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Article: Fast foot service: Heel Quick! shoe repair puts its best financial foot forward. (Marvin Staten buys a franchise)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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As the song goes, "Don't you step on my blue suede shoes." But for people like Marvin Staten and his wife and partner, Shelley, the more scrapes and scuffs the better. Staten is the owner of a Heel Sew Quik! shoe repair franchise in Greenville, N.C.
Prior to opening his own business, Staten spent 15 years working at Procter & Gamble, the Ohio-based international manufacturing and retail company. As a production line leader and manufacturing coordinator, Staten earned a respectable salary of $42,000. Today, he's grossing over $150,000 fixing wing tips and pumps.
Staten spent four years researching 15 different franchise companies before settling on Heel Sew ...
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Article: SHOE REPAIR A FAMILY TRADITION
Post-Tribune (IN);
January 12, 1996 ;
569 words
... ... helping out in his father's shoe-repair shop when he was 12. Rick Maxey ... family, the art and skill of shoe-repair work has been passed down from one generation to the next. Rick's Shoe Repair has been in business on the east ...
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