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    The Industry and Trade Ministry of Vietnam says that in...

    2011-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The Industry and Trade Ministry of Vietnam says that in the first half of this year, the country exported $7.4 billion worth of products to the EU, 49 percent more than in the same period last year. The EU accounted for 17.5 percent of Vietnam's total exports. Footwear sold to ...

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    DSW performed much better in the second quarter, which ended...

    2011-09-17T00:00:00Z

    DSW performed much better in the second quarter, which ended on July 30, posting a 12.3 percent increase in comparable store sales against the 12.0 percent gain recorded in the same period a year ago. Total sales rose by 14.7 percent to $476.3 million and the gross margin improved by ...

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    Apiccaps, the Portuguese shoe and leather association, has just published...

    2011-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Apiccaps, the Portuguese shoe and leather association, has just published its first World Footwear Yearbook, which says that for the first time ever, global footwear production surpassed 20 billion pairs of shoes in 2010. The final tally was 20.18 billion pairs, with China as the biggest producer by far with ...

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    The Council for Leather Exports in India has announced that...

    2011-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The Council for Leather Exports in India has announced that in the quarter from April to June, leather exports from the country rose by 5.1 percent to $811 million. The chairman of the CLE, M. Rafeeque Ahmed, noted that despite the growth and continuing demand in Europe for Indian leather ...

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    Retail sales of footwear reached an indicated level of $17.9...

    2011-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Retail sales of footwear reached an indicated level of $17.9 billion in Russia last year, according to a report by PMR Research, a market research company that focuses on Central and Eastern Europe. The study says that sales of clothing and shoes went up by 11 percent to $56 million ...

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    Yoox increased first-half sales by 35.9 percent to €131.2 million...

    2011-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Yoox increased first-half sales by 35.9 percent to €131.2 million but net profits slipped by 12.7 percent to €2.9 million. Earnings were affected by depreciation and amortization connected to investments in an automated distribution platform, the opening of a new office in Milan, the expansion of premises in Bologna and ...

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    Bakers Footwear Group cut its net losses to $1.6 million...

    2011-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Bakers Footwear Group cut its net losses to $1.6 million in the second quarter ended July 30 from $2.1 million in the year-ago period as the American chain of 233 women's footwear stores raised its sales and margins. With customers responding favorably to its dress and club assortments, total revenues ...

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    Another American shoe retail chain, Shoe Carnival, reported a 34.1...

    2011-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Another American shoe retail chain, Shoe Carnival, reported a 34.1 percent drop in net income for its second quarter as its sales rose by only 0.8 percent to $166.7 million and the gross margin fell by 0.4 percentage points to 27.8 percent. On a comparable store basis, sales declined by ...

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    Shoes and women's wear were the only major sectors that...

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Shoes and women's wear were the only major sectors that recorded a sales decline in the U.K. during the month of June, as compared to one year ago, according to British Retail Consortium

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    The complete brown shoe chart of Shoe Intelligence is expected...

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The complete brown shoe chart of Shoe Intelligence is expected to come out as usual in September to include the figures of companies such as Pikolinos, whose financial year ended in June. However, the branded rugged outdoor section of the chart has already come out in another dedicated publication of ...

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    Pollini, the upmarket shoe brand owned by the Italian fashion...

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Pollini, the upmarket shoe brand owned by the Italian fashion group Aeffe, increased its sales in the first half of this year to €14.8 million from €12.9 million in the same period a year earlier. The parent company, Aeffe, reduced its net loss to €5.1 million from €6.3 million during ...

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    The Council for Leather Exports of India has announced that...

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The Council for Leather Exports of India has announced that leather exports from the country rose by 13 percent to $3.8 billion in the 2010-11 fiscal year, topping the goal of $3.7 billion. India's commerce secretary, Rahul Khullar, said that should triple or maybe even quadruple in the next few ...

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    The French shoe market grew by 4 percent in value...

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The French shoe market grew by 4 percent in value during the first six months of this year, according to the Institut Français de la Mode. Sales by mail order catalog and over the internet grew by 19.1 percent. Hypermarkets and supermarkets raised their footwear sales by 11.1 percent. The ...

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    Chinese footwear exports rose by 21.7 percent to more than...

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Chinese footwear exports rose by 21.7 percent to more than $19 billion in the first half of 2011, according to figures from the China Leather Industry Association, CLIA. China's total exports of leather, fur and leather products rose by 28.8 percent to US$23.1 billion in the first five months of ...

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    Gabor Shoes has reported a 16.8 percent sales increase for...

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Gabor Shoes has reported a 16.8 percent sales increase for the group to €179.5 million in the first half of 2011. A big slice of the growth came from the German market, whose share of the total turnover rose to 54 percent as compared to less than 50 percent a ...

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    The global branded athletic shoe market grew by 13.2 percent...

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The global branded athletic shoe market grew by 13.2 percent at wholesale in terms of U.S. dollars in 2010, according to an annual study released by a sister publication of ours, Sporting Goods Intelligence Europe. The vendors' sales rose by 11.5 percent in the U.S., by 9.2 percent in ...

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    Santoni finished 2010 with a 12 percent increase in sales...

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Santoni finished 2010 with a 12 percent increase in sales to €44 million. In the first half of 2011, sales were up by a double-digit figure for the Italian shoemaker. After inaugurating its first mono-brand store in China, in Beijing, the company aims to expand its network in the Asian ...

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    Announcing the fact that it now has more than 100...

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Announcing the fact that it now has more than 100 employees with 15 different nationalities, Spartoo.com, the 5-year-old French online shoe retailer, says it is confident of reaching sales of €100 million this year, up from €30 million in 2009 and €60 million in 2010, with sales outside France due ...

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    Vietnam's General Statistics Office reports that footwear exports grew by...

    2011-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Vietnam's General Statistics Office reports that footwear exports grew by 31 percent to $2.99 billion in the first half of 2011, reaching a historical high of $610 million in June alone. Lefaso, the country's leather and shoes association, credited the increase to rises in both volumes shipped (up by 20 ...

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    Kennel & Schmenger, the German shoe manufacturer, recorded a sales...

    2011-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Kennel & Schmenger, the German shoe manufacturer, recorded a sales increase of 20 percent in the first quarter of this year. Last year, the company reached total sales of €45 million. K&S, which is repositioning itself into a higher price range, will be launching a new image campaign this month, ...