Outlook rosy for Horrell's
BANG ON target and in some cases even above it. That is the happy position of Charles Horrell Shoes Ltd., of Rushden, find themselves in for the second half of last year.
Commented chairman John Horrell at the company's bi-annual conference at Crick earlier this month: "It has been an extremely successful year, even more so considering the extremely complicated internal re-organisation we have been through."
Salesmen from all over the United Kingdom attended the conference where for the first time, they met Horrell's new marketing and export sales manager, Mr. John Holland, who will be responsible for spearheading the company's export drive in the Common Market.
Mr. Horrell said: "This new appointment emphasises our intentions of expanding the export side of our business not only within the Common Market, but also in Commonwelatrt countries."

Remarkably
Reviewing sales outlets during the past year, Mr, Horrell said that major sales outlets were now the men's outfitters with a ratio of 70-30 in the London area and 55-45 for the rest of the country. As more and more retailers were now accepting Horrells fashion shoes, they could see the gap steadily narrowing.
Horrells has also installed a computer to deal with stock control and accounting. "In fact without re-organisation and modernisation we are looking forward to an even more successful 1973," said Mr. Horrell.
"Our increased concentration on fashion shoes has proved remarkably successful and within the next month, we will be showing another nine new designs to our customers—they were introduced at the conference.

Evening Telegraph, 21^st April 1976

Charles Horrell - Factory for Auction
A SHOE factory and its contents go up for auction next month after attempts to sell the building have failed.

The factory in Fitzwilliam Street

A spokesman for the Receiver said today that they had been trying to sell the building but no offers had been made.

Machinery which had been on hire has been returned to the owners.

The factory closed at the end of February following an announcement earlier that month that the company had financial problems.

Eighty shop floor workers were told there was only three weeks' work for them before they would be made redundant.

After the factory closed, the Receiver started selling off shoe stocks left in the warehouse but that too closed after three weeks in mid-March.

The decision to auction the premises was made after attempts to sell it as a going concern failed.