All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 25, Issue 9+10 – Page 2
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ArticleHooijer Footwear Group expands brand portfolio
The Dutch distribution and wholesale company Hooijer Footwear Group is expanding its brand portfolio by taking over the distribution of another internationally renowned brand. For the coming season - starting from June - Hooijer will be responsible for sales in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, collectively known as DACH, of ...
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ArticleAuthentic Brands Group buys the rights to the Vince brand
Authentic Brands Group (ABG) is purchasing the intellectual property of the Vince brand from Vince Holding Corp. for $76.5 million and a 25 percent stake ABG Vince, the vehicle through which the acquisition is being made. A part of the deal, Vince Holding will enter into an exclusive, long-term license ...
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ArticleSkechers lifts full-year guidance after strong Q1, but braces for continued domestic wholesale headwinds
Skechers raised its guidance for earnings and revenues for the full year after reporting better-than-expected results in the first quarter, when its top line rose by a reported 10.0 percent compared to the year earlier to reach a new record for the period of $2,001.9 million, coming in above an ...
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Lanvin increases its FY contribution profit
The Chinese luxury goods Lanvin Group, which owns various brands including the Italian shoemaker Sergio Rossi, said that its contribution profit, which corresponds to the gross profit less selling and marketing expenses, rose to €13.2 million in 2022, an improvement of about €9 million from the €4.4 million posted in ...
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Bangladesh’s footwear exports rise slightly but miss government’s targets
In the nine months from July 2022 to March 2023, Bangladesh’s exports of leather footwear fell by 0.88 percent year-over-year to $534.23 million but missed the government’s export target by 10.59 percent. Meanwhile, overall exports of leather and leather products rose by 2.56 percent over the period to $919.73 million ...
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Kering’s Q1 sales rise slightly
In the first quarter of 2023, Kering’s revenues totalled €5,077 million, up by 2 percent as reported and by 1 percent on a comparable basis. Revenues in the directly operated store network, including e-commerce, rose by 4 percent on a comparable basis. The increase was driven by good momentum in ...
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KG Schuhkay enters protective shield proceedings
Despite better-than-expected results, the Hamburg-based footwear retailer KG Schuhkay has launched a restructuring process under a protective shield procedure, as the business outlook was clouded by the fallout from the war in Ukraine, soaring inflation and a general change in consumer behavior since the autumn/winter 2022 season. The procedure, ...
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Markus Dielmann joins Fashion Cloud’s sales team
Markus Dielmann has joined the B2B solutions provider Fashion Cloud. The Hamburg-based company hired Dielmann earlier this month to strengthen its sales team. The shoe professional, who has many years of experience in purchasing, sales and logistics, will be in charge of establishing data exchange and digital orders for ...
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Footwear veteran Helmut Werdich dies at 89
Helmut Werdich, a footwear entrepreneur who turned a small family business into a shoe retail chain operating throughout southern Germany, has died at 89. Born on Feb. 1, 1934 in Wangen, in the Baden-Württemberg region of Germany, as the eldest of four children, Werdich was a third-generation footwear professional. ...
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VeNetWork acquires Unimonteco and creates VeNeSport
VeNetWork SpA, a business accelerator that brings together 73 entrepreneurs from Italy’s Triveneto area, has announced the creation of VeNeSport, a new network of companies with a focus on sports footwear. Innovation consultant Flavio Alberti will head VeNeSport as the network’s president. More in Sporting Goods Intelligence Europe.
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ArticleCrocs raises FY revenue outlook, banking on markets outside U.S. to pace growth
Markets outside the U.S. are forecast to generate Crocs’ highest FY23 revenue growth rates and help the group deliver 11 to 14 percent reported sales expansion this fiscal year to a range of $3.95 to $4.05 billion. Crocs brand sales are projected to increase by 7 to 9 percent with ...
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Skechers acquires Scandinavian distributor
Skechers has signed an agreement to acquire its existing Scandinavian distributor, Sports Connection Holding ApS. Sports Connection’s business includes 58 existing Skechers retail locations, several e-commerce solutions and more than 1600 wholesale customers. The company was established in Denmark in 1994 and has been Skechers’ exclusive distributor in the Nordic ...
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ArticleDeichmann and DHL launch joint delivery station test project
Deichmann has launched a new pilot project in partnership with the logistics group DHL which will allow customers to collect or deliver a parcel in one of the German shoe retailer’s stores and seize the opportunity for some quick shopping. The new service points, dubbed DHL Packstations, are being ...
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ArticleInterim sales rise at Primark, but caution sounded on outlook
Primark reported a sharp rise in half-year sales, driven by higher prices and a return to physical stores after the Covid-19 pandemic, but remained cautious about its future performance amid the cost-of-living crisis and persistent inflation affecting European and U.S. clients. Associated British Foods (ABF), the parent company of the ...
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ArticleBrazilian exports decline in volume in Q1
Brazil’s footwear manufacturers exported 38.44 million pairs of footwear in the first quarter of 2023, down by 5.7 percent year-over-year, for a total of $328.44 million, up by 2.4 percent, according to the local footwear associaton Abicalçados. In the sole month of March, exports totaled 11.67 million pairs, down by ...
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ArticlePhoenix International’s credit rating outlook is raised
The rating agency Infomerics Valuation and Rating Limited (IVR) has reaffirmed the long-term rating of “IVR BBB-“ for 124.00 crore rupee (€13.8m) of long-term bank loan facilities contracted by the Indian group Phoenix International. Infomerics also improved its credit outlook to “stable” from “negative” thanks to an improvement in lease ...
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ArticleFerragamo posts weak Q1 sales as its relaunch remains uncertain
As expected by financial analysts, Salvatore Ferragamo released weak sales figures for the first quarter of 2023, down by 4.0 percent to €278.0 million. At constant currency rates, the decline reached 6.5 percent year-over-year. The contribution Maximilian Davis, who became the creative director of the Italian fashion house on March ...
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Prada produces half of its shoes inhouse
Prada produces about half its footwear in-house. This compares with around 10 percent for clothing and about 30 percent in the case of leather goods. As part of its plans to increase its control over the supply chain, the Italian fashion plans to invest €60 million this year to boost ...
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ArticleFootway sees sales drop in Q1, but grows internationally
Several Swedish media outlets have reported on Footway Group’s first-quarter figures, which show that the Swedish e-commerce group’s sales fell 7.9 percent year-on-year to SEK 215.9 million (€19.08m). Operating profit (Ebitda) for the quarter was SEK -24.5 million (-€2.17m), an improvement from SEK -71.2 million a year earlier. According to ...
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ArticleStella’s Q1 sales drop as clients clear out inventories
In the first quarter of 2023, Stella International suffered a 25.8 percent drop in manufacturing revenues to $277.4 million from $374.6 million a year earlier as footwear shipments declined by 31.4 percent to 9.6 million pairs from 14.0 million as certain sport and casual customers pulled back on ordering to ...
