Ecuador’s footwear production grows back
27/06/2013
“The footwear sector went through a severe crisis between 2005 and 2008,” she said. “By the end of 2008, there were barely 600 producers left here and shoes were coming in indiscriminately from China and other parts of Asia. Now, we’re proud to say, Ecuador has 4,500 shoe manufacturers of its own.”
Ms Santana said that Ecuador’s 15 million inhabitants were currently consuming a per capita average of 2.5 pairs of shoes each per year. She said local manufacturers are supplying 80% of the total, with an output of 30 million pairs per year.
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