29 Oct 2018Good news from the UK at last: despite the closing of many shoe factories, Foster & Son invests in Northampton
22 Oct 2018France and Italy love sneakers. 5 French men out of 10 wear them, new start-up businesses hang on them (with leather uppers). Online sales are booming in Italy
8 Oct 2018Spain’s footwear industry trend in the first six-month period: earnings slightly up, volumes slightly down. The average price is 16,45 euros
8 Oct 2018VF Corp is up to deals and acquisitions, while selling Reef to Rockport and “reshaping the business” continuously
8 Oct 2018Aldo is the first environmental zero impact footwear group, claims South Pole, as they cut down emissions and energy waste
1 Oct 2018Golden Goose appoint Silvio Campara as new chief executive officer, while facing accusations, on the web, of “glorifying poverty”
1 Oct 2018Marketing, facilities, R&D: Portugal relies on footwear and invests nearly 100 million euros
24 Sep 2018A few figures about Micam and Mipel: 45,424 visitors (lots of Chinese) showed up at the footwear fair, 13,000 at the leather goods exhibition
24 Sep 2018Italy to host, for the first time, the World Footwear Congress, scheduled in Naples, on April 4-5, 2019, to discuss about sustainability and digital experience
24 Sep 2018US footwear and retail keep running up, while achieving top record sales in July: “The best performance over the last 5 years”
17 Sep 2018Footwear: Ted Baker buys back the license given to Pentland and bring production and distribution back in house
10 Sep 2018Year 2019, sneakers conquer The Micam, which opens a PLUG-MI space to the public: The Sneakers Culture Experience
3 Sep 201823.5 billion pairs: global production grows again in 2017 (+2%). Average price up 40% in a ten-year period
3 Sep 2018Offense is the best defense: Madden countersues YSL in a plagiarism case. Meanwhile, it grows 5.8% in the past trimester
3 Sep 2018South Africa: after a month of tension and violence, the footwear strike comes to an end. “It was a disaster for everyone”
