Extraordinary opening last Sunday in Taranto: many tourists, a river of people, but not all the shops were open. Let’s see how it went, let’s talk about it with the new president of Fismo, the Fashion Federation of Confesercenti Taranto, Andrea Liuzzi: “On Sunday we could see a lot of people around, including tourists but many people from nearby towns and the province. But we also had to note that many shops did not raise their shutters, many traders did not join the extraordinary opening on Sunday.”
“Instead we need to work as a team – so he intervenes Andrea Ruggero (Internship) vice president of Fismo, the Fashion Federation of Confesercenti Taranto – and try to open everyone more or less evenly. Only in this way can we create the conditions to be more attractive in the streets of the center and in the shopping streets and stimulate purchases”.
In truth, it is common opinion that a structured opening on Sunday can also create the conditions to revitalize other sectors such as public businesses. Having more people on the streets also means increasing the clientele of bars, restaurants, pizzerias, takeaways and fast food outlets.
As I have said before – so he concludes Andrea Liuzzi – we must aim every day to be increasingly united, more competent and more competitive. With the new management of the Confesercenti Fashion Federation we intend to decline innovation and development: and we intend to bring people back to the shopping streets, also with entertainment, with events, with extraordinary openings, in a word with our attention”.
There PHISMO ITALIAN FEDERATION OF THE FASHION SECTOR CONFESERCENTI is one of the strongest trade unions in Confesercenti due to its political and trade union importance and its organized strength, as is the number of members, over 24,500 out of approximately 165,500 companies operating in Italy, and was established in 1979.
FISMO, which represents small and medium-sized companies that deal with the retail distribution of clothing, textiles, footwear, leather goods and fashion accessories, is present with its own organized management groups in all Italian provinces.
In recent years it has been characterized in a particular way with respect to some problems particularly felt by operators: initiatives aimed at regulating the entry of large-scale retail trade into our sector in a more balanced way; development of policies aimed at enhancing the retail commercial presence in historic centres; Ø end-of-season sales; Ø extraordinary sales; Ø promotional sales; the age-old and fundamental issue for the category of the tax assessment of warehouse inventories.
FISMO’s task is also to provide the category with new analysis and programming tools capable of creating the conditions and opportunities to act within an increasingly global, but not globalizing, market.
