What was your first job? Working in a chicken factory in the school holidays. It taught me absolutely nothing but I recall being so excited to receive my pay in cash, rather like Tom Hanks in Big. Oh ...

Church’s former directors William Church, who is the great-great grandson of one of the founders of the Church brand, and his third cousin Jonathan Church, have left their roles at Church to focus on ...

There aren't many of us old Northampton shoemakers left, since the low and middle market moved offshore. With nearly all shoes worn in the UK now imported, we at Cheaney & Sons have to do more to tell ...

Simply sign up to the Retail & Consumer industry myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For more than half a millennium the Midlands county of Northamptonshire has been the centre of ...

Any shoemaker looking to be taken seriously on the international scene right now has to have an outlet in London: specifically on Jermyn Street in St James's, south of Piccadilly. While traditionally ...

Jonathan Church is a veteran of the British footwear business, and was recently elected as the master cordwainer by the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers. He tells us why he swapped banking for ...