comfort

American Exchange Group to acquire Aerosoles

Published: January 26, 2022

The accessories, manufacturing and wholesale group has announced the finalisation of an agreement to acquire the assets of comfort footwear brand Aerosoles.

Deloitte forecasts holiday retail sales in U.S. to increase by 7-9%

Published: September 29, 2021

The company has released its annual holiday retail forecast, showing retail sales increasing by 7 to 9% and e-commerce holiday sales growing by 11 to 15%, year-on-year.

New CEC project to focus on footwear life-cycle

Published: February 28, 2019

On February 20-21, the partners of the Erasmus + SciELD project gathered in Iasi, Romania, to work on a new project that seeks to improve the consumers’ living standards through a science and comfort led analysis of footwear product life-cycle.

Comfort and health as the key to future footwear developments

Published: October 4, 2018

The results of the Erasmus+ project Fit2Com – Skills Alliance for comfort and healthy footwear, were presented during a workshop on “Skills and Competencies of the future” held at the Lineapelle fair in Milan on September 27.

U.S. footwear industry grew +7% in first half

Published: September 4, 2018

The U.S. footwear industry is reported to have grown +7% in the first half of 2018, driven by casual shoes and e-commerce.

Total transparency when dealing with tannery waste

Published: January 25, 2018

On March 7, ILM will be hosting the next in a series of its free-to-attend leather industry webinars, where registered delegates can listen and watch from the comfort of their own offices short presentations about the latest clean technologies and chemistries to reduce the environmental load, energy and waste in leather making.

New European course on comfortable fashion footwear

Published: November 20, 2017

The European Erasmus+ Fit2Com project, which aims to create a new qualification profile and training for comfortable fashion footwear, will launch a pilot to test the course contents in early 2018.

Adient to help improve Boeing’s commercial seating

Published: March 29, 2017

The U.S based automotive seating and interiors supplier has announced it is collaborating with aeroplane maker Boeing to explore innovative comfort, efficiency and functional improvements to commercial aircraft seating and interiors.

CTC launch new footwear book

Published: September 11, 2014

French leather and footwear technical institute, CTC has launched its successful book "La chaussure sous toutes ses coutures" in English. The technical and educational book is now available from its website.