Fashion Statistics Portugal
National data
| Population: | 10.3 million |
| Labor force: | 5.2 million |
| Unemployment rate: | 13 % |
| GDP per capita (PPS): | 28,760 dollars |
Portuguese Apparel and Textile Industry
The apparel and textile industry is one of the most important to the Portuguese economy. It makes up 15 percent of the total export and is one of the largest exporter in Europe. The Portuguese footwear is sold in more than 140 countries and more than seventy million pairs of shoe are exported each year.
Consumer Expenditure
| Annual expenditure on clothing: | 7.5 billion dollars |
| Annual expenditure on footwear: | 2 billion dollars |
Fashion companies
| Company name | Market value | Annual revenue | Company type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modalfa Comercio e Servicios | 614 million dollars | 300 million dollars | Private |
| 2 | Lanidor | 501 million dollars | 204 million dollars | Private |
Exports (2014)
Total exports of clothing, textiles and footwear: 8.7 billion dollars
Exports of clothing and textiles: 6.14 billion dollars
- T-shirts: 1.04 billion dollars
- House linen: 533 million dollars
- Sweaters, pullovers, sweatshirts, etc: 421 million dollars
- Women’s suits, not knit: 369 million dollars
- Men’s suits, not knit: 351 million dollars
Exports of footwear and headwear: 2.6 billion dollars
- Footwear, with leather body: 2.2 billion dollars
- Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 91.6 million dollars
- Footwear with textile body: 66.4 million dollars
- Parts of footwear: 65.5 million dollars
- Other footwear: 52 million dollars
Imports (2014)
Total imports of clothing, textiles and footwear: 5.5 billion dollars
Imports of clothing: 4.6 billion dollars
- Women’s suits, not knit: 321 million dollars
- Men’s suits, not knit: 271 million dollars
- Sweaters, pullovers, sweatshirts, etc: 249 million dollars
- Synthetic filament yarn: 247 million dollars
- Women’s suits: 137 million dollars
- Women’s shirts, not knit: 105 million dollars
- Men’s shirts, not knit: 92.3 million dollars
Imports of footwear and headwear: 890 million dollars
- Footwear, with leather body: 239 million dollars
- Parts of footwear: 210 million dollars
- Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 165 million dollars
- Footwear with textile body: 152 million dollars
- Other footwear: 24.7 million dollars
Sources
These statistics pages are a product of FashionUnited Business Intelligence. For more fashion data, company information and statistics, please refer to the FashionUnited Business Intelligence homepage.
Sources: CIA, ILO, WTO, IBISWorld, OECD, Comtrade (UN), World Bank, FSSS
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EU
General data
| Population: | 506.85 million |
| GDP per capita (PPS): | 36,486 Dollars |
| Labor force: | 247.0 million |
| Unemployment rate: | 39.4% |
| Fashion market share: | 5 percent |
| Regional fashion market size: | 441 billion dollars |
| Turnover of the textile and clothing industry: | 191 billion dollars |
| Employment in the textiles and clothing industry: | 1.6 million |
| Annual investment in the textile and clothing industry: | 5 billion dollars |
| Annual investment in clothing: | 1.6 billion dollars |
| Annual investment in textiles and man-made fibres: | 3.3 billion dollars |
Fashion companies
Number of companies in the textile and clothing industry: 172,755 Among these companies 119,960 companies can be addressed to as clothing companies, 52,926 are textile companies and the remaining 80 companies work on man-made fibers.
The total turnover of these companies is 191 billion euros. Nearly half of this turnover is related to textile companies, these contribute 92 billion euros. Another 87 billion euros is related to clothing companies and the remaining 9.7 billion euros is related to man-made fibre-making companies.
A couple of European countries, such as Italy, France and Spain are well-known for their renowned fashion conglomerates. The following table shows the Top 10 largest fashion companies in Europe.
