this week's top footwear updates,
articles & upcoming events
Data Security & Footwear Retail Luncheon
Feb. 2nd - NY Hilton Join us for a special networking luncheon focused on understanding cybersecurity trends, threats, and how you can better protect your brands and customers from data theft. Click here to register.
The footwear industry is committed to telling its story and how TPA and TPP will help create and strengthen footwear design, marketing, logistics and retail jobs across America. The industry and our consumers paid over $2.7 billion in footwear duties in 2014, more than $400 million of which was taxed on TPP footwear imports alone. Imagine the impact on consumers and footwear companies if outdated footwear tariffs from the 1930s - reaching upwards of 67.5% - were eliminated on footwear out of TPP countries.
This interview with Greg Tunney was just one of the features that will now be available monthly in the new Retail Report, launched this week.
Read the full Retail Report here.
Skechers USA, Inc. is transitioning its business in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) from third-party distributors to a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Skechers CEE, Kft. Skechers plans to double its CEE sales in the next three to five years through an expanded offering of men's, women's and kids' product and a growing distribution base in new and existing markets.
Deckers Brands, which owns the Ugg, Teva, Sanuk, Ahnu and Hoka One One brands, has appointed David E. Lafitte chief operating officer (COO), effective Feb. 2. Lafitte previously served as the company's general counsel and replaces Zohar Ziv, who retired from the company on Jan. 16, 2015.
The University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index for January rose to an 11-year high of 98.2, helped by a strengthening job market and lower fuel costs.
Brooks Running posted a 15 percent increase in revenue growth year-over-year in 2014, reaching a half a billion dollars in annual sales.
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 FDRA Footwear Sales Survey
YTD 2014:
up $189m (+ 1.7%) over 2013
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FDRA is now on Instagram!
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The footwear innovation summit is a one day conference to network and hear from industry leaders on how technology and innovation are changing the way we manufacture, how we get shoes from factories to warehouses, and how we sell to consumers.
Click here to learn more and register
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