Penelope Chilvers

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500 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 2 Feb

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James Reed: all about business · 64. How to convert visibility into sales and long-term growth | Penelope Chilvers · 2 Feb 2026 podcast

Because I'm a stickler for really good quality.

We still make

in the factories that I visit very often.

And if it's not me, it's somebody else from my team.

So we know everything about how the product is made.

So there are no surprises.

Making footwear is a fine art and I don't cut any corners.

So I've stuck to my guns on that, on quality.

When I've been offered cheaper, better, faster products or production in places like China, I have said no because I've been very loyal to the people that I've been working with who really taught me my trade.

Actually, they're not in Catalonia.

They're in Murcia, Alicante, which is Valencia, and Andalusia.

Andalusia.

Yeah, I have because I've learned everything and I've learned everything through them and in different factories things are done differently.

And these people have got it in their blood.

They're shoe dogs.

I've become one too.

We've got it in our blood.

We've been working in the shoe world for, you know, they've been working in the shoe world for three or four generations.

So I think the most important thing is the last, which used to be a wooden foot, but leather was stretched over.

Now they're no longer wood, they're kind of plastic or polyurethane, but they are actually melted down and reused.

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