বাংলাদেশের পাদুকা শিল্প সংকুচিত হচ্ছে কিসাইদ শাহীন তৈরি পোশাকের পরই রফতানিতে সম্ভাবনাময় খাত হিসেবে দেখা দিয়েছিল চামড়াজাত পণ্য পাদুকা। কয়েক বছর ধরে রফতানিতে ধারাবাহিক প্রবৃদ্ধি পেয়ে আসছিল পণ্যটি। কিন্তু ধারাবাহিকতায় ছেদ পড়েছে গত এক বছরে। করোনার আগেই পণ্যটির উৎপাদন ও রফতানি দুটোই কমার দিকে ছিল, করোনা এসে তা আরো কমিয়ে দিয়েছে। এক বছরের ব্যবধানে জুতার…
The rebalancing of the economy is a trend fundamentally linked to economic growth and to the realignment of powers caused by the dynamics of development. Nowadays there is a profound discussion about the rising of the Asian superpowers, but what most fail to acknowledge is that this won’t be the debut of Asia as a…
THE LEAN is an approach based on thoroughly evaluating any design, manufacturing, distribution, and customer service processes to find what doing rightly and remove or modify steps that possibly generating waste. Waste is nothing but anything doesn’t add value to the product. After covid-19, where efficiency is burning necessity, LEAN become more relevant than ever…
Being the shoe lovers, one of the first attraction that me and my wife visited, was the Bata shoe museum Located in Toronto when we first came to Canada. Interestingly, the idea of visiting the museum kind of kindled when we surprisingly got connect with Sonja Bata over an online platform, who happens to be…
China was the source for almost two out of every three pairs of shoes exported in 2019. However, its market share has been steadily declining over the last decade: since 2010 China has now lost 7 percentage points (p.p.) whereas Hong Kong has lost a further 2.4 p.p., falling from 3rd to 15th position among…
Some 15 billion pairs, or 62% of all footwear produced, were exported in 2019. Unsurprisingly, Asia is the origin of most of these exports with a world share (83.9%) that resembles that which it has in footwear production. However, its export share has decreased slightly over the last decade, as has also happened with every…
Nonetheless, there are still important geographic differences in consumption patterns: per capita footwear consumption varies between 1.6 pairs in Africa and 5.6 pairs in North America. With 4.4 pairs per person, Europe and Oceania approach North American patterns whereas Asia, with 2.6, is closer to Africa’s. Therefore, it seems that it is mostly in the…
Nonetheless, there are still important geographic differences in consumption patterns: per capita footwear consumption varies between 1.6 pairs in Africa and 5.6 pairs in North America. With 4.4 pairs per person, Europe and Oceania approach North American patterns whereas Asia, with 2.6, is closer to Africa’s. Therefore, it seems that it is mostly in the…
The footwear industry is strongly concentrated in Asia where almost 9 out of every 10 pairs of shoes are manufactured. Asia slightly reinforced its dominance in the international scene over the last decade with its share of the world production increasing by some 2 percentage points, mostly at the expense of South America. Africa, Europe…