Article: HEART & SOLE; FOR DON MUNRO, KEEPING THE DOMESTIC SHOE INDUSTRY ALIVE IS JOB ONE.

Byline: Barbara Schneider-Levy

The only thing Munro & Co. Chairman and CEO Don Munro likes to talk about more than his business is the people that work there. While he had to move a portion of the company's production overseas in the early 1990s, Munro remains deeply committed to his employees, keeping a distribution center and four factories up and running in Arkansas, with 900 on the payroll.

Extremely proud of his company's domestic roots, Munro admitted that initially, he was resistant to the idea of importing, but soon realized that "it was foresight on my part to go offshore," he said. "I was committed to our employees and plants. If we wanted to ...

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