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Footwear Insiders Deem Sustainability More Relevant to Sales Than Fashion

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A survey of manufacturers, distributors and footwear insiders found sustainability to be a more relevant sales factor than fashion trends.
Reebok plans to release the Nano X1 Vegan, a training shoe made with a cotton- and wood-spun yarn upper, castor bean oil and EVA foam midsole and natural rubber outsole, this month.
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Sustainability finally trumped fashion as the more relevant sales factor in a semi-annual survey of footwear insiders. The Portuguese Footwear, Components and Leather Goods Manufacturers’ Association (APICCAPS) released its fourth semi-annual World Footwear report this month. Its findings drew on the results of an online survey it conducted last month. Of the 141 respondents, 35…

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