MANILA, Philippines - Marikina City is known as the country’s biggest shoe manufacturer. The early ’30s saw Marikina house 139 shops producing an estimate of 260,078 pairs of women’s shoes a ...

Marikina has long been the soul of Filipino shoemaking—a city where craftsmanship is heritage, and every shoe tells its own ...

MARIKINA opened on Monday the city's annual Balik Eskwela (back-to-school) Shoe Bazaar. Known as the shoe capital of the Philippines, Marikina opened the bazaar featuring 43 leather products stalls.

Marikina City’s 5.5-meter (18-foot) long pair of shoes ran away with the Guinness record for being the largest in the world. Mayor Lourdes Fernando said she was informed by a team of researchers ...

The exceptional quality of Marikina’s shoes not only resulted in stores lining the town’s main thoroughfares but also expanded their presence in commercial hubs like Santa Cruz and Quiapo in ...

This historic structure has been declared a national shrine —ROMY HOMILLADA Of many Marikina landmarks, probably none more fully represents the place and its people than the Shoe Museum.

With over 40 percent of its residents employed in the shoe industry, Marikina, situated near the capital of Manila, is popularly called the shoe capital of the Philippines. Last Friday ...

Marikina’s shoe industry is facing a threat greater than competition from cheap China imports: losing its cobblers. If the “Shoe Capital of the Philippines” doesn’t train a new breed of ...

Marikina remains synonymous to well-crafted shoes despite the gradual decline of the industry. The city's sapateros want adequate support from the next set of leaders. “Sa silong-silong lang ...

Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III and his wife, Special Envoy Kathryna Yu-De Guzman Pimentel, are leading efforts to revive Marikina’s struggling shoe industry, once a major source of jobs and ...

For starters, from December 15 to 18, products made in Marikina such as shoes, bags, leather and crafts will be displayed in a trade exhibit at SM Mega Mall dubbed “Made-in-Marikina: Gawang ...

GUESS who paid a visit to Marikina’s acclaimed Shoe Museum just as its Shoe Festival opened this week? Former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos, who in her heyday had described herself as a ...