SPS, short for Stilman Product Service, is a footwear style and manufacturing consultancy based in Verona, Italy, registered as SPS srl (VAT IT04104140233) with offices at Corso Milano 92C, 37138 Verona, in the middle of the Verona shoe manufacturing district. The company continues the technical heritage of the Calzaturificio Stilman shoe factory, with more than 50 years of production history, whose manufacturing operations closed in 2011 and whose product development activity was carried into SPS. SPS works for footwear companies and brands that want to develop and produce collections, and it covers the whole path from style research and prototyping to production control. Its services include defining and following the client's own style identity, developing prototypes with the manufacturing partners, correcting models before bulk production, sourcing the most suitable production sites in Italy, Eastern Europe, China and India, managing sampling and material research (soles, leathers and accessories in Italy, accessories also in China), negotiating prices with manufacturers, and sending technicians on site for quality control before the finished goods are shipped. On request the team also manages the commercial negotiation, order handling, deliveries and seasonal requirements such as advertising samples for trade fairs, and can coordinate bags and accessories alongside footwear. Published client work includes footwear lines for Antony Morato developed with Far East production, style for the N.O.D brand of an Indian footwear group selling in the UK, France and the US, and technical support, outsourcing selection and quality control for a Pantone licensee.
Italy (Verona)
Website: https://www.s-productservice.it
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SPS (Stilman Product Service) is a footwear consultancy registered in Verona, Italy, as SPS srl with VAT number IT04104140233 and offices at Corso Milano 92C, 37138 Verona. Its base is the Verona shoe manufacturing district, and the company carries the technical heritage of the Calzaturificio Stilman factory, which produced footwear for over 50 years before closing its manufacturing operations in 2011, when the product development activity moved into SPS. Unlike a buying agent that starts from a product photo, SPS works at the level of the collection. It defines and follows the client's style direction, develops prototypes together with the manufacturing partners, corrects models before bulk production, selects the outsourcing factories and manages the sampling. Production is placed in Italy, Eastern Europe, China and India depending on the item, with material research covering soles, leathers and accessories in Italy and accessories also in China. Technicians are sent on site for quality control before the finished goods leave the factory, and on request the team also runs the commercial negotiation, order handling and seasonal extras such as advertising samples for trade fairs. Our take: this is a specialist for footwear brands and shoe companies that need Italian design and technical know how combined with production in lower-cost countries, and the published client cases (footwear lines for Antony Morato developed with Far East production, style work for the N.O.D brand of an Indian footwear group, and technical support for a Pantone licensee) show real collection work rather than one-off sourcing. Buyers outside footwear and leather goods are not the target group, and because no fee schedule is published you should agree the remuneration model, the split between style work and sourcing, and who owns the designs before the first collection starts.
SPS does not publish a price list. Remuneration is agreed per project or per collection and typically combines style and development work with sourcing and quality control. Ask for a written quote that separates style work, sampling, quality control and any production commission, and clarify who owns the designs.
SPS develops and manages footwear collections: it defines the style with the client, develops prototypes with the manufacturers, corrects the models, selects the production sites, organises sampling and material research, negotiates prices, manages orders and deliveries, and sends technicians on site for quality control before the goods are shipped.
According to its own description, SPS manages production in Italy and Eastern Europe as well as in China and India. Materials such as soles and leathers are researched in Italy, with accessories sourced in Italy and China, so the production location is chosen per item.
Published case work includes footwear lines for Antony Morato produced in the Far East, style for the men's and women's collections of the N.O.D brand belonging to an Indian footwear group selling in the UK, France and the US, and technical support, outsourcing selection and quality control for a company licensed to use the Pantone brand.
For Italian textile and fashion sourcing, Giunti International Agency in Prato covers fabrics, yarns and garments, and Quovadis in Porto manages textile and footwear production in Portugal. Buyers who mainly need factory search and shipping in Asia are usually better served by agents such as Zignify or LeelineSourcing.
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