Daniel Schwartz
speaker
501 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Feb
Daniel Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's why the interest is growing 7% a year.
Yeah, that's largely here to stay.
It's a multi-hundred billion dollar category.
As Alex said, these trends are driving this mid to high single digits growth.
There's not a lot of private label, the same, I don't know, seven or eight sneaker companies are the same seven or eight sneaker companies in most countries.
We like the industry backdrop.
This first came up on our screen as a fast growing good business sometime around 2018, 2019.
And we just followed it.
We researched the sneaker industry.
We followed the company in 2021 prior to our
acquisition of Hunter Douglas.
We visited the company, we visited the Skechers company and the team out there, and we introduced ourselves through a mutual friend.
As long-term business owner operators, we talked a lot about the global franchise restaurant business, because they're also selling a lot of their footwear through global franchise network as well.
And
We were really impressed with what they were building.
I think they were pretty impressed by our businesses and the fact that we had also been in operating roles.
And we stayed in touch and we'd visit them a couple times a year and we toured their D.C.
and we'd meet them when they'd come to New York.
for that fall and spring buying seasons.
And they tell us each year, oh yeah, we're going to add a billion dollars in sales next year.
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