About Us

Footwear Today is the UK's oldest independent trade magazine for the footwear industry.

Our magazine covers everything that you would expect from a footwear trade magazine, such as Industry and Product News, reviews of the latest footwear and Fashion Trends - all of which aim to support and inform our readers, in their roles as footwear buyers.

We do not stop there - blended into this wealth of information, Editor Cheryl Taylor tackles serious footwear and Foot Health topics in a bid to create forward thinking and inspiration.  We also pride ourselves on providing authentic industry opinion: Misfit, an independent footwear retailer, speaking about current topics facing the footwear retailer, Agent Provocateur, an agent speaking about issues with the independent/concession/multiple and Talking Shop, which takes a monthly look into legislation which faces all footwear businesses.

We cover the major footwear shows, with twice yearly previews and reviews of GDS, Micam, Moda and Pure, as well as more compact shows including the Blackpool Show, Chic and The Kensington Shoe Event. Our monthly 'Legal' page shows recent CCJ's and insolvency's within our trade.

We also run these regular features:

• Footwear Focus: Road Test - our editorial team (Henry Harington, Dawn Smith, Vicky Kember, Joe Maggio, Dave West & Arthur Howard) test footwear in the field, aiming to provide retailers with not only information about the footwear, but also giving 'real life' facts about how the footwear performs - helping the retailer sell to the end user.
• Editors Choice: Cheryl's monthly look at a particular genre of footwear and what is available to the footwear buyer: all footwear is reviewed by our editorial team
• Fashion Footwear: Looking at Fashion Trends, our editorial team review upcoming trends, including key shapes, colours and materials for the next season
• Agents Wanted
• Classified: 10 pages of classified adverts from 'wanted' adverts to regular advertsisements from suppliers/distributors

Footwear Today also boasts a long heritage of support from footwear trade associations: IFRA (Independent Footwear Retailers Association), BFA (British Footwear Association), Healthy Footwear Group,  and The Society of Shoe Fitters all actively endorse our magazine.

Quite simply, we are the footwear magazine, for the footwear trade.

If you are a footwear buyer, you can receive Footwear Today free each month - please follow this link to register for your copy: www.footweartoday.co.uk/registration