Aquila Shoes
Tony Longo founded Aquila in 1959. Tony had arrived in Australia only ten years earlier under the Government's Assisted Passage Program. He worked many jobs before opening a shoe repair shop in Brunswick, Melbourne in 1953-54. A few years later, Tony decided to start manufacturing shoes and in 1959 Aquila was born. In Aquila's early days, the company was only producing children's shoes. It was only after Tony realised the shortage in supply of quality men's footwear that he decided to change the direction of his company and from that moment never looked back.