footwear

News and Trends

Casual Footwear Brand Solethreads Raises $3.7 Million In Series A Funding

The company plans to utilize the fund raised to enhance its design innovation lab and the R&D centre to strengthen its launch pipeline and explore new categories in the casual footwear space

News and Trends

Fashion Brand Styched Acquires Shark Tank India 2 Fame D2C Brand Flatheads

Styched plans to incorporate its production-on-demand technology into the footwear category, enabling the expansion of Flatheads' existing collection

Growth Strategies

Why the Indian Footwear Industry Needs To Walk the Talk With Inclusive Footwear

The inclusivity walk is all about identifying the solution for one and extending to multiple consumers

News and Trends

RapidBox Raises $4.5 Million In Series A Funding

The fund raised will be used to expand the product range, enhance customer experience, and for brand building

News and Trends

Walking the Sustainability Road

The innovation in the sustainable footwear industry has undergone a lot of changes over these years and the current trends speak for casual sneakers and canvas shoes, which are made with recycled rubber soles, upcycled products and sustainable or eco-friendly materials

Business News

Is Nike An Undervalued Opportunity for Investors?

Nike's P/E ratio has fallen to levels not seen over the last five years. Investors have paid attention to this, but does it deserve a place in your portfolio?

Science & Technology

How Big-Name Sneaker Brands Are Racing Into the Metaverse

Web3 is opening up new opportunities for industries to better serve their customers, (specifically companies that specialize in kicks).

News and Trends

Bata: 'Sneaking' Into Your Shoe Shelves

Bata CEO Gunjan Shah says the footwear company is bullish about its innovations in casual wear and sneakers

Women Entrepreneur™

The High Stepper

All industries are being disrupted and unless all the key stakeholders in an organization have an entrepreneurial mindset, it will be very difficult for them to last for very long: Alisha Malik

News and Trends

How India Footwear Industry is Beating China Potentially

When you think of Atmanirbhar Bharat, an industry that is in full swing to make the most out of the current situation is the footwear industry

Starting a Business

This Woman Entrepreneur Brought Back Juttis In Vogue

Needledust juttis are shipped to over 200 countries and are frequently donned by celebrities such as Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt, Kangana Ranaut and Sara Ali Khan, among others

News and Trends

India's Leather Industry Holds Key to Generate Employment for the Youth. Here's how

The industry is expected to grow to $9 billion by 2020 and generate additional 2 million jobs

Growing a Business

Why the Founders of This French Sneaker Brand Spent Two Years Researching Faux Leather

Veja's founders have always been proud of their sustainable footwear -- except their use of leather. Here's how they found a solution.

Franchises

How Indian Footwear Industry is Growing via Franchising

Being the second largest footwear industry in the world, it is accounting for approximately 9 percent of the global annual production.