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Within this Oct. 3, 2006 file photo, Crocs shoes are seen in Boulder, Colo. Inside a report released on Wednesday, March 18, 2009, the auditor of Crocs Inc. Polk store was the first real shoe store to stock the crazy-looking plastic shoes, a few years back, once they first roared from nearby Aurora to accept world by storm. Polk was a believer; not only did his shop get on the bandwagon early, but he also wore a pair through an offer for Boulder City Council in 2005. Yet looking back,[url=http://parajumpersoutletitalia.albirank.net/][b]parajumpers Parka Piumini[/b][/url], even he is able to quite accept is as true. was amazing here you got grown-ups referring to serious stuff, wearing royal blue shoes, Polk says. don believe that ever happen again.
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Crocs has been a vintage victim of its own success. Founded by some friends who somehow got their on the job a brand new Canadian technology to create lightweight, bacteria-resistant foam, the organization launched in 2002, targeted at boaters, who might need waterproof footwear. Things started slowly enough. They sold to individuals who liked them more for his or her comfort and support cooks, nurses, waiters, anybody who must be on their feet for a long time.
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That ad campaign reaches the heart of why an upswing, not to mention the fall, of Crocs was such a mystery. The shoes are ugly. You realize they ugly. People knew they were ugly even as they flocked to purchase them; they celebrated, they reveled in their ugliness. They created a whole tacky subculture around them, sticking little plastic charms referred to as within the holes that dot the tops from the shoes. or even George W. Bush was tromping around in the things.
And Crocs, like any good business, expanded its operations to meet demand. It bought the company that made the Jibbitz, in a vertical integration move straight from Andrew Carnegie playbook. It ramped up production, building factories in Canada and Mexico to turn out more and more from the shoes. It setup distribution centers in Japan and Holland to assist shovel the things to a global audience. It attempted to launch a line of clothes, made out of the same synthetic material it used to make the shoes.
However the material, it ended up, was area of the problem. With the exception of a few well-publicized incidents where these shoes got caught in escalators,[url=http://duveticapiuminiitalia.webmium.com/][b]Duvetica Down Jackets Uomo[/b][/url], Crocs, it seemed, were virtually indestructible. Which meant nobody ever endured to purchase replacement pairs. Perhaps nobody at Crocs HQ had heard the term obsolescence, or seen the film Man within the White Suit. Sooner or later,[url=http://billigtmonclerdunjackastockholmrea.olimx.com/][b]http://billigtmonclerdunjackastockholmrea.olimx.com/[/b][/url], the company saturated its market and suddenly everyone whatever person had any intention of owning a pair of Crocs, did. And sales came crashing down. The recession, when it began last year,[url=http://billigtmonclerdunjackastockholmrea.olimx.com/][b]Moncler Jacka Sverige Online[/b][/url], was the final blow.
Now,[url=http://billigeparajumpersjackendamen.albirank.net/][b]parajumpers long bear[/b][/url], in the summer of 2009, just 3 years after Crocs rocketed up, it hard to locate a pair on anyone over the age of 10. Wandering around the Mall, the White House and also the Capitol over the last week, I saw lots of tourists strolling in flip-flops, sneakers, business shoes and only a number of Crocs. A few years ago, it might happen to be impossible to walk a block through downtown without spotting them in some garish color.
a lot of things happened to have their growth be on this kind of unrealistic path that when the economy retracted, they'd just determined steps to make more and they needed less, Polk said. couldn sustain that fairy dust thing. There just no reason why such a large percentage of the families in the usa required to have half a dozen pairs under their kids beds. (Incidentally,[url=http://billigeparajumpersjackendamen.albirank.net/][b]parajumpers outlet[/b][/url], while Polk is still selling shoes, he no longer on Boulder City Council. He served one term, thanks to his Croc-walking campaign, but didn seek reelection after he was arrested for marijuana possession in 2006.)
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But if Crocs is to survive its debt burden, it might need to retrench, getting back to basics and its core market the chefs, the nurses and also the others who bought the shoes in the early days, in addition to kids, who retailers say such as the shoes because they don need assistance tying them. The new CEO, John Duerden, has indicated as much, saying the organization knows there still an industry out there because of its products and it is taking steps to shed weight to ensure Crocs can serve it. When pressed, though, he also defended the recent diversification. actually have more than 120 styles of casual, comfortable footwear,[url=http://cheapnikemercurialvaporsoccercleats.webmium.com/][b]cheap soccer cleats[/b][/url], including sandals, boots, heels, wedges, flats and functional footwear for people who focus on their feet or who've foot or back problems, along with our signature clogs,[url=http://parajumpersoutletitalia.albirank.net/][b]parajumpers Parka[/b][/url], Duerden wrote inside a snippy post on the company blog following the Washington Post reported on its financial problems.
Regardless, the Crocs Inc. we all knew and loved or hated a few years ago appears to be a thing of history. Either the classic Crocs shoes is going to be sold, quietly, to niche markets, or the company will turn itself into yet another anonymous manufacturer of cheap, more or less well-made footwear that appears indistinguishable from other things on anyone feet. And all sorts of those brightly colored,[url=http://woolrichoutletitalia.halod.com/][b]Woolrich Parka[/b][/url], indestructible marvels will, one day, block our landfills. And future archaeologists will discover them and say, These are some ugly shoes.相关的主题文章：

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