We develop safety footwear. You put your name on it.
A UK design and development partner for retailers, wholesalers and distributors who sell safety footwear under their own brand — without running a footwear design team to do it.
Twelve years as a national multiple’s own-label supplier
Principal own-label supplier to a UK national multiple since 2014.
Twenty-five years in the trade
The experience behind Apro is older than Apro.
We design, you brand
Finished, costed ranges. No design brief required.
Most retailers and wholesalers who want their own safety footwear brand hit the same wall: building a range means writing specifications, managing samples, and carrying the compliance work. That needs a footwear team.
Apro Footwear Ltd is that team. We develop safety footwear ranges in-house, present them as ready-to-adopt proposals, and manage everything from first sample to delivered order. Our customers put their own name on the product and get on with selling it.
Models are developed to EN ISO 20345:2022+A1:2024, with specifications, costings and lead times agreed before production begins.
How it works
Four steps from first conversation to delivered order. No design brief required at any point.
1. We show you the range
You receive our current line sheet: finished designs with specifications and safety ratings. Nothing to commission, nothing to brief.
2. You select and adapt
Choose the models that fit your market. Colourways, materials, logo, lining and packaging are adapted to your brand, and costings are confirmed against your target price.
3. Samples for approval
Confirmation samples are produced and signed off before anything goes into production. Certification is opened alongside sampling rather than after it, so the two run together.
4. Production and delivery
We manage production, quality control and the compliance documentation. You choose how the goods arrive — collected on FOB terms, or delivered to your warehouse with customs and duty handled.
Your brand on the box. Your name on the certificate.
Putting your own name on safety footwear makes you the legal manufacturer. That decides who signs the Declaration of Conformity, whose name appears on the Type Examination Certificate, and who answers if a product is ever challenged.
Most own-label programmes discover this late. We put the paperwork in order before you sell a single pair — certificate issued in your name, technical file assembled and handed over, declaration drafted for your signature.
Safety footwear, explained
The standard changed in 2022 and the markings are not intuitive. We write these for buyers who need to specify correctly without becoming footwear technicians.
- Understanding EN ISO 20345:2022 — what changed and what it means for your orders
- How safety footwear is classified — S ratings, styles, and industry categories
Tell us what you sell. We’ll show you what we’d make for you.
Send us your market, your price point and your volumes, and we’ll come back with specific models from our current development range, with costings.