ECCO Sko A/S has opened its first factory in China
ECCO has opened its first Chinese factory in the dynamic growth centre of
The state-of-the-art production plant took 8 months to construct and will employ 650 Chinese workers producing up to 1 million pairs of shoes annually.
“In a competitive market, we create results through our active and deliberate choices. Whereas several competitors phase out and outsource production, we at ECCO maintain that our core is our own plants responsible for the main part of the production. We use all ECCO’s competences when over the next five years we will invest up to 3-500 million DKK in five Chinese factory units and a tannery, which will be the backbone of our growth towards 2013” said Mikael Thinghuus.
Three more Chinese production units are expected to be ready by the end of 2006. The increased production is intended as a support to ECCO’s planned global growth in the years to come.
