Danish businessman, the founder and owner of ECCO, the Danish shoe company. He is the founder of the shoe brand ECCO, which has 14 thousand sales points and 2 thousand 200 stores in 90 countries with the figures of 2022. Here is Toosbuy's success story:
- Karl Toosbuy founded ECCO in Denmark in 1963.
- The company is still managed by the Toosbuy family.
- It has production facilities in Thailand, Portugal, Indonesia, China, Vietnam and Slovakia.
- Annual global shoe sales 22 million pairs. (in 2022 figures.)
- ECCO entered the Turkish market in 2014.
- The store with the highest profitability rate in the world is in Istanbul İstinye Park.
- Since 2017, ECCO Turkey has been placed in the first place of the most growing companies in Europe.
- Iranians take the first place among tourists with a share of 18 percent in ECCO stores in Istanbul. The Russians are in second place.
Here is Toosbuy's success story
Karl Toosbuy trained as a shoemaker.
By his early 30s, was running a Copenhagen factory.