Fashion Statistics Sweden
National data
Population: | 9.6 million |
Labor force: | 5.1 million |
Unemployment rate: | 7.8 % |
GDP per capita (PPS): | 60,430 dollars |
Consumer Expenditure
Annual expenditure on clothing: | 8.9 billion dollars |
Annual expenditure on footwear: | 1.5 billion dollars |
Fashion companies
According to the Association of the Swedish Fashion Brands statistics the sales of fashion industry reached the amount of 32 billion dollars in 2013, with export accounting for 62 percent of that figure.
Company name | Market value | Annual revenue | Company type | |
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1 | Hennes & Mauritz AB | 55 billion dollars | 22 billion dollars | Public |
2 | Marc O’polo | 1.3 billion dollars | 522 million dollars | Private |
3 | Acne | 438 million dollars | 134 million dollars | Private |
Exports (2014)
Total exports of textile, apparel and footwear: 2 billion dollars
Exports of clothing and textiles: 1.74 billion dollars
- Women’s suits, not knit: 155 million dollars, 9 percent
- Nonwoven textiles: 148 million dollars, 8.5 percent
- Men’s suits, not knit: 122 million dollars, 7 percent
- Sweaters, pullovers, sweatshirts, etc.: 108 million dollars, 6 percent
- Technical fabric for card clothing: 105 million dollars, 6 percent
- T-shirts: 87.6 million dollars, 5 percent
- Women’s suits: 70.5 million dollar, 4 percent
Exports of footwear and headwear: 245 million dollars
- Footwear, with leather body: 94.1 million dollars, 38 percent
- Footwear, with textile body: 32.1 million dollars, 13 percent
- Other headgear: 47.1 million dollars, 19.2 percent
- Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 24.7 million dollars, 10 percent
Imports (2014)
Total imports of textiles, apparel and footwear: 6.7 billion dollars
Imports of clothing: 5.56 billion dollars
- Men’s suits, not knit: 522 million dollars, 9 percent
- Women’s suits, not knit: 465 million dollars, 8 percent
- Sweaters, pullover, sweatshirts, etc.: 472 million dollars, 8 percent
- T-shirts: 407 million dollars, 7 percent
- Women’s suits: 302 million dollars, 5 percent
Imports of footwear and headwear: 1.08 billion dollars
- Footwear, with leather body: 431 million dollar, 40 percent
- Footwear, with textile body: 243 million dollar, 22.5 percent
- Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 164 million, 15 percent
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 | |
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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