All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 21, Issue 7-8 – Page 5
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Alpargatas, which owns the Havaianas brand of rubber shoes, has...
Alpargatas, which owns the Havaianas brand of rubber shoes, has made Scott Ziegler its new retail director for Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA), with responsibility for the region's 170 Havaianas points of sale, from mono-brand stores to franchisees and concessions. Ziegler is no stranger to the region, having ...
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Allbirds is starting up in China with a physical store...
Allbirds is starting up in China with a physical store in Shanghai and an online shop on Tmall
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The Tod's brand has hired the designer Alber Elbaz to...
The Tod's brand has hired the designer Alber Elbaz to work on its Tod's Factory project, which involves the contribution of external designers on a rotating basis. Elbaz was creative director at the French fashion house of Lanvin from 2001 to 2015. He will be the second designer to take ...
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Allbirds has joined the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA)'s new Associate...
Allbirds has joined the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA)'s new Associate Partners circle. The mission of the GFA is to mobilize the global fashion industry to set a common agenda for industry efforts on sustainability in fashion. The forum is also known for organizing the annual Copenhagen Fashion Summit. Its Associate ...
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Veja has announced a lawsuit against Primark for copying the...
Veja has announced a lawsuit against Primark for copying the design of its V 10 Extra White Nautico Pekin sneakers. The trademark of the V 10 shoe consists of the “V” on the upper area of the shoe, a rubber sole and insole, upper and panels in leather, the word ...
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Falc caters more to adults than before
Falc is launching a new label, Tu & Io by Naturino (You & I by Naturino), for children and their mothers. The company has launched a spring/summer 2019 collection of customizable children's shoes – largely sneakers – under its Naturino brand name and will be accompanying it in the next ...
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Kaps acquired Tacco Footcare, the German family-owned shoe-care producer, at...
Kaps acquired Tacco Footcare, the German family-owned shoe-care producer, at the end of February. Through the acquisition, the Polish-based producer of shoe-care products expands its portfolio of brands. Tacco will add a wide range of products to Kaps' existing range, which includes insoles, cotton laces, boot-trees, shoehorns and brushes, among ...
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Huajian is looking at investments in the Egyptian market, according...
Huajian is looking at investments in the Egyptian market, according to a recent statement by the Egyptian trade minister, Amr Nassar. The company is planning to build a new industrial area in El Roubiki Leather City, in the suburbs of Egypt's capital city, not far from Cairo's international airport. The ...
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Perús, a fair-trade brand of Peruvian-themed footwear and accessories, has...
Perús, a fair-trade brand of Peruvian-themed footwear and accessories, has opened a store in the Marais neighborhood of Paris. The young company dates back to a backpacking trip taken by its three French founders – Nicolas Langlois d'Estaintot, Armand de Juniac and Henri Flouquet – through Latin America in 2014. ...
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has appointed Gary...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has appointed Gary Simmons, director of Intradeco Apparel, as its new chairman. He replaces Thomas Glaser of VF Corp., who is stepping down at the end of his one-year term.
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The Eighth Commercial Court (Juzgado de lo Mercantil número 8)...
The Eighth Commercial Court (Juzgado de lo Mercantil número 8) of Madrid has ruled that Scalpers' white vintage-style sneakers are not a “disloyal copy” of Adidas' Stan Smith sneakers. As the court explained, there are many similar sneakers on the market, the Stan Smith model does not enjoy a “competitive ...
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Sabu has moved to a new head office of 750...
Sabu has moved to a new head office of 750 square meters in Heilbronn, not far from its previous location
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Brazil's footwear exports decreased by 7.7 percent in volume and...
Brazil's footwear exports decreased by 7.7 percent in volume and 9.4 percent in revenues in March, as compared with the same period last year, with 9 million pairs priced at $83.9 million, bringing to a short-lived recovery to an end. For the full first quarter of 2019, exports were still ...
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Salamander has appointed Jochen Haag, 51, to the executive board...
Salamander has appointed Jochen Haag, 51, to the executive board responsible for international retail operations, effective on April 1. The German-based shoe producer and retailer, which has been fully owned by the Ara Group since 2016, also appointed Jens Keller, manager of commercial operations at Salamander since 2012, as “speaker” ...
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Lars Hemming, a 45-year-old Danish expert in digital marketing, brand...
Lars Hemming, a 45-year-old Danish expert in digital marketing, brand building and transformation, is set to become a new member of Ecco's executive board at the Danish company's annual meeting on May 29. He will join the six other members of the executive board, led by Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak.
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Hermès posts a 34% Ebit margin
Hermès International has yet to publish its sales figures for the first quarter, but while expressing a cautious outlook for the balance of this year, the company's management confirmed that it had not seen any change in demand from Asian customers and other sales trends. It added that all its ...
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About 300 delegates – one-third of them from outside Italy...
About 300 delegates – one-third of them from outside Italy – attended the World Footwear Congress in Naples' historic Royal Palace from April 3 to 5. Thomas Bata Jr., chief vision officer of the Bata Group, was among the foreign participants, who came also from other parts of Europe, China, ...
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Georgy Bidegain passed away on March 27. He was 85...
Georgy Bidegain passed away on March 27. He was 85 years old. He was an uncle of Jean-Pierre Bidegain, the well-known journalist and publisher who recently retired. Together with his brother José Bidegain, he built up Babybotte, the well-known brand of shoes for toddlers between the ages of one and ...
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The Italian footwear maker Giano posted a 20 percent increase...
The Italian footwear maker Giano posted a 20 percent increase in revenues last year compared with the €11 million posted in 2017. The group's chief executive, Enrico Paniccià, told Pambianconews that the growth was driven by two licensed brands, La Martina and Harmont & Blaine, and a joint venture with ...
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Valleverde's sales rose by 18.5 percent in 2018, reaching a...
Valleverde's sales rose by 18.5 percent in 2018, reaching a level of €16 million, after growth of 13.5 percent in the previous year. More than 90 percent of the turnover is still generated in the domestic Italian market. The brand produces an annual volume of 500,000 pairs currently sold at ...
