Centro de Formacao da Industria do Calcado.

Since the foundation of this School (1965), hundreds of young people qualified themselves in footwear technology, as a result of the recognition and the teaching capacity of the School, reaching the request and the needs of the footwear industry as a consequence of the evolution of the Portuguese footwear exportation.

Calçado Albano Pereira Lda., associated with KAMUSH is a family-owned company integrated in the shoe industry.
Founded in 2005 by its current administrator Albano Pereira, the company is headquartered in Vizela (Portugal) and dedicated to the production of shoes for men, women and children. The company as 118 employees presenting a wide range of stakeholders, largely due to the vast experience of the administrator in this market segment.
Currently, Calçado Albano Pereira Lda., produces 260 thousand pairs of footwear per year and proximally 1000 units per day are produced (depends of the model), justifying a turnover of 6 million euros / year, corresponding to about 90% of the foreign market, a figure that has been growing exponentially since the foundation date.
We work mainly in the Nordic market (Holland Sweden and Norway), producing also in markets like England, Italy, Germany, Spain and we have expectations
of working with new markets and we have a partnership with APPICAPS (The Association of Portuguese Manufacturers of Footwear, Components, Leather Goods and Associated Articles).
In the course of its history, the Albano Pereira Footwear has marked its evolution by the definition and implementation of strategies that lead to a
continuous improvement of competitiveness, in order to respond to the ever constant requirements of the market.