To find out, join us on 25th March 2021 at 2 pm (CET) on the Expo Riva Schuh & Gardabags Swapcard platform for the latest in the series
of Live Talks, with Joao Maia and Marco Sani.
The impact of the pandemic on our lives has been devastating. It has not only changed our everyday life, social relations and shopping habits, but destabilised the entire supply chain of the footwear and leather goods sector.
In the next appointment of the Expo Riva Live Talks – entitled “The post-Covid globalisation process,” scheduled for 25th March 2021 at 14:00 (CET) on the Swapcard platform – Joao Maia (General
Manager of APICCAPS) and Marco Sani (General Agent of Euler Hermes Italia) – in the company of the moderator Enrico Cietta (Fashion Economist & CEO of Diomedea) will identify and review
the primary instability factors that have impacted on the production, distribution and use of leather goods, footwear and accessories studying their effects in the short and medium term. They will analyse how companies have managed to absorb
the shock and will determine the different strategies to restart a virtuous process.
Click here to watch the Live Talks: March 25th, 2021 at 14:00 (CET).
In particular, three instability factors will be examined by the experts leading the debate:
• raw materials and prices: how the lockdown mechanism that characterised the first phase of the pandemic led to a shortage of raw materials which then had important repercussions throughout 2020.
• short supply chains: how supply chains became “restructured” and directed towards shorter chains compared to those of the pre-pandemic world, not only to limit the effects of lockdown, but also to respond to a revolutionary and extremely
unstable demand. Indeed, shorter supply chains allow shorter response times.
• unstable demand: how the different pandemic waves have also generated different waves in demand. On the one hand, demand has not only proved low, but above all unpredictable. The openings and closures of shops
and the reaction that people and consumers have had in the face of this, have made purchasing cycles very short, forcing companies to interpret them with the utmost speed and flexibility.
During the live talk we will also discuss the effects that these instability factors are having and will have on the first and second half of 2021. In particular, the following will be analysed:
• policies and strategies adopted by companies in relation to prices and differentiation elements selected to continue to offer their products to consumers
• payment trends with a focus on insolvencies of creditors/credit insurance systems, which could and have generated a problem in the footwear system.
