Type
Reshoring
Country
Italy
Reshoring from
India
Reshored business function
Production
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture Of Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products
Manufacture Of Wearing Apparel
14 - Manufacture Of Wearing Apparel

No information on job gains number available
Announcement Date
20 July 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2015
Foreseen end date
1 December 2016

Description

The Spanish clothing company Mango has announced the intention to reshore production currently based in Asia (India, China, Bangladesh and South East Asia) to Europe (Spain, Italy and Turkey). Several clothing companies in Europe are adopting the same backshoring strategy thanks to the benefits brought by new technologies like robots, 3D printers and body scanner. Mango claims that the main reason for its backshoring is to develop new collections every two weeks, instead of three weeks as before.  This requires shortening the value chain and moving production closer to markets.


Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2016), Mango, Reshoring in Italy, factsheet number 171, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/171.