Cambodia: footwear factories and shoe exports on the rise

13/07/2016
Exports of footwear and apparel from Cambodia in the first three months of 2016 rose in value by 39% year on year to reach around $2 billion, the country’s ministry of commerce has reported. The figure for the corresponding period in 2015 was $1.5 billion. It offered no breakdown of footwear’s contribution to the total.

However, it said that the number of factories in Cambodia producing shoes and clothes went up from 626 at the end of 2014 to 699 at the start of this year, an increase of 11.7%.