Daniel Rubin

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Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam · “Sole Survivor: How I Built a Global Shoe Brand” by Daniel Rubin · 21 Nov 2025 podcast

It wasn't so much supermarkets, actually.

At the time, in the 1970s, when I started, there were lots of independent shoe retailers.

And most of them have disappeared, I'm afraid, from the high street.

But I worked very much making those shoes for these retailers.

And then production moved away from the UK to the Far East.

And I started importing and I did importing for a long time.

And then eventually I found out I was doing all the work, you know, I was making the shoes, designing them, but I didn't have my label, didn't have any brand.

And so eventually I decided, look, I need to establish my own brand.

And in 1992, I founded Dune.

Well, we call ourselves Affordable Luxury.

So we have, I believe, really, you know, I know shoes, you know, 50 years in the shoe trade.

I mean, that's what the book is about.

So I know shoes very well.

And it's about the quality, certainly, and the comfort.

But we wanted to make them at affordable prices.

You know, a lot of the luxury brands now, the prices are just huge.

Right.

You know, you can buy three or four or five times the number of shoes than you can ours.

So the aim was to do really beautiful shoes, high quality from factories I know really well, but at a price that's affordable.

So, you know, the average price of our shoes is, I don't know, 110, 120 euros.

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