The Footwear Industry is a significant segment of the Leather Industry in India. India ranks second among the footwear producing countries next to China. The industry is labour intensive and is concentrated in the small and cottage industry sectors. While leather shoes and uppers are concentrated in large scale units, the sandals and Chappals are produced in the household and cottage sector. India produces more of gents’ footwear while the world’s major production is in ladies footwear. In the case of Chappals and sandals, use of non-leather material is prevalent in the domestic market.
The major production centers India are Chennai, Ranipet, Ambur in Tamil Nadu, , Mumbai in Maharashtra, Kanpur in U.P. , Jalandhar in Punjab, Agra and Delhi.
Shoes manufactured in India wear brand names like Florsheim, Gabor, Clarks, Salamander and St. Micheal’s. As part of its effort to play a lead role in the global trade, the Indian leather industry is focusing on key deliverables of innovative design, consistently superior quality and unfailing delivery schedules.
India in itself has a huge domestic market, which is largely untapped.
The Indian footwear industry is provided with institutional infrastructure support through premier institutions like Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, Footwear Design & Development Institute, Noida, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, etc in the areas of technological development, design and product development and human resource development.
The availability of abundant raw material base, large domestic market and the opportunity to cater to world markets makes India an attractive destination for technology and investments.
Career:
Familiarity with the fashion industry, illustration skills, and broad knowledge of textiles, leather and materials and an understanding of shoe engineering are some of the baseline skills for becoming a shoe technologist. Proficiency with com- puter assisted design (CAD) programmes and modelling software is also useful. In addition, strong marketing skills, an ability to analyse trends and basic business acumen are important for those wanting to start their own footwear lines.
At present, many campuses of show engineering operational at Noida and Fursatgunj (Rai Bareli). Besides these, there will be four new campuses at Chennai, Kolkata, Rohtak and Chhindwara functional from the new session for shoe technologies.
You will also come across many opening in shoe/footwear Industry thru these sites just-style.com , india.recruit.net, [URL="http://jobs.trovit.co.in"]http://jobs.trovit.co.in[/URL], fibre2fashion.com etc.
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