Italian footwear sales slip 5.7% in ‘02
The Italian shoemaker’s federation, ANCI, has reported a sizeable 5.7% decrease in the country’s footwear exports during the first 11 months of 2002.
In value terms, exports were down 5.7% to Eur6.38 billion. By volume, the fall was even greater, with 303 million pairs being sold abroad, 8.4% fewer than the year before. Predictably, the biggest slide was seen in
The figures have been released by the organisers of the March edition of the Italian MICAM fair, where visitors were up 1.7% to 31,500 and a 5.8 rise was seen in visitors from abroad to, 12,000.
