All Shoe Zone articles
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Shoe Zone profits slide after ‘year of two halves’
Shoe Zone has reported a fall in annual sales and profits after a good start to the year was followed by a tough second half.
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Shoe Zone will close stores and slash jobs after profit warning
Struggling footwear retailer Shoe Zone has issued a profit warning and said it plans to close “a number of stores” due to increased costs related to the Budget.
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Sainsbury’s, Shoe Zone and Specsavers stores were attacked during far-right riots
Sainsbury’s, Shoezone and Specsavers across England were attacked and looted as the shops were caught in the crossfire of ongoing far-right riots in the country.
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Shoe Zone blames profit warning on poor weather and Red Sea
Footwear retailer Shoe Zone issued a profit warning today as the combination of weakened demand and ongoing Red Sea challenges take their toll.
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Shoe Zone lowers guidance as profits flatten
Footwear retailer Shoe Zone has lowered its full-year profit guidance. Revenues may have edged up but profits remained flat during the first half.
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Shoe Zone profits rise following strong key period trading
Shoe Zone has posted a rise in full-year profits after ”strong and consistent results throughout the key trading periods.”
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Shoe Zone ups profit guidance as demand climbs
Shoe Zone has increased its profit guidance by almost a third as demand for value soars during the cost-of-living crisis.
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Ranking: The fastest-growing value retailers revealed
In the cost-of-living crisis, affordable retailers have never been more relevant to price-conscious consumers, but which have been making the most of the mood of the nation? And which are set to turn market share into future growth? To find out, the Retail Week analyst team has tracked group sales across 15 of the biggest value retailers and analysed their compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to predict how much bigger they’ll be in five years’ time
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Shoe Zone sales and profits rise after ‘very positive year’
Shoe Zone achieved a rise in revenues and earnings last year, when stores performed strongly.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
Shoe Zone (SWOT)
Shoe Zone is the largest value-based footwear retailer in the UK. Despite a long-running store closure programme, which has accelerated of late, it still has an extensive presence of more than 350 stores. This gives the retailer a big advantage when it comes to multichannel.
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Shoe Zone (Strategy)
Shoe Zone has three pillars to its strategy: grow large format stores, bolster its digital proposition and town centre renewal.
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Stores at Shoe Zone
Shoe Zone is actively managing its store portfolio, opening more large stores and shutting small unprofitable units. Targeting key towns for conversion or relocation, the retailer is ultimately looking to double the number of Big Box locations to around 100 and increase the number of Hybrid stores to 150.
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Technology strategy at Shoe Zone
Driving digital growth is a key strategy for Shoe Zone.
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Shoe Zone (People)
Shoe Zone continues to be led by members of the Smith family, who originally acquired the business when it was still known as Benson Shoe, with Charles Smith as chairman and Anthony Smith as CEO.
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Shoe Zone (Overview)
Shoe Zone is streamlining its store portfolio, focusing on the development of larger format (Big Box) stores, which are more profitable, as well as developing a more premium Hybrid format for its high street estate, as part of an increased focus on multichannel.
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Shoe Zone (Financials)
While Shoe Zone sales still remain slightly short of pre-pandemic levels, the retailer notched up a 31.1% increase in total sales to £156.2m in the year to 1 October 2022 (FY2022) as its stores were able to trade for the full year against just 36 weeks of trading in FY2021 in line with lockdown measures.
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Ecommerce at Shoe Zone
Digital continues to be a key area of focus for Shoe Zone. The retailer had been gradually developing its multichannel offer with in-store kiosks, a low-cost returns model and web exclusives. Things have moved up a gear more recently, however, with the creation of an autonomous digital department to drive higher growth.
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Customer and marketing at Shoe Zone
Shoe Zone has focused on a no-frills shopping experience that is conducive to its value proposition. Described as ‘the Aldi of footwear’, maintaining its price competitiveness and endeavouring to price match on any crossover product lines is a key focus for the company.