A bumpy but promising Road Ahead for China Footwear Industry
A Bumpy Road Ahead The figures show the number of footwear factories on the mainland increased from 20,000 to more than 30,000 2002-2006, but orders were much slower, leading to an irrational “price war”, experts said. Industry newcomers, mostly SMEs, by an unfavorable market environment, that the revaluation of the yuan hit contain price increases for raw materials, rising labor and land costs, reduce the refund rate and revised policy on custom duty deposit, said analysts. will survive “is the industrial reshuffle has only just begun. More SMEs without core competitiveness will be washed out and those with better technology and sound internal governance,” said Xinhua. The unfavorable factors now in footwear industry Additional costs for laboratories The Uprising in RMB Keeping Rising commodity prices Foreign anti-dumping charges America subprime mortgage The “Red Sea” Competition Within Shoe Manufacturers themselves Shoe Export Slows Down Guangdong, a province in southern China exported 490 million pairs of shoes in January and February 2008, with a value of USD 1 € 59 billion reduction 27th 5% and 0 6% a year earlier, relying on customs statistics. In the meantime, the average price of exported shoes rose 37% year on year to USD 3 2 per pair. In the first month of the year 2007, the government reduced the export rebate rate in Beijing with shoes by 2 percentage points. The move was further weighing on shoemaker, whose profit margins are not high, especially in the country’s key footwear production base in the Pearl River Delta region, some in the province. As of September 2007 began the export of Guangdong shoes to fall, 18 5% year on year in November, and 20 3% and 35 7% in January and February 2008. Except in the first two months, the number of exporters in the delta Shoes to 1855 years in 1512, due to a rising renminbi, the U.S. subprime crisis and a surge of Chinese labor costs. Footwear suffer from anti-dumping charges The anti-dumping investigation in 2005 was carried out by the EU to take exported through a recommendation from Italy, France, Spain and other countries in measures against shoes from China and Vietnam. It was in October 2006 that the EU began to impose 16. 5 and 10 percent anti-dumping tax on Chinese and Vietnamese leather shoes or This policy will expire soon, but in October 2008, Italy has already prompted the EU to extend anti-dumping measure. Statistics from China Customs show that in 2007, the land around 180 million pairs of leather shoes to the EU, a decline was exported to 8th 95 percent. On the other hand, said Vito Artioli, president of the Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani (ANCI) that fell in 2007, the export of shoes from China and Vietnam to Italy by 15. 4 percent, while at the same time increased the export of shoes from Macao and Cambodia made by 72nd 8 and 90 7 percent. The Italian request was mainly for reasons that most shoes from Macao and Cabodia actually manufactured in China and Vietnam. The market is about women’s fascination Promosing Stylish Shoes The shoes are an endless source of joy for most women. Shoes every woman Needs APARTMENTS: Daytime, comfortable shoes. Fashion regardless of what you need, rather than want is a true classic shoes – loafers, ballet pumps and lace-sufficient Brogue all. Heel: A low-heeled shoe or boot is good for daytime and a higher heel is awardrobe essential. I’d always pick astiletto heel as the most elegant, up to an age when it looks tarty or your feet to force just does not reach. Trainer: Unfortunately, for most women are wardrobe staples, instead opting for simple. Sandals: The glamorous, if you can justify it, but you have a few pairs of flip-flops for the summer. Boots: Boots are the winter equivalent of flat shoes. Stockings versions are essential in winter under skirts and over jeans. Boots-series are a big cake Women need more boots on several occasions and suits. Most of them feel in boots could enhance their beauty, and add their scores temprement. Whether they have a great looking legs or not, they love to wear, kind of like an addiction. Even in summer it is still cool boots to choose from, so you looking sexy and cool. Boots are practical, warm and weatherproof but are less elegant than shoes and hard to look stylish in. Boots only look as good as the legs, which they wear. This is true for boots wear skirts with boots or worn over skinny jeans – please, no, if you piggy calves and thighs have curvature. Boots with jeans are good. Cowboy boots with jeans can look good – sexy and chic without trying too hard – but only if you have the right jeans and boots. Slightly battered and faded on both fronts. Boots are also an office-girl’s winter staple, but not with costumes. Four producers of the footwear industry bases in China Guangdong Province Many factories close Depreciation is the price to pay for the industrial transformation Jingjiang City in Fujian Province Who will laugh last? The “Red Sea” Competition prerequisite for the sports shoe in Olympic 2008 is getting wilder. Jiangsu Province Brand maintenance and promotion is the core China Shoetec – an UFI Approved Trade Show Dongguan China Shoes. China is a Shoetec UFI approved event and the only shoes fair in Dongguan of PR China. It is the best one-stop sourcing platform in Asia for mid-to-high end footwear, materials and machinery. Dongguan, with production of medium-sized hub-to-high end shoes in PR China, provided an ideal platform for shoes exhibition and it is easy to plan for factory visits after show. visit to facilitate the buyer “, Dongguan China Shoes will be in the same period of the Canton Fair held, and free shuttle bus is provided to facilitate travel. As the only UFI approved footwear event in Dongguan, Dongguan China Shoes has as the main platform for sourcing middle-to high-end shoes were famous, shining with the world’s largest footwear exhibition, GDS in Germany. The 7th Edition of Dongguan China Shoes? Shoetec China, on 16 April will be held – 18, is expected for a larger scale: More than 600 exhibitors participate, are expected 25,000 visitors, including 7,000 to attract international buyers to reach 25,000 square meters of exhibition space. New opportunity in particular for sport shoes Market: Beijing 2008 Olympic Games With the approaching 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, to visit more and more Chinese customers in different sports, track and eventually to one of the parts that can not the lack of common human life, sport shoes market will be more and more larger. In addition to city-dwellers demand professional sports on the march. The influence of the 2008 Olympic Games to science and technology content of sport shoes product. Today, the current product with the same quality is more and more serious, who can give to the technology and make larruping and suitable product for customers who will be his favorite. Also manufactures sports shoes need to improve their professional skills, at the same time enclose athletic requirements, reduce the costs to deliver product to cheap sneakers person. Compared with emerging markets like India and Vietnam, experts said China still has advantages in terms of cheap power and water supply, excellent infrastructure and an integrated industry.