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"Made in Italy: Setting a new course"
Economic recovery, support for fashion companies and environmental issues were also discussed at the digital pre-summit/think tank organised in collaboration with IlSole24Ore, Financial Times and SkyTg24
"Subsidised loans drive exports"
This was stated by Mauro Alfonso, CEO of SIMEST, speaking at the "Made in Italy: setting a new course" summit organised by Gruppo 24 Ore, Financial Times and SkyTg24. Applications for expansion loans processed by SIMEST just in 2020 were valued at 3 million. At the top are small and medium-sized enterprises(90%) coming mainly from the North
Brazilian exports grow by +76% in April
Despite the epidemic peak outbreak, footwear exports from Brazil accelerated in April 2021, arriving at 8.5 million pairs, with the first destination represented by the USA
SOURCING – Consumers rule
Ellen Schmidt-Devlin – Executive Director, Lundquist College of Business Portland Programs; Cofounder, Sports Product Management Program at the University of Oregon and member of the Scientific Committee of Expo Riva Schuh highlights some important issues related to the world of supply, anticipating some of the issues that will be dealt with during the Digital Connection meetings.
INNOVATION – The centrality of data
Alberto Mattiello, member of Expo Riva Schuh’s Scientific Committee, frames the challenges that the industrial and distribution world will face as a result of the technological innovations taking place.
SUSTAINABILITY – Traceability and transparency
Rossella Ravagli, Strategic Advisor and Director of Three-Year Course of Higher Education in Sustainable Fashion at Accademia Unidee/Fondazione Pistoletto, highlights the urgent challenges to overcome for a more sustainable fashion, anticipating some of the issues that will be discussed during the Digital Connection meetings.
Digital experience is increasingly human
In a world where the boundaries between physical and virtual are increasingly blurred, digital technology allows for the human component to increasingly be engaged in ways that are increasingly effective and creative. We spoke of this with Emanuela Prandelli at Netcomm Forum
Italian e-commerce takes a 10 years leap in 8 months
B2C e-commerce grows for a value of 32.4 billion euro in 2020: product sales increase by +45% with a boom of 8 billion euro. The Netcomm Forum presents the new development trends of digital commerce in Italy
Expo Riva Schuh must seize the moment of the footwear trade relaunch
Between concern and optimism. Lino Mattiozzi, president of Assoprov, outlines the current dramatic market situation, but relaunches hopeful the market for the near future, confirming the need to sell shoes both at the fair and online.
NFT: bubble or future?
The phenomenon of Non-Fungible Tokens is also gaining ground in fashion: this is what they are, and how the concept of luxury goods is becoming more and more "fluid"
The sneaker is increasingly green
Projects oriented towards sustainability in the world of athletic and fashion sneakers continue to multiply, as fruit of innovation in the field of materials and circularity with the intent of establishing a concrete commitment to the environment
“We need entrepreneurs”
In the new Covid Relief Decree, the Minister for Economic Development, Giancarlo Giorgetti, underlined the intention of the Government to provide immediate and concrete help that will allow Italian companies to make it through the pandemic, as in the case of Corneliani.
Italian leather goods sector in 2020*
Due to Covid-19, industrial production and turnover collapsed in 2020, falling by more than a third compared to the levels reached in 20199
What will the post-pandemic future hold?
Expo Riva Schuh & Gardabags have added a new event to the platform with the fifth Live Talk, entitled ‘The post-Covid globalisation process,’ led by the fashion economist, Enrico Cietta, together with Joao Maia, General Manager of APICCAPS and Elisabetta Mantese, Manager of Euler Hermes Italy.