| Company name | Market value | Annual sales | Country | Company type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inditex | 104 billion dollars | 24 billion dollars | Spain | Stock listed company |
| 2 | LVMH, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy | 86 billion dollars | 41.5 billion dollars | France | Stock listed company |
| 3 | Hennes & Mauritz | 48.5 billion dollars | 26.5 billion dollars | Sweden | Stock listed company |
| 4 | Hermès | 37 billion dollars | 6 billion dollars | France | Stock listed company |
| 5 | Rolex SA | 36 billion dollars | 6 billion dollars | Switzerland | Private ownership |
| 6 | Compagnie Financière Richemont | 36 billion dollars | 11.5 billion dollars | Switzerland | Stock listed company |
| 7 | Chanel | 33.5 billion dollars | 9 billion dollars | France | Private ownership |
| 8 | Dior | 32 billion dollars | 2 billion dollars | France | Stock listed company |
| 9 | Luxottica | 26.5 billion dollars | 10.5 billion dollars | Italy | Stock listed company |
| 10 | Kering | 25.5 billion dollars | 13 billion dollars | France | Stock listed company |
Employment
Currently 1.63 million people are employed in the textile and clothing industry. Most of these employees, 1 million people, are employed in producing at and managing clothing companies. The remaining 614,000 work on textiles and man-made fibres.
Consumer expenditure (2014)
| Annual expenditure on clothing: | 360 billion dollars |
| Annual expenditure on footwear: | 81 billion dollars |
Exports (2016)
Exports of apparel and textiles: 49.5 billion dollars
Clothing: 25 billion dollars
- Menswear export value: 5.8 billion dollars
- Womenswear export value: 10.1 billion dollars
- Babies wear export value: 254 billion dollars
- Other clothing and accessories export value: 9.1 billion dollars
The main clothing customers make up for 54.6 percent of the total clothing exports. Switzerland is the largest customer taking 3.8 billion dollars in textiles, which is 15.7 percent of the total European textile exports. Russia takes 3.7 billion dollars, 15.2 percent, and is therefore the second largest customer. The customers that round up the Top 5 export clients are the United States with 2.7 billion dollars (11 percent), Hong Kong with 1.6 billion dollars (6.5 percent) and Japan with 1.5 billion dollars (6 percent).
Textiles: 24.5 billion dollars
- Natural fibers export value: 981 billion dollars
- Man-made fibers export value: 981 billion dollars
- Yarns & Threads export value: 2.2 billion dollars
- Woven fabrics export value: 6.9
- Knitted fabrics export value: 1.7 billion dollars
- Technical textiles export value: 6.1 billion dollars
- Other textiles export value: 3.2 billion dollars
The main textile customers make up for 40.5 percent of the total textile exports. The United States is the biggest customer taking 2.7 billion dollars in textiles, which is 11 percent of the total European textile exports. China takes 2.1 billion dollars, 8.5 percent, and is therefore the second largest customer. The customers that round up the Top 5 export clients are Turkey with 2 billion dollars (8 percent), Switzerland with 1.6 billion dollars (7 percent) and Morocco with 1.5 billion dollars (6 percent).
Imports (2016)
Imports of apparel and textiles: 115 billion dollars
Clothing: 84.5 billion dollars
- Menswear import value: 21.2 billion dollars
- Womenswear import value: 29.5 billion dollars
- Babies Wear import value: 2.5 billion dollars
- Other clothing and accessories import value: 31.2 billion dollars
The European Union imports most of its clothing from 5 suppliers, with China being the largest. A near 40 percent of the European imports come from China. Bangladesh supplies 14.5 percent of the European clothing imports. Another 13 percent of the supplies come from Turkey and respectively 6 and 3 percent come from India and Morocco.
Textiles: 30.5 billion dollars
- Natural fibers import value: 1.8 billion dollars
- Man-made fibers import value: 1.5 billion dollars
- Yarns & Threads import value: 4.3 billion dollars
- Woven fabrics import value: 6.1 billion dollars
- Knitted fabrics import value: 1.5 billion dollars
- Technical textiles import value: 6.4 billion dollars
- Other textiles import value: 1.2 billion dollars
The European Union imports most of its textiles from 5 suppliers, with China being the largest. About 31.5 percent of the European imports come from China. Turkey supplies 17 percent of the European textile imports. Another 9 percent of the supplies come from Turkey and respectively 8 and 4 percent come from Pakistan and the United States.
Sources
Sources: Eurostat, CIA, ILO, WTO, IBISWorld, OECD, Comtrade (UN), Euratex.
These statistic pages are a product of FashionUnited Business Intelligence. For more fashion data, company information and statistics, please refer to the FashionUnited Business Intelligence homepage. Bronnen: Comtrade, OECD, CBS, GFK, Modint, Euratex, Eurostat.
Copyright 2016 by FashionUnited. You must obtain written permission to use any FashionUnited content.