The Bush Shoes Seeing Manufacture Boom

Ramazan Baydan, owner of the Baydan Shoe Company in Istanbul holds a newly produced copy of the shoe that was thrown at US President George W. Bush, at the factory, on 22 December 2008; in Istanbul, Turkey.

The shoe company that produces the brand of footwear thrown by the journalist, during a press conference in Iraq, has seen a surge in orders in the past week.

Ramazan Baydan, owner of the shoe factory in Istanbul, said he had received orders for some 300,000 pairs of the model that was hurled at Bush. According to Baydan he has had inquiries from the US for distribution rights.

The entrepreneur wants to rename the model, a brown leather shoe with a thick sole, as the Bush shoes.

In Turkey, the shoes sell for 42 US dollars wholesale.

What has been almost two weeks since the incident of the shoes being thrown in Iraq by the journalist, it appears while the shoe throwing continues; that this maybe the legacy that see’s Bush beyond his departure of 20 January. Just one would not have thought it would become something of a marketing concept.

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