subject: What Makes Gabor Shoes So Great? [print this page] Gabor shoes was established just after the second world war in 1949 in a city called Barmstedt in Hamburg in what was then West Germany. Today the company is more than half a century old. In its six plus decades of being in the business of making shoes, it has expanded to have production facilities all over Europe in countries like Austria where it established a factory in 1966 in a town called Spital, Portugal in the year 1990 where it established a factory in the city of Silvers and the Slovak Republic most recently where in 1996, it established a factory in the city of Banovce and today it employs close to two thousand seven hundred workers in these four countries.
It also made sales worth over two hundred and eighty two million Euros last year and now Gabor puts out about 400 individual styles of shoes for men and women each season. So how did it get so big and why does it have such an enviable reputation for quality?
Gabor has come up with a number of innovations and today makes a number of shoes styles with some simple concessions to comfort that are unavailable from any other manufacturer on the market. A lot of Gabor shoes styles have no inner lining. What this means is that the sole fits the foot better and closer than is possible with any insole equipped shoes. The company claims that this makes these types of shoes the most comfortable pairs and perfect for use when bare foot. The sales of many hundreds of thousands of shoes annually by the company would seem to prove the fact that thousands of customers agree with the companys claims.
The company also pours millions of Euros into research and development every year and one of its innovations is the articulated sole that more closely follows the natural curvature of the human foot while walking or running. What this allows for is a more natural gait when walking or running and more support for the natural rolling motion of the human foot.
The company also makes shoes specifically for people with wider than average feet or people with flat feet. Gabor shoes are available in a size called G that is for slight extra width soles and H that is for comfortable extra width soles. They also offer their shoes in much larger sizes than their competitors as well so no matter what your shoe size or shape you can find the perfect Gabor shoe for you.
