All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 26, Issue 7+8 – Page 5

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    Informa hikes its 2024 guidance

    2024-03-11T10:15:00Z

    Informa is enjoying “strong” trading in the first quarter of 2024 and forward visibility, prompting it to increase its guidance for 2024. It noted that more than £500 million (€587m) of revenues were already delivered in 2024, with a further £1 billion (€1.2bn) in subscriptions and other forward booked revenues ...

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    Matches placed into administration

    2024-03-11T10:14:00Z

    Frasers Group said that the loss-making online luxury clothing and accessories platform Matches has gone into administration. Since Frasers bought Matches in December 2023 “the business has consistently missed its business plan targets and, notwithstanding support from the group, has continued to make material losses. Whilst Matches’ management team has ...

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    France’s proposal against fast fashion

    2024-03-09T10:21:00Z

    The administration of French President Emmanuel Macron, founder of the Renaissance party, will support a law proposed by an opposition party to penalize fast fashion. The text in question is no. 2268, “aiming to render fast-fashion out of fashion, thanks to a system of incentives and penalties.” Its proponent is ...

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    Former Görtz CEO Frank Revermann takes over Onygo

    2024-03-08T09:21:00Z

    Görtz’s former CEO Frank Revermann took over Deichmann’s sneaker and streetwear subsidiary Onygo, said the former parent company confirming media reports. At the beginning of October, Deichmann announced that Onygo would cease operations by August 2024 at the latest, citing major structural changes in the fashion retail sector, exacerbated ...

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    Allbirds finalises distribution agreements in Japan and Australasia

    2024-03-07T18:53:00Z

    Allbirds has finalized two distribution agreements in Australasia and Japan. With the completion of the deals, Allbirds has transitioned four international regions from direct selling to a distributor model. The shift from a direct go-to-market model to a third-party distributor model is one of the key pillars under Allbirds’s previously ...

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    Ferragamo’s full-year profits shrink on weaker sales, higher investments

    2024-03-07T18:26:00Z

    Salvatore Ferragamo’s full-year net profit plummeted by 59 percent to €26 million as total revenues fell by a reported 7.6 percent, and 8.1 percent in local currencies, to €1,157 million, with all categories, channels and regions, except the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) area, lower. The company had already ...

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    Footwear sales rose by 4% in 2023 in Germany while 15% of stores closed

    2024-03-07T18:26:00Z

    Footwear retail sales in Germany increased in 2023 by approximately 4 percent, or €480 million, to €11.6 billion (including VAT), despite a few spectacular bankruptcies, estimates from the country’s textile, shoes and leather goods trade association, BTE, showed. The figure includes brick-and-mortar shoe stores (€6.8 billion), online sales (€2.7 ...

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    Grendene’s Q4 bottom line underpinned by lower raw material costs

    2024-03-07T18:25:00Z

    Grendene realized 13 percent year-over-year Ebitda growth to 168.2 million Brazilian reais (€31.3m) in the fourth quarter of 2023, while the net profit grew by 20 percent higher to R$243.0 million (€45.2m) as lower raw material costs offset weak sales. Fourth-quarter net revenues slipped by 0.4 percent to R$760.8 million ...