Footwear industry in Spain reaches crisis point
19/06/2026
Spain’s national association of footwear component manufacturers, AEC, has said the shoe industry there has reached is now in “an extreme situation”. It has called on national, regional and local governments to put immediate measures in place to help. It has also said the authorities must come up with a longer-term plan to help the reform of a sector that it said was of strategic value to Spain.