The Fire in Zlín Also Affected Alpine Pro. It Had Goods Worth More than Half a Billion in Its Warehouse.
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While the big fire in a factory building in the Czech city of Zlin is still raging, the entrepreneur concerned has already estimated the preliminary damage of 6.1 million euros. "We have lost almost everything", complains CEO Vaclav Stanek. Nevertheless, he does not want to give up. "We have lost almost everything and are facing the toughest trial in Vasky's history. It hurts," wrote the founder of the premium shoe brand Vasky in the online serv…
The extensive fire in the warehouse of building no. 34 in the former Baťa factories in Zlín caused huge damage to the shoe manufacturers Vaska and Botas as well as Alpine Pro. The warehouse contained goods worth over half a billion crowns, including part of the new autumn and winter collection.
More than two-thirds of the historic building number 34 on the site of the former Bata factory in Zlín, Czech Republic, collapsed after a massive fire engulfed the building on Thursday morning. The fire completely destroyed the central part of the former central shoe warehouse from the late 1940s and 1950s and seriously disrupted the overall structural integrity.
A warehouse fire in an industrial area in Zlín, Czech Republic, also hit the Czech brand Alpine Pro hard. According to the company's owner, Václav Hrbek, goods worth more than half a billion crowns (20.6 million euros) burned in the building. It was the company's only central warehouse. Hrbek described to iDNES.cz that when...
He founded the company Vasky while still a high school student and within ten years of operation he found a firm place for it on the market. In addition, he has also successfully merged with the traditional shoe manufacturer Botas. Now Václav Staněk is watching helplessly as a warehouse with 70 thousand pairs of shoes burns down. But he is not sitting idly by.
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