All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 24, Issue 11+12 – Page 4
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Eli Group 2021 revenues reach €70.5m
Eli Group, the company that manages the footwear of the Italian apparel brand Liu Jo, posted sales of €70.5 million in 2021, up from €45 million in 2020. Sixty percent of the top line was achieved outside Italy. The company beat the €50 million target set in its business plan. ...
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News briefsPollini’s Q1 sales rise 43.5%
Aeffe, the Italian fashion house that owns the footwear brand Pollini, booked revenues of €101.6 million in the first quarter of 2022, up by 26.8 percent on the year earlier on a reported basis and up by 26.5 percent at constant currency rates. Pollini’s sales grew by 43.5 percent and ...
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ArticleYue Yuen's profit dips on retail drag
Yue Yuen Industrial reported a 10.8 percent drop in first-quarter net profit to $97.1 million compared to $108.4 million in the year-ago period ended March 31, as growing manufacturing capacity was overshadowed by weak sales at its Pou Sheng Intl. retail subsidiary due to the resurgence of Covid-19 in mainland ...
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News briefsJD Sports lifts annual guidance despite footwear shortages
Britain’s JD Sports Fashion raised its annual profit outlook, despite a global shortage of key footwear styles and indicated upbeat sales so far this year. The company said it now expected profit before tax and exceptional items for the year to January 29 to be about £940 million (€1.1bn) and ...
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ArticleHotter Shoes posts double-digit rise in Q1 sales but warns of ‘challenging’ year
The British retailer Hotter Shoes reported a double-digit increase in first-quarter sales and maintained its annual guidance, but warned of challenging conditions for the rest of the fiscal year. Owned by Unbound Group, Hotter Shoes also reported an improvement in gross margin despite the macroeconomic backdrop of rising inflation, supply ...
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Görtz wins German store of the year award
The German footwear chain Görtz was among the winners of the Stores of The Year awards, handed out by the German retail association, Handelsverband Deutschland, during the Retail Property Conference in Berlin. The award honors outstanding and innovative retailers who redesigned or renovated their stores in the last year. ...
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ANWR Garant expands management board
ANWR Garant International has expanded its management board to promote and oversee the ever-increasing internationalization of wholesale trade within its partner network. On May 1, the company appointed its long-standing commercial director Thomas Bast to the board. Bast, who has worked for companies in the ANWR Group in various ...
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ArticleTod’s is confident about 2022 after posting positive Q1 results
In the first quarter of 2022, Tod’s reported sales of €229.6 million, up by 23 percent year-over-year. At constant exchange rates, top line growth was 20 percent growth. The revenues of the Italian luxury goods manufacturer beat market expectations of €212 million and were above pre-pandemic levels. Among the group’s ...
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Sanuk releases gender-neutral footwear collection in partnership with Pacific Pride Foundation
U.S. footwear company Sanuk, a division of Deckers Brands, announced the next version of its partnership with the Pacific Pride Foundation, the largest LGBTQ+ center between Los Angeles and San Francisco that works to create a thriving and visible LGBTQ+ community. Created in collaboration with artist and designer Maggie Johnson, ...
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ArticleWolverine Worldwide hires Boston Consulting for strategic review
Wolverine Worldwide is maintaining its full-year outlook that calls for total FY22 revenues of $2.775 to $2.850 billion. This represents a 15 to 18 percent year-over-year increase with the DTC segment representing approximately 30 percent of global revenues and the international segment another 35 percent. Wolverine’s top three brands, Saucony, ...
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Yandex.Market launches new online platform
Yandex has introduced a new platform called RUM within its online marketplace Yandex.Market where Russian fashion brands are invited to create storefronts in order to improve brand recognition. The new platform is designed to help Russian clothing and footwear brands to attract more customers and increase sales “by creating its ...
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Russia authorizes parallel imports
The Russian Industry and Trade Ministry on May 6 published a list of goods allowed for import without permission from the brand’s owner, which involved a broad range of fashion and sporting goods companies, including Zara, H&M, Decathlon and Uniqlo. The system, commonly known as parallel imports, has been designed ...
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ArticleFerragamo to double revenues by 2026
Salvatore Ferragamo is targeting €2.3 billion in revenues by 2026, doubling sales thanks to a three-year investment plan of €400 million, as well as “significantly” boost its operating profit. The Italian leather goods maker is also trying to reduce its dependence on the Chinese market, where it achieved 30 percent ...
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ArticleBoot Barn targets $1.740 bn in sales in 2023 after a record 2022
Boot Barn is forecasting $1.740 billion in sales for 2023, after a 66.6 percent growth to $1.488 billion in fiscal 2022. In the full year ended March 26, the California-based shoe retailer posted a better than expected growth in net sales that lead to a $575.1 million gross profit, 38.6 ...
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ArticleAllbirds adopts more cautious FY22 outlook
Allbirds, citing logistics, currency effects, and lower international sales as significant year-over-year headwinds, is taking a more cautious view of FY22. The six-year-old company is forecasting annual sales of $335 to $345 million, 18 percent gross profit improvement to a range of $170 to $177.5 million and adjusted Ebitda of ...
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Future buys WhoWhatWear
The British publisher Future has bought WhoWhatWear, a digital-only women’s lifestyle publisher based in the U.S., from Clique Brands. WhoWhatWear has a strong social presence and diverse revenue streams ranging from digital advertising to e-commerce. It has 12 million online users and 10 million social followers, with about 90 percent ...
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Fendi’s new footwear plant scheduled to open this autumn
Fendi, the Rome-based luxury goods brand owned by the French group LVMH, expects to open this autumn its new footwear manufacturing plant in Fermo, in Italy’s Marche region. The 75,600 square-foot facility will host production currently carried out in a nearby site in Porto San Giorgio. In September 2021, Fendi ...
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Stratasys launches 3D printer for high-end fashion and design
Stratasys, a provider of polymer 3D printing solutions, released the Stratasys J850 TechStyle 3D printer for high-end, premium textiles and clothing, bags and accessories and footwear. It claims that the printer is the first designed specifically for printing direct-to-textile, including denim, cotton, polyester, linen and leather at volumes ranging from ...
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UGG partners with Savory Institute’s Land to Market program
UGG, the Californian brand part of Deckers Brands, is partnering with the Savory Institute’s Land to Market program to support the transformation to regenerative agriculture in the Australian sheepskin industry. Regenerative agriculture is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems that aims to improve the entire ecosystem ...
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ArticleCrocs hikes guidance as Heydude outperforms
Crocs increased its full-year guidance after the recently acquired Heydude brand beat expectations in the first quarter of 2022. “Underlying momentum is exceptional for Heydude,” said Andrew Rees, Crocs’ chief executive officer in a conference call with financial analysts. The acquisition of the brand was completed on Feb. 17, and ...
