S&V Footwear & Leather Goods Magazine Vol83 No10 October 2020
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IN THIS ISSUE:
03 Adapt Or Belt Up
- Why going green has made business (and ethical) sense to Equator.
05 Business
- Pep partners with Loxion Kulcha.
- ...And opens store in up-market Canal Walk.
08 Retail - Don't Write Off Bricks-And-Mortar
- Physical stores 'are bouncing back as part of omni-channel marketing' says European landlord company.
10 The US Market
- Sports retail holiday 2020 expectations, by NPD's Matt Powell.
- Changes in lifestyle drive shifts in holiday purchasing for footwear and accessories, writes NPD's Beth Goldstein.
12 Headlines
- From global trade media.
14 Notice Board
- Obituary for Peter Berry.
- Obituary for Alan Jackson.
- Obituary for Doug Oates.
- SA-born Gotcha founder Michael Tomson dies in the US.
12 Trade
- SARS statistics for August 2020.
Advertisers in this Issue
Creative Leathergoods (4), Equator - The Belt Company (OFC), Freestyle (2), Palm Footwear/Terrapod industrial safety footwear (7).
In The Next Issue:
- Forecasting 2021.
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Footwear Industry Articles
- The showroom pair is not the orderA shoe on a showroom table is wonderfully persuasive. A buyer can flex the forefoot, press the heel counter, check the stitching, compare the two shoes and turn the pair over to examine the sole. Colour, finish and hand feel are all there to judge.The purchase order may then reduce that pair to a short line: one style number, one colour d ...moreSAFLEC AGM 2026: Strengthening of relationships between industry organisations and government a key development
This has been a defining year for the South African Footwear & Leather Export Council (SAFLEC). It has been a year of innovation, collaboration and meaningful progress, where together with our members and strategic partners, we have continued to strengthen the competitiveness of South Africa's footwear and leather industry while creat ...moreA perspective: Perhaps it was an eye-opener for industry players to hear each otherLooking back over the workshop, BMA consultant Justin Snelling wrote: “In terms of our reflections of the workshop, we covered a lot of territory. Perhaps though what was most encouraging was the breadth of participation from different segments of the sector and their willingness, or even excitement, to contribute. We don’t ta ...more
Leather Industry Articles
- When communication moves faster than truth: Why credible, evidence-based information matters more than ever.We have never had more information at our fingertips. We have also never had to work quite so hard to determine which information we should trust. Communication today moves at extraordinary speed. Social media platforms, digital news, corporate communications, industry reports and, increasingly, artificial intelligence allow information t ...moreOBLIQUITY
Shareholder value is usually the result of running a good business, not a reliable operational principle for running one ...moreSADC Leather Forum unites 16 member states to strengthen the regional leather industry
The Southern African Development Community’s Regional Leather Forum met in Durban, South Africa, in August. Nerisha Jairaj and Jacob Nyathi explain different aspects. ...more
PPE Industry Articles
- CONSIDERING A PPE MATRIX
What Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) do we need to have on site to reduce and manage the workplace and environmental exposure risks to our employees?Safety and mining legislation place the responsibility on employers to ensure that they provide and maintain working environments that are safe and without risk to the health on employees ...moreRealPPE Marketplace: Where safety meets smarter procurementRealPPE Marketplace is a 100% black women-owned B2B PPE marketplace built for South African industry. Founded after years of witnessing safety officers and procurement teams lose time to fragmented suppliers, inconsistent pricing, and missing documentation, RealPPE was created to bring structure and reliability to industrial PPE sourcing. ...moreFurther controls over the import of safety footwear are on the wayOn 03 August 2026, the Safety Footwear Working Group, led by SAFLIA, submitted a request to Minister Tau (dtic) for interim import control measures in respect of specified safety footwear. The request was strongly supported by organised labour and other industry stakeholders.The application was further strengthened by contributions f ...more
