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 "There was a shoe factory in our town, that's where we worked...It was a good factory but 'in the end' it just couldn't compete with the cheap imports and so it closed in 1989. "...So that's how Altberg started, using redundancy money...we made brown leather hiking boots and in less than 9 months we were flat broke!!!... We had some left over black leather I'd bought by mistake at an auction so rather than lay anybody off we made some black walking boots to sell in the factory shop. "Soldiers from the local Garrison would come into the shop and they started asking if we could make the black walking boot with a higher leg...I said OK and hand cut the first pairs but it took so long to do this that we lost even more money!...but I couldn't afford the tooling costs...so in the end I had to go to the bank. The bank manager asked me 'did I have a business plan?'...and I answered 'No...but I've got some left over black leather that I bought by mistake at an auction.' It was a very short meeting..... "In the end we scraped together enough money for the tooling and the first military boot we made was the Field and Fell and we are still making the same boot today...virtually unchanged...and that's how we started making military boots." Altberg |
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