Market Analysis

The latest insights and analysis about the international footwear market including market sizes, growth, drivers and trends on a country, regional and global level as well as our annual ranking of the global casual footwear companies and quarterly stock performers analysis.

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    Heydude is the hottest casual footwear brand in the US - Brand Heat Index

    2024-03-18T09:56:00+00:00

    Heydude is the hottest casual footwear brand, both among men and women in the US, while Allbirds fell out of the top 10 both for men and women, according to the 2024 U.S. Footwear and Apparel Brand Heat Index released by L.E.K. Consulting.

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    Footwear sales rose by 4% in 2023 in Germany while 15% of stores closed

    2024-03-07T18:26:00+00:00

    Footwear retail sales in Germany increased in 2023 by approximately 4 percent, or €480 million, to €11.6 billion (including VAT), despite a few spectacular bankruptcies, estimates from the country’s textile, shoes and leather goods trade association, BTE, showed.

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    Italian shoemakers concerned about the first half of 2024

    2024-02-19T07:57:00+00:00

    After having experienced a decline in revenues in the second part of 2023, Italian footwear manufacturers expect the negative trend to continue during the first half of 2024.

  • German economic sentiment improves

    2024-02-14T09:53:00+00:00

    In February, the index for economic sentiment in Germany rose to 19.9 from 15.2 in January, lifted by expectations that the European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal Reserve would start cutting interest rates to stimulate the economy, according to the latest survey released by think tank ZEW. Economists ...

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    Brazilian footwear exports collapse in December

    2024-01-29T09:01:00+00:00

    In December, Brazilian footwear exports fell by 41.5 percent year-over-year in volume to 7.45 million pairs and by 33.3 percent in value to $73.44 million, according to data released by the Brazilian footwear industry association, Abicalçados.

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    Italian footwear companies suffer a decline in sales in the second half of 2023

    2024-01-08T13:25:00+00:00

    After the gains posted in the first half of 2023, driven by a 13.6 percent year-over-year surge in the first quarter and a timid 1.2 percent rise in the second quarter, revenues of Italian shoe makers are estimated to have dropped by 5.8 percent year-over-year in the third quarter, according ...

  • German consumers prefer to shop in the city center, HDE survey shows

    2023-12-13T09:19:00+00:00

    Consumers in Germany prefer high street shopping, a report from the German trade association HDE showed, with over half of those surveyed putting the brick-and-mortar shopping experience above online shopping.

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    Russia’s footwear imports rise sharply

    2023-12-03T09:32:00+00:00

    In the third quarter of 2023, Russia imported 106.5 million pairs of shoes, 47 percent more compared with the same period of the previous year, the Russian Center for Prospective Technologies (CRPT) estimated. CRPT specializes in the development of digital labeling, marketing and tracking systems for goods in various industries.

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    The stocks of footwear companies continued to be under pressure in Q3

    2023-10-05T07:19:00+01:00

    The prices of stocks monitored by Shoe Intelligence fell by 7 percent on average in the third quarter of 2023 compared with the previous three months amid ongoing concern about the economic outlook due to weak demand, higher interest rates and stubborn inflation. In the second quarter, the panel was ...

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