Maker of shoes thrown at Bush swamped by orders from all over the world.
If George W. Bush made one person happy, that would be the maker of the shoes that an Iraqi journalist hurled at US President.
The Turkish company Baydan Shoes had to hire 100 extra staff to cope with a surge in demand for his footwear, AFP reported.
Simple black shoes have been even renamed Bush Shoes.
"Between the day of the incident and 1:00 pm today we have received orders totalling 370,000 pairs", Istanbul-based Serkan Turk, head of sales at Baydan Shoes, told the media.
The bestselling model is the one that Muntazer al-Zaidi threw at the US president at a press conference in Baghdad on December 14.
Normally the company would only sell 15,000 pairs a year of the model.
But now the orders for