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Actis and the shoe industry

Assembly Automation, 1996
Shows how providing robotic solutions for a variety of shoe making processes has enabled Brightwood, the Florida‐based manufacturer of athletics shoes, to compete with off‐shore production where manual labour does similar tasks. Looks at the French shoe manufacturing equipment company, Actis, which supplied Brightwood with Stäubli RX90 robots to ...
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Exposure to Solvents in the Shoe and Leather Goods Industries

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1993
The shoe and leather goods industries are two of the main economic sectors in Tuscany. Organic solvents are the most important risk factors responsible for leukaemias and polyneuropathies. Job exposure matrices for solvents have been developed with two different aims: to contribute to the general matrix in different industries involving exposure to ...
A, Scarpelli, L, Miligi, A, Seniori Costantini, S, Alberghini Maltoni   +3 more
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The Location of the English Shoe Industry

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 1965
Lancaster district. With the decline of the cotton industry in this area after the first world war factories making felt shoes and slippers moved into the empty cotton mills and partly solved the unemployment problem. The manufacturing of footwear beyond the local need has a long tradition in Northampton and adjoining areas.
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Investment Opportunities in the Shoe Industry

Financial Analysts Journal, 1968
CONSUMER SPENDING for shoes was $6.1 billion in 1966, 1.3% of total personal consumption expenditures. Total shoe spending in 1966 was divided between shoe stores with $2.8 billion sales, leased shoe departments with about $650 million sales, and other types of retailers with $2.6 billion sales. In 1966, the wholesale value of shipments by U.
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BREATHING SHOES AND COMPLEMENTARITIES: STRATEGIC INNOVATION IN A MATURE INDUSTRY

International Journal of Innovation Management, 2008
This paper tells the story of Geox, an Italian footwear manufacturer that, in less than a decade, has become one of the world's largest shoe manufacturers. Applying the related notions of complementarity and performance landscape to study strategic positioning in the footwear industry, we show that, though grounded on product innovation (the original ...
CAMUFFO, ARNALDO, FURLAN, ANDREA, ROMANO P, VINELLI, ANDREA   +3 more
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Materials Handling in the Shoe Industry

Journal of Fluids Engineering, 1931
Abstract The growth of the shoe industry is described from its earliest establishment, from the point of view of mechanical handling of products. It describes the typical factory-production problem and the development of the mechanical conveyor in shoe factories.
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The collaborative strategy in the Taiwan shoe industry

European Business Review, 2009
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to elaborate the reason behind a sustainable guanxi network through the introduction of the collaborative strategy in the Taiwanese shoe industry.Design/methodology/approachLiterature review in the area of Chinese business culture, and guanxi network is used to elaborate the information obtained from the company ...
Tzong‐Ru (Jiun‐Shen) Lee, Toong‐Chinn Venice Koh   +1 more
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[The shoe industry and the musculoskeletal system].

Giornale italiano di medicina del lavoro ed ergonomia, 2013
Shoes factory workers are engaged in ripetitive tasks, often performed in constrained postures and in concomitance of force applied, which result in increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders. Risk assessment and ergonomic interventions are part of the on-site prevention program, which should pertain also to gender and age differences.
Giacomo, Bazzini, Edda Maria, Capodaglio, Donatella, Mancin   +2 more
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Women in Industry: The Manufacture of Boots and Shoes

American Journal of Sociology, 1909
Unlike the manufacture of cloth, the making of boots and shoes was not, historically, a woman's industry. Shoemaking or cobbling was considered "men's work" almost as universally as spinning was looked upon as work for women. Yet in this country, throughout the nineteenth century, women found one of their most important occupations in the manufacture ...
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The Location of the Shoe Industry in the United States

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1933
The theory of industrial location, 254.— Preliminary deductions in the case of the shoe industry, 255.— History of the distribution of the industry. Period 1630–1760: non-localized hand work, 257.— Period 1760–1860: localization of the hand industry, relation of railroads to factors of transportation and labor cost, 259.— Period 1860–1900: effect of ...
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