Apparel and Footwear

Retail volume and current value growth of apparel and footwear remained strong in Romania 2019, driven by womenswear, due to the continued demand for a wide range of products and the high number of people purchasing in this category, and ...

Apparel and footwear specialist retailers continued to see current value growth in 2019, although this was at the slowest rate seen in the review period. Despite the increasing importance of department stores for purchases of such products, Peruvians...

In 2019, volume and value growth of apparel and footwear was healthy and similarly positive to, but slightly slower in Thailand than it was in the previous year, with local brands and imported items from China and Korea having gained ground thanks to...

Apparel and footwear show declines (or no growth) in value across all categories in Hong Kong 2019. Jeans sees the steepest decline and hosiery sees the smallest impact with no growth recorded. The overall reason for this is disruption caused by the ...

Further growth was recorded in apparel and footwear in Malaysia in 2019. The expanding fast fashion brands, including Pandini, Uniqlo and H&M, continued to offer discounts and affordable pricing to drive sales. E-commerce experienced dynamic growth, ...

The prolonged slump in apparel and footwear in France persisted in 2019, with total volume and current value sales declining marginally. Economic and political uncertainty continued to subdue demand, with maturity, saturation, aggressive price ...

In 2019 Ukraine’s economy continued to stabilise following the crisis years of 2014 and 2015. With renewed confidence, consumers became accustomed to more frequent purchases of apparel and footwear. The stable local currency and minimal inflation ...

A weak economy up to 2019 and high prices caused by a depreciated local currency limited growth in apparel and footwear in Nigeria; however, it is still very much an emerging category that has strong scope to grow amongst the large pool of consumers ...

The apparel and footwear market in Chile appears to have entered into recession in the last two years, and one of the factors that most influenced this fall was the decline of Argentinean tourists, which began in 2018 and continued in 2019 because of...

Despite ongoing economic uncertainty arising from the recent currency and debt crisis, apparel and footwear in Turkey continued to post growth in total volume and current value sales in 2019. The stabilisation of the Turkish lira and improved access ...

Multiple factors contributed to a slowdown in growth of apparel sales and to a stagnation in sales of footwear in 2019, including reduced tourist footfall versus 2018. Although Greece’s exit from the memoranda and improvement of the economic climate ...

Positive growth is seen across all categories in apparel and footwear in Morocco in 2019. This is being supported by a number of factors and trends, such as increased employment leading to stronger consumer spending power (particularly as seen with ...

Value growth of apparel and footwear in Austria remained positive, if modestly so, in 2019. All categories saw similar growth over the year, with sportswear posting the highest increase as the trend towards more casual dress codes in the workplace ...

Moderate positive value growth is seen across all apparel and footwear categories in Denmark in 2019, with womenswear clearly the largest category in value terms, and sportswear showing the strongest value growth. Overall growth is supported by a ...

Retail volume sales of apparel and footwear fell significantly mid-way through the review period due to a decline in consumer confidence following a rise in VAT, which forced consumers to be more cautious about spending decisions and prioritise ...

Apparel and footwear sales continued to expand in Hungary in 2019. Spending was fuelled by favourable economic conditions, as the country was among the EU member states posting the highest GDP increases. Employers were also forced to raise wages due ...

Apparel in Egypt saw improvement in terms of volume in 2019 compared with 2018, due to stability of prices, and recovery from the recent economic upheaval. While certain brands saw a minimum annual rise, some manufacturers managed to cut costs or ...

Apparel and footwear recorded a further increase in retail current value sales in 2019, while retail volume sales returned to positive growth after a dip in 2018. A rapid increase in the number and range of promotional activities supported a rise in ...

Sportswear in Asia Pacific is prospected to see promising growth, fuelled by China’s robust growth. Health awareness and rise of international and local brands open more opportunity to the sportswear industry. Brands are carrying out localised ...

Apparel and footwear remained a highly fragmented industry in India with players offering products at a variety of price points for different age groups and genders. This is a step change from the past, when players have historically targeted ...