Danish shoe emperor: Karl-Heinz Werner Toosbuy
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.