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Jordan Shoes is one of South Africa’s oldest and proudest footwear retailers, with a history that dates back over a century from the present day.
The parent group of the company, known as Jordan & Co., is one of the country’s major marketers and distributors of footwear, and holds distribution rights to a number of international footwear brands, including Bronx Men, Bronx Women, Bronx Safety, Anton Fabi, and Olympic, as well as the company’s own self-titled brand.
Through an effective combination of dynamic management, technical expertise, high standards of quality, and a great deal of market experience, Jordan maintains a dominant position in the South African market.
Early history of a footwear retail giant
The origins of the Jordan brand were not as advantageous as the company’s success suggests. In 1877, Alfred Jordan was on his way to New Zealand with his wife, Frances. During the voyage, Frances was taken gravely ill, and the pair was forced to disembark at Cape Town. Without sufficient money or means to continue the journey once the illness had subsided, the Jordans were faced with making a new life in South Africa.
Alfred began by talking his way into a job at Western Tanning in Wellington (a division of the Panther Shoe Company), one of the largest shoe manufacturing plants in the Cape Colony.
