Vietnam's footwear sector has achieved almost three billion US dollars in exports turnover during the initial six months of the current year, showing a year-on-year rise of 31 percent.
In June 2011, the sector's export earnings jumped to a six month high of over US$ 610 million. This was the first time since beginning of the current year that footwear exports crossed the US$ 600 million mark in a month.
Firms have already received enough orders to suffice till close of third quarter of current year and have even inked some contracts for the last quarter.
There has been a steep rise in bulk orders from importers this year, due to which there has been a year-on-year rise of 20 percent in number of export orders, alongside a 7 to 10 percent rise in price value of contracts.
Some companies, however, had to decline orders because of an anticipated fluctuation in availability of workforce.