With MEPHISTO he wrote a success story

Out of 11.000 French independent company owners, Martin Michaeli was elected in 1999 ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’. The French President François Mitterand awarded him in 1995 the ‘National Order of Merit’. In 2000, the French President Jacques Chirac honoured him with the highest decoration of France by making him a ‘Chevalier of the Legion of Honour’. He was given several times the “Oscar of Exports’ as well as the award of the ‘Best Shoe Brand of France’ by the French shoe retailers.

The cosmopolitan says of himself that he has three souls in him: a German, an American and a French, all three living now in Switzerland.

“As a founder, you can never completely let go”.

Martin Michaeli in December 2023

An interview with entrepreneur Martin Michaeli,
published in December 2023 in the leading
Swiss business magazine BILANZ.

« We hold the last flag high »

“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“, Monday March 2, 2015

PUBLISHED IN 2010

Where my shoes
carried me

Biography of company founder Martin Michali, with numerous photos and rare documents..
In German and French.

PUBLISHED IN 2015

MEPHISTO – 50 years of success Shoemakers of exception

Richly illustrated book on 50 years of success for the MEPHISTO brand, published by Cherche Midi.


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