Grenson owner closes footwear subsidiary

In a assertion on footwear brand’s website, proprietor Little stated: “24 many years back, I walked into a store on Jermyn Road and the young, debonair, fantastic seeking store manager who served me was the greatest I’d at any time arrive throughout in a Menswear store. He was not available so I hired Howard [unknown surname] as an alternative. Joking aside, I hired him on the location and he opened the shop with me on the 19th April 1997.

“Past week Howard and I sat down and determined that now was the time to contact it a working day. It is a little bit of Covid, a bit of Howard emotion he was over his day by day commute from Luton and a little bit of me finding overwhelmed by Grenson. By some means it just seemed like the right time. Funnily enough it doesn’t truly feel that unfortunate as we have so a lot of beautiful recollections.”

He added: “As for you, our buyers, we are so pretty grateful. We truly speak about how pretty our consumers are and we can not believe that we haven’t experienced far more grief from you in excess of the many years. You have been exceptionally faithful, and you will be the point we miss the most.”

The businesss, which Little released in April 1997, sold men’s and women’s brogues, oxfords, derbys and slip-ons, in addition to footwear components and socks.

It experienced a retailer on the King’s Highway in London and marketed immediate-to-purchaser by its website.

Very little will continue to run footwear manufacturer Grenson, which he acquired in 2010.