Geox declared 130 of its 500 head-office jobs surplus

Geox, the Veneto shoemaker that built a global brand on its breathable-sole patent, announced a restructuring plan on 10 September 2025 declaring 130 positions surplus — esuberi — out of the roughly 500 people employed at its Montebelluna headquarters near Treviso. The announcement followed a first half of 2025 that closed with a €4.9 million loss and revenue down 4.7% against the same period a year earlier.

The figure was confirmed at the second meeting between management and unions, and on 30 September the parties signed an agreement at Geox's headquarters to manage the 130 redundancies without forced layoffs. The instruments are Italy's social shock absorbers: solidarity contracts, which spread reduced hours across the workforce, plus incentives for voluntary departure scaled by seniority — up to a year's pay for the longest-serving employees. The deal was approved by the workers' assemblies.

For Geox this is the second great contraction. The group had already shrunk hard after the pandemic-era crisis, when it was losing over €100 million a year and its Canadian arm filed for bankruptcy. This time the cuts reach the headquarters itself — the functions that design, market and manage the brand — rather than the store network alone.

The setting matters: Montebelluna is the capital of Italy's sportsystem district. A quarter of the anchor brand's head-office workforce declared surplus is read there as a signal for the whole supply chain around it.