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Italian Trade Agency invests in exports to U.S.
The Italian Trade Agency is investing €28 million to boost exports to the U.S. Of that total, €8 million is devoted to consumer goods, such as footwear and textiles. The overall figure is 45 percent higher than it was last year. According to Antonino Laspina , the agency’s executive director, ...
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Italy and Marche region to fund leather cluster
The Marche region and the Italian government each plan to provide €30 million, by contributing €15 million each, to finance the relaunch of the Marche footwear and leather cluster centered around the towns of Fermo and Macerata. The focus of the investments will be on infrastructure. The cluster has suffered ...
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EU Parliament approves trade deal with Vietnam
The European Parliament has approved the free trade agreement negotiated by the European Commission with the government of Vietnam with 401 votes in favor of the package, 192 votes against and 40 abstentions. The FTA will allow the removal of virtually all import duties by the two parties over the ...
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EC withdraws Cambodia's duty-free access to EU
The European Commission is putting pressure on the Cambodian government to stop violating its commitments to various conventions on labor, social and human rights, including the International Labor Organization ’s convention on collective bargaining. It is doing so by withdrawing Cambodia’s duty-free access to the market of the European Union, ...
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Misaf to hold 2nd edition in June with focus on design, innovation
Misaf , which stands for Milan shoes and accessories fair, plans to hold its second edition from June 10 to June 12, just before Expo Riva Schuh , scheduled for June 13-16. Expo Riva Schuh is held in the Italian town of Riva del Garda and is the world’s leading ...
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Micam Milano replaces Micam Americas
Informa Markets , a British organizer of exhibitions and events, has joined forces with the Micam Milano to launch Micam Americas , scheduled to run for the first time from Aug. 17 to 19 in Las Vegas. It will replace FN Platform and run alongside two other important fashion events ...
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Wolverine fined in Michigan
Wolverine Worldwide has agreed to pay $69.5 million to local authorities and the state of Michigan over several years to remedy water contamination from chemicals used in a now-closed tannery and other company-owned facilities in the state. On the other hand, WWW will get $55 million in a lump sum ...
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AAFA releases new Restricted Substance List
The American Apparel Footwear Association (AAFA) has released an updated version of its Restricted Substance List (RSL) , the open-industry document that provides apparel and footwear companies with information related to regulations and laws that restrict or ban chemicals and substances in finished home textile, apparel and footwear ...
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Blockchain to trace Italian projects
A project launched by the Italian industry ministry to set up a national scheme using blockchain technology to guarantee the traceability of Italian products, in order to protect brands and fight counterfeiting, has been dropped due to a lack of funds, according to Pambianconews . The ministry indicated that it ...
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Industry criticism of EC's removal of Cambodia's customs advantages
Matthias Händle , president of the foreign trade association of German retailers ( AVE ) and former president of the Hamm-Reno Group , has criticized the decision of the European Commission to remove Cambodia’s customs advantages. According to the AVE, the measure affects the country’s population primarily. Reacting to allegations ...
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World's first Industry 4.0 smart footwear demonstrator
Thanks to an investment of €400,000 from the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (Ivace) , Spain’s Center for Technology and Innovation (Inescop) has developed what it calls the world’s first Industry 4.0 smart demonstrator for the footwear industry. According to Inescop, the demonstrator showcases “enabling technologies” to “reduce time, costs, ...
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ArticleEurope has become the “epicenter” of the coronavirus pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Europe has now become the “epicenter” of the novel coronavirus pandemic as the virus spreads dramatically, prompting nations to totally or partially shut down their economies. On March 22, the Italian government issued a decree imposing the closure of all manufacturing ...
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Germany withstands the disease in better ways
Italy, the largest shoe manufacturing country on the continent, has suffered the highest number of deaths, followed by Spain, the second-largest producer. The official number of deaths related to the epidemic is now higher in Italy than in China, where it started last December. After Italy, Spain became the second ...
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Italy’s 2019 shoe production fell by 3.1% in volume
Italian footwear production fell by 3.1 percent to 178.6 million pairs in 2019 as the industry continued to suffer from a weak domestic market and a decline in export volumes, according to an estimate released by the Italian shoe industry association Assocalzaturifici . The value of the production rose by ...
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Lower foreign and domestic sales by German shoe companies
The growth of the German footwear industry weakened in 2019, weighed down once again by lower sales abroad, according to an annual report by the Federal Association of the German Footwear and Leathergoods Industry (HDS/L) and presented at the Gallery Shoes fair in Düsseldorf earlier this month. In 2019, ...
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German shoe retailers post record growth in a difficult market
According to the German Federal Association of Shoe Retailers (BDSE) , German shoe retailers recorded an increase of year-on-year 3 percent in their sales in 2019, expanding the total market to around €11.8 billion. The situation for German shoe retailers was positive last year except for a difficult winter, ...
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Lower attendance at Micam
Attendance at Micam’s 89th edition, held on Feb. 16-19 in Milan, fell by 5 percent as compared to a year ago, largely due exceptional circumstances, according to the organizers, who had actually expected a higher rate of decline, considering especially the reports available at the time about the effect of ...
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The Italian footwear cluster of the Marche region continues to...
The Italian footwear cluster of the Marche region continues to suffer. Between Oct. 16 and Nov. 8, a Fermo-based court issued bankruptcy rulings for five footwear companies. In the first six months of the year, the region had already lost 95 companies and 1,164 jobs in the industry, according to ...
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In Cambodia, exports of footwear and travel goods rose by...
In Cambodia, exports of footwear and travel goods rose by 88 percent to $385 million in the first nine months, thanks to preferential duty-free entry obtained under the U.S.'s Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), according to a local newspaper, the Phom Phen Post.
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Positive vibes from Brazil
Positive signals on the domestic and international fronts have been coming from the Brazilian shoe industry as it gears up for the Couromoda fair taking place in São Paulo on Jan. 13-15, which will also integrate a women's ready-to-wear section. In the first 11 months of this year, Brazilian shoe ...
