The gorgeous time back

After the decline period 1999-2004, the vulcanized shoes have been back as very hot items in both EU and US markets. Vulcanized shoes were well-known with Superga brand, Italy in the late 90’ and then successfully developed by Converse in the US. In the gorgeous decade of the 90’ footwear factories in Vietnam and China rushed to invest facilities to produce vulcanized shoes with the upper usually made of canvas...

US named the 1st importer of VN footwear

The export turnover of the industry to the USA surged to 611M US Dollars in 2005 named the country the 1st importer of VN foowear. It is no doubt US will also lead the list in 2006 with the expected turnover 750M.

However, the market share of Vietnam footwear in the US import market stands only 4% compared with China 85%.

Vietnam footwear export gains 3.6B in 2006

The export turnover of the footwear industry in Vietnam reaches 3.6 billion US Dollars in 2006, according to Lefaso. The industry is facing the anti-dumping measure by the EU with the AD duty of 10%. Some small companies specialized in leather shoes have to shut down...  

TBS Group was founded in 1992 by a group of Vietnamese shareholders, as one of the very first footwear company in the era of modern Vietnam. Initially it produced lady fashion shoes and canvas vulcanized shoes, but then specialized in sport, casual, hiking shoes and sport sandals.

Since 1992, the group also known as THAI BINH SHOES has developed spectacularly and it is listed in top 10 footwear producers in the country. The export turnover increased sharply from a mere 1.5 million US Dollars in 1992 to 61 million US Dollars in 2006. TBS continuously expands the production capacity with new factories in both South and North Vietnam to reach the output target 25-30 million pairs annually. TBS is a place where Vietnamese traditional culture accordingly meets modern technology models. We offer customers our real sense of commitment to long-term business..>>>

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Health & safety are important management criteria of the group. The HR (Human Right) department in the headquarters sets up and monitors the health & safety system as well as Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) in all factories following the labor law and customer Code Of Conduct (COC). 

As  a routine check, customers will conduct ethic HR and quality audits in all factories in the group within Jan. and Feb. Factories will be urged to fully perform security procedures for shipments consigned to US ports to comply with US custom and border protection acts. 16 Surveillance cameras were installed last year at sensitive sites and more  security measures would come in 2007. CSR and security are among the hot topics US concerns in the global outsourcing..>>>

You can see the casual collection for Summer 2007 designed by StilMan footwear, Italy. Those styles will be put into mass production as OEM products for export market and licensing products for Vietnam domestic market. Please hit the "casual" link on the navigation bar on the top of the page. You may see our draft designs in the "New design" menu. Any comment or inquiry please use the link "Contact us" to fill in your query. We will reply you within 24 hours through your e-mail address. Our OEM products are only for your reference to our skills and capability as a manufacturer. Except logo(s) TBS and Pacific on our own collections, other logo(s) and trademark(s) belong to the property of our customers who also own the designed patterns of the products where the logo(s) & trademark(s) are placed on. If you are interested in any of those OEM products we may direct you to the web pages of our customers for your own contact.