Bill Blay

Bill has +38 years of experience developing strategic retail sourcing models that align with the need for increased speed to market.

In the 1990’s, Bill and his team made significant changes to a Canadian footwear factory successfully competing with lower cost China sourced production by building processes that more than quadrupled China’s productivity today.

Bill transformed Caleres’ 48 million pair footwear quality from +10% of defective units to < 2%.