Max Griggs is the president of the R Griggs Group, current owner of the Dr. Martens shoe company, and one of the largest shoe manufacturers in the United Kingdom. In 2002, the company ceased production in the United Kingdom and began outsourcing to China and Thailand.
According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2019, Griggs and his son Stephen are worth £264 million.[1]
The Dr Martens (nicknamed DMs) boots, having been manufactured in England since 1960, were most popular in the 1980s, but in the following decade, their popularity started to decline.
In 1992 Max Griggs bought Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds football clubs. He merged them into one as Rushden & Diamonds football club, which enjoyed league status for a time. One of the stands in the club's ground was called the Airwair stand (a type of DM shoe).
Max Griggs sold the club to the fans in 2005 for £1. The club went into administration six years later.
References
- ^ Times, The Sunday (2019-05-12). "Rich List 2019: profiles 451-490=, featuring Sir Mick Jagger, George Clooney and Zac Goldsmith". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2020-01-14.