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ArticleSpanish footwear exports rose in value but slipped in volumes in 2023
Spanish footwear exports totaled €3,260 million in 2023, up by 6.6 percent compared to the previous year when exports breached the €3 billion threshold for the first time. In 2022, exports rose by 22 percent to €3,056 million, according to data released by Fice, the Spanish footwear association. However, in ...
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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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ArticleThe attendance at Micam and its sister fairs rises by 21%
Micam, the footwear fair which ran from Sept. 17 to 20 at the Fieramilano Rho exhibition center at the outskirts of Milan, along with the trade shows Mipel, The One Milan and HOMI Fashion&Jewels Exhibition attracted 42,273 visitors, up by 21 percent compared with the September 2022 edition, from 129 ...
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ArticleHow after a stellar 2022, Spanish shoemakers are facing a challenging environment
Last year, the Spanish footwear industry returned to levels similar to the pre-pandemic period. Exports exceeded €3 billion for the first time, with almost 160 million pairs of shoes sold abroad. But, export growth has slowed down early 2023 and the Spanish industry continues to struggle with structural shortcomings while ...
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ArticleSpanish footwear exports at record levels in 2022
The year 2022 marked a record for Spanish footwear exports. For the first time, exports exceeded the €3 billion mark at €3.059 billion, up by 22.0 percent over 2021. In volume, exports increased by 6.1 percent to 159 million pairs. The average price was €19.26 a pair, up by 15.0 ...
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Spanish footwear exports exceed €3bn in 2022
Spanish footwear exports rose 22 percent in 2022 to €3.28 billion, according to the industry ministry. In volume, exports nearly reached 160 million pairs, up by 6 percent, added the Spanish footwear association, Fice. Compared with 2019, the year before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe, exports ...
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ArticleHow reshoring to Spain is being hampered by labor and capacity shortage
Demand to reshore footwear manufacturing from Asia to Southern Europe, and especially to Spain, is growing, but the Iberian country is lacking the capacity needed to significantly boost production, while exports of Spanish made shoes are back to pre-pandemic levels. “We are at full capacity and there is no more ...
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ArticleItalian shoemakers start using the VCS self-assessment ESG program
VCS (Verified & Certified Steps), a software package allowing the self-assessment of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performances launched by Assocalzaturifici, the Italian footwear association, is currently being tested by three Italian shoemakers. “We chose three companies of different sizes and with different business models” for the pilot tests, explained ...
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Spanish exports up 19.2% in first five months of 2022
In the first five months of 2022, Spanish exports rose by 19.2 percent year-over-year to €1,225.3 million. The data is also 3.3 percent above the first five months of 2019, before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Spanish footwear association Fice. Year-over-year, exports rose in all main ...
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ArticleSpanish shoemakers expect to emerge from Covid-19 crisis by 2022
The Spanish footwear industry suffered severely from the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 but has since enjoyed a 35 percent rebound in production during the first half of 2021. In an interview with Shoe Intelligence, Imanol Martínez, the marketing & international business development director of the Spanish footwear ...
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ArticleSpanish footwear manufacturers seek to avoid U.S. tariff
The Spanish footwear association Fice is seeking to fend off a possible 25 percent tariff imposed by the U.S. on Spanish footwear. The trade organization said that it held a meeting on April 8 with Juan Martínez , the general director of Spain’s trade policy, to express “the enormous ...
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ArticleSpain launches 2nd edition of footwear digitalization program
The Spanish footwear association Fice and the local trade agency, Icex , have launched the second edition of the program Global Through Innovation , aimed at promoting innovation and the digitalization of the footwear industry. The initiative is scheduled to start in April and candidates must send their applications ...
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ArticleSpain to invest in the re-engineering of the Elche cluster
The Elche footwear cluster near Valencia is lauching a project called Eco Challenge , which aims to reduce manufacturing costs by 30 percent through the re-engineering of the manufacturing process. The project has led to the creation of a consortium supported by the national footwear association Fice , Valencia’s ...
