{"id":14488,"date":"2004-07-16T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/francal-surprises-exhibitors-with-increase-in-foreign-and-domestic-sales\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:27:35","slug":"francal-surprises-exhibitors-with-increase-in-foreign-and-domestic-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/francal-surprises-exhibitors-with-increase-in-foreign-and-domestic-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Francal surprises exhibitors with increase in foreign and domestic sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>From the newsroom<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/> <P>S\u00e3o Paulo &#8211; The 36th Shoe, Fashion Accessories, Machines and Components Fair(Francal), which began last Tuesday and ends this Friday (16) at Anhembi Expo Center in S\u00e3o Paulo, has surprised participating industries.<\/P><br \/> <P>&quot;That industries will export 58% more this semester than the same period last year, we already knew.&nbsp; Expectations are that exports will reach US$ 180 million.&nbsp; The biggest surprise was storeowner interest,&quot; says Am\u00e9rico Pizza, administrative director of the Franca shoe industry Union.<\/P><br \/> <P>&quot;Judging by the massive Brazilian storeowner visitation at Francal this year, we will have a much better second semester than in 2003 on the internal market.&nbsp; After all, one day before the end of the event we already received 6,000 visits, and at the end of Francal in 2003, we had only had 4,500.&nbsp; It is possible that we may see a 30% increase in domestic sales in the second half of 2004,&quot; he adds.<\/P><br \/> <P>On the foreign market, participating industries also have nothing to complain about.&nbsp; Small and medium businesses received visits from large importers from the USA, Japan, Spain and Bolivia.&nbsp; Some even entered into negotiation.<\/P><br \/> <P>With production increasing in the shoe industry, exports maintaining, and sales improvements forecast for the internal market, the Franca Shoe Industry Union has already registered a 25% increase in labor in industries, compared to the second semester of 2003.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessmen present at the fair expect Francal shoe industries to export US$ 180 million in the second half of the year, 58% more than the same period last year.&nbsp; The internal market also shows good signs of growth.&nbsp; Yesterday afternoon (15), Francal had already been visited by 6,000 storeowners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Businessmen present at the fair expect Francal shoe industries to export US$ 180 million in the second half of the year, 58% more than the same period last year.&nbsp; The internal market also shows good signs of growth.&nbsp; Yesterday afternoon (15), Francal had already been visited by 6,000 storeowners.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}