March 24th, 2009

Shoe companies that started out of the trunk of a car…
by JULIA

Congrats to all those who made it work out of their car!

Congrats to all those who made it work out of their car!

It seems to be the story I hear often… “Our company started out of the trunk of a car”. It got me thinking about how many companies started this way and when discussing it with a new shoebiz contributor yesterday, she took it one step further and said, “wouldn’t it be fun to know what kind of car they started in?” YES it would! So here are the 4 companies I know started out of the trunk of a car:  Dansko, Italian Shoemakers, TapouT and Kenneth Cole. If you know of more, please share and for these companies, if you know what kind of car we would like to know that as well!!

If you would like to share, please email me at julia@shoebizness.com or simply leave your comment below.

Thanks!

UPDATE: I am already getting some great responses! Keep ‘em coming and next week I will post my list….

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shoebizness.com » Meet Kevin Dowd from Blue Sky Creative Group….a great story!! :

[...] to respond to last week’s posting regarding companies that started out of the trunk of a car (http://www.shoebizness.com/?p=949) . In his email he had a link to his website which of course I had to take a peek at. I immediately [...]

 
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