Aquila Shoes

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Aquila Shoes is a shoe manufacturing company founded by Tony Longo in 1958 in Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Antonio (Tony) Longo^[1] was born in San Marco in Lamis, Italy on 18 October 1920. In 1949, he immigrated to Australia.

The Aquila company began by producing small kids shoes, lately expanded to supplying men's footwear. On 1 December 1964 Aquila opened a new factory and manufacturing plant, by then Minister Mr.Vance Dickie, in the inner Melbourne suburb of North Fitzroy.

With the business and factory open and running at capacity, the factory manufactured 100,000 pairs of shoes per year. Aquila was both a manufacturer and wholesaler of its products. The company entered the retail arena when it opened its first retail store in 1975 in Melbourne's central business district. In 1975 the second store was open in Sydney. After the next few decades the company expanded its retail operations across Australia and New Zealand.

In 2012, the Aquila brand expanded into menswear and fashion accessories. In 2015, Aquila operated 30 retail stores in top notch cities like Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra.

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