Spanish footwear sector wants young people
11/10/2016
National footwear industry research centre Inescop organised the event, which had as its theme ‘the footwear factory of the future’. Inescop direcor, Miguel Ángel Martínez, said at the congress that it’s essential for footwear producers to engage immediately with the footwear factory of the future. “It’s not something that’s going to happen in 2030,” he said, “but something that is already under way.”
The organisation’s president, Antonio Porta, used the congress as a platform to say that the footwear industry in Spain is actively trying to recruit young people (the country has had an exceptionally high youth unemployment rate since the economic crisis of 2007, 43.9% in July 2016). “The footwear industry isn’t old and boring,” Mr Porta said. “It’s an industry that is especially interested in offering jobs to young people. This ties in with our desire to use new technologies because young people dominate new technologies so well. We want them in this industry; we need them.”
Image: Shoes From Spain at GDS. Credit: Messe Düsseldorf/CTillman
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