All Ecco articles
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News briefsEcco opens first store in NYC, new President Americas
Ecco has opened its first store in New York. The 300 sqm shop is situated at 110 Grand Street in SoHo. It features the Danish company’s full range of footwear and accessories and some special-edition pieces that will be exclusive to the Manhattan flagship. On Dec. 1, Deniz Erda became ...
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ArticleFootwear brands launch collective to drive the transition to a circular economy
Athletic and outdoor footwear brands Brooks Running, New Balance, On, Vibram, Crocs and Ecco, along with US lifestyle brand Reformation and US retailer Target, have partnered with EarthDNA to launch The Footwear Collective (TFC), a non-profit initiative dedicated to uniting the global footwear industry to accelerate the ...
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ArticleEcco sales up 30% in 2022, but earnings lower than before Covid
In 2022, Ecco’s revenues rose by 30 percent to €1,586 million from €1,218 million a year earlier and exceeded a pre-Covid-19 turnover of €1,360 million posted in 2019. Comparable sales were up by 18 percent. In January 2022, the Danish footwear and leather group acquired a controlling interest in Ecco ...
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ArticleEcco finishes renovation of headquarters
Ecco has completed the refurbishment of its headquarters located in Bredebro. The town, situated in southern Denmark, has been the company’s home since its foundation in 1963 by Birte and Karl Toosbuy. The site comprises various corporate functions, including finance, supply chain, procurement, information technology, human resources and corporate responsibility. ...
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News briefsEcco USA with new CEO
Source: Ecco USA Tom Berry Danish footwear brand Ecco has appointed Tom Berry as president and CEO of Ecco USA, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire, effective immediately. After more than 20 years with the brand, former president Dave Quel had announced his retirement last summer, with CFO ...
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News briefsEcco releases 3D printed tooling for direct injection PU soles
After extensive research into 3D-printed footwear and 3D-printed footwear tooling, Danish footwear company Ecco has announced that after three years of development, it is now ready to offer 3D-printed tooling for product development and commercial samples for the broader footwear market. The company intends to offer four different options, ranging ...
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News briefsOrthoLite launches new sustainable insole technologies
Source: OrthoLite OrthoLite HybridPlus Bio insole Addressing the increasing demand for more sustainable insole solutions from its customers, U.S. brand OrthoLite is putting its plans announced earlier this year into action and is introducing two new sole technologies that elevate the total eco content of the insoles ...
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News briefsEcco launches leather accessories brand for "New Utopians"
Ecco Leather Goods is a new bag and accessory brand from Danish footwear brand Ecco that offers “functional, futuristic and responsibly made” leather goods for a “hybrid, mobile lifestyle.” Design and material come from Ecco itself, the latter from Ecco Leather’s own tannery. According to Stefano Pillepich, head of Ecco ...
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ArticleNew CEO and board members for Ecco
Ecco’s CEO Steen Borgholm has stepped down from his post on Aug. 20 “by mutual agreement” after four years and more than two decades with the Danish footwear company. He will be replaced by Panos Mytaros, who has been with the company for 27 years. Mytaros started his career with ...
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News briefsEcco invests in advanced green technology
Danish footwear brand Ecco has acquired a 30 percent stake in Danish startup Bioscavenge , which specializes in water treatment technologies and the development and implementation of new methods for water treatment plants. Over the past two years, Ecco has already collaborated with Bioscavenge on a research and development ...
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Ecco Leather’s Hot-Shop event starts Aug. 31
Ecco Leather , the leather manufacturing division of the Danish footwear company Ecco , is holding its Hot-Shop event from Aug. 31 to Sept. 3. ”This time around we will be exploring the notion of bringing low-fi ingenuity into a virtual and non-defined future,” the company said without giving ...
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New company by Spinnova and KT Trading to produce circular textile from leather waste
With new technology for recycling leather residues by spinning, Finnish company Spinnova and KT Trading from Switzerland, leather supplier to Danish footwear brand Ecco , aim to reach market maturity soon. Possessing the natural durability of leather and the low weight and feel of a traditional textile, the ...
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Ecco opens flagship store in Shanghai
Danish footwear brand Ecco opened a new flagship store in Shanghai in April. The company said that physical stores remain an important and attractive sales channel for Ecco’s customers, although online shopping has become an essential part of the “new normal.” Additionally, life in Shanghai right now is not ...
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News briefsEcco takes its waterless tanning process to the next level
A few years ago, Ecco introduced DriTan™ , a new tanning process that leads to significant improvements in all relevant parameters such as water and energy, chemicals, wastewater and sludge. This innovation has already earned the Danish footwear brand the SOG Award Winter 2019/20 in the technology category. ...
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ArticleEcco had a challenging 2020, but continued to invest in the future
Danish footwear brand Ecco said it has remained financially strong despite the challenges of the year 2020. The company reported sales of €1.09 billion in 2020, down 19.7 percent from €1.36 billion a year ago. Profit before taxes reached €44.7 million, down from €195.8 million in 2019. The ...
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Ecco names global head of specialty sales
Danish shoe brand Ecco has named Erik Walcott its new global head of specialty sales. Most recently serving as vice president of sales for U.S. outdoor blanket manufacturer Rumpl , Walcott has previously worked with Ecco for nearly a decade from 2005 to 2014 and will now oversee ...
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Ecco joins effort to recycle polyurethane
RePURpose , a consortium made up of the Danish Technological Institute and several Danish companies, among them Ecco , might have taken the first steps towards a recycling method for the ubiquitous plastic known as polyurethane (PU) that results in no loss of quality. For the moment, says Ecco’s ...
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News briefsEcco wins German Design Award for two products
Ecco has won the German Design Council ’s annual German Design Award in the “Excellent Product Design” category for its Biom 2.0 trail shoe and its Exowrap all-terrain sandal. The overall competition for the awards consisted of more than 5,400 projects from 63 countries. The Biom ...
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ArticleBicycle donations make a difference in developing countries
As part of the company’s corporate responsibility program, the Danish shoe brand Ecco is donating bicycles to children in Vietnam. While this is just one of the aid projects - others include donating school supplies to schools in Thailand or funding mobile libraries in Indonesia - it is a ...
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Ecco wins long-term tax dispute
A long-standing dispute between the Danish footwear company Ecco and the Danish Tax Agency has finally been settled. The transfer pricing case was related to the company’s taxable income for 2005. The Danish Western High Court has ruled that Ecco did not break the rules for so-called transfer pricing. ...
