All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 26, Issue 5+6 – Page 4

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    Alpargatas’ Q4 results hit by write-offs

    2024-02-12T17:05:00Z

    Write-offs totalling 64 million Brazilian reais (€12.0m) in raw materials and finished goods affected fourth-quarter adjusted Ebitda at Alpargatas. The Brazilian footwear group ramped up its capital discipline in the latter months of 2023 because of a “significant reduction” in sell-ins, itself due to high levels of inventory at retail. ...

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    Hermès posts strong earnings

    2024-02-12T15:24:00Z

    Hermès’ revenues amounted to €13,427 million in 2023, up by 21 percent at constant exchange rates and by 16 percent at current exchange rates from 2022. Net profit grew by 28 percent to €4,311 million. Sales of the leather-goods and saddlery division of the French fashion house totalled €5,547 ...

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    Creditors clear Richter’s restructuring plan

    2024-02-12T15:24:00Z

    The insolvent Austrian company Ferdinand Richter, the oldest children’s shoe manufacturer in Europe, will continue operations after creditors approved a restructuring plan by a large majority. Under the restructuring plan, creditors will receive 20 percent of the claimed sums, 5 percent of them immediately. The initial cash sum is ...

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    Schuh Austria to be held Feb. 13–15 in Salzburg

    2024-02-12T15:23:00Z

    The Schuh Austria trade fair, which is scheduled to run from Feb. 13 to 15 at the Brandboxx exhibition center in Bergheim, on the outskirts of Salzburg, will host nearly 400 Austrian and international brands, including companies from the Netherlands, England and Italy. Held twice a year, in February ...

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    Stuart Weitzman’s sales trend improves

    2024-02-09T17:27:00Z

    Stuart Weitzman, the premium footwear brand of the U.S. fashion group Tapestry, posted sales of $82.2 million in the fiscal second quarter ended on Dec. 30, down by 4 percent year-over-year on a reported basis and by 3 percent at constant currency rates. Despite still being negative, the trend was ...

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    Jimmy Choo’s Q3 sales and profitability decline

    2024-02-09T17:27:00Z

    In the third fiscal quarter ended on Dec. 30, Jimmy Choo posted revenues of $166 million, down by 1.2 percent compared with the prior year on a reported basis and by 3.0 percent at constant currency rates. The brand’s retail sales were approximately flat, while wholesale revenue decreased by a ...

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    Zegna to build a footwear and accessories factory near Parma

    2024-02-09T16:11:00Z

    Ermenegildo Zegna plans to build a new luxury footwear and leather-goods production facility near Parma, which will boost the group’s production capacity and promote Italian craftsmanship. The Italian fashion house said the new “cutting-edge center for excellence,” which will be constructed on a ten-hectare plot of land ten kilometers from ...

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    How Kidderminster Footwear weathered Brexit

    2024-02-07T17:06:00Z

    Like other British exporters, Kidderminster Footwear suffered the double-whammy of the Covid-19 pandemic, which broke out in Europe in the latter part of the first quarter of 2020, and the UK’s departure from the European Union on Jan. 1, 2021, the so-called Brexit. The company states that its business, excluding ...

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    Chiara Ferragni rarely attended Tod’s’ board meetings

    2024-02-07T17:04:00Z

    The Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni has rarely attended Tod’s’ board meetings since her appointment as director on April 21, 2021. According to the daily Il Sole 24 Ore, Ferragni took part in only three meetings out of 17, missing 82.4 percent of the total – a record for a ...

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    VF starts a strategic review of its assets

    2024-02-07T15:13:00Z

    VF Corp., whose current portfolio includes The North Face, Vans, Timberland and Dickies, has initiated a strategic review of its brand assets. The announcement comes after the company’s shareholder Engaged Capital made in October a presentation “highlighting the actionable and significant opportunities for long-term value creation at the company.” According ...