ISTANBUL: The Turkish company which made the shoes an Iraqi journalist hurled at President George W. Bush last week is reporting a massive increase in sales in the wake of the now infamous incident.Muntadhar al-Zeidi became a hero throughout the Arab world when he threw his shoes at the US president during a press conference last week.
Istanbul-based shoemaker Ramazan Baydan says his company, Baydan Shoes, has been inundated with requests for pairs of the shoes and he has had to employ 100 extra staff to meet the demand.
The 'Bush Shoes' as they have come to be known, are the company's Model 271 - black, polyurethane-soled brogues which sell for around 40 New Turkish Lira (NZ$47).Serkan Turk, the head of sales at Baydan Shoes told media the firm normally sold 15,000 pairs a year of the Model 271 shoes.Since the shoe-throwing incident on December 14 however, the company has received orders totaling 370,000 pairs.
For more on this article, please click on the following link: Cash registers ring at company selling 'Bush Shoes': The News
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment