Countries like Italy, Spain , Portugal etc have been important centers of denim jeans production in EU for a long time. However, with changing times, increasing costs and other factors, the production significantly fell down and shifted to Asian countries .
However, still some production is being done in these countries. In this report , we will analyse
- How much production is being done in Italy, Spain and Portugal and how this production has been affected over a period of 3 years.
- Also, we will see the production values for these jeans which will give an idea of the cost of production in these countries .
- We will see a break up of Men’s and Women’s jeans being produced and it will indicate which of these countries is more adept in making which kind of product . Of course , it will also show that which category is more in demand.
Lets have a look at the figures for these countries in the tables below. It is interesting to note the average declared value of productions per piece in these countries and surprisingly Italy is not the most expensive for women’s Jeans
Spain
Production of Men’s and Women’s Jeans and their Value
| Year | Men’s qty | Women’s qty | Men’s Jeans Av . Value | Women’s Average Value |
| 2008 | 3.87 mn pcs | 5.92 mn. pcs | 13.68 € | 20.79€ |
| 2009 | 3.37 mn pcs | 5.28 mn pcs | 14.51€ | 20.07€ |
| 2010 | 2.92 mn pcs | 5.45 mn pcs | 15.56 € | 18.47 € |
Italy
Production of Men’s and Women’s Jeans and their Value
| Year | Men’s qty | Women’s qty | Men’s Jeans Av . Value /pc | Women’s Average Value /pc |
| 2008 | 33.85 mn pcs | 25.63 mn. pcs | 13.45 € | 15.78 € |
| 2009 | 27.44 mn pcs | 12.54 mn pcs | 12.86 € | 15.31 € |
| 2010 | 29.92 mn pcs | 13.79 mn pcs | 12.81 € | 14.57 € |
Portugal
Production of Men’s and Women’s Jeans and their Value
| Year | Men’s qty | Women’s qty | Men’s Jeans Av . Value / pc | Women’s Average Value /pc |
| 2008 | 1.45 mn pcs | 2.30 mn. pcs | 11.87 € | 11.86 € |
| 2009 | 0.9 mn pcs | 2.66 mn pcs | 14.61 € | 12.48 € |
| 2010 | 1.42 mn. pcs | 1.66 mn pcs | 10.63€ | 11.56 € |
Note : The figures for 2011 will be available after a month and will be updated accordingly.
- Production of Jeans in Spain has fallen the least and is almost stable at around 8-9 million pieces.
- The Women’s denim is the costliest when produced in Spain.
- Italy has the highest volume of production and has also experienced steep fall in production volumes. From about 59 million pieces in 2008 , Italy has produced about 43 million pieces in 2010. Still a decent volume !
- Portugal is the smallest and has reduced production about 25% from about 4 million pcs to about 3 million pcs.
It needs to be remembered that these figures are provided by individual EU countries and collected by them nationally. It is known that in South Europe , some production escapes the notice of the government authorities and is not reported. Hence , we must keep some provision for them and keep that in mind.
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