Shoe Machines should double sales
DCI
After 37th edition of Couromoda (fair of the footwear sector), the shoe market confirms, with numbers, the optimism of the sector for 2010. A proof of that, according to the Brazilian Association of Industries of Machinery and Equipment for Leather, Footwear and Related Products (Abrameq), is the fact the Brazilian manufacturers of the segment had US$ 367 thousand in sales in four days, more than the double of the previous year, when the sector negotiated US$ 145 thousand. According to the Abrameq, the sector - with 13 companies in the country - has perspectives of closing US$ 3.1 million in new deals within the next twelve months compared to the US$ 950 thousand closed in 2009.
The Manager of Projects and Institutional Relations, Maico Fernandes, explains that the new phase of the segment is due to reduction in the imports of shoes from China and the appreciation of the domestic market in relation to the crisis that still takes place in Europe and the United States. "We have the heating of the internal market of shoes and the support of the Government against the Chinese market in our favor", emphasized Fernandes.
The sales were made by the project called Abrameq Tecnologia, in partnership with the Sebrae (Brazilian Service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises) and the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI), as well as through the Purchaser Project (Projeto Comprador), a partnership with the Apex-Brazil (Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency), which brought to Brazil potential customers from Chile, Ecuador and Colombia. Açoreal, Concordia, Eletrovale, Erps, Ivomaq, Kehl, Klein, Master, Mecsul, Politron, Spier, Sulmaq and WO took part in the initiative.