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Ambitious

Leather sneakers and shoes made at the parent group's own production facilities in Guimarães, backed by thirty years in the shoemaking trade.

Cole Haan, Ecco

source: ambitious-brand.com
🇵🇹 Portugal verified

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Aigle

Master rubber craftsmen since 1853 — the majority of Aigle's natural-rubber boots are handmade in France near Châtellerault; this entry covers the boots.

Muck Boot, LaCrosse

source: aigle.com
🇫🇷 France Specific lines verified

Astorflex

Sixth-generation family shoemaker in Castel d'Ario since 1820 — production is fully made in house, per the brand's own about page.

Oak Street Bootmakers

source: astorflex.it
🇮🇹 Italy verified

Berluti

Paris bootmaker whose shoes and leather goods are made at the Manifattura Berluti in Gaibanella near Ferrara — an 8,000 m² plant with around 290 staff that also runs the house's own patina and shoemaking school.

Allen Edmonds, Alden

source: bigsee.eu
🇮🇹 Italy verified

Berwick

Welted and Blake-stitched dress shoes made at the company's own premises in Almansa, the Spanish shoemaking town.

Allen Edmonds, Alden

source: berwickshoes.com
🇪🇸 Spain verified

Birkenstock

German footbed sandal maker that assembles over 95% of its shoes in Germany, with its largest production site in Görlitz, Saxony.

Crocs

source: birkenstock-group.com
🇩🇪 Germany Majority of production verified

Boreal

Climbing shoes, mountaineering and trekking boots and trail runners made in-house at the factory in Villena, Alicante, together with the majority of the rest of the range and the rubber compounds themselves.

Five Ten, Evolv

source: europe.borealoutdoor.com
🇪🇸 Spain Majority of production verified

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