response by Deichmann
...As a footwear retailer Deichmann also purchases products from European shoe manufacturers. However, Deichmann has no direct business partners in the Eastern European footwear sector.
Usually Deichmann buys products from collections of Italian and German shoe manufacturers. These shoe manufacturers mostly have their own production facilities in Eastern Europe or have local partners who produce their products (or parts of them) in Eastern Europe. Deichmann takes no influence on the selection of production sites. An exception is the sourcing in Poland. Here we source a part of the slippers directly from local producers. The share of European products of the Deichmann collection is approximately 15%. All production facilities in countries of risk are regularly monitored by independent auditors.
Production countries Eastern Europe: i.a. Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria...