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Stiefelkönig continued to lose money in 2010. The Austrian shoe...
Stiefelkönig continued to lose money in 2010. The Austrian shoe retailing company, which is still up for sale, suffered a net loss of €10.8 million and its sales dropped by 14 percent to €109.8 million, partly due to the sale of its Turbo-Schuh stores. As previously reported, the company has ...
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Aeffe, parent company of Pollini, reports a 16.4 percent sales...
Aeffe, parent company of Pollini, reports a 16.4 percent sales increase for the first quarter in terms of constant currencies. Total sales grew by 17.4 percent on a reported basis to €71.9 million, with shoes and leathergoods rising by 30.8 percent to a profitable level of €17.1 million. The group's ...
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Esprit reports a 3.1 percent decline in total sales to...
Esprit reports a 3.1 percent decline in total sales to 25.9 billion Hong Kong dollars (€2.3bn-$3.3bn) for the first nine months of its financial year, ended March 31, although they rose by 0.7 percent in local currencies. The reported sales sank by 8.8 percent to HK$20.5 billion (€1.9bn-$2.6bn) in Europe, ...
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China produced 11.1 billion pairs of shoes last year, 10...
China produced 11.1 billion pairs of shoes last year, 10 percent more than in 2009, and its exports increased by 18.9 percent to 4.19 billion pairs, according to the country's shoe and leather manufacturers' association. On the other hand, there are signs that other countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam ...
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The shoe segment was the only fashion category in the...
The shoe segment was the only fashion category in the U.K. retail sector to experience some growth in March, according to the British Retail Consortium's KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, although retailing as a whole fell by 3.5%
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Fashion Box, the parent company of Replay and other brands...
Fashion Box, the parent company of Replay and other brands in which its footwear licensee, Equibox Holding, acquired a controlling interest of 51 percent one year ago, is profitable again. While the company's reorganization led to a 10.9 percent drop in sales to €243 million, the Ebitda grew by 18.2 ...
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Following its recent acquisition of the Bogs and Rafters brands...
Following its recent acquisition of the Bogs and Rafters brands of casual footwear, Weyco Group is going to expand its headquarters in Glendale, Wisconsin. The cost of acquiring these two brands depressed the group's profit, which declined to $3.4 million in the first quarter of this year from $3.9 million ...
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According to the DHI Retail Sales Index, shoe sales in...
According to the DHI Retail Sales Index, shoe sales in Sweden increased by 6.5 percent in February. This results in an increase of 1.8 percent so far this year, calculated in money. With the price increase taken into account, shoe sales decreased by 0.9 percent in February, which gives a ...
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The Slovakian subsidiary of Gabor has reported a 30 percent...
The Slovakian subsidiary of Gabor has reported a 30 percent sales increase for 2010 to €66.1 million as its daily production increased from 10,000 to 12,000 pairs, reaching altogether a volume of 2,280,000 pairs for the year. The company enrolled 120 new workers last year and it currently employs more ...
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The Italian shoemaker Giuseppe Zanotti finished 2010 with a 17...
The Italian shoemaker Giuseppe Zanotti finished 2010 with a 17 percent increase in sales to €71 million. In 2011, the group plans to open six to eight mono-brand stores mainly in the Middle East and Asia. At the end of last year, it had 52 stores worldwide.
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The Indonesian shoe manufacturing industry, which is forecasting 15% growth...
The Indonesian shoe manufacturing industry, which is forecasting 15% growth in exports to $3 billion for this year, says 17 new export-oriented companies will begin operations this year
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Gabor recorded so many re-orders in the last year's fall/winter...
Gabor recorded so many re-orders in the last year's fall/winter season that it reached the limits of its production capacity. Therefore, capacity has been enlarged and new employees have been hired in the last months. The 15-year-old Slovak factory in Bánovce, which took over the production of samples previously made ...
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Preliminary data from Portugal indicate that the country's shoemakers raised...
Preliminary data from Portugal indicate that the country's shoemakers raised their exports by 5.2% in value during the first 11 months of last year, with increases in all the major countries
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Yue Yuen's sales continued to increase sharply in January and...
Yue Yuen's sales continued to increase sharply in January and February, rising by 18.6% from the comparable levels of 2010
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Kesko, the largest retail conglomerate in Finland, estimates that the...
Kesko, the largest retail conglomerate in Finland, estimates that the country's total footwear market rose by 4.5 percent in 2010. However, the group's own footwear retail sales remained flat at €48 million as the number of its shoe shops declined to 82 from 89 at the end of the previous ...
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Martin Michaeli, the founder and chairman of Mephisto, who has...
Martin Michaeli, the founder and chairman of Mephisto, who has published a book in German and French about his career, says that his company should reach a goal of doubling its turnover after only four years instead of five
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Bernd Hummel, the licensee for KangaROOS in Germany and many...
Bernd Hummel, the licensee for KangaROOS in Germany and many other European countries, says its pre-orders for this year's fall/winter season are up by around 50 percent, led by outdoor and waterproof winter boots. The company had a tough business year in 2010 with a decrease in sales of about ...
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Superga, the sneaker brand owned by the Italian BasicNet group,...
Superga, the sneaker brand owned by the Italian BasicNet group, is expected to double sales to $140 million in 2014 from an estimated $70 million this year. The anticipated increase in revenues will be fuelled by recent distribution agreements with Steven Madden for the U.S., Canadian and Mexican markets and ...
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The new “China Footwear Market Analysis” by the market research...
The new “China Footwear Market Analysis” by the market research company RNCOS estimates that the domestic footwear market in China will grow by 10 percent a year through 2013. The industry will get a boost from better living standards, a growing middle class, and an increase in demand for fashionable ...
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Aeffe will continue to improve its results this year but...
Aeffe will continue to improve its results this year but will only return into the black in 2012, according to the investment bank Mediobanca. The luxury group, which owns the shoemaker Pollini, is expected to book sales of €240 million and an Ebitda of 11.6 million this year, compared with ...
