Liking for the European footwear has developed into the business

22.12.2006
Tatiana Padalko is the lawyer. Her sister lives in Zurich. During 5 years when Tatyana came to visit her sister she bought footwear of the Spanish mark Ñamper and French mark Arche.

Having noticed that the inhabitants of Petersburg who have an average or higher level of the income has to buy that foot wear that is in sale (not always that they want), the future businesswoman has decided to open here her own the shop.

" As a rule, in shops of Petersburg the heavy or glamour footwear is offered: stiletto heels, srtasses, bows ", - says Tatiana Padalko, the general director of Open Company "Continent" which in October has opened shop of footwear Twins on Bolshoi P.S. avenue

Tatiana has decided to occupy this free space in business: to sell comfortable and unusual footwear which wasn’t selling to Petersburg before.

One of the lines of Camper trademark called Twins and represents a pair in which shoes and boots of different design supplement each other. For example there are selling black boots with painted moon on one and stars on other, or one boot is checked and the second - striped. But except for non-standard design decisions there are submitted some more neutral variants. In total there are in sold 100 names of man's and female footwear of Camper mark, female hand-worked footwear of mark Arche which produced in France. There are 25 models of this mark are submitted at the shop. The sum of the investments enclosed in shop is about $100 thousands. The prospective time of recovery of outlay - 2 years. The area of shop - 70 square meters. Tatiana’s spouse Sergey Padalko is the co-owner of architectural workshop "Vitvuriy and sons". So he was engaged with an interior of the shop which is made out in white and bright red tones. " The purpose is not to create global business and to sell footwear which we want to carry. It couldn’t come to me even in my dreams – that I’ll open the shop. And now I’m working there ", - Tatiana Padalko marks.

In 2007. Tatyana plans to open in Petersburg monobrand shop Camper and to lead out to the market the new marks. Footwear of European marks in Petersburg you can get in shops TJ Collection, Free Lance, Gemini, etc.

Source: dpgazeta.ru