Centenary year for CICEG
This will be a year of centenary celebrations for the Cámara de la Industria del Calzado del Estado de Guanajuato (CICEG), the main industry body in Mexico’s main footwear-producing state.
At the start of 2026, CICEG said it was celebrating its 100-year legacy. Predecessor organisation, the Union of Shoemakers in the city of León, formed in 1926.
The history of artisan footwear manufacturing in Guanajuato, and in León in particular, goes back far longer. Academic studies date the earliest record of shoe production in León to the year 1645. There are also records of footwear workers’ representative bodies dating back to the first decade of the nineteenth century.
But CICEG said the events of 1926 marked the beginnings of “an organised shoe industry” in the region. It added: “One hundred years on, the same entrepreneurial spirit lives on in CICEG.”
