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Cambodia footwear exports down by 23%
Cambodia’s footwear exports fell by 23 percent in the first 11 months of 2023 to $1.21 billion from $1.57 billion a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The country’s exports of garment, footwear and travel products were down by 15 percent over the period to $9.9 billion. Cambodia ...
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Maritime disruption in the Red Sea will strain supply chains
A prolonged disruption of martime traffic in the Red Sea caused by attacks on vessels by Houthi militants from Yemen is expected to strain global supply chains and raise transportation costs, according to the credit rating agency DBRS Morningstar. “The passing-through of costs by the providers of essential seaborne cargo ...
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Maersk suspends transit through Red Sea, ships rerouted via Cape of Good Hope
The Danish shipping company Maersk, which manages about a fifth of global container shipping, said that its ships due to sail through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden will be rerouted via the Cape of Good Hope. Other companies, including the French group CMA CGM and the German ...
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SponsoredA showcase for the best of this Italian champion industry
The leather industry in Italy generates an annual turnover of more than €30 bn. One event in Milan is perfectly placed to showcase this champion.
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ArticleRussia’s footwear imports rise sharply
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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Cofra to build a factory in Egypt
The Italian safety footwear manufacturer Cofra is planning to invest €10 million in a factory in Egypt, Arab Finance reported citing the minister of trade and industry, Ahmed Samir. The factory will occupy a 50,000-square-meter area in the Robbiki Leather City cluster and is expected to create 2,000 jobs. ...
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Bangladeshi textile minimum wage increased by over 56%
The minimum wage committee of Bangladesh has approved a 56.25 percent raise in the minimum monthly salary of the country’s four million textile sector workers, bringing it to 12,500 takas (about €104). Raisha Afroz, the secretary of the government-nominated committee, told the news agency AFP that the new minimum salary ...
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ArticleHermès could consider investments in Italian shoe, fashion suppliers
Hermès could invest in some of its Italian footwear and fashion suppliers to further integrate its supply chain, said Eric du Halgouët, the company’s executive vice president of finance. “We could consider vertical integration with investments to consolidate partnerships with some suppliers that share our standards,” he said during a ...
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Taiwanese insole maker DSC expanding in Indonesia, India
Dahsheng Chemical (DSC), a Taiwanese maker of closed-cell and open-cell foam products founded in 1945, is expanding its global manufacturing footprint in Indonesia and India. The new locations, estimated to generate more than 1,500 jobs, will increase DSC’s global capacity by 24 million pairs of insoles per month and accelerate ...
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ArticleWorld Shoe opens a shoe factory in Ghana
On Oct. 10, World Shoe announced the opening of its inaugural factory in Ghana to produce the first antimicrobial, eco-friendly footwear brand manufactured in Africa. ”The production launch represents a collaborative effort among public, private, and civil service sectors to provide high-quality, low-cost products for retail consumers throughout African and ...
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ArticleRussia mulls creating footwear clusters to boost local production
The Russian government is discussing the establishment of footwear clusters in the European part of the country, aiming to meet at least 10 percent of domestic demand. The clusters are planned in the Dagestan Republic, Rostov and Moscow province, or oblast, the Russian newspaper Izvestia reported, citing sources close to ...
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ArticleHow a Malaysian shoemaker is hedging the China risk and trying to expand in the U.S. and Europe
Sweetkiss Shoes Footwear Co., a Malaysian incorporated footwear group known for its Dr Shooz brand, launched a new factory in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in July 2023 to supplement its Chinese facility, which is located in Guangzhou and has been operational since November 2012. Source: Sweetkiss Shoes ...
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Pou Chen to axe more jobs in Vietnam
Pou Chen Corp, the world’s largest athletic footwear manufacturer, has told authorities that it will lay off 1,221 people on permanent contracts at its Ho Chi Minh City factory in Vietnam. Since the beginning of the year, Pou Chen has reduced the number of employees at the factory, which was ...
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ArticleWhy footwear brands are reluctant to be fully transparent about the supply chain despite client demand
Consumer demand for traceability in the footwear supply chain is here to stay but many brands around the world are still failing to pay enough attention to the trend, according to Bruno Venditti, chief operating officer of the Italian digital product passport start-up Blockvision. In an interview with Shoe Intelligence, ...
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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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ArticleCanada probes Walmart, Hugo Boss, Diesel for alleged use of Uyghur forced labor
The Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) will launch investigations regarding the alleged use of Uyghur forced labor in China by the Canadian units of Walmart, Hugo Boss and Diesel. CORE has published initial assessment reports regarding complaints about Walmart Canada, Hugo Boss Canada and Diesel Canada for allegedly benefitting ...
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ArticleHow Turkey is still benefiting from Covid-19 reshoring, even if some production has returned to the Far East
Turkish footwear exports are set to break a new record in 2023, partly thanks to the reshoring of some production from the Far East during the Covid-19 pandemic. After reaching an all-time high of $1.2 billion in 2022, Berke Içten, head of the association of Turkish footwear manufacturers TASD, forecasts ...
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Psudo launches a new style in partnership with Blumaka
The Los Angeles-based sneaker brand Psudo said that it is launching its latest style, Psudo blu in partnership with Blumaka, a shoe and insole manufacturer allowing brands to develop foam parts that have up to 85 percent recycled content. Psudo blu sneakers will be produced at Blumaka’s solar-powered factory in ...
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News briefsA Nike factory opens in Uzbekistan
The Chinese group SinoInternational has started a factory for manufacturing Nike footwear in Andijan, Uzbekistan, the Uzbek association of leather, footwear and fur products, Uzcharmsanoat, said on its website. Nike granted permission to build the factory in 2019, but construction was delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, it took ...
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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 ...
