In March, subsequent earthquake and tsunami happened in Japan, causing huge loss of economy and death of people. The economy loss has reached by 122 to 235 billion, and the number of death is 8649, 12877 people were missing and 2702 wounded. Besides, many foreign companies also suffer the disaster, and market sales affected during the disaster.
German sports goods company Puma which is the second largest sports manufacturer only after Adidas said, because of earthquake and tsunami that happened in March this year, Puma's branches in Japan are facing closing down, but it doesn't mean Puma would break away form its normal track development track. Japan is still the second largest market for Puma.
Puma's CEO Jochen Zeitz who is going to leave the company said, "The impact on the economy remains uncertain, but we will finally overcome those difficulties and survive."
Zeitz usually not easily give individual sales figures of countries, but he discloses that Japanese market accounted for about 10% of Puma's sales, which makes it the second largest market after the United States.
He said, most of the stores have to suspend business last week. Although expecting to resume normal business on Thursday, one store in the northeast region still can't do due to the serious impact caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
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shoes all 652 employees in Japan are taken good care of, and the company will open the exhibition hall in Osaka as refuge for some work members.
Japanese supply chain disruptions on the global electronics and automobile manufacturers is one of the serious problems, knock-on effect has spread to other industries such as mining industry.
Zeitz said that Puma has production lines in Japan, but not in the disaster areas.  puma trainersPuma is world's third-largest sporting goods company only after Nike and Adidas.
Zeitz as Puma's executives for a long time, he will go to PPR's Gucci Group to develop sports and lifestyle sector in spring. He also indicated that he want to step down as quickly as possible, but he has been asked to stay only after the whole company out of the global economic crisis under his leadership.