After the recovery in the month of September, footwear shipments fell again in October. The tenth month of 2015 totaled 71.3 million US dollars’ worth of exports, down by 16.1% from similar period in 2014
Assintecal, the Brazilian Association of Companies of Components for Leather, Footwear and Manufactured Goods, confirmed Brazilian leather-footwear now reaches 152 countries
From January to September, shoe sales from Brazil to the United Arab Emirates went up by 17.5%. In the same period, Brazilian footwear exports dropped by 12%
The inversion of the trend of the last few months is been seen as the beginning of a long-awaited recovery, however, exports in September were still 9.3% lower than what was registered in similar period in 2014
In clear contrast to the 12.3% decline in total international footwear sales in the period January-August, Brazilian exports to the Arab country are growing and totaled 15.7 million US dollars in the period
According to numbers recently released by Abicalçados the global yearly amount of exports totaled 544 million US dollars until July, down by 10.6% from similar period in 2014
The Brazil-based company closed the semester with growing revenue, despite the poor sales performance in the second quarter. Net profit for the period with two digits growth rate
The Centre for the Brazilian Tanning Industry (CICB) has announced the figures for international trade during the first semester of the year, marked by a decline in exports
According to the Brazilian Footwear Association, in the first five months of the year revenue from footwear exports was 12.2% below the value registered in similar period last year
The UAE is now the 12th largest buyer of Brazilian footwear and it acquired 8.38 million US dollars’ worth of shoes in the first four months of the year