Company

Sabateria Andarax II

Juan Luis Romero created the company in 1982 and was initially and exclusively dedicated to shoe repair. Until that date Luis had worked as a pharmacy clerk, he arrived in Andorra as an employee of the Pont pharmacy where he remained for more than thirteen years.

During this period he started his own family in Andorra and it was then that he realized that the job he had did not allow him to take care of his family properly, it did not allow him to enjoy them enough, since he had to work on weekends.

Without any fear, but also without any specific training in the subject, Luis decided to set up this company, a business in which he is perfectly self-taught.

"I learned on my own, I trained at night with my own shoes... I took them apart... I put them back together..." he explains, and adds: "I am proud of my loyal clientele".

Juan Luis Yebra, Founder of Sabateria Andarax.

He has He has customers who send him shoes from far away and he explains that these are customers who no longer live in Andorra and that in their current place of live in Andorra and that in their current place of residence they can't find someone to repair them as they are used to, as they want or as they who can't repair them as they are used to, as they want or as they need. "They say we are like a branch of Lourdes," he jokes.

Today, Andarax II is a fully consolidated store in its sector, it is known as the "shoemaker behind the Escale" in Andorra, which repairs shoes, bags, suitcases, duplicates keys, remote controls, and also offers a careful and professional sharpening service.

Now, for Luis, the time has come to take over, to leave the helm of the company in the hands of his daughter Elsa, who, at 36 years of age, will be his worthy successor, since she has been helping her father since she was very young.

Elsa, a criminologist by profession, preferred to take the same path as her father at the helm of Andarax IIElsa has an 8-year-old daughter, Judith, who has spent time in the business with her mother since she was very young. Elsa has an 8-year-old daughter, Judith, who from a very young age spends time in the store with her mother. Judith is already starting to make her own creations, at the moment a few little bags to keep her things in.