Managing Director (OK Jamaica Shoe Factory)

Could you give us a brief presentation of your company? It was established by my father in 1969 in the European Calendar. It was a very small start up capital and after a long time he worked, progressed and made a big factory which I took over at eighteen years old. For the moment I am the manager of the shoe factory. I am my father’s only son. After that, five years ago, I took this land from the government and they have given us good support to expand our business and to break into the export market. The leather in Ethiopia is good and we want to expand into the American and European market. We started building the new facto ...