Shoe Hurled at Bush Stokes Sales at Turkish Footwear Maker

The Turkish shoe company making the brand of footwear used by an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush has seen a surge in orders.

Ramazan Baydan, owner of the shoe factory in Istanbul of the same name, told DPA that he had received orders in the past week for some 300,000 pairs of the model that was thrown at the US president.
That's more than four times the number his company sold each year since the model was introduced in 1999. The company plans to employ 100 more staff to meet demand, he said.

“Model 271” is exported to markets including Iraq, Iran, Syria and Egypt. Baydan said he received an order this week for 4,000 pairs from a company called Davidson, based in Maryland. He declined to provide further details.

Source: dpa, spiegel-online, Blomberg
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