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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedPOWER PLAYERS; FN LOOKS AT SOME OF THE ENDURING GREATS WHO HAVE BUILT THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY, ONE SHOE AT A TIME.(footwear news)
Footwear News, October, 2005 by Owens, Jennifer
Byline: Jennifer Owens
Ann Aiken
WSA, which was founded in 1942 as Western Shoe Association, owes much of its current success to Ann Aiken. Aiken came to WSA in 1977 and oversaw the transition from regional shoe show to a global event -- averaging about 22,400 attendees a season, including 12,500 buyers, 5,000 members and 5,400 company executives. Under Aiken, WSA also began offering services such as participation at regional and international markets, life insurance, financial assistance, legal services and job opportunity listings.
Thomas J. Bata
Thomas J. Bata fled his native Czechoslovakia when the Germans invaded in 1938, eventually setting up camp in North America to reconstruct the international rubber and canvas footwear...
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