Numbers down, but shoes and leathergoods still 20%

Numbers down, but shoes and leathergoods still 20% of Le Marche’s output

29/03/2017

Italy’s most famous footwear-producing region, Le Marche, finished 2016 with 3,863 companies involved in the manufacture of shoes and leathergoods. This represents a fall of 2.9% compared to the figure for 2015, but compared to size of the industry in the region in 2010, it’s a decline of 12.2%. In 2010, the sector was represented by 4,400 companies in this eastern part of the country.

Shoes and leathergoods production still accounts for 20% of all of the region’s manufacturing output and a large proportion of the companies still involved, 71%, are artisan producers. However, between 2015 and 2016, the number of artisan manufacturers involved in the industry in Le Marche declined by almost 5%.

In terms of value, footwear and leathergoods combined to bring in almost €1.9 billion in export revenues in 2016. Shoes contributed more than €1.4 billion of this total, while finished leather and leathergoods brought in €415 million. These figures, too, represent a year-on-year decline compared to 2015 of 6.7%.

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Numbers down, but shoes and leathergoods still 20% of Le Marche’s output

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