ANCI general assembly opens

09/06/2008

Italy’s national footwear manufacturers’ association, ANCI, opened its annual general assembly on June 9.

Its president, Vito Artioli, said in his opening address that 2007 had been a reasonably good year, with Italian footwear showing good results against “several fundamental criteria”.

While export results for Russia (+25%) and France (+4.4%), exports to the US were down by 4.5% in value and by almost 20% in volume.