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Nice Footwear IPO priced €10 a share
Nice Footwear, an Italian company specializing in sneakers, priced its initial public offering (IPO) at €10.00 per share, in the middle of its indicative price of €9.00-€11.00. The stock is scheduled to start trading on the Euronext Growth segment of the Milan stock exchange on Nov. 18. The company sold ...
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Roberto Cavalli sees 2021 sales at €60m
Roberto Cavalli posted revenues of about €46 million in 2020 and expects to see the top line rise to about €60 million this year before reaching €80 million in 2022, when the Italian fashion house also expects to reach breakeven. The company said that its future development will depend on ...
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PDF NewsletterShoe Intelligence Newsletter: Vol 23 - 46+47
Geox prepares new business plan | Tod’s returns to pre-pandemic levels | Hotter sales surge | Kurt extends financing facilities | OR Group sets up a logistics unit | Saucony, Sperry underpin Wolverine | Stuart Weitzman improves profitability | Mizuno lifts Vulcabras’ sales | Alpargatas sells Osklen | Yue Yuen’s growth stopped in Q3 | Global luxury sales up 29%
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Expo Riva Schuh releases online events calendar
Riva del Garda Fierecongressi, the organizers of Expo Riva Schuh and Gardabags, confirmed that the trade shows will be held Jan. 15-18 at the exhibition center of the Italian town of Riva del Garda to present collections for the autumn/winter 2022-2023 season. They also released a calendar of online events ...
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ArticleGlobal personal luxury goods sales up 29% in 2021
The global personal luxury goods industry is forecast to grow by 29 percent at current exchange rates to €283 billion this year, according to a survey released by the consultancy Bain & Company in collaboration with Fondazione Altagamma, the Italian luxury goods manufacturers’ industry foundation. Compared with 2019, the market ...
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Manolo Blahnik launches virtual museum
Half a century after opening his first boutique in Old Church Street, in Chelsea, London, Spanish footwear designer Manolo Blahnik is making the concepts behind his legendary stilettos, sandals, moccasins and boots available to anyone, anywhere, via his brand-new, technologically state-of-the-art virtual museum, which launches on Nov. 18, 2021. Conceived ...
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Kurt Geiger extends financing facilities to 2024
On June 10, Kurt Geiger extended the terms of its bank loan, capital investment and revolving facilities to Feb. 19, 2024, according to the company’s financial statements filed with the British registrar of companies, Companies House. As part of the arrangement, covenants were rebased to take into account the impact ...
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Austria enforces lockdown for the unvaccinated
In Austria, retailers face the “lockdown for unvaccinated people aged 12 and older” that the government has just enforced. The new regulation states that unvaccinated individuals or those who have not yet contracted Covid-19 and recovered from it are not allowed to shop at non-food retailers (so-called “2G rule”). Furthermore, ...
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Nike under suspicion of greenwashing in German media
In a broad investigative joint journalistic effort, several German media have chased down returned Nike footwear (used and new) that had been tagged with GPS trackers and went into a recycling plant in Herenthout, Belgium, to be destroyed and recycled into the “Grind” material that Nike uses for gym floors, ...
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Pollini sales rise sharply
In the first nine months of 2021, Pollini, a footwear brand owned by the Italian fashion house Aeffe, posted sales of €21.6 million, up by 26.9 percent from a year earlier and representing 8.6 percent of Aeffe’s total revenues. Over the period, Aeffe’s sales totaled €250.0 million, up by 20.9 ...
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ArticleOR Group sets up a logistics unit
OR Group, which operates the Westfalika banner, has launched a new subsidiary company to develop logistics services, which will primarily involve opening new pick-up points. The logistics company called O2 LLC will be fully owned by the group’s parent company ORG PJSC. OR Group, formerly known as Obuv Rossii, started ...
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ArticleYue Yuen’s growth stopped in Q3
Yue Yuen reported a 3.2 percent increase in revenues from footwear manufacturing for the first nine months of 2021 on roughly flat deliveries of 179.0 million pairs. Revenues went up to $3,301 million because of an increase in the average price of 3.1 percent to $18.43 per pair, thanks to ...
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ArticleStuart Weitzman improves profitability in Q1
Stuart Weitzman, the footwear brand of the U.S. fashion group Tapestry, enjoyed an improved operating margin in the first quarter ended Oct. 2, boosting its confidence of returning to profitability in the current fiscal year. In the quarter, Stuart Weitzman increased sales by 18 percent year-over-year to $66.5 million. At ...
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Saucony hires Brian Moore as global product head
Saucony, part of the Wolverine Worldwide group, has appointed footwear industry veteran Brian Moore as senior vice president of global product, effective immediately. In his new role, Moore will be responsible for Saucony’s global brand footwear and apparel strategies, including design, development and product innovation. Moore will report directly to ...
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Richemont, Farfetch in talks to expand their partnership
Richemont is in advanced talks to enhance its partnership Farfetch. The deal under discussion would involve Farfetch investing directly in Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) as a minority shareholder, with other investors to be invited to participate, according to the Swiss luxury goods company. Other industry players and investors have already indicated ...
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ArticleGeox starts Q4 with 50% rise in like-for-like DOS sales, prepares new business plan
Geox has posted an increase in like-for-like sales at directly-operated stores (DOS) of about 50 percent so far in the fourth quarter, bringing them 3 percent above the comparable period in 2019 at week 44 in its fiscal year and continuing with a recovery underway in this channel since the ...
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Pittards not affected by situation in Ethiopia
Pittards, a British producer of leather and luxury leather goods, said that its activities in Ethiopia have not been affected by the war in the country. “The board is mindful of the current situation in Ethiopia. At present, the group’s operations in Ethiopia, including the free flow of goods, activities, ...
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Xero Shoes debuts European website
Xero Shoes has inaugurated a European e-commerce website, at www.XeroShoes.eu, starting by offering discounts of 12 to 70 percent for a while. The American brand of “natural movement” footwear produces several models in three categories: performance, casual and sandals. The performance models cover walking, road running, trail running and hiking, ...
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ArticleSaucony, Sperry underpin Wolverine's Q3 sales
Wolverine Worldwide saw revenues in the third quarter rise by 29.1 percent to $636.7 million compared with the prior year, boosted by incremental revenues of $39.1 million from the recent acquisition of Sweaty Betty, which saw pro forma sales growth of over 50 percent in the quarter, and the strong ...
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ArticleAlpargatas sells Osklen to focus on Havaianas
Completing its reorganization, Alpargatas is divesting its 60 percent stake in Osklen, a Brazilian brand of sustainable surf- and skate-inspired clothing and footwear, to focus on Havaianas, the big international brand of rubber sandals. Alpargatas had already transferred its regional Mizuno license to Vulcabras, parent company of Olympikus, in the ...
