Announcing the Winners of the Footwear Friends Awards 2011

Published: 13 October, 2011

The Footwear Friends Annual Awards are now in their fifth year and in that short time, have been recognised by the trade as an important way of spotting and rewarding British talent in the Footwear Industry. The winners in the various categories are:

The Footwear Friends Designer Award Winner - Rose Choules, will be awarded a £5,000 bursary aimed at developing a Young Designer’s business. The 2011 Award is generously sponsored by Birkenstock and NPS Ltd. The Award includes a 12-month mentoring programme by industry experts

The Meltzer Travel Award. - This year’s award went to Victoria Spruce. The Award of £750 is primarily to assist candidates in attending key Trade Shows and researching materials and trends. Donated by Philip Meltzer in memory of Joe Meltzer. Again this Award includes a mentoring programme.

The FN/Platform Award - The 2011 Award went to Cocorose London. The FN/Platform Award winner is given the opportunity to show their emerging brand on a sponsored stand at the USA’s premier footwear show - FN/Platform at Magic in Las Vegas.

The judges for the awards this year were Robert Lusk, MD - The Boot Tree, Paolo Gabrielli, Creative Director - Clarks, Atalanta Weller, and Richard Kottler, Chief Executive - the BFA, and President of Footwear Friends.

Kottler commented: “Again this year we have seen an increase in applicants, and were impressed by the quality of the work that is being done. It is always difficult to choose between so much talent but we feel that the winners were those who not only had exciting product but business acumen as well, and as such will develop into major players in the footwear industry.”

The Awards will be presented at the Footwear Friends Awards Evening on November 1^st at the Musical Museum, Kew.

Key sponsors of the evening event are Annette Cove Associates, DHL Express, Pure London, SATRA and the University of Northampton. In addition, Dune are supplying a generous raffle prize.

For further information and to buy tickets please see www.annual-awards.org. Income from the sponsored event goes to the charitable works of Footwear Friends, the Footwear Industry Charity.

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