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ArticleYue Yuen posts higher footwear manufacturing revenues
In the first nine months of 2025, Yue Yuen posted a 1.0 percent decrease in overall revenues to $6.017 billion, because of weak sales at its retail division Pou Sheng. Meanwhile, revenues relative to the Hong Kong company’s footwear manufacturing activity increased by 4.6 percent year-over-year to $3.956 billion. Sales ...
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ArticleYue Yuen’s manufacturing business underpins revenues
Yue Yuen recorded higher shipment volumes, driven by increased orders from multiple brands in the first half of 2025, as well as a rebound in average selling prices. However, the world’s largest manufacturer of footwear was again saddled with uneven production leveling and higher labor costs, both of which ...
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ArticleYue Yuen’s earnings decline in Q1
In the first quarter of 2025, Yue Yuen’s Ebit fell by 23.7 percent to $110.8 million from $145.1 million a year earlier. Net profit was down nearly 25 percent at $83.5 million, and gross profit slipped by 2.20 percentage points to 22.9 percent from 25.1 percent in the year-ago period. ...
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ArticleYue Yuen reports improved FY results on manufacturing rebound
Yue Yuen posted a 47 percent increase in 2024 Ebit to $572.1 million versus $390.2 million in 2023. Net profit attributable to owners of the Chinese group rose by 43 percent to $392.4 million from $274.7 million. Annual operating costs contracted by 4.9 percent or $75.1 million. Annual revenues grew ...
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Yue Yuen sees 2024 net profit up 55-60%
Yue Yuen is projecting a 55 to 60 percent increase in profits attributable to shareholders in 2024 from a profit of $274.7 million the previous year due to a “substantial rise” in branded customers demand for manufactured footwear. The group said that factor coupled with strong order fulfillment and a ...
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ArticleYue Yuen posts strong manufacturing but weak retail results
Yue Yuen, the world’s largest footwear manufacturer, generated strong manufacturing results in the first nine months of 2024. But the group’s retail arm, Pou Sheng Intl., suffered from soft sales momentum with weak traffic across various Chinese cities “amid a mixed consumption landscape.” Profit attributable to company owners rose ...
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Yue Yuen sees full-year net profit up by 140-145%
Yue Yuen expects its attributable net profit to increase by 140 percent to 145 percent in the first nine months of 2024, compared to the $137.7 million posted a year earlier. In the first half of 2024, the world’s largest footwear manufacturer saw the profit attributable to company owners grow ...
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ArticleYue Yuen experiences order book ‘normalization’
The globe’s largest footwear manufacturer Yue Yuen realized a whopping 121 percent growth in profit attributable to company owners at $184.4 million for the six months ended June 30 versus $83.6 million a year earlier. Ebit rose by 85 percent to $265.2 million against $143.2 million in the year-ago period. ...
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ArticleThe stocks of footwear companies weaken in Q2 on soft economic prospects
The prices of stocks monitored by Shoe Intelligence fell by 4.6 percent on an equal-weighted average in the second quarter of 2024, compared with the previous three months as many economies continue to show signs of weakness. Meanwhile, interest rates in Western countries are staying higher for longer than expected ...
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ArticleYue Yuen’s profits double in Q1
Profit attributable to owners of the Chinese group Yue Yuen increased by 97 percent year-over-year to $100.0 million for the first quarter ended March 31 from $50.8 million a year earlier. Ebit rose by 82 percent to $145.1 million from $79.7 million despite a 4.9 percent decline in total revenues ...
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ArticleFootwear stocks treaded water in a quarter marked by shareholder activism
The prices of stocks monitored by Shoe Intelligence grew by 1.3 percent on average in the first quarter of 2024, compared with the previous three months, in very volatile trade. The quarter was marked by shareholder activism. Tabor Asset Management, a US investment company that has a 1.1 percent stake ...
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ArticleYue Yuen’s profit, sales slip in 2023
Yue Yuen, the globe’s largest manufacturer of footwear, suffered a down year in 2023 due to inventory de-stocking by retailers worldwide and conservative ordering by its portfolio of brand clients that include Nike, Adidas, Asics and New Balance, among others. Yue Yuen’s annual Ebit declined by 5.6 percent to $390.2 ...
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Yue Yuen's manufacturing sales decline again in December
Manufacturing sales of Hong Kong-based Yue Yuen Industrial fell by 2.4 percent to $420.4 million in December. It was the slowest decline in manufacturing sales last year. For the whole of 2023, sales were down by 18.4 percent. However, sales at Yue Yuen’s retail business Pou Sheng grew by 15.9 ...
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ArticleBelow-average order rates continue to impact Yue Yuen
Profit attributable to Yue Yuen fell by 49 percent to $137.7 million for the nine months ended Sept. 30 from $270.1 million a year earlier, as sales declined by 14.1 percent to $5.99 billion from $6.97 billion. Manufacturing revenues declined by 20.9 percent year-over-year to $3.79 billion. Ebit sunk by ...
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Weak demand expected to prolong destocking in the U.S., EU
Weak demand in the U.S. and the European Union is expected to prolong destocking by brands and affect manufacturers of sportswear and footwear in 2024, according to the brokerage Jefferies. Despite resilient production by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Jefferies said that it has witnessed brands like Uniqlo “trimming orders and ...
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ArticleSoft global footwear demand continues to impact Yue Yuen
Profit attributable to Yue Yuen (YY) shareholders declined by 52 percent to $83,601,000 for the six months ended June 30 from $175,049,000 a year earlier, as sales fell by 12 percent to $4,154,968,000 from $4,709,792,000. Ebit fell by 36 percent to $143,227,000. The company cited a sluggish global macroeconomic environment ...
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ArticleThe stocks of footwear companies slip led by British firms
The prices of stocks monitored by Shoe Intelligence fell by 7 percent in the second quarter of 2023 compared with the previous three months, when the cohort gained about 5 percent. Shares were driven lower by British constituents of the panel. Some companies were hit by worrisome financial situations, but ...
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Yue Yuen’s industrial utilization rate is improving
Yue Yuen’s facility utilization rate is estimated to have improved based on the company’s monthly sales figures, according to the analysts of the U.S. bank Citi. In May, the company’s operating revenues fell by 7.5 percent year-over-year to $701.0 million after declining by 8.2 percent to $684.6 million in April. ...
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ArticleYue Yuen Q1 results impacted by soft global footwear demand
High inventory levels across the industry coupled with softer global footwear demand negatively impacted first-quarter results at Yue Yuen. For the period ended March 31, Ebit fell by 32.2 percent to $65.9 million from $97.1 million a year earlier. Net profit attributed to the company declined by 42.6 percent to ...
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ArticleYue Yuen to invest $276m in Indian plant
Yue Yuen has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to invest 23 billion rupees ($276 million) to build a manufacturing plant. Under the agreement, the regional government will provide infrastructure support to the project including power, water supply, telecommunication facilities ...
