Solid shoes

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Solid shoes
legal form Shoqëri me përgjegjësi të kufizuar (sh.pk)
founding 1992
Seat Suhareka
Number of employees 330
Branch Shoes

Solid Shoes is a Kosovar shoe manufacturer and distributor based in Suhareka . The company exports shoes to other European countries. It is one of the largest shoe manufacturers in the region and one of the largest expoteurs in Kosovo, as well as the largest private employer in Suhareka. The more than 330 employees produce over 600,000 pairs of shoes each year.

history

The company began as a family business in 1992 with the sale of shoes, in 1996 the company also switched to the production of shoes and from then on ran the first private shoe factory in Kosovo. During the Kosovo war this workshop was completely destroyed in 1999, after the war the company was rebuilt together with a larger production hall.

In 2016, Solid Shoes was criticized for exporting to the Serbian military . The company then declared that it was exporting to all of Europe and Serbia ; however, no special models for Serbian security forces would be produced.

Products

Solid Shoes manufactures leather shoes for women and men. In 2014, the company signed a cooperation agreement with the Italian shoe manufacturer Leo Shoes. The company's shoes are exported to Italy and sold there under this label.

Solid Shoes works with several European companies, including the shoe manufacturer GEOX .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kosovo's Entrepreneurs Part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. In: usaid.gov.al. United States Agency for International Development , December 1, 2017, accessed May 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The Morina: Renia e industrisë i Largon të rinjtë nga Suhareka. In: reporter.al. Balkan Insight , August 2, 2017, accessed May 30, 2018 (Albanian).
  3. ↑ Cristoph Kersting: Solid shoes from Suhareka. In: deutschlandfunk.de. Deutschlandfunk , February 13, 2018, accessed May 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Shoe manufacturer from Kosovo rebuts Producing shoes for Serbia's military. In: gazetaexpress.com. October 18, 2016, accessed May 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Shoes "Made in Kosova" are exported to Italy. In: albinfo.ch. August 30, 2014, accessed May 30, 2018 .