Ugg Boots - UK main importer in administration

PasturesNew

Fill your boots with cheapo stock if you're into these..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/4210256/Ugg-boot-lovers-could-see-supplies-of-footwear-run-short.html

The group has gone into administration and closed all of its nine London stores. Its website is "currently down for maintenance".

The Australian-made Ugg boots are hugely popular with women including celebrities such as Kate Moss and Sarah Jessica Parker.

They have also been spotted on the feet of a string of high-profile men including Leonardo DiCaprio and Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood.

Edit: amended title

puddy

thank god, i cannot STAND those things

beaujolais-nouveau

PasturesNew wrote: »

Fill your boots with cheapo stock if you're into these..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/4210256/Ugg-boot-lovers-could-see-supplies-of-footwear-run-short.html

No-o-o-o-o! :eek: I live in my only pair of Ugg boots.

Where can I buy a lifetime's supply before they disappear forever?

beaujolais-nouveau

jenner wrote: »

thank god, i cannot STAND those things

If you ever have to live without central heating ...

ruggedtoast

Wait a minute, is this the Uggs that is actually the proper Australian Uggs; or the Uggs that is that American multinational company that stole the name and the design, copied and patented them, set up stores worldwide, and then threatened to sue the Australian Uggs of they tried to even keep calling their own product Uggs?

If its the former, good riddance to them. I believe the Aussie version is a family business and you can buy off their website.

Edit - yes Uggs us alive and well and ships to the UK : http://www.uggstore.com.au/index.php?currency=GBP&gclid=CM7kvMbhhJgCFU4g3godumy9Cw

I hope "Deckers" rott in bankruptcy, couldnt happen to a nicer bunch of people.

PasturesNew

It's the major UK importer of them that's gone under ... so those of you who need an ugly foot fix will still be able to pick some up probably. Just they'll get short in supply.

You could get one of these instead perhaps: http://www.celtic-sheepskin.co.uk/cat.asp?productCode=AG&id=21011

beaujolais-nouveau

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I believe the Aussie version is a family business and you can buy off their website.

Edit - yes Uggs us alive and well and ships to the UK : http://www.uggstore.com.au/index.php?currency=GBP&gclid=CM7kvMbhhJgCFU4g3godumy9Cw

Yay! Thank you.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

Fill your boots with cheapo stock if you're into these..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/4210256/Ugg-boot-lovers-could-see-supplies-of-footwear-run-short.html

It's Kate Kuba that has gone into administration not Ugg.

Kate Kuba is just a mini chain that expanded on the back of the Ugg boom; they stocked a wide variety of Ugg products plus other brands. This type of retail concept has had it's day (on current rental levels) as they can only mark up by a set amount (usually X 3)....not enough margin for nowadays.

Drapers is a pretty dire trade mag....everyone that wins Drapers awards seem to go bust a few months later...it's an inside trade joke; don't enter the awards, cos if you win, you'll go down.

Darth_Marty

Hope my wife wins one of these awards. :-D

mr.broderick

Anybody noticed the 'felixstowe docks in trouble' thread?

puddy

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's the major UK importer of them that's gone under ... so those of you who need an ugly foot fix will still be able to pick some up probably. Just they'll get short in supply.

You could get one of these instead perhaps: http://www.celtic-sheepskin.co.uk/cat.asp?productCode=AG&id=21011

PN are you trying to kill us all?? Im the sort of person that would have my feet in one of them and then get up and try and walk to ge a cuppa or something, forgetting that ive got 2 feet in one shoe!!!