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  C-Suite interview: Piccadilly celebrates 70 years with good growth prospects

  6 March 2025By Michele Novaga

  Piccadilly is one of the oldest shoe companies in Brazil. Founded in 1955 by Almiro Grings, it started with an initial production of 12 pairs of shoes a day. Today it exports to 100 countries around the world and has a turnover of approximately 600 million Brazilian reais ($120 million).

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  C-Suite interview: ​Zhejiang Huanqiu seeks European distributors and an outdoor brand

  11 February 2025By Philip Webster

  Zhejiang Huanqiu Shoes Co. Ltd, a Chinese footwear group that owns the Huanqiu and Babaya brands, is seeking distributors in Western Europe, with a focus on France, Italy and Germany as well as an interest in Spain and the UK.

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  C-Suite interview: BFShow to grow with the Brazilian footwear industry

  2 December 2024By Michele Novaga

  Haroldo Ferreira, the president of Brazilian footwear association Abicalçados, expects BFShow to grow in lockstep with the Brazilian footwear industry and believes that a free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur will also be beneficial to European shoemakers.

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• German consumer confidence declines

  In March, the German consumer climate is expected to fall by 2.1 points to -24.7 points compared to the previous month, according to a preliminary estimate by the GfK Consumer Climate powered by NIM, which is published jointly by GfK and the Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions (NIM).

• French footwear sales up by 0.6% in January

  In January, French footwear retail sales rose by a seasonally and working-day adjusted 0.6 percent month-on-month, according to the Bank of France.

• Global footwear market expected to grow 4.2% a year to 2029

  The global footwear market is expected to grow by a compound annual growth rate of 4.2 percent between 2025 and 2029, according to the research institute Technavio. Over the period, the size of the market is expected to increase by $103.6 billion, with the Asia-Pacific region contributing to 47 percent ...

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