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A fixture in the Swedish footwear industry has died. Over...
A fixture in the Swedish footwear industry has died. Over the years, Bengt Gustafsson played a defining role in many Scandinavian footwear companies. He acted as chief executive of a Swedish brand, Hefa, and Sko Team, which were purchased by New Wave Group. He also bought into Skokanonen, which was ...
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Last Dec. 31, Xavier Noël, former president of the French...
Last Dec. 31, Xavier Noël, former president of the French footwear group that bears his name, passed away at the age of 85. He was the son of the company's founder and the father of the current chief executive, Patrick Noël. During his tenure at the helm of the company, ...
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Vince Camuto, the co-founder of Nine West, died at his...
Vince Camuto, the co-founder of Nine West, died at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Jan. 21. He was 78. Camuto grew Nine West into a major business, developing a strong sourcing business, and sold it to Jones Apparel Group in 1999, and after a brief break, launched the fashion ...
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Klaus Duttenhöfer, long-time managing partner of Peter Kaiser, passed away...
Klaus Duttenhöfer, long-time managing partner of Peter Kaiser, passed away at the age of 86 on Jan. 4. Duttenhöfer shaped the Peter Kaiser brand over decades. From 1963 to 1994, he worked as chief executive officer for the company. Together with his colleague and companion, Walter Joneck, he set out ...
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Josef Kalliwoda passed away at the age of 91 on...
Josef Kalliwoda passed away at the age of 91 on Nov. 16. The former German shoe agent was successful in the 1990s with a fashionable shoe collection that he was putting together for his clients. He had started to work independently in 1969 after working for many years as sales ...
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Heinz-Horst Deichmann, the founder of the Deichmann footwear retail group,...
Heinz-Horst Deichmann, the founder of the Deichmann footwear retail group, has died at the age of 88. Born in Essen in 1926, Deichmann studied both theology and medicine but took over responsibility for the small footwear manufacturing business that his parents had founded after the Second World War, turning it ...
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Rafael Calvo Rodriguez, who ran the Spanish shoe industry federation,...
Rafael Calvo Rodriguez, who ran the Spanish shoe industry federation, Fice, for 34 years, passed away on Oct. 8 at the age of 69. The former lawyer became secretary general of Fice in 1984 and was promoted to the position of executive president in 1992, a unique role that he ...
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Yves Carcelle, who led Louis Vuitton and the fashion and...
Yves Carcelle, who led Louis Vuitton and the fashion and leathergoods division of LVMH for 22 years until his departure at the end of 2012, passed away on Aug. 31 at the age of 66, after a long illness. Heading up Louis Vuitton since 1990, he took over the distribution ...
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Walter Giesswein passed away on July 3 at the age...
Walter Giesswein passed away on July 3 at the age of 81 years. Together with his wife Elisabeth, he founded Giesswein Walkwaren in Austria in 1954 and led it for many years, passing it on to their children in 2002.
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Franz Gustav Andersson, who founded Gerli together with Bruno Heim...
Franz Gustav Andersson, who founded Gerli together with Bruno Heim in 1973, has passed away at the age of 91. The partners began by importing shoes from Spain into the German market. They founded and registered the Dockers brand of casual shoes for the European market in the middle of ...
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Mark Lemond, the former chief executive and president of Shoe...
Mark Lemond, the former chief executive and president of Shoe Carnival, has died at the age of 59. Lemond, who was originally hired as chief financial officer, worked at the company for 25 years, before he retired in 2012. Born in Jasper, Indiana, he was a graduate of Mater Dei ...
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Dieter Meyer, a former chief executive of Lloyd Shoes, has...
Dieter Meyer, a former chief executive of Lloyd Shoes, has passed away at the age of 76. Together with his brother Gerrit, he was involved with the German company for more than 40 years. He left the company after its sale to Are Shoes in 1998. Meyer was also for ...
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A former director of the Shoe and Allied Trade Research...
A former director of the Shoe and Allied Trade Research Association, also known as Satra, Graham Butlin, has died at the age of 84. He was with the U.K.-based institute for 32 years and was director for 14, retiring in 1991. In the 1960s, he led the team responsible for ...
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Gordon Zacks, who is credited with turning R.G. Barry Corp....
Gordon Zacks, who is credited with turning R.G. Barry Corp. into the world's largest producer of soft and washable slippers, died after a brief illness at his home in Ohio at the age of 80. He joined the family business in 1955 and became its president a decade later. He ...
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Pietro Torielli passed away last Dec. 6 at the age...
Pietro Torielli passed away last Dec. 6 at the age of 75. He was a current member of UNIDO's “Leather Panel,” the organization that outlines worldwide strategies for the leather and footwear sector. He was also European chairman for the technical committee on safety regulations for footwear machinery, chairman of ...
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Petr Hlavacek, dean emeritus at the Tomas Bata University in...
Petr Hlavacek, dean emeritus at the Tomas Bata University in Zlin, died on Jan. 10 at the age of 63. The well-known Czech scholar started off as a footwear technician but spent most of his professional career at the university, conducting research on footwear hygiene, children's shoes and shoes for ...
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Klaus Diehl, former chief executive of the German leathergoods industry...
Klaus Diehl, former chief executive of the German leathergoods industry federation (BVLK) and former chief executive of the exhibition center in Offenbach, passed away at the age of 73. From 1975 to 2000, he ran the BVLK, which merged with the German shoe industry federation, HDS, in January 2012. From ...
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Jean-Louis Descours, who was one of the leading personalities in...
Jean-Louis Descours, who was one of the leading personalities in the French shoe retail sector for many decades, has died at the age of 97 years. His name is closely associated with the development of the former Groupe André, which changed its name to Vivarte in 2001. The son of ...
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Ilenia Santoni, managing director of Italian luxury shoemaker that carries...
Ilenia Santoni, managing director of Italian luxury shoemaker that carries her family's name, has died in Macerata at the young age of 41 after a serious illness. In the past, she had held various positions at Confindustria, the Italian employers' federation. Ilenia Santoni, sister of Giuseppe Santoni, the company's chief ...
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Peter Vogels, former owner of Gallus, the German brand of...
Peter Vogels, former owner of Gallus, the German brand of men's shoes subsequently bought by Deichmann, passed away on May 19 at the age of 75. In the 1970's, Bernd and Peter Vogels were the fourth generation to manage the shoe factory in Mönchengladbach, Germany. A second plant was created ...
