Pavers Shoes

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Pavers Ltd

Type	Family Business
Founded	YORK, United Kingdom (1971)
Founder	Catherine Paver
Headquarters	YORK, England
No. of locations	75 shops (2008)
Area served	United Kingdom Eire
Industry	High street retail
Products	Footwear
Revenue	£65,000,000 (2008 estimated)^[1]
Employees	500 (2007)
Website	www.pavers.co.uk

Pavers ltd, better known as Pavers Shoes is a family owned footwear business operating in the UK and Ireland. Pavers currently has 70 stores across UK and Ireland all fulfilled from their head office in York.

Pavers was established by Catherine Paver in 1971 with a £300 bank loan. Initially, organising shoe partys with clearance stock from the catalogues, the first shop was opened in Scarborough with stores in York, Hull and Newcastle following.^[2]

The first outlet store was opened in 1996 at the Royal Quays outlet center in North Shields. Ten years later, the company has outlet stores stretching from Loch Lomond in Scotland to Trerulefoot in the South West.^[3]

1 Directors
2 Lifetime Achievement Award
3 Charity Work
4 International Expansion
5 External links

[edit] Directors

Pavers continues to be a family run Business with Cathy's 3 sons running the Business. Stuart Paver MD, Graham Paver Logistics Director and Ian Paver, outlet buying director.

Stuart, along with Middlesbrough based Steve Cochrane, owner of the Psyche department store setup a sister company in 2000 - shoe-shop.com to sell footwear online.^[4]

[edit] Lifetime Achievement Award

Cathy Paver was awarded a lifetime achievement award by her peers at the 2007 Drapers Footwear awards^[5] - an accolade that left her speachless, 36 years after first starting the company.

[edit] Charity Work

Pavers support several UK and international charities.^[6] In 2006 through a limited edition shoe design, they raised £45,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care.^[7]

For the past 10 years, the company has been involved with sponsoring and supporting children in the 3rd world. Currently, Pavers is sponsoring 3 children through Compassion International - Ilboudo Djeneba, Allan Njenga and Sangeetha^[8].

[edit] International Expansion

On the 9th April 2008, Pavers announced the opening of their new business Pavers England Footprints Limited in Chennai, India^[9]

Pavers England Footprints Limited (PEFL) is a joint venture between Pavers and Reliance footprint. At a press launch, Pavers revealed they expect a sales turnover of $10 million.

As part of the project, Pavers have announced they will commission a $3 million footwear design studio in Chennai ^[10]