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Consequences of COVID pandemic on Croatian leather and footwear industry

Croatian leather and footwear industry was showing slightly negative trends within last years, and eves since all time high results in 2015 both in number of employed and total revenue, the industry, marked according National Classification of Activities as C15 is constantly declining. Considering that C15 consist of tanning and dressing of leather, manufacture of travel and handbags, saddle and harness products and footwear manufacturers. The trends are different. Decline entirely refers on tanning but footwear manufacturing is still showing good, increasing, trends, until end of the first quarter of year 2020. After outbreak of COVID 19 pandemic and introduction of harsh measure’s in order to prevent its further spread, including the measures which disrupted supply chains, and distribution channels as well, the future seams uncertain. This paper is written at the time when the harsh measures are about to be alleviated and managements of companies are about to face the consequences of lock out that has been enforced all over the world. The purpose of the paper is to determine how unprecedented measures to prevent and bound the pandemic affects on potential week points in industry.

introduction of harsh measures ; negative impact on retail ; non-parametric statistics ; predicting and forecasting

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