Small And Medium Sized Footwear Enterprises Take Leave To Avoid Risks

According to the usual practice, the shoe factory does not have a summer vacation. However, on the 11 day, along with the "central parity of RMB against the US dollar, breaking the 6.84 pass by 6.8397 yuan, the exchange rate has changed to a new high, and it is also the fifty-third highest innovation since 2008". It has been put on the newspapers of the major media. In the Zichuan District of Zibo, the "Mei Hui shoe industry" has given the workers a holiday after "dead bracing" for a year.

"This is a necessity."

"Mei Hui shoe industry" operator Liu Dong said.

This result is obviously in the expectation of Liu.

Since the second half of last year, a series of unfavorable factors such as macroeconomic regulation and control, price rise of raw materials, appreciation of the renminbi and rising labor costs have come to a close like a wave. After the closure of several export oriented shoemaking points, Liu Dong said that although the present situation has been prepared, it has not occurred to me that the closure and closing of business have come so quickly.

"All the raw materials for making shoes have gone up, shoes glue, packaging shells, buckles, cloth...

Even the price of nails is rising. "

However, Liu Dong was most upset about the appreciation of the renminbi and a series of trade problems brought about by it.

Liu said, like other shoe factories around the world, their goods are usually sold to Vietnam, Brazil, Russia and other countries.

However, in the context of RMB appreciation, with the Vietnam financial crisis hit, "orders have not disappeared".

"Not to do it alone" seems to be the problem of the "Huajia" shoe industry in Zhoucun. Li Tianming, who is the head of the company, is worried about it recently.

"The adverse factors in China are temporarily ignored, and the environment abroad has caused us to suffer from the export footwear industry."

He said.

Li said that under the condition of the global economy, "anti-dumping" is becoming more and more intense.

"Our goods were boycotted in Brazil, Russia and Romania, where orders were reduced by nearly 7, and goods were often" stuck "in customs of these countries.

In April this year, in Brazil, one card is two months... "

"This is a Waterloo."

Similarly, a marketing official of a large shoe factory in Zichuan admitted.

He said that, under the stimulus of multiple adverse factors such as exchange rate changes, rising raw materials and increasing trade frictions, their export shoes decreased by 39% in 1 to May this year, and it is more worthy of concern that their capital chain has also emerged as a result of the sharp decline in exports.

At present, export oriented small and medium-sized enterprises are difficult, but on the other hand, they are also flexible. Therefore, the temporary suspension of business is not a failure.

At present, many enterprises have their own magic weapons to overcome their immediate difficulties, for example, financial means and so on.

A celebrity in Zibo SME Bureau said.

During the interview, the reporters also noted that in order to avoid trade risks, some large shoe factories not only adopted the specialized financial means such as "settlement of strong currencies with euro and other currencies" and "long-term settlement and hedging risks", but also "elongating the industrial chain", "going to foreign acquiring company or buying raw materials", and "introducing new equipment" has become a magic weapon for survival.

However, whether professional financial means or elongating the industrial chain, we need capital to invest in new equipment. As a big shoe factory, they have the strength. But what about our small and medium-sized shoe factories?

If we can't solve the problem of food and clothing, how can we develop it? "

Under the scorching sun, Liu Dong said helplessly.