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ArticleLuís Onofre re-elected at the helm of Apiccaps
Luís Onofre was re-elected president of Apiccaps, the Portuguese association of footwear, components and leather goods manufacturers, for a new three-year term. Joaquim Moreira will chair the association’s general meeting and Domingos Ferreira the supervisory board. In a statement, Onofre said that “it should be recognized that in recent years, ...
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CEC elects Rosana Perán as president
The general assembly of the European Footwear Confederation (CEC) held on Dec. 1 in Elche, Spain, elected Rosana Perán, as its president for the next two years. She is the first woman to head CEC and succeeds Luis Onofre, president of the Portuguese footwear association, Apiccaps. Perán is president of ...
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ArticleMain footwear producing countries suffer sharp falls in exports
The world’s four main footwear manufacturing countries have registered “very significant” falls in exports during the first half of 2023, according to data collected by Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear association. Some key consumption markets are clogged up with inventories, stemming from overbuying to overcome disruption to the supply chain caused ...
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ArticleHow reshoring requests proved short-lived for Portuguese producers
Demand to reshore footwear manufacturing from Asia to Portugal has petered out after growing substantially in 2022, several Portuguese producers told Shoe Intelligence. Last year, as high inflation, energy prices and China’s zero-covid policies upended the global footwear supply chain, Portuguese manufacturers were approached by clients who wanted to reshore ...
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ArticleGlobal footwear production up 7.6% in 2022
In 2022, global footwear production increased by 7.6 percent to 23.9 billion pairs, returning to pre-Covid-19 levels, according to the World Footwear Yearbook 2023 released by the Portuguese footwear association Apiccaps. Footwear manufacturing continues to be strongly concentrated in Asia where almost nine out of every 10 pairs of ...
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ArticleThe outlook for global footwear consumption improves
The outlook for global footwear consumption has improved significantly, based on the findings of the latest survey of experts published in the current Business Conditions Survey of World Footwear. The members of the panel expect footwear prices to increase by an average of 7.3 percent worldwide and the quantity of ...
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ArticleHow Portugal is planning to spend €120m to boost its footwear industry
Portuguese footwear producers are working on two projects to modernize the country’s industry with critical financing provided by Portugal’s recovery plan. The Agile, Intelligent, Sustainable and Technological Factory (FAIST) and the BioShoes4All projects rely on funds from Portugal’s €16 billion Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), part of the European Union’s ...
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Portuguese exports up over 20%
In 2022, Portuguese footwear exports rose by 20.2 percent in value to over €2 billion and by 10.5 percent in volume to 76 million pairs, according to data released by Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear, components and leather goods manufacturers association. About 80 percent of exports were shipped to other European ...
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ArticleEuropean footwear demand may drop in 2023
In 2023, demand for footwear could drop by 1 percent, or by an estimated 55.6 million pairs, in Europe, according to a survey of experts published in the latest Business Conditions Survey of World Footwear. The European continent would underperform the rest of the world, where demand is expected to ...
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ArticleData fails to show significant reshoring is underway
Despite all the talk of moving footwear production out of Asia and bringing it closer to consumption markets, the so-called reshoring, there is no indication of such a trend in the data currently available, according to Joana Vaz Teixeira, editor of World Footwear, a media initiative of the Portuguese footwear ...
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ArticleA report confirms the shift out of China into Vietnam
A report available on ResearchAndMarkets.com indicates that Nike and Adidas are leading a move out of China into Vietnam for the manufacturing of shoes, confirming a trend that has been observed in data and analyses that Shoe Intelligence has collected over the past years. The document called “Research Report on ...
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ArticleGlobal footwear production up 8.6% in 2021
In 2021, global footwear production increased by 8.6 percent, exceeding 22 billion pairs. Nonetheless, production is still 2 billion pairs below pre-pandemic level, according to the World Footwear 2022 Yearbook released by the Portuguese footwear association Apiccaps. The footwear industry continues to be strongly concentrated in Asia where almost ...
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ArticleGlobal footwear prices are expected to rise significantly due to higher costs
On average, global shoe prices will increase by 8.4 percent over the next six months, with a maximum rise of 9.8 percent forecast for Europe and a minimum surge of 5.7 percent expected in North America, according to a survey of experts published in the latest Business Condition Survey of ...
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ArticlePortuguese shoemakers to invest €140m to bolster their competitiveness
The Portuguese footwear industry will invest €140 million over the next three years through Cluster do Calçado e Moda (the footwear and fashion cluster), a progam led by Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear, components and leather goods manufacturers association, and the Portuguese footwear technological center, CTCP, to become “the international reference ...
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ArticleFootwear sales volumes, prices expected to rise in the coming months
The volume of footwear and the prices of shoes are expected to increase over the next six months, according to a survey of experts published in the latest Business Condition Survey of World Footwear done in collaboration with Shoe Intelligence. Despite the improvement in the outlook, the panel expects that ...
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ArticleItaly loses 3 positions in global footwear ranking
Because of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, global footwear production fell by nearly 16 percent in 2020. Some countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh managed to buck the trend but most producers suffered from the global drop in demand caused by widespread lockdowns. Italy was particularly hit and lost ...
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Luis Onofre re-elected president of CEC
Luis Onofre was unanimously re-elected for a second two-year term as president of the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry ( CEC ). The European footwear industry consists of 21,000 companies responsible for 278,000 people. Onofre is also president of Apiccaps , the Portuguese association grouping footwear, ...
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ArticleWorld Footwear helps shoemakers to deal with Brexit
The Portuguese shoe industry association, Apiccaps , has posted a useful guide on the website of World Footwear with practical checklists for shoe exporters and importers on how to deal with the new trade agreement between the U.K. and the European Union. It also organized a few days ...
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ArticleGlobal footwear consumption seen up 2.8% in 2021
Global footwear consumption is expected to rise by 2.8 percent in volume this year as the market recovers from losses posted last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a projection established from the answers of a panel of experts for the latest Business Condition Survey of World Footwear. ...
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ArticleGlobal footwear demand seen down by 22.2% in 2020
Global demand for footwear is expected to fall by 22.2 percent this year, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an updated forecast made by a panel of experts for the latest Business Condition Survey of World Footwear. In its April edition, panelists had estimated the decline ...
