CR7, the menswear brand founded by iconic footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, have launched a new espadrille footwear line which is being entirely produced by LFMEAB Member Sonali Aansh Industries Ltd. in Bangladesh. In all there are 9 models in the footwear line, all hand-sewn. According to the website, the new footwear line “further enriches…
CCC Shoes & Bags, the fast-growing Polish-based shoe retail chain, and the German-based Hamm-Reno Group announced their signature on Nov. 24 of a wide-reaching strategic agreement that could end up with CCC obtaining control of the HR Group at a later stage. The deal is subject to several conditions including the endorsement of anti-trust authorities…
Almost 90% of the shoes made in Mexico in 2017 stayed in the domestic market, according to analysis of figures published by CICEG, the shoe industry’s main representative body in the state of Guanajuato. In total last year, Mexican footwear factories produced 260 million pairs, exporting 26.3 million of them. But the 233.7 million pairs…
Bangladesh as a Least Developed Country (LDC) is enjoying duty free market access or reduced tariff rate facilities to export to various developed and developing countries in the world. This facility is enhanced and privileged by the membership of World Trade Organization (WTO). Besides, Bangladesh is the member of different regional trade blocs. Thus the…
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– CVC may close down its plant – German shoe exports on the rise – Portugal invests heavily in its shoe industry – Aldo will work with Kurt Geiger – Pentland loses the Ted Baker license – Vans sets a $5bn target for 2023 – The sports shoe market rises up by 9.4% – Printemps…
World shoe production resumes growth After two flat years, footwear production resumed some growth last year, limited to a rate of 2 percent as compared to 2016, reaching an estimated level of 23.5 billion pairs. The figure is still far from the growth pace of 15.4 percent registered between 2010 and 2014, but it marks…
Held only a few weeks before the European Union decided to impose retaliatory duties on footwear and other items imported from the U.S., last month’s UITIC Congress in Porto was also the stage for a joint declaration against protectionism issued by the International Footwear Forum of the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC). Representatives…
The production of footwear grew by 11.4 percent to a total of 104 million pairs in 2017, according to the government’s statistical office, Rosstat, in spite of the bankruptcy of Center Obuv, the country’s largest shoe retailer and manufacturer. According to Rosstat, the local production went up on the back of strong sales in the…
Online retailing makes up 20% of the German shoe market The management of the German shoe retailers’ federation, BDSE, reported an increase of 1.5 percent for the German shoe retail trade, but estimated that sales of footwear over the internet grew at a stronger rate of 7 percent, down from their previous double-digit increases. E-Shoe_Intelligence_Vol._20_n-_5+6_.pdf