Portugal: huge rise in leathergoods jobs as footwear holds its own

27/04/2023

New figures from national industry body Apiccaps show that Portugal had 1,186 footwear manufacturing companies at the end of 2022. This represents a fall of around 10% compared to the figure ten years earlier.

At the end of last year, the country’s shoe manufacturers employed a combined total of 32,292 workers. This, too, represents a decline, of 6.7%, compared to 2012.