Indian Shoe Bazaar - Profiles: Vicenza Chamber of Commerce

The Vicenza Chamber of Commerce, the body that co-ordinates the provincial economic activities, promotes ad hoc initiatives for all productive sectors with the participation of businessmen, trade associations, representatives of the world of co-operation, services, third sector, banks, consumers and the trade unions. It provides the answers to the issues of the different sectors of the economy thanks to the capillary presence on the Vicentine territory of its local offices and a network made of more than one hundred posts.

Through regional and national branches of the chamber system and their international expressions, the Vicenza Chamber of Commerce is an integral part to a network that can offer quick answers to the changing needs of the manufacturing industry as a whole, by starting a constructive dialogue with the citizens-users.

The Chamber of Commerce of Vicenza works together with companies to build a new millennium.

Vicenza Qualita

Vicenza Qualita was set up with the aim of promoting and enhancing the Vicentine economy at an international level by focusing on small- and medium-sized enterprises and pursuing the public interest (no profit). The Special Agency of the Chamber of Commerce organizes any kind of event: participation in fairs and exhibitions, advertising and image campaigns, market research, business missions, seminars, etc.

Being abreast with the times, it performs its operations by using a number of tools: Internet, e-commerce and innovative activities of territorial marketing. It participates actively in projects on regional, national, EU and international financing. It also co-operates with the entire chamber system and regional and national institutions in the setting up and running of support canters in European and non-European countries for assisting Vicentine enterprises.

Tanning sector

It is in Valchiampo, along the axis Arzignano - Chiampo - Trissino, that starting from the '50s the largest Italian leather pole has developed. A district for hide tanning that today is made up of 760 business units (of which 279 are craft companies), 8,420 workers and a turnover of 3,185 million Euros (of which 1,800 from exports). Thanks to an industrial structure made up of large groups and a wide group of SMEs, the tanning district takes on 50% of the hides dressed in Italy and one third of these are for foreign markets. The main dressing relates to cow hides to be used in shoe-making, furniture, clothing and accessories and car upholstery. Research and innovation are the key guidelines of this district that is faced with an increasingly global and diversified competition and therefore aims at high added value products thanks also to the modern technologies used.

Industries 803

Business units 8.420

Staff Turnover 3.185,00 million €

Export 1.850,20 million €

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