Orders are piling in and new workers are being recruited at the Courteney boot company as Zimbabwe is battered by decades of economic misery.
Cosmo Manille’s shoe connoisseurs trooped down recently to Edsa Shangri-La Plaza’s East Wing for the Philippine launch of Italian luxury footwear brand Santoni.
Marikina’s shoe industry is facing a threat greater than competition from cheap China imports: losing its cobblers.