My
Story
My name is Pieter August, my wife and family started making shoes from
our back room at home. I had no tools or machines, so everything I did
that concerns shoes I did by hand. Our back room became too small to
do our products in so our entire family moved to a small – business
industrial area, in Blackheath.
Without
tools or machinery to start off with we carried on making our shoes
by hand.
I went daily by taxi, train and bus to buy the shoe components. I did
my own sales and received my first order from “poor mans shoe
shop” of 1000 prs.
My
family and i worked long hours often 12-16. It was always just my family
and i. As the orders became more and more i had to take on more workers.
Currently employing eight people. I now receive my orders from varias
shoe shops because of my persistence in good quality.
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