AOKANG Invest In Commercial Real Estate To Feed The Shoe Industry

Mercedes Benz and BMW cars appear on crowded streets from time to time.

In Wenzhou shoemaking tribes, there are also a number of small and medium-sized shoe enterprises falling down one after another.

However, a number of private shoe enterprises shoes enterprises take the first step, relying on the domestic market, a little more calm.

Multiple decompression

At AOKANG group headquarters in Ou Bei Town, workers wearing pink striped shirts constantly shuttle in this European architecture.

Fan Manru, general manager of AOKANG thousand stone manufacturing company, accepted the interview with the first Financial Daily reporter. Frankly speaking, there is still pressure on cost. The monthly salary of workers has risen to around 2500 yuan, and the total cost has increased by 20%.

"Total orders increased by 13% this year, mainly from domestic sales, and export orders declined slightly.

7~9 month is the peak period for the production of internal and external sales orders. If there is no profit margin of 5~7 percentage points, we will not consider it.

There are 80% domestic orders supporting the overall production situation, which can be adjusted flexibly. "

Fan Manru said.

There has never been a time to lie on the "hotbed" of foundry. Many AOKANG shoe companies such as AOKANG group rely more on the domestic market and develop step by step with difficulty.

Wang Zhentao set up a small family workshop in 1988, which invested 30 thousand yuan. Now it has developed into AOKANG group, the largest private leather shoes manufacturer in China. At present, there are about 10 thousand manufacturing workers and salesmen.

Aokang Group

In order to alleviate the shortage of labor and reduce costs, AOKANG group began to "move east shoes westward" in 2003, and invested 1 billion yuan in Bishan, Chongqing to build the "West China shoe capital Industrial Park".

At present, the labor cost of the two production lines in Bishan, Chongqing is about 20% lower than that in Wenzhou, and the workers are relatively stable.

"The main line of production in Chongqing is to produce the brand of Red Flamingo, and strengthen the channel layout in the western region. The red Firebird brand grows very fast in the western two or three line cities, and the sales volume in the first half of this year has increased by 50%."

Wang Hailong said.

AOKANG group now has four independent brands, AOKANG, red Firebird and so on, which focus on different levels of consumer groups. There are more than 3000 terminal channels in the country.

However, it is not satisfied with the existing territory. After the acquisition of the brand name of Italy Wanli West Greater China last year, it recently signed the Italy GB GIANFRANCO BUTTERI proxy in China.

The four independent brands are located below 1500 yuan, and Wanli Wade is in the 1500~3000 yuan. AOKANG group is interested in cutting the domestic 3000~5000 yuan high-grade market cake with GB brand.

In addition, AOKANG group has accumulated in the footwear industry.

According to people familiar with the matter, AOKANG's investment in commercial pedestrian street not only occupies the best commercial location in the world to set up shop, but also can make money from these commercial real estate projects to feed the shoe industry, while making use of the popularity of the footwear industry, it is also convenient to take or expand other resources.

Polarization

The shoe industry of Wenzhou once had a Spanish shoe burning incident due to a large number of cheap shoes hitting the EU market. Now there is polarization. AOKANG, Kangnai, red dragonfly and other shoe enterprises are getting bigger and bigger. They are gradually getting rid of the image of low and medium shoes. Kangnai not only opened more than 2600 stores in the whole country, but also opened nearly 300 stores overseas, which hit the "peak" of international brands.

At the same time, there are many small and medium-sized shoe enterprises remain in the "original place", the situation is increasingly difficult.

Xie Rongfang, Secretary General of Wenzhou shoe leather industry association, told an interview with our reporter 11 days ago that there were more than 100 shoe factories in Wenzhou, more than 100 of which were closed, and the number of shoe enterprises in Wenzhou will be reduced next year.

In the wake of the new global financial crisis, shoe makers will have to adjust and upgrade, otherwise they will be easily eliminated.

Last year, the number of shoe enterprises in Wenzhou was 2573, with an output value of 78 billion yuan, with domestic sales as the leading factor, accounting for 60%.

At present, key enterprises are still moving forward steadily.

In the first half of this year, Wenzhou shoes exported 1 billion 990 million US dollars, an increase of 30% over the same period last year.

"The status quo of our shoe industry should be better than that of Guangdong.

According to her, AOKANG, Kangnai, red dragonfly, Dongyi and other four Wenzhou shoe enterprises are queuing up to go public, and will make further efforts with the help of capital market financing.

Dispute between dragon and tiger

Although Wenzhou shoe companies are lagging behind brands, Dongguan shoe companies believe they have the opportunity to catch up.

"BELLE shoe manufacturer in Guangdong is firmly in the position of" hegemony "of Chinese women's shoes through the integration of R & D, manufacturing and channels in the PRD.

The Pearl River Delta is stronger than Wenzhou in shoe making, talent, resources and information.

Guo Xiaoping, chairman of Dongguan Huahong shoes industry, is not convinced. He thinks that with the processing mode of raw materials coming to an end, a group of Dongguan shoe enterprises will be forced to find a way out.

A few years ago, he began to extend the design and development of the industrial chain upstream, and registered his own brand in Spain.

Under the leadership of a well-known international designer, his shoe company has pformed from scale production to scale customization, and every year, 6000~10000 new shoes are being put on the market.

A year ago, he returned to the domestic market with overseas brands, and now he entered 24 high-end department stores.

This year, he reduced the number of workers from more than 2200 to more than 1200.

Yin Jiqi, chairman of Dongguan Qisheng shoes industry Co., Ltd., 9 years ago, has been exploring the pformation from the foundry industry. The acquisition of Italy's "Dibao a" brand has been pferred to domestic sales. The monthly sales volume has developed from the first 60 pairs of shoes to the present more than 10 thousand pairs, which occupies a place in the domestic high-end men's shoes.

Wei Yafei, director of the office of China Leather Association, told an interview with our reporter that Wenzhou and Dongguan shoes have their own advantages. Wenzhou has a strong brand advantage, while Dongguan has advantages in terms of materials, styles and quality. However, due to the fact that the long-term foundry factory as an international brand is even a workshop, the structure of Dongguan shoe enterprises is not perfect, and its resource platform is not symmetrical. The establishment of a modern enterprise system is a lesson for Dongguan shoe companies.