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Labor Shortage And Raw Material Price Increase Gradually Squeezing Shoe Enterprises Profits

2010/10/27 15:10:00 59

For most shoemaking enterprises in Dongguan,

Economic crisis

The shadow of the industrial upheaval seems to have passed.

Order

The recovery is a happy event, but it lasted for many months.

Labor shortage

Recruitment is difficult, but happiness is worrying.

In October 24th, in Dongguan Houjie Plaza, a comprehensive recruitment of public talents is held here.

More than 200 enterprises from Dongguan came to recruit workers and had more than 4000 jobs. But many executives of the recruitment companies did not expect that the number of applicants was very small.

According to a lot of shoe manufacturers who came to recruit, due to the accumulation of new orders in the first half of the year and at the end of the year, a large number of workers are in urgent need.

"Even if the monthly salary has been raised to about 1600 yuan, there will still be no enough workers."

A leather shoes processing enterprise recruitment responsible person.

Wang Zhuoliang, Deputy Secretary General of Dongguan Leather Footwear Association, said: "the shortage of workers is very serious. This problem is difficult to solve at the moment.

The result of labor shortage is the lack of capacity to start factories. Many enterprises in Dongguan are worried that even if they rush to work, they will not be able to complete orders, and they dare not place too many orders.

Perhaps, compared with the shortage of labor shortage, for most shoe companies, the sharp decline in industrial profits caused by RMB appreciation and raw material price increases is more profound.

In the Houjie Xiamen shoe sales promotion center, Houjie, who is engaged in export trade, said: "after the economic crisis, many export enterprises have turned the original export products into domestic sales. At present, the appreciation level of the renminbi can still be withdrawn."

"Labor shortage" has forced enterprises to increase their wages, and the increase in raw material prices has reduced the profits of enterprises, which has a great impact on enterprises.

"In the past two or three months, the price of shoes and leather shoes has increased by 30%."

The rising price of raw materials has been uploaded from the industrial chain to shoemaking processing enterprises.

A number of shoe factories visited by reporters said that the pressure on the cost of raw materials increased greatly.

The direct consequence of the rising price of raw materials is to squeeze the profit margins of shoemaking enterprises a little bit.

The boss of Yue Xin shoemaking factory has a deep understanding of this: "although the business is good and the orders are adequate, the less money we earn,"

Although the economic crisis has passed, what worries him more is how long the RMB appreciation and raw material prices will continue in the future.

If we continue to rise, the survival pressure of enterprises will be bigger and bigger.