Max Griggs is the president of the R Griggs Group, current owner of the
Dr. MartensDr. Martens is a footwear, clothing and accessories brand, and the footwear products are most often known as Doc Martens, Docs or DMs. The footwear is distinct because of its air-cushioned sole , developed by Dr. Klaus Märtens of Germany...
shoe company, and one of largest
shoeA shoe is an item of footwear evolved at first to protect the human foot and later, additionally, as an item of decoration in itself. The foot contains more bones than any other single part of the body, and has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years in relation to vastly varied terrain and...
manufacturers in the
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. The company recently moved all factories etc to the
People's Republic of ChinaThe People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately one-fifth of the world's population...
in an effort to save millions of pounds in wages.
The shoes were most popular in the 1980s, but their sales started to decline as time went on. The shoes are nicknamed DMs.
In 1992 Max Griggs bought Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds football clubs.
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Max Griggs is the president of the R Griggs Group, current owner of the
Dr. MartensDr. Martens is a footwear, clothing and accessories brand, and the footwear products are most often known as Doc Martens, Docs or DMs. The footwear is distinct because of its air-cushioned sole , developed by Dr. Klaus Märtens of Germany...
shoe company, and one of largest
shoeA shoe is an item of footwear evolved at first to protect the human foot and later, additionally, as an item of decoration in itself. The foot contains more bones than any other single part of the body, and has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years in relation to vastly varied terrain and...
manufacturers in the
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
. The company recently moved all factories etc to the
People's Republic of ChinaThe People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately one-fifth of the world's population...
in an effort to save millions of pounds in wages.
The shoes were most popular in the 1980s, but their sales started to decline as time went on. The shoes are nicknamed DMs.
In 1992 Max Griggs bought Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds football clubs. He merged them into one and this proved a success.
Rushden & Diamonds football clubRushden & Diamonds F.C. is a professional football club based in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, England. Formed by a merger of Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds in 1992, the club currently plays in the Conference National following a short spell in the Football League at the start of...
was born. One of the stands in the clubs ground in called the Airwair stand (a type of DM shoe), and until recently the club shop was called The Doc Shop.
Max Griggs sold the club to the fans in 2005 for £1, and occasionally makes donations to the clubs trust.
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