Seven Facts about Leather You did not Know
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Local Brands of Sports and Casual Shoes in India Started Rising
Campus Activewear, the largest brand of sports and casual shoes in India, in the fiscal year 2021 (April 2021-March 2022), its sales volume and sales accounted for 17% and 25% of the market share.
Brazil: Footwear Exports on the Rise
In the first five months of the year, Brazilian footwear exports increased in both volume and value. The footwear industry is benefiting from US demand for suppliers outside Asia. The data released by the Brazilian Footwear Industries Association (Abi…
Assomac and UITIC Partner for 2023 Congress
UITIC has announced that it will partner with Assomac for its 21st International Footwear Technology Congress in 2023.
Best May for Brazilian Footwear Employment since 2004
According to the latest data from The Brazilian Footwear Industry Association (Abicalados), 3,400 jobs were created in May 2022, the best for May since 2004. Abicalados has reported the latest MTE data, showing that 289,700 people were directly employ…
Bangladesh Leather Exports Surpass Strategic Target Set for the Year
From July 2021 to May 2022, overall leather exports totalled 1.11 billion US dollars, topping the strategic target set of 1.03 billion US dollars for the full financial year. In the first eleven months of the current fiscal year*, Bangladeshi leather …
Tanners' Struggle for Survival
The gloomy look of the tanners during the days of Eid-ul-Azha in 2020 and 2021 still haunts many. Apart from them, these people include rawhide traders at different stages. In 2022, the enterprising villagers selling their cattle, cattle farm owners a…
Employment Level to Increase in the Footwear Industry
This is one of the main outcomes of the most recent edition of the World Footwear Business Conditions Survey. Access the complete report free of charge and read more about the expectations of our panel of international footwear experts. There is an ov…
What Rolling Back China Tariffs Could Mean for the Footwear Industry
President Biden is reportedly considering rolling back consumer duties on Chinese goods under the Section 301 tariffs that have contributed to rising prices on shoes and other basic consumer goods. Easing these tariffs, which were introduced by the Tr…
Real Leather, Stay Different heads to Scandinavia
The Real Leather, Stay Different student design competition has invited entries from students in the Nordic countries as part of the wider 2022 competition. Design students and recent graduates in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland have until June 30…
Calcutta Leather Complex Sees Light through Coronavirus Gloom
The coronavirus has badly hit exports of leather goods, from India’s Bantala Complex, but amidst the strain there has been hope, in the shape of fresh orders of industrial safety gear coming from the states. China has always been the main source of i…
Xingye Expects to Double Output of Hongxing Automobile Leather
Xingye Technology reported in its investor relations activity record that the company is committed to becoming a one-stop leather material supplier. In the past few years, it has made some reforms with market changes, and it achieved certain results i…
The District of Marche, Symbol of Resilience
Cruciality of the territorial dimensionRecent research shows that shoe manufacturing has very ancient origins. Even Boccaccio, the well-known Renaissance author of the “Decameron”, in the fifth short story of the eighth day mentions Italian shoes pr…
Footwear Industry Eyes $1b Export Target
Footwear manufacturers, while terming the ban on import of goods a right and wise decision, have expressed hope that the move will lead to 100% local shoe manufacturing over the coming years.“We have set the shoe export target at $1 billion for 2027,…
China’s 2021 Leather Shoes and Boots Output Down Slightly
In 2021, the output of leather shoes in China was 3.524 billion pairs, a year-on-year decrease of 0.5%.In 2021, the region with the largest output of leather shoes in China was 2.769 billion pairs in East China, accounting for 78.56% of the total outp…