All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 21, Issue 23-24 – Page 4
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Barbara Rybka, senior vice president of global digital operations at...
Barbara Rybka, senior vice president of global digital operations at Gucci, is leaving the company after nine years, according to fashionmagazine.it. She was responsible for the relaunch of Gucci's website in 2015. Two other top managers have left the company in the last few weeks. Jacopo Venturini, who took responsibility ...
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Rihanna, the famous Barbadian singer, has chosen the Jordanian-Romanian designer...
Rihanna, the famous Barbadian singer, has chosen the Jordanian-Romanian designer Amina Muaddi to create the footwear for its Fenty label, where she is partnering with LVMH. Muaddi will continue to work on the shoe collection of a French fashion designer, Alexandre Vauthier.
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Shoe Carnival bounced back in the third quarter
After a sluggish first half of the year, the low-priced American shoe retailer saw revenues for its third fiscal quarter increase by 2.0 percent from the year-ago quarter to $274.6 million. Comparable store sales jumped by 3.5 percent in the important back-to-school season.The company saw broad-based strength across all product ...
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The famous French Babybotte brand of children's shoes has been...
The famous French Babybotte brand of children's shoes has been acquired by an unnamed Thai investor who is not involved in the shoe sector for €920,000, according to Jean-Pierre Bidegain, a now retired member of the family that used to own it. Babybotte is one of the brands that belonged ...
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Lloyd has won HashMag's blogger award for its biker boot...
Lloyd has won HashMag's blogger award for its biker boot for women made of buffalo leather with decorative elastic lacing elements
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Under the auspices of the European Footwear Confederation (CEC), nine...
Under the auspices of the European Footwear Confederation (CEC), nine European footwear technology centers have agreed to join forces to further footwear research and knowledge creation. The members of the network are CTC (France), CTCP (Portugal), CTCR (Spain), the footwear research center of Tomas Bata University (Czech Republic), Inescop (Spain), ...
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The Association of Footwear and Related Industries of La Rioja...
The Association of Footwear and Related Industries of La Rioja (AICCOR) and the Footwear Technology Center of La Rioja (CTCR) have elected Laborio Sevilla to a four-year term as president. Sevilla is managing director of Nuevo Milenio, the family-owned footwear group behind the Victoria and Wamba brands. He belongs to ...
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Siro Badon, president of the Italian footwear association, Assocalzaturifici, has...
Siro Badon, president of the Italian footwear association, Assocalzaturifici, has once again urged Italian politicians and institutions to intervene at the European level to introduce mandatory origin labeling in order to protect Italian industry. During the presentation of an action plan at the prime minister's office in Rome, Badon said ...
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Under Armour boosts Vulcabras’ results
Vulcabras has reported a sales increase of 11.6 percent to 359.4 million Brazilian reais (€76.4m-$84.2m) for the third quarter of 2019, thanks in part to the higher-prices shoe that the company is selling with the Under Armour brand name in Brazil under its new contract with the American company. The ...
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Apple of Eden, the Portuguese shoe brand, is currently building...
Apple of Eden, the Portuguese shoe brand, is currently building a new headquarters in Porto. The two-story, 3,500-square-meter building will be finished in the third quarter of 2020, in time for the brand's 10th anniversary. Apple of Eden currently outsources its logistics to a local partner but will be taking ...
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Zalando is selling Kickz, its sub-e-tailer for sneakers, street apparel...
Zalando is selling Kickz, its sub-e-tailer for sneakers, street apparel and accessories. The acquirer is Play Hard, a recent subsidiary of Crealize, described as a German “company creator” that “develops new business models and companies.” Zalando purchased Kickz as recently as 2017, intending to expand its position in streetwear, gaining ...
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The Portuguese footwear association, Apiccaps, expects the country's shoe exports...
The Portuguese footwear association, Apiccaps, expects the country's shoe exports to fall by 5 percent in 2019, marking the second annual decline in a row after 10 years of growth. In an interview with the daily Jornal de Negócios, Apiccaps' communications director, Paulo Gonçalves, said that exports were affected by ...
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Michael Decker has been appointed chief executive of ANWR Media,...
Michael Decker has been appointed chief executive of ANWR Media, replacing Alexander Hock and Gregor Bernhart, who will leave the company on Dec. 31. ANWR Media was created in 2014 to develop digital tools for the retail members of the entire ANWR Group, as well as for their trading partners. ...
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Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, has...
Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, has been relaunched. The German buying group has updated its platform with a new design, several new functions and better compatibility with smartphones and tablets. Check-out has been simplified, the website's loading time has been cut and search engine structures have ...
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GMS, the German voluntary group of shoe retailers, announced at...
GMS, the German voluntary group of shoe retailers, announced at its annual general meeting that it will continue to focus on family-run shoe and sporting goods retailers in 2020. GMS has reported that sales in 2019 were stable from the previous year. In that time, it has welcomed 121 new ...
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Timberland has announced a partnership with Other Half Processing to...
Timberland has announced a partnership with Other Half Processing to build a leather supply chain sourced from regenerative ranches. Ranchers and farmers who use regenerative grazing practices in the management of their cattle enable more rest and re-growth of grasses. These practices can lead to better food for livestock and ...
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Anika Schuh, a German shoe retail chain that went bankrupt...
Anika Schuh, a German shoe retail chain that went bankrupt in December 2017, is about to overcome the insolvency. On Nov. 18, its creditors held a meeting where they all agreed to approve the management plan presented by the company's court-appointed administrators. Jörg Ullbrich, the founder of Anika Schuh, is ...
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An Italian charity initiative, “Anche con i Piedi si Può...
An Italian charity initiative, “Anche con i Piedi si Può Dare una Mano” (You can also lend a hand with your feet) has collected 21,500 pairs of shoes from five footwear manufacturers for children in Malawi. A further 26 companies have made financial contributions, funding the construction of 10 kindergartens ...
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Stephen Galloway, an American choreographer and former main dancer at...
Stephen Galloway, an American choreographer and former main dancer at the Frankfurt Ballet, choreographed Salvatore Ferragamo's newest advertising clip. The clip features five models – Nataliya Bulycheva, Imari Karanja, Songhwa Oh, Liam Kelly and Alton Mason – wearing the brand's footwear, clothes and accessories.
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Obuv Rossii enters new markets via Alibaba
The big Russian footwear retailer has begun selling shoes through the Tmall marketplace operated by Aliexpress Russia, and plans to use that channel to enter new countries including Georgia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Obuv Rossii said it has begun with a test with women's shoes under its own flagship brand, Westfalika.Obuv ...
