The chief executive of Ecco Leather and the group’s executive vice-president for global shoe production, Panos Mytaros, has officially opened a new research and development centre at the small town of Bredebro in southern Denmark.

It was in Bredebro in 1963 that Karl Toosbuy founded Ecco. It went on to set up footwear factories in Portugal, Slovakia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and China, and tanneries in the Netherlands, Thailand, Indonesia and China.

Its new research and development centre is in a former warehouse at the group’s headquarters. At the opening, Panos Mytaros described it as having a modern design that reflected what he called “the reality of the future factory space, in which humans, machines and nature will interact”. 

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