Warm Weather & Spring Shoes

Check out this article from ABC news:

Warm Weather Wear: Hot Handbags & Shoes For Spring. Click the link below

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/BeautySecrets/story?id=2954148&page=1



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Payless ShoeSource $91 Million Deal

I try to keep with the happenings of shoe companies. I just read the Payless Shoesource Inc. will shell out $91 million to buy a company that owns, manages and licenses shoe, apparel and sports equipment brands, particularly focused on skateboarding and snowboarding trends.

Payless is buying Denver-based Collective Licensing International, which owns the Airwalk brand of shoes sold exclusively in Payless stores since 2003.

Payless CEO, Mathew E. Rubel said th purchase of Collective International was made in part to build Payless into a more diversified company.

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Zappos With 15 Million Investment

Zappos.com is in the news again. This online shoe retailer is committed to above and beyond customer service.

"Zappos.com Inc., a retailer of footwear and other products, has secured $15 million in new equity funding from Sequoia Capital to help maintain sales that are expected to reach $300 million this year, up 63% from $184 million in 2004, Zappos said.The funds will be used to "improve the customer experience" while supporting continued growth, said Zappos, No. 45 in the Internet Retailer Top 400 Guide to Retail Web Sites.Sequoia Capital now has a total investment in Zappos of $35 million. "We are more enthusiastic than ever to be shareholders of Zappos.com because of their unrelenting focus on service and their execution since we made our original investment eight months ago," said Michael Moritz, a Sequoia partner who sits on the Zappos board. "Congrats!














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