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C-Suite interview: Blusun enters second year looking to ramp up sales, expand outside of Europe
When Dirk Pfeffer and Silvia Brindlmayer set up their barefoot footwear brand Blusun last year, they knew what they wanted and what they did not. At the heart of their vision were shoes featuring high quality materials, reasonable prices and a sustainable and socially responsible supply chain. Pfeffer and Brindlmayer ...
C-Suite interview: Velasca aims to double its store network by end 2028
In less than a year, Velasca, a Milan-based footwear and apparel retailer, has opened 10 shops, bringing the number of locations to 30 worldwide. By the end of 2028, the goal is to double that number to 60.
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How an Italian startup is proving to be the perfect fit for leading fashion brands
Measmerize, a startup established to offer sizing solutions for fashion brands, has built up a portfolio of about 40 clients, including high-profile fashion houses, thanks to customized AI algorithms proposing size and fit recommendations to end-users.
Id.Eight plans to double its sales and is open to new investors
Id.Eight, an Italian sneaker startup that uses waste materials, is aiming to double its revenues this year and continue expanding internationally.
How Stanbee uses innovation to cut component costs, improve athletic shoe performance
The US shoe component manufacturer Stanbee uses a patented foaming process to infuse nitrogen gas into the polymer core of its Nitro line of heel counters and toe boxes, replacing part of the core with gas to bring down costs and turn out a product that is lighter in weight ...
Brazilian exports hit by US tariffs
In August, Brazilian footwear exports fell by 0.5 percent year-over-year in volume to 7.64 million pairs and by 9.1 percent in value to $77 million after the US introduced a 50 percent import tariff on Brazilian goods on Aug. 7. The US is Brazil’s main export market.
German footwear industry revenues up 1.3% in H1
The German footwear manufacturers posted revenues of €1.16 billion in the first half, a 1.3 percent increase from €1.15 billion a year earlier. Domestic sales grew by 5.1 percent year-on-year to €924 million, while foreign sales declined by 11 percent to €242 million, according to the German footwear and leather ...
Italian footwear manufacturers revenues drop by 5.6% in first half of 2025
In the first half of 2025, revenues of Italian footwear manufacturers fell by 5.6 percent year-over-year, according to a survey carried out in July by Confindustria Accessori Moda among members of the Italian footwear association Assocalzaturifici.
Primark could be spun off by its parent company
Jimmy Choo's revenues slip but the brand sees opportunity in casual footwear
Marc O’Polo opens shoe showrooms in Stephanskirchen and Hamburg
Closed’s future is secured
Boot Barn raises guidance after strong Q2, increases store opening ambitions
Crocs' sales fall 6% as the company takes steps to enable future growth
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Haglöfs reorganizes sales team in Southern Germany, Austria
BasicNet’s revenues rise slightly
Intertek opens footwear testing lab in US
R.M. Williams expands production capacity
Wolverine named 2025 Company of the Year by Footwear News
German firms find it increasingly difficult to predict their business development
US, China agree on a truce in trade war
ISPO to move to Amsterdam
Coats completes OrthoLite acquisition
Zalando appoints a new CFO
Primark could be spun off by its parent company
Associated British Foods (ABF) is mulling a split of its Primark and global food businesses under a review of its group structure, as it looks to unlock value in a tough consumer environment.
Jimmy Choo's revenues slip but the brand sees opportunity in casual footwear
In the fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 27, Jimmy Choo, the luxury footwear brand owned by Capri Holdings, posted revenues of $131 million, down by 6.4 percent on a reported basis and by 9.3 percent in constant currency. Revenues came in at the bottom end of the group’s guidance of ...
Marc O’Polo opens shoe showrooms in Stephanskirchen and Hamburg
The Swedish-German fashion label Marc O’Polo is accelerating its European expansion with the opening of two shoe showrooms in Stephanskirchen, its Bavarian hometown, and Hamburg.
Closed’s future is secured
After approximately two months of intensive investor negotiations, the German fashion label Closed has found a new owner.
Boot Barn raises guidance after strong Q2, increases store opening ambitions
Boot Barn raised its ambitions for new store openings and hiked guidance for its full fiscal year after posting another strong set up results in its fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 27 and in the first four weeks of its third quarter.
Crocs' sales fall 6% as the company takes steps to enable future growth
Crocs said it is taking strategic steps to lay the foundations for future growth after reporting a decline in sales in the third quarter that was nonetheless less than expected.