NEWS
A new Anatomic line called Ultra Gel™
offers the ultimate in comfort and cutting edge technology.
Barker open new
flagship store in London’s Jermyn street
Barker has opened a mew flagship store in London’s Jermyn Street. The
store takes its design influences from the brand’s 130 year history of making the finest quality English shoes to create a contemporary heritage environment. Jermyn Street was created by and named after Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of
St Albans as part of his development of the St. James area around 1664. It is known as a street where the shops are almost exclusively aimed at the gentleman’s market and is famed for its resident shoemakers and shirt makers. The store is launching Barker’s new Custom Make service which allows a
customer to create his own shoe from exclusive leathers and styles. Each shoe goes through over 200 operations in a process which takes 8
weeks from the careful hand cutting to the final hand polishing. Each pair of shoes will come with an anatomically designed shoe tree made to fit the customer’s shoe and will be presented in a box with shoe care products which will help the customer retain the deep rich patina and suppleness of the leather.
Great Stock service and quality have made the brand reach more than
1200 customers around Europe in just 5 years. Ghetz Footwear distributes the brand internationally and, according to managing director Joao Conrado, they started offering a stock service no more than 3 and half years ago. The brand is now present in over 65 countries worldwide and has the US, China and Australia as new rising markets with new distribution strategies in place. Moema Pimentel, the company's creative director, says that she still does not believe how they have achieved this in such short period of time. “We focus in quality and whilst many brands will try to do anything to cut costs we have always in mind that quality always sells and will always be priority in what we do”. The Spring Summer collection brings sandy colours which came to stay;
they can be viewed at the main European tradeshows such as MODA UK, GDS, MICAM and Italmoda – Paris. Made with padded ankle supports, smooth internal seams, soft sheep
leather linings, tumble grain silky leather uppers, full anatomic footbeds and deep comfort cushioning with classic and refined styling.
www.anatomicshoes.com
Internatioanl Golf Championship of the Shoe, Leather and Allied Trades
The 66th Championship took place at Killarney Golf & Fishing Club in
County Kerry on June 16th, 17th and 18th, a spectacular setting on the Lake with the Mountains as a backdrop, was blessed with glorious weather. 130 Golfers competed for a variety of Trophies and Titles, on two superb
courses, one being Mahoney’s Point and the other The Killeen Course currently being prepared for the Irish Open at the end of July. 160 attended the Trade Banquet, at the Castlerosse Hotel, where the Out on a Limb Prize Draw and Auction raised over 7000 Euros for the Trade Charities. Richard Kottler, President of Footwear Friends and William Tusting,
President of the LHTBI were present to receive cheques for their respective Charities from President Gordon A Wilson. The Irish took all the main prizes, with Jim Liston, of Dublin, a footwear
wholesaler and Agent became the Men’s Champion with a record score of 47 and 40 Stableford points. The Ladies Champion was Niamh Whelan a shoe retailer from Kilrush in County Clare. Runner up in the Men’s Championship was Dermot Hall from Edenderry, and third was Malcolm Sloan a retailer from Inneskillen in Northern Ireland. The Wilbur Muirhead Scratch Cup was retained by Craig Hamilton from Barnard castle, winning for the sixth successive time and the eighth time over all; Craig also won the Parker Founder Trophy. The Hugh Denton Trophy for the Under 35’s was won by Stephen O’Brien
from Tuam, with Michael Gleeson from Limerick winning the Turner Bowl for the Over 60’s. A new Trophy, The Mawer-Marlow Bowl for the Over 70’s was won by Pat McCarthy from Ennis, Co Clare. In the keenly contested International Match between England/Wales and
Scotland/Ireland, the winners were England/Wales by 4.5 to 1.5, Captained Paul Pritty of Start-rite. In 2011 the Championship moves to De Vere Carden Park near Chester on
June 15th, 16th and 17th, if you are not already on the mailing list, and would like to be involved, please contact
rodney@leicesteruk.co.uk 12 • FOOTWEAR TODAY • AUGUST 2010
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