According to statistics, there are about more than 30 thousand enterprises in Brazil's textile and garment industry, with about 1 million 800 thousand employees directly employed.

St Paul and Minas are Brazil's textile and garment production bases.

For example, Minas has 40 textile groups, 48 thousand workers, 23 thousand shuttleless looms and 11 thousand looms, with an annual output of 136 thousand tons of all kinds of yarns.

Brazil has a large population. It is a huge consumption market for shoes and clothing. It has different levels of consumption and habits, and the demand for clothing and footwear is huge.

In recent years, textile consumption in Brazil has become diversified.

In 2002, per capita consumption of textiles in Brazil amounted to about US $148.

Because Brazil is located in the tropics, cotton, linen, silk and other natural fiber textiles have been favored. Pure cotton, pure hemp or cotton and hemp blended home textiles have been necessary for every family in Brazil for many years.

In Brazil, pure cotton shirts are the most consumed among all textiles. Each adult in Brazil has 4.2 cotton shirts, 5.3 cotton underwear and 3.8 cotton t-shirts each year.

Besides, sports equipment is an essential consumer product for every teenager in Brazil.

In Brazil, the consumption of sportswear, sports socks and sports shoes has become an important expenditure for most families.