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Elisa Lanciotti, incentivising renewal
Young, but with very clear ideas, in an exclusive interview with Fotoshoe, the new President of the Assocalzaturifici Youth Group speaks of her special formula meant to stimulate growth in SMEs and support young entrepreneurs.

Elisa Lanciotti is the new President of the Assocalzaturifici Youth Group
Elected by the Assocalzaturifici Youth Group during the 34th National Conference of Confindustria Youths in Capri, she will hold office for the four-year period from 2019-2023.

Siro Badon is the new Assocalzaturifici President
The Assocalzaturifici Council present in Naples for the World Footwear Congress nominated Siro Badon as the new President of the Association.

CIMAC: the “CSI of footwear” relocates to its new headquarters
CIMAC inaugurates its new headquarters, always in Vigevano, relocating them to a directly owned building in via Aguzzafame 60/b.

The new home of Confindustria Moda
The ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Confindustria Moda headquarters took place yesterday, 15 May, in Milan with Vincenzo Boccia and Claudio Marenzi in attendance: the building that was previously the home-laboratory to Nicky Chini brings together under one roof all of the sector’s associations ((Aimpes, Aip, Anfao, Assocalzaturifici and Federorafi, with the only exception being Unic), the respective service providers and connected fairs, as well as the offices of the Federation itself.

Assocalzaturifici, recovery is still far away
The annual assembly of Italian footwear manufacturers raises the alarm: 2015 and the first months of 2016 have been difficult, even if exports endured

Annarita Pilotti Is The New President Of Assocalzaturifici
For the first time a woman is leading Italian footwear producers

The new challenges of digital communication
The Young Group of Assocalzaturifici considers the latest developments of the web so as to understand how to exploit new technology to best promote Made in Italy
Shoe trade appeals to the government to back compulsory “Made in…” labeling
Assocalzaturifici promotes collecting signatures in manufacturing areas to support the question of security of European products also in view of the semester of Italian presidency

A country that must relaunch through the industry
Confindustria president, Giorgio Squinzi, thus appealed at the assembly of ASSOCALZATURIFICI on 4 June last. Meanwhile the sector is seeing a further downturn on the domestic market, compensated by an increase of 5.3% in export