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Stocks of footwear companies fell by 16.3% in 2020
Well functioning financial markets are providers of information and signals. We are analyzing last year’s performance of footwear companies, but also of luxury goods and e-commerce companies with a strong footwear component, to see how markets perceived some of the key players of our industry.
How Covid-19 has impacted companies’ trade show budgets
It has become commonplace to say that the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated trends that were already underway with the digitalization of the economy and society in general.
Diversity and inclusion are a growing corporate issue
In 2020, the year of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, diversity and inclusion burst onto the public agenda. The theme has emerged on companies’ radars, too. Diversity and inclusion are increasingly criteria by which companies are evaluated. And, while some footwear and sportswear brands have come under fire for ...
Global footwear market to grow 2% a year to 2024 - Technavio
The global footwear market is expected to grow by an annual average of over 2 percent in the period running from 2020 to 2024, according to a report published by the research and advisory company Technavio. The increase would add $42.1 billion to the market’s overall size.
Global 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 ...
The casual shoe market grew by 6.0% in 2019
According to a study conducted by Shoe Intelligence in collaboration with Sporting Goods Intelligence, the branded casual footwear market grew by 6.0 percent in terms of invoiced dollars to an estimated level of $20.8 billion in 2019, in spite of strong competition from the athletic footwear brands in the disputed ...
Italian fashion industry still expects sharp declines in H1
The Italian fashion industry still expects sharp declines in sales during the first two quarters of 2021, after falling by 26 percent in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey released by Confindustria Moda, the umbrella association which comprises Sistema Moda Italia (SMI), which groups the textile ...
Brazilian footwear output forecast to rise by 14.1% this year
Brazilian footwear production is expected to rise by 14.1 percent this year after having fallen by an estimated 21.8 percent in 2020 due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and reaching a 16-year low, according to Abicalçados, which represents the local footwear industry.
Stocks of footwear companies fell by 16.3% in 2020
Well functioning financial markets are providers of information and signals. We are analyzing last year’s performance of footwear companies, but also of luxury goods and e-commerce companies with a strong footwear component, to see how markets perceived some of the key players of our industry.
Italian shoe makers hit by Christmas shopping restrictions
The Italian footwear association Assocalzaturifici warned that restrictive measures introduced over the Christmas shopping period in various countries to combat the propagation of the Covid-19 virus will have “serious repercussions” on an already weakened industry.