International Shoes Brand MBT Change Owners

Following the United Kingdom listed companies Lai Sijie clothing company is located in Dongguan, South City office closed, part of Switzerland, a company's international brand MBT also reported the closing of the wind, it is learned, the company's backlog of products several hundred million dollars, came Dongguan representative in early May at the turn off. Reporter learned yesterday, the MBT entire company was sold to an American boss, there may be "revived".

Debt crisis in Europe caused by the product backlog

May 8, considerable reputation in the footwear business, international brand MBT employees in the Dongguan Changan office, Mr. Zhang (not his real name) received home the rest of the message, he said: "Last year the company closed a factory in South Korea , but our office has been relatively stable, did not think will be shut down. It is said that the main reason the company by the European debt crisis, the product a serious backlog of several hundred million dollars, resulting in the funding chain problems. "

Mr. Zhang said that after May 8, the company's employees are at home the rest of the state. May 23, the office suddenly the staff called up a meeting, announced the temporary closure of the office of Dongguan. Subsequent to the write-off stage of the employment process. According to Mr. Zhang said, the company has a backlog of two million pairs of shoes in the global market.

A quarter of manufacturing in Dongguan

Tse (a pseudonym) is a former employee of the representative office of MBT Chang'an. According to him, MBT legend started to experience --- Swiss engineer Karl Muller, the first foreign trip, walking barefoot in the paddy fields to be able to alleviate his back pain, so the development of a barefoot technology shoes based on this technology in 1996 the market. MBT including China, Hong Kong and Taiwan are sold in over 60 countries and regions in the world.

"This revolutionary product annual sales of about 4 million pairs of celebrities such as Madonna, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a big fan of MBT. The price of one pair of $ 300 or more." Tse said, "in South Korea Switzerland, Indonesia has a plant, it is estimated that many people think of this brand of shoes, a quarter of single production in Dongguan Changan. "Mr. Xie said the office is located in Dongguan Changan has been established for 3 years, year under a single 700,000 pairs.

Rumored to be the boss acquisition

Compensation from the Swiss company, Mr. Zhang is ready to go out looking for work. But the job action has not yet started, and the morning of May 31, Mr. Zhang received the original company phone, to go to work next week.

The company is to re-open? Mr. Zhang learned that the original MBT easy to master. Yesterday, Mr. Zhang told reporters on the phone the whole company of the MBT are sold to an American boss, the boss on the 5th Dongguan talk about future cooperation, did not talk about before, "will not return to work.