In 2012, the total turnover in the shoe industry amounted to 25.24 billion euros. Textile and clothing industryThere are 143,000 corporations in the textile and clothes business in Europe. Of these, forty eight,343 (33%) corporations operate within the textile industry within the broadest sense of the word, and ninety four,591 (67%) are lively within the clothing sector. In 2021, e-commerce accounted for almost 20 p.c of retail sales worldwide.