"The figures now available, relating to the first six months of the year, tend to confirm this encouraging impression. It is by no means a thorough-going reversal of the trend; but the worse seems to be behind us, and the economic figures for 2007 could turn out to have more good news than bad."
"Our research shows production figures essentially static in quantity but rising in value terms thanks to less constricting price policies.”
“So companies are once more starting to be able to adopt more aggressive strategies - comments Vito Artioli - after a long period during which protecting market share and keeping “historic” customers proved to be the only possible tactics.
Exports are once more picking up speed, with an overall rise of 8.3% in value terms between January and May over the corresponding period of last year, due above all to a further raising of quality in the product range on offer, as the 7.8% rise in average prices shows.
"This is an important signal that Italian firms are changing tack, and the 5.8% rise by value in real leather footwear confirms it.”
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