Grant Shoes partner-owner Florshelle Budoso uses the brand’s unique journey to inform day-to-day operations, including in one boutique shop in the Manila Peninsula Hotel.
The Marikina shoe brand is an amalgamation of different points of view and setups in business. The brand primarily does B2B, counting SM Parisian as a client. It has also forayed into entrepreneurial empowerment, onboarding resellers and generously sharing knowledge so they get their own foot in the door to join the industry. The personal touch that could be felt in its highly durable shoes started at home, too: Grant Shoes continues on as a family-run company in the high-fashion end of the footwear business.