Famous Footwear parent Caleres, which says its top 15 brands accounted for 77 percent of its FY20 sales, will continue to offer a balanced assortment of athletic, sport and seasonal style as it moves forward with a number of key strategies this year.

A look at three new standout styles, including an innovative shoe from new brand mōshn by KLOGS, an elevated retro jogger style from SAS and a performance running shoe from Xelero.

Portland, OR-based footwear brand KEEN has established open sourcing for how it creates PFC-free footwear and has issued a challenge to the outdoor footwear industry to be PFC free by 2025. The family owned outdoor brand ran a full-page ad in the New York Times as an open-source invitation to...

The Swoosh experienced a 54-percent increase in Digital sales for the period ended Feb. 28, led by growth in North America where the region had its first-ever quarter with more than $1 billion in digital revenue. NIKE Direct sales increased 15 percent on a currency-neutral basis.

Executives from both Nike and Caleres, in earnings calls with investors last week, cited current supply chain issues. Famous Footwear parent Caleres confirmed $60-70 million delayed receipts, adding its H1/21 business “will be constrained by...

Saucony has launched the Jazz Court RFG, its most eco-friendly shoe ever. The $130 lifestyle sneaker uses zero plastic and is made of seven renewable eco-friendly materials: Cotton, jute, wool, rubber, wood, gardenia, and beet.

The Designer Brands-owned retailer is making merchandise moves to keep in step with the times, moving toward athletic and kids’ footwear styles and its Top 50 brands and away from dress and seasonal offerings for now.

LionRock Capital has finalized its acquisition of a majority stake in Clarks, the family-owned shoe company based in the United Kingdom, for £100 million ($139.0 million). With the change, Clarks sees the resignation of CEO Giorgio Presca after two years and the appointment of...

Visa and Mastercard are delaying a complex restructuring of credit card swipe fees, slated to take effect next month, until April 2022. But the National Retail Federation is calling for the swipe fee increase to be cancelled altogether.

The Three Stripes made maintaining partnerships with existing suppliers a priority last year versus “onboarding” new ones, according to the company’ s annual report filed last week. In 2020, 31 factories were rejected directly after an initial assessment identified...

Fourth quarter footwear sales at the parent of Hibbett Sports and City Gear rose in the “low 20 percent” range with women’s outpacing men’s and kids. Overall, there were increases in lifestyle, basketball, performance, sandals and boots, management said, with lifestyle and basketball described as...

Senior management at Kohl’s reiterated the retailer’s ongoing strategy to strengthen its position in the active segment to ultimately grow the category to 30 percent of its overall business versus 20 percent currently. Floor space for ‘Active' brands and products will increase by at least...

Nearly four years after suing VF Corp.-owned The North Face and Columbia Sportswear for alleged infringement of its 2.5L waterproof breathable laminate technology, Boulder, CO-based Cocona Labs last week saw a federal appeals court uphold its key patent claims against both defendants.

Sara Mensah, who served as SVP and Chief Operating Officer of the NBA’s Portland Trailblazers before starting her Nike career in 2013, is taking over as VP/GM of Nike’s North America business, effective immediately. Mensah replaces Ann Hebert, who resigned earlier this month in the wake of...

Foot Locker has named designer Melody Ehsani as Creative Director of its women's business. Ehsani will design quarterly apparel capsule collections as well as curate an on-going selection of Nike and Jordan products. The first capsule collection will be available Summer of 2021...

Wolverine is teaming with a fellow Michigan company on its latest collab, The Dragon’s Milk x Wolverine 1000 Mile boot. The boot celebrates Dragon’s Milk’s 20th anniversary; New Holland Brewing Co is the maker of Dragon’s Milk, an American-made stout.

“West Coast Joe,” a 19-year-old teen whose principal vocation is reselling premium-priced sneakers and so-called “bricks” (non-hyped shoes), is the subject of a six-page cover story in the March 1 edition of Bloomberg Businessweek.

Thanks to projected growth of 22-26 percent, Wolverine Worldwide is forecasting FY21 total revenues to range between $2.19 and $2.25 billon. The high-end of that range would be on par with FY19 levels if the high-end is met.

U.S. retail sales will increase between 6.5 percent and 8.2 percent in 2021, the National Retail Federation forecasted last week, citing continued consumer resilience and suggesting the economy’s strongest growth rate in two decades. The prognostication is based on...

Seventy-four percent of respondents to the Footwear Distributors and Retailer of America (FDRA) first quarter survey said the six-month outlook for the U.S. economy and the shoe buying power of consumers will be strong. On the flip side, nearly two-thirds of respondents said...