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At present, Ugg¡¯s business is largely driven by the US market, UGG Bailey Button 5803 women sale where the company does 70 percent of its sales, though the brand has begun to push into foreign markets, taking over its distribution in Germany and adding stores in second-tier cities in Japan to build out its 37-strong store network in Asia. ¡°I would say a lot of our growth is going to come from international, because it¡¯s not as developed as the US business,¡± predicted Rishwain. ¡°I believe we¡¯re going to end the year with more than 130 stores globally, so it¡¯s still a fairly small footprint. There¡¯s a lot of opportunity in retail and e-commerce as well.¡±

Surfing helped popularise the boots outside Australia and New Zealand. Advertisements for Australian sheepskin boots first appeared in Californian surf magazines in 1970.[24] By the mid-1970s, several surf shops in Santa Cruz, California and the San Fernando Valley were selling a limited number of boots purchased by the shops' owners while visiting surfing events in Australia.[25] In 1978, a Western Australian manufacturer of sheepskin boots, Country Leather, advertised outside Australia for distributors to sell its sheepskin boots, which were made from sheepskin sourced from Jackson's Tannery in Geelong, Victoria.[25] Seeing the popularity of the boots among American surfers, Australian surfer Brian Smith, then living in Santa Monica, California, bought boots from Country Leather but was unhappy with the brand and decided to register UGG as his own trademark. Family friends invested $20,000 into the new venture and the group set up Ugg Imports.[25] Due to other business commitments, in UGG Classic Cardy 5819 cheap sale 1979 Jensen handed over his share of the company to Smith. In 1987 Smith registered Ugg Holdings Inc. and in 1985 registered a U.S. trademark on a ram's head logo with the words "Original UGG Boot UGG Australia." In 1995, Ugg Holdings purchased Stedman's various trademarks.[25] As for the ugg name, Smith stated: "We always called them uggs, long before it was trademarked."[26]

The first trademark application for UGG in the United States was filed by Brian Smith¡¯s company in 1984.[51] In the 1990s, Smith and then Deckers secured additional registrations in the US and other countries.[5][30] In 1999, Deckers began asserting its new trademark and sent out cease and desist letters to Australian manufacturers that were selling sheepskin boots outside of Australia via the internet.[4] By the early 2000s, demand for UGG boots was soaring with Australian and U.S.-based manufacturers selling sheepskin boots over the Internet. There was confusion among consumers between generic ugg boots made in Australia and Deckers' UGG brand boots. Deckers' law firm Middletons of Melbourne began a serious effort to halt the Australian companies' sales[4] by sending cease and desist letters to a number of Australian and US based manufacturers, preventing them from selling sheepskin boots using the UGG trademark on eBay or from using the word in their registered business names or domain names.[45][52] Deckers initiated numerous domain name actions under the UDRP.[53][54]

Ugg has also ramped up its marketing, repositioning itself as a premium lifestyle label via grainy black-and-white billboard campaigns starring sketch artist Langley Fox Hemingway and American football quarterback Tom Brady. Its first global brand marketing campaign, launched in August and titled ¡®This is Ugg,¡¯ shows the product worn during outdoor activities or in the home ¡ª more ¡®comfort¡¯ and ¡®practicality¡¯ than ¡®hot trend.¡¯ ¡°In the past, before 2014, we had separate men¡¯s campaigns, kids campaigns and women¡¯s lifestyle,¡± explained Rishwain. ¡°¡®This is Ugg¡¯ was really a way of bringing it all together under one umbrella as a global lifestyle brand.¡±

Ugg¡¯s future began to look shaky. The once-hot boot had lost its ¡®must-have¡¯ fashion status and Ugg¡¯s limited product range was doing little to encourage customers to revisit the brand and buy more. It was then that Ugg's management took action, steering away from its 'trendy' profile to position its signature product as something even more powerful: a staple.

Being one of many clothing products made from animal skin, the production of sheepskin boots has been the subject of criticism by the animal rights movement.[47] In the decade beginning i cheap UGG Classic Mini 5854 sale n 2000, the group called for the boycott of sheepskin boots and their replacement with alternatives not made from animal skin. In 2007, Pamela Anderson, realizing that the boots were made of skin called for a boycott on her website.[48] In February 2008, the Princeton Animal Welfare Society staged a campus protest against the fur industry, particularly attacking the sheepskin boot industry. "Students lay in the newly fallen snow on the Frist Campus Center's North Front Lawn on Friday afternoon, feigning death, wearing coats covered with fake blood and sporting sign UGG Classic Short 5825 sale online s that read, 'What if you were killed for your coat?