GRETNA, Va. (WSET) — A $60.4 million contract with the military will keep a local company busy and be able to hire more hands. Lynchburg-based Capps Shoe Company currently has about 125 employees at its Gretna facility to help in the 40-step process to make shoes.
“We make half of the men’s dress shoes for the Army and all of the women’s,” said Tom Capps, the owner of Capps Shoe Company. Capps said thanks to securing a more than $60 million Department of Defense contract with the U.S. Navy, they will now manufacture shoes for every branch of the military.
This also means 50 new jobs added at their plant in Gretna over the five-year contract. Employees will go from making about 1,500 pairs of shoes a day to 2,200.
“We laid off a number of people when we lost the last contract, so it means security for our people,” Capps said.
This is just a portion of the opportunities coming to Capps Shoe Company. They said that they are putting their best foot forward as they step into a new contract with a major shoe company, although they said they aren’t ready to disclose who it’s with yet.
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