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Shoe industry veteran dies in New York

13/09/2012

The man credited with one of the first commercial tie-ups of a footwear brand for his licensing of the Snoopy character in the 1970s has died in New York aged 83. Jack Weissman worked in his family shoe business before setting up Marketing Footwear Associates, which also licensed ET, the National Football League, Pac-Man and Budweiser. In 1999,...

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