The world's largest footwear factory closed in Vietnam

Activities at its plant in Vietnam were suspended for two days due to the COVID-19 health crisis. The country still remains with a low rate of infected.

According to local media, the measure was ordered by health authorities, given the impossibility of complying with necessary rules of social isolation.

The suspension of production at the factory was decreed to guarantee the public health and operations of the company, assured the Vietnamese government, that they did not rule out the possibility of extending the validity of the measure.

The POU CHEN group founded by the Tsai’s family in 1969 in Fuxing, Taiwan, has numerous manufacturing plants in different countries in Southeast Asia. Its annual production is 300 million pairs, with 70 thousand workers.

The Taiwanese company's main customers are NIKE, ADIDAS, ASICS, CLARKS, REEBOK, PUMA, NEW BALANCE, CROCS, MERRELL, TIMBERLAND, CONVERSE and SALOMON.