Top 12 Shoe manufacturers in India (2026)
Published by Arjun Mehta · Last updated September 5, 2026
If you’re looking for the best shoe manufacturers in India, top choices in 2026 include SETU SOURCING, Farida Group, Tata International, Superhouse, Gupta H.C. Overseas, and Dawar Group. India is the world’s second-largest footwear producer, its factories tan their own leather, and since July 2026 Indian shoes enter the UK duty-free, on top of an 18% US tariff for buyers in the U.S. and Europe.
Top 12 shoe manufacturers in India
The world’s second-largest footwear producer: Tamil Nadu’s leather belt, Agra’s fashion cluster and Kanpur’s boot makers, with MOQs from 300 pairs.
SETU SOURCING, Your India Sourcing Agent
SETU SOURCING matches your footwear brief to the right Indian cluster: welted and dress leather in the Ambur-Ranipet belt, women’s fashion in Agra, boots and safety footwear in Kanpur, non-leather volume in Delhi-NCR. We verify tannery sourcing and social audits, benchmark quotes, and inspect at AQL before shipment.
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Farida Group
The flagship of the Ambur-Chennai leather belt since 1957: a dozen plants, its own tannery and sole factories, deep Goodyear-welted expertise, and private-label programs across 40+ countries, with Europe about half of sales.
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Tata International
Corporate-grade compliance under the Tata name, LWG-certified with plants across Tamil Nadu and Dewas. Names Marks & Spencer, Deichmann, H&M, Zara and Puma on its client list, and won CLE’s top leather footwear exporter award for FY24.
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KH Group
Vertically integrated Chennai-Ranipet group founded 1962, running an LWG-certified tannery continuously since 2011 and up to 10,000 pairs a day of men’s and women’s leather footwear.
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Superhouse Group
India’s reference name for export safety footwear: over 2.5 million pairs a year of EN and ASTM-compliant boots from Kanpur and Unnao, certified ISO 9001, ISO 14001, SA8000 and BSCI, shipping to 50+ countries.
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Mirza International
Tannery-to-shoe integration since 1979 with about 5.4 million pairs a year across five units and an LWG-certified tannery, historically exporting over 80% of production to the UK and Europe.
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Gupta H.C. Overseas
Agra’s strongest sustainability story in ladies fashion footwear: SA8000, Higg-verified, LWG-sourced leather, a solar plant and India’s first DSIR-certified footwear R&D department, at about 10,000 pairs a day.
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Dawar Group
One of Agra’s flagship export houses since 1977, producing over 1.5 million pairs a year with reported program experience for European mid-market brands including Geox, Zara and Bugatti.
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Virola International
Five Agra factories turning out about 4.5 million pairs a year across 400+ styles, from boots to loafers, manufacturing for the European brand Alberto Torresi alongside OEM programs.
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Metro & Metro
Classic Agra formal-shoe know-how since 1972, about 1,000 men’s pairs a day, with press-verified supply history for Hush Puppies, Clarks and Deichmann programs.
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Relaxo Footwears
India’s non-leather volume champion out of Delhi-NCR, listed on the exchanges and exporting slippers, sandals and casual footwear to about 34 countries, the price-point option for high-volume basics.
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Foot On Shoes
The rare Agra exporter publishing its MOQ: 300 pairs per colour of women’s leather footwear, SMETA-audited with SA8000 and ISO 9001, AQL 2.5 inspections and 41% solar power, built for emerging brands.
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Sourcing shoe from India in 2026
India is the world’s second-largest footwear producer with about 10.7% of global output, and its export basket of leather, leather goods and footwear reached $5.7 billion in FY2024-25, up 25%. The US takes about a fifth of it, with Germany and the UK next.
Trade terms swung India’s way in 2026. The February deal cut the US tariff from a 50% peak to 18%, now below competing origins, and the UK agreement in force since July 2026 dropped footwear duties of up to 16% to zero, with projections of up to $1.5 billion in extra UK sales over three years.
Three leather hubs split the work. The Ambur-Ranipet-Chennai belt makes dress and welted shoes with in-house tanneries, Agra runs the largest fashion cluster with 5,000+ units, and Kanpur owns boots and safety footwear. Delhi-NCR adds non-leather volume. India’s own tanning chain, with one of the world’s deepest LWG bases, means your uppers never cross a border before assembly.
MOQs start around 300 pairs per colour at certified mid-size units, with a few hundred pairs possible at smaller workshops and thousands expected at the corporate exporters. Plan 30 to 60 days of production and standard AQL 2.5 pre-shipment inspection; BIS quality orders apply to domestic sales, not export production.
Read client lists carefully: some brand associations are named on company sites rather than verified by the brands, and capacity figures are self-reported. That is normal in this industry, and it is exactly what a factory audit confirms before your deposit, down to which unit actually sews your order.
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I run factory audits and production follow-up across Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, from prototype to pre-shipment: three checkpoints on every order, each closed with a written report before you pay the balance.
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