China now accounts for 64% of U.S. footwear imports, and Nike produces more than half its shoes in factories in China.

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Because sizes run a bit differently than shoes, typically half a size smaller, he likes to talk to every new costumer and while his site features great photography and details, you cannot order except by phone.

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We currently forecast Jones to maintain steady margins across its product segments in 2011 as the firm plans to raise prices on clothes and its more expensive shoes in first half of the year, followed with hikes across all of its products in the second half.

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Hicks has streamlined operations, minimized markdowns, installed a more disciplined allocations system to determine which stores get how many of what shoes and increased vendor exclusivity (half of product styles and colors are sold only at Foot Locker).

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Woods had to take off his shoes and socks to play a ball half submerged in the water hazard at the sixth, his 15th, but it paid off.

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But Former Wales and Lions scrum-half Rob Jones says Norton-Knight will have big shoes to fill after Robinson's fine form last season.

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The factory involved in Thursday's deaths, Wing Star Shoes, was built a year and a half ago by a joint venture between Asics subsidiary Asics Trading Co.

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It has been said over centuries that rumour gets half way round the world before truth can put its shoes on - and that was way before the internet, and the ability to send rumour sprinting at the click of a mouse.

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