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....
Allen Edmonds Shoe Corp. Chief Executive Paul Grangaard confirmed last week that the company, which is owned by the Minneapolis private equity firm Goldner Hawn Johnson Morrison, is listening to inquiries from potential buyers. The Wall Street Journal reported that Men's Wearhouse Inc. is interested...
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...
Target announced Monday that it will open 33 more stores in Canada next month, bringing the total number of Canadian stores opened this year to 124....
Retail sales last month amounted to $425.9 billion, down 0.1 percent from August, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday. But when stripped of the effects of motor vehicle and parts sales, which tanked 2.2 percent, the gauge was up 0.4 percent....