the textile company Finlayson has transferred to the Reino and Aino classic shoes manufacture in Italy. Slippers size the future of the family business Calzaturificio Emanuela, was told Finlayson briefing in Helsinki.

finlayson’s creative director Jukka kurttila’s according to the bids were invited also to finland, but the slippers of the assembly in the home country would have been considerably more expensive.

Finlayson told that he Reinot on sale today in three different colors. Only appear on shelves for christmas. Slippers went on sale in finlayson’s own stores and the S group’s prisma in.

Finlayson get slipper the brand’s spring

Finlayson owners acquire Reinojen and Ainojen mark in the spring after the slippers of the Lieksa plant manufactured by the company PK Kappi went bankrupt. First thing in the Finlayson announced that the slippers manufacture continued in Finland.

the Finlayson line in the spring, that Reinojen and Ainojen preparation in Finland are economically profitable. The previous manufacturer’s bankruptcy showed finlayson’s view, the equation of the impossible.

the first Reinot and the Ainos were made in Tampere during the 1930s. Production location between the Czech republic until manufacturing was transferred to Lieksa in 2005.

Reinojen and Ainojen popularity reached its peak in 2010, when the slippers were made of 250 000 pairs a year. The middle of the decade after demand in rapid decline. When the slippers of yardage clot, the previous manufacturer of SMALL Kappi drifted into difficulties and finally went bust.

see also:

Finlayson to buy Reino and Aino slippers, and move production to Finland, Lieksa factory and the last day: “it Seems quite shocking”

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