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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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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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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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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 ...
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ArticleHow Turkey is rebuilding Antakya’s shoe cluster after the earthquake
Where footwear factories once stood in Antakya, the city in southeastern Turkey devastated by an earthquake in February 2023, name tags and signboards are the only traces left in the flattened and desolate landscape. But 40 kilometers away, in a town called Reyhanlı, Turkish authorities have installed container shelters and ...
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ArticleHow Portugal is planning to spend €120m to boost its footwear industry
Portuguese footwear producers are working on two projects to modernize the country’s industry with critical financing provided by Portugal’s recovery plan. The Agile, Intelligent, Sustainable and Technological Factory (FAIST) and the BioShoes4All projects rely on funds from Portugal’s €16 billion Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), part of the European Union’s ...
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ArticleHow an Italian startup is working with the fashion industry to promote upcycling
The mission is simple: to give value to end-of-life products by introducing designer collections deriving from the creative reuse of second-hand clothing and discarded textiles cuttings. Appcycled was born with this purpose two years ago. It was founded by three young people eager to promote upcycling in the fashion industry. ...
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ArticleHow Spanish espadrille makers expect to bank on their holy city’s jubilee
In 2024, Caravaca de la Cruz, the fifth holy city of Catholic Christianity with Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela and Camaleño, will be celebrating a jubilee year that is expected to attract more than a million pilgrims and tourists. As part of the event, local shoe makers have launched a ...
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ArticleHow a group of Polish shoemakers is seeking to relaunch their industry
Created in 2019, Polska Grupa Producentów Obuwia (PGPO) is a proactive grouping of more than 50 Polish shoemakers largely based in the southern province of Malopolskie, the country’s main footwear cluster, aiming to promote their industry which has been badly hit by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. ...
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ArticleHow a new collection has prompted Safety Jogger to review its supply chain
Safety Jogger, the leading brand of the Belgian footwear and apparel company Cortina, launched in November 2022 a workwear collection as part of its brand extension policy and the initiative has led the company to reconsider its sourcing policy and reduce its reliance on China. At Expoprotection, an international exhibition ...
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ArticleHow a fast-growing footwear brand is further boosting growth with apparel
Velasca, a fast-growing Milan-based footwear company, has launched an apparel collection in an effort to diversify its business. In the near future, the company aims to have its own factory for the production of shoe uppers. The first weeks since the launch of the apparel line in November have already ...
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ArticleHow Dirty Harry helped a Spanish shoemaker conquer the world from his garage
Like Steve Jobs, Basilio García Pérez-Aradros started his business in a garage. For seven years, every day from early in the morning until late at night, he worked on his dream that started in the late sixties: that of producing quality shoes with traditional craftsmanship to sell them all over ...
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ArticleHow reshoring to Spain is being hampered by labor and capacity shortage
Demand to reshore footwear manufacturing from Asia to Southern Europe, and especially to Spain, is growing, but the Iberian country is lacking the capacity needed to significantly boost production, while exports of Spanish made shoes are back to pre-pandemic levels. “We are at full capacity and there is no more ...
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ArticleHow Italian manufacturers are crossing the Rubicon to preserve their industry
A group of Italian shoemakers and components manufacturers located in San Mauro Pascoli have decided to join forces and create a consortium called Rerum, which starts for Rete Rubicone Moda, to preserve the cluster’s supply chain. Rubicone, or Rubicon in English, is the name of a nearby river famously crossed ...
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ArticleHow a Serbian shoemaker is benefiting from Russia’s need for new suppliers
The huge exodus of Western brands out of Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 24, has created a void benefiting to companies from countries non abiding to Western sanctions. Thanks to tight historical and cultural ties, Serbia continues to trade with Russia, even though the country has ...
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ArticleHow OpenMall plans to hold its first metaverse fashion show early 2023
OpenMall, an Italian startup specializing in social commerce, plans to hold its first virtual fashion show in the metaverse early 2023. Source: OpenMall Massimo Spica “We expect to finalize agreements with several brands by the end of the summer, and each brand will have its fashion show,” ...
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ArticleHow the exodus out of Russia is creating opportunities for locals
Western footwear retailers that pulled out from the Russian market over the past few months in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sold products worth 51.2 billion rubles (€911m) in the country in 2021, estimated Chestny Znak, a Russian regulator supervising the labelling of fashion products on the domestic ...
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ArticleHow Dr. Martens is handling the refurbished market
With consumers starting to tighten their belts and seek value amid rising prices and inflation, the iconic British shoe and bootmaker Dr. Martens is looking to step into the refurbished product market with a trial repair and resale service. The company has teamed up with online secondhand clothing marketplace Depop, ...
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ArticleHow a fast-growing Italian footwear e-tailer started as a game for two Millenials
Quanticlo, an Italian fast-fashion online company founded eight years ago, reached €5 million in revenues in 2021, growing by 58 percent from its pre-pandemic level of 2019. The brand targets further growth by strengthening its presence in its core European markets and building up consumer awareness. “Quanticlo started by chance ...
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