Founder of footwear brand Rockport, Bruce Katz, has died at the age of 75. He died at the end of June after a fall at his home in California.

Mr Katz’s family ran a business called the Hubbard Shoe Company in New England, but by the time he had finished college in the 1960s, the business was being severely harmed by cheaper imports in the US market and Bruce Katz had decided not to follow in his grandfather’s and father’s footsteps.

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