opened two stores in Taipei
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The companies belonging to the Italian footwear cluster of the...
The companies belonging to the Italian footwear cluster of the Riviera del Brenta, near Venice, generated overall revenues of €2,087 million in 2018, contributing 20.7 percent of the overall turnover of the Italian shoe industry, according to the local trade association. The district has 553 companies, which employ more than ...
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Belle plans to spin off Topsports
After going private two years ago, Belle International is preparing a public offering for Topsports, a retail subsidiary that is regarded as China's largest network of sporting goods stores. A listing application was made on June 27 to the Hong Kong stock exchange for the IPO, showing that it would ...
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The big Chinese Huajian Group, which has been operating in...
The big Chinese Huajian Group, which has been operating in Ethiopia since 2011, is reportedly planning to invest $100 million in the construction of new shoe manufacturing and coffee processing factories in the country's Jimma Industrial Park. An agreement signed in May with the Ethiopian government will also see Huajian ...
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Thomas Camille has been made chief executive of Pataugas, the...
Thomas Camille has been made chief executive of Pataugas, the French footwear brand previously owned by Vivarte, with plans to focus on capsule collections, co-branding and expansions of the distribution network and international e-commerce. Camille has previously held chief-executive posts at the apparel firms Leoca, ElevenParis and Celioclub. He was ...
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BASF is investing to strengthen its presence in the footwear...
BASF is investing to strengthen its presence in the footwear industry. The company has recently expanded its Footwear Development Center in Italy, and has opened a new center in Thailand. Both facilities feature new machinery with direct injection molding technology. Most recently, BASF has opened a new 2,000-square-foot Footwear Development ...
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A big Russian shoe retailer is close to bankruptcy
The Russian Federal Tax Service has opened a case against a big Russian shoe retailer, Tervolina, asking for its insolvency unless it pays back taxes. The company is already subject to several enforcement proceedings over the total debt of 2.8 million rubles (€39,000-$44,000) owed to other creditors, according to an ...
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Balmain has launched its first collection of leather sneakers. The...
Balmain has launched its first collection of leather sneakers. The Paris-based fashion house, which is controlled by Mayhoola for Investments, believes that the entry into the new market will lead to a double-digit growth in 2019, after increasing its turnover from €136 million in 2016 to €180-185 million in 2018. ...
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Attendance keeps steady at Expo Riva Schuh
The 92nd edition of Expo Riva Schuh, held June 15-18, attracted more than 12,000 visitors from 111 countries, largely in line with the score a year ago and with organizers' expectations. The trade show had 1,462 exhibitors, of which 266 were Italian and the rest foreign, the largest delegation being ...
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Vivarte asks shareholders to inject more funds or quit
Vivarte, which still owns several shoe retailing chains in France, asked its institutional shareholders on July 11 to refinance the group once more, or to write off their investments in the group and let its creditors take over its control. They have 15 days to make up their minds.The main ...
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Putin is asked to stop smuggling from China
A big Russian shoe manufacturer and retailer, Unichel, has appealed directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking for protection of the domestic footwear market from overwhelming smuggling of products into the country.In a video posted to YouTube, officials of the company estimated that the share of smuggled products on the ...
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Veja appoints new CEO for global growth
Veja, the French-based brand of sustainable sneakers, has appointed Laure Browne as the group's new chief executive. It is the first time in the company's 15-year history that its co-founders, Sébastien Kopp and Ghislain Morillion, appoint someone else for this role. Previously, Browne worked in senior positions at Auchan Retail, ...
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Farfetch has appointed Kshitij Kumar and Holli Rogers to the...
Farfetch has appointed Kshitij Kumar and Holli Rogers to the newly created roles of chief data officer and chief brand officer, respectively. In his new role as chief data officer, Kshitij Kumar is expected to drive forward the company's use of artificial intelligence and data science. He joins from Zalando, ...
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Tretorn, the Swedish footwear and outerwear brand, has appointed Magnus...
Tretorn, the Swedish footwear and outerwear brand, has appointed Magnus Månsson as its new chief executive. Most recently, from May 2017 to June this year, he served as chief executive at Gina Tricot, the Swedish fashion chain. Prior to that, he was chief executive of Nelly, the fashion e-tailer. He ...
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Keen Footwear appointed Dieter Klingenberg last month to the recently...
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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Baldinini is licensing out a line of apparel to LMC...
Baldinini is licensing out a line of apparel to LMC Italia, starting with the imminent autumn/winter season
