Footwear companies and retailers in Italy - Statistics & Facts
Italian fashion brands are renowned worldwide, and the country’s footwear industry has an established spot among the world’s leading countries. The domestic market is also very strong. Italian households spent over 56 billion euros on clothing and footwear in 2021. Many Italian companies and retailers make hundreds of millions of euros from the sale of footwear each year, such as Geox, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Pittarosso.
Over the past years, e-commerce has become increasingly popular in retail. The leading shopping apps downloaded from the Google Play Store in Italy include apparel and footwear marketplaces, such as Shein, Vinted, and Subito. Subito had almost 200,000 downloads from the Google Play store alone as of September 2022.
Retailers
Two of the shoe retailers that generate the highest revenue in the Italian market are Compar SpA and Cosmo SpA, who operate shoe store chains under the names Bata and Globo Moda respectively. Both chains sell a wide array of footwear from many of the world’s biggest brands. Cosmo Spa generated considerably higher revenues in Italy than Compar, at over 600 million euros. In comparison, Compar made almost 320 million euros in sales that year.Over the past years, e-commerce has become increasingly popular in retail. The leading shopping apps downloaded from the Google Play Store in Italy include apparel and footwear marketplaces, such as Shein, Vinted, and Subito. Subito had almost 200,000 downloads from the Google Play store alone as of September 2022.
