In 1330, the shoes of Iranians were giveh, insoles, and soles, and on the other hand, urbanization had started. A young man originally from Shirazi, named Mohammad Rahim Motaghi Irvani, thought to himself that people may live without bread, but they cannot run for bread without shoes! According to him, you can’t live in a city, that too without shoes and bare feet; So people need two things. One bread and one shoe!
With this thought, he went to Czechoslovakia and hired two Czech experts and bought a shoe autoclave machine and came to Iran and built a passage on Globandak Street to produce shoes. Irvani started his work with 35 workers; He worked hard and because he had big plans in his head, with loans, savings and inheritance. He bought a bigger piece of land in Mehrabad Karaj and first built a mosque there and then moved his shoe factory there. Mohammad Rahim, more or less, you hear blame from this and that, as long as there are foreign shoes, who buys Iranian shoes?
But these words did not discourage him and gradually it happened that in 1337, he produced a leather shoe that did not die! He sold the shoes at the price of 4 tomans. This was despite the fact that foreign shoes at that time cost ten tomans and did not have that durability and beauty! Interestingly, Irvani founded a company in 1343 with the aim of raising 22 children from two months to 2 years old, so that in the future, these children will hear from the managers of his factory and Iranian managers. It was decided that a part of his income would go to the educational expenses of these 22 children, and he would be responsible for their food, clothing, and simple and low-cost means of living. He also established a law that none of these children under his guardianship, after reaching the age of 18, have any obligations towards him and are free to live as they wish! His only expectation is that they are serious about education and make Islam and good morals the basis of their work.
Irvani established more than 50 companies during the years 1357-1935 and built an organization house for his workers and provided free commuting service! The story of his business developed and in 1957, Mohammad Rahim Motaghi Irwani Shoe Company was confiscated with the revolution and unfortunately due to reasons such as weak management and not handing it over to the private sector, a factory that once provided 10,000 working families well. He was managing, he lost 4 billion eight hundred million tomans at that time! The heart of the factory stopped beating and his factory gradually became a warehouse for Saipa cars and trucks!
Irvani went to America with a broken heart and took the children under his supervision, who were 14 to 16 years old at that time, abroad at his own expense; And there he founded the Boston Tannery and produced shoes again! And finally, he passed away on February 12, 2014, after a full day of work.
Mohammad Rahim Motaghi Irvani was the founder of National Shoes. The same shoe that did not die in the childhood of many of us. All of us have worn those shoes and remember the national shoes! It was tight, but it didn’t break! Currently, only 700 of the 10,000 employees of National Shoes are left.
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