The United States imposes a hidden, regressive tax on footwear. AFA will remove this burdensome tax on about one third of all footwear. More specifically, if passed, the bill would eliminate approximately $800 million in duties on lower-priced children’s footwear and some hiking...
Elan-Polo, Inc., a global footwear and 35-year Walmart supplier, will start production of injection-molded footwear in March 2014 at a factory in Hazelhurst, Ga., as part of a joint venture with McPherson Manufacturing. Once at full capacity, this new facility will create 250 jobs and...
Steve Madden reported sales increased 10.6 percent to $394.8 million compared to $356.9 million in the same period of 2012. Retail comparable store sales decreased 3.5 percent....
Sports Authority announced plans to hire up to 5,000 part-time and temporary workers around the United States to meet consumer demand during the holiday season, a 20-percent increase from last year....
"During the third quarter we saw strong performance in our Asia Pacific region and marked improvement in all channels of our European business," said John McCarvel, president and CEO. "This positive performance was counterbalanced by weakness in the Americas and Japan where all sales...
Footwear manufacturer and retailer Le Saunda Holdings Ltd says it will not open any news stores in Macau or Hong Kong due to the spike in rents. The company told the Hong Kong Stock Exchange late on Monday it opened three new outlets in the...
Weyco Group, Inc., the parent of Bogs, reported sales for the third quarter of 2013 were $83.1 million, an increase of 5 percent from 2012 sales of $79.5 million. Earnings from operations increased 6 percent to $8.6 million in the third quarter of 2013, compared...
"In order to manage an operation of this size and diversity, it's important to have everyone on the same page," says Arthur Bargonetti, senior vice president of Operations, Kenneth Cole. "With YuniquePLM, we can avoid the holdbacks of small errors that snowball into larger ones...
然而，正如Nike高管们在过去的几个季度中所解释的一样，中国地区的盈利仍未达到预期。在两年前的股东大会上，高管们制定了中国的盈利目标，即2015年增至40亿美元，但如今距离该目标仍有一段距离。Nike现把来年的目标定为持平增长。...
9月份的运动鞋类销售额（美元）呈中个位数增长，而销量（双）则呈低个位数增长，最终致使平均零售价呈低个位数增长...