{"id":287087,"date":"2021-01-13T17:53:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T20:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=287087"},"modified":"2021-01-13T17:53:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T20:53:29","slug":"online-footwear-exports-may-be-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/online-footwear-exports-may-be-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Online footwear exports may be here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Online sales and trade shows are here to stay when it comes to footwear exports, argued this Wednesday (13) Haroldo Ferreira (<em>pictured above<\/em>), CEO of the Brazilian Footwear Industry Association (Abical\u00e7ados). During a press conference, the organization told ANBA that although specific numbers regarding sales to Arab countries are not available, the virtual trend is expected to consolidate this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Brazil] usually engages with the [Arab] region at trade shows in Italy. Expo Riva Schuh, for instance, is going online this January, as are other fairs, like Micam Milano. By June, Brazilian exhibitors are expected to be able to join [other events], but there are two problems [when it comes to in-person attendance]: restrictions and misgivings. That is why we believe this online format may perpetuate itself in the post-Covid era,\u201d explained Ferreira.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find out more: <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/the-world-kept-buying-toe-thong-sandals-amid-the-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The world kept buying toe-thong sandals amid the pandemic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questioned as to what importers\u2019 trips to fairs in Brazil and abroad, Ferreira explains that the idea is to combine online and brick-and-mortar fairs once they resume. \u201cWe have partnered up with [US-based platform] <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/calcados-do-brasil-serao-vendidos-em-plataforma-mundial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joor<\/a> for six months. We\u2019re testing it out. There are importers that operate exclusively via this platform. But we have brick-and-mortar shows in the United States as well as Europe, which we hope will come to pass. And the buyers who\u2019d attend those shows in the past will continue to attend,\u201d Abical\u00e7ados\u2019 CEO said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improved outlook in 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year saw 93.8 million pairs of shoes exported from Brazil, down 18.6% from 2019. Year-to-date through November 2020, domestic output was 654.1 million pairs, down 23.4% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>In case vaccination becomes a reality in Brazil and retail stays open, Abical\u00e7ados predicts that exports will climb by 14.9% compared with 2020. \u201cWe should see 107.7 million pairs shipped,\u201d said Ferreira, adding the caveat that this would still mean going back to levels last seen eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic output is also expected to go up this year, by 14.1% over 2020 to 810 million pairs \u2013 a number on par with 2010 results.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CEO of Abical\u00e7ados, the industry is pushing for vaccination. \u201cIndustries are interested in vaccination. The Covid vaccine will come about in a different way than, say, the flu shot, because decisions are still being made by the Ministry of Health,\u201d said Ferreira.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-287035\">Screenshot\/Google Meet<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign sales of shoes from Brazil are expected to go up in 2021. Industry association Abical\u00e7ados believes that the e-commerce format will carry over into the post-Covid world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2324,"featured_media":287035,"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":[114],"tags":[9760,9534,14891,15288,2188,1867,18761,12369,18763,14535,6403,18762],"class_list":{"0":"post-287087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-abicalcados-en","9":"tag-brazil-en","10":"tag-covid","11":"tag-e-commerce-en","12":"tag-export","13":"tag-footwear","14":"tag-formato-digital","15":"tag-mercado-arabe-en","16":"tag-online-sales","17":"tag-pandemic","18":"tag-shoe","19":"tag-vendas-digitais"},"wps_subtitle":"Foreign sales of shoes from Brazil are expected to go up in 2021. Industry association Abical\u00e7ados believes that the e-commerce format will carry over into the post-Covid world. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287087","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\/2324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}