All Shoe Intelligence articles in Volume 27, Issue 23+24
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Portuguese footwear exports rise in first nine months of 2025 | Global personal luxury goods market seen falling by 2% this year | More German independent shoe stores close as the retail crisis deepens | German online fashion retail moves away from free shipping and free returns | Wortmann plans management changes for Tamaris over next two years | ANWR appoints a new Managing Director for its shoe division | Birkenstock to open a new production facility in Germany | Birkenstock wins a copyright lawsuit in the Netherlands against Scapino | Zalando Q3’s revenues surge with About You acquisition | Wormland files for insolvency again | ASF 4.0 launches its Portuguese ‘megafactory’ after raising fresh cash | Geox’s sales decline accelerates in Q3 | Golden Goose maintains 13% sales growth | Sportup hires a sales and marketing manager | ACBC creates a scientific committee to bolster innovation | Dr. Martens to hike US prices as impact of tariffs revealed | Coats’ footwear division posts 4% drop in revenues | Crocs names a new head for Heydude | Shoe Carnival sees Q4 sales down 3%, looks ahead to ‘inflection year’ as rebranding progresses | Wolverine grows in Q3 as Saucony, Merrell and Sweaty Betty drive momentum | Steve Madden sees improving financial results after tariffs hit Q3 | Jimmy Choo’s revenues slip but the brand sees opportunity in casual footwear | Weyco’s Q3 sales, earnings fall as price increases don’t keep up with volume decline, tariff impact | Allbirds expects sales to stop falling in Q4 | Portwest takes over Grupo Kondor Colombia | Yue Yuen posts higher footwear manufacturing revenues | Indian labor reform seen cutting red tape but hiking cost of hiring | Metro Brands launches the sport performance format MetroActiv
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UK scraps tariff exemption for low-value goods as EU accelerates similar reforms
The UK government will abolish its £135 tariff exemption for low-value imports, a measure expected to level the playing field for domestic retailers. The EU is fast-tracking similar reforms, signaling a major shift for cross-border e-commerce and sporting goods brands. The British finance minister, Rachel Reeves, confirmed plans to scrap ...
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Boohoo sees better FY earnings as brands return to profit
Boohoo expects an improvement in full-year earnings as its turnaround plan picked up momentum - despite a fall in sales at some of its largest brands. The British online fashion retailer forecast full-year Ebitda of £45 million (€51.38m), compared to £41.6 million last year. In fiscal 2027, Ebitda is expected ...
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ArticleMore German independent shoe stores close as the retail crisis deepens
A wave of closures among independent, family-run shoe stores across Germany is showing no signs of slowing down as the country’s traditional retail sector continues to struggle with shifting consumer habits, high rents and a lack of successors, while larger chains and online shopping platforms increasingly dominate the market. Several ...
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ArticleGolden Goose maintains 13% sales growth
Golden Goose, the Italian brand of premium sneakers controlled by the investment firm Permira, said that in the first nine months of 2025 net revenues rose by 13 percent year-over-year at constant exchange rates to €517.1 million. The growth rate is in line with the performance posted in the first ...
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ArticleGlobal branded casual footwear market grew 3.5% in 2024
The international branded casual footwear market grew by 3.5 percent in 2024 to $17,016 million from $16,447 million in 2023, with balanced growth from the US and global sales. The US branded casual shoe market rebounded 3.9 percent to $7,024 million from $6,763 million, while revenues from outside the US ...
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German consumer confidence improves ahead of Christmas
German consumer confidence is estimated to have improved in December rising to -23.2 from -24.1 in November, according to the GfK Consumer Climate, published jointly by NIQ/GfK and the Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions (NIM). The November reading was not revised. “With the stabilization, the consumer climate is currently almost ...
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ArticleACBC creates a scientific committee to bolster innovation
ACBC, an Italian B-Corp certified firm specializing in product innovation and sustainable, circular solutions for the fashion and lifestyle industries, has created a four-member scientific committee, an advisory body created to further strengthen the company’s research, development, and innovation path. “The ACBC Scientific Committee has been set up to ...
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ArticleSportup hires a sales and marketing manager
As it celebrates its 25th anniversary, the Italian footwear producer Sportup has reinforced its management structure by hiring Alessandro Perletti as Sales & Marketing Manager in an effort to enter new markets and set up new partnerships with international distributors. Perletti has over twenty years of experience in the footwear ...
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ArticlePortuguese footwear exports rise in first nine months of 2025
In the first nine months of 2025, Portuguese footwear exports rose by 3.8 percent year-over-year in volume to 53.3 million pairs and by 2.1 percent in value to €1.322 billion, according to data released by the Portuguese footwear association Apiccaps. About 80 percent of Portuguese exports went to other European ...
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ArticleGerman online fashion retail moves away from free shipping and free returns
Free shipping and free returns are becoming increasingly rare in the German online fashion retail sector as post-purchase support shifts toward greater cost transparency, a new survey showed. At the same time, the post-purchase experience remains only partially tapped as a source of differentiation, leaving opportunities to build customer loyalty ...
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German GDP growth flat in Q3
In the third quarter, German gross domestic product (GDP) was flat compared with the previous quarter on a price, seasonally and calendar adjusted basis, according to the statistics office Destatis. Year on year, GDP rose by 0.3 percent both on a price-adjusted basis and on a price- and calendar-adjusted basis. ...
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Next to increase its special dividend after a land sale
Next plans to increase its previously mentioned special dividend of about £3.10 (€3.5) per share by 45 pence (€0.51) after generating net cash proceeds of £54.1 million (€62m) from the sale of land near Waltham Abbey, England. In 2021, Next purchased land near Waltham Abbey with the intention of ...
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Zegna reshuffles is top management
Ermenegildo Zegna has tapped Gianluca Tagliabue, currently group Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, as CEO following a succession planning process carried out by the board of the Italian fashion house. The appointment and other elements of a new leadership structure will go into effect on January 1. Among ...
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ArticleIndian labor reform seen cutting red tape but hiking cost of hiring
India’s labor reform should ease the compliance burden for businesses, but the cost of hiring may rise, according to the Japanese brokerage Nomura. On Nov. 21, the country launched four new labor codes, resulting in the largest overhaul of workers’ laws in decades in an effort by the government to ...
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ArticleAsos' losses narrow
Asos has posted narrower losses, despite a slide in annual sales, and forecast a lift in earnings and margins next year. Revenues of the British fast fashion retailer fell by 15 percent in the year to Aug. 31 to £2.48 billion (€2.82bn), while gross merchandise value (GMV) was 12 percent ...
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ArticlePortwest takes over Grupo Kondor Colombia
Portwest, an Irish provider of workwear, safety footwear and personal protective equipment, has acquired a majority shareholding in Grupo Kondor Colombia, the market leader in safety footwear in Colombia. No financial details were available. The acquisition supports Portwest’s strategy of expanding its global manufacturing and distribution footprint and strengthening its ...
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Mexican government to support the local textile and footwear industry
The Mexican government has presented a stimulus plan for the textile and footwear industry in order to recover about half of the 100,000 job the sector has lost to foreign competition. Through an agreement with the Spanish bank BBVA and Mexico’s development bank Nacional Financiera (Nafin), the government aims ...
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Boot Barn's store network exceeds 500 locations
Thanks to several store openings in November, Boot Barn’s network has exceeded 500 locations. The US footwear chain passed the 500 threshold following openings in Killeen, Texas; East Peoria, Illinois; Phoenix, Arizona; Deptford, New Jersey; Indio, California; Chandler, Arizona; and the return to Huntington Beach, California, where the very ...
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ArticleGlobal personal luxury goods market seen falling by 2% this year
The personal luxury goods market is expected to decline by 2 percent at current exchange rates, but to be flat at constant rates, reaching €358 billion in 2025, but could resume growing over the next decade by up to 6 percent a year, according to a report released by the ...
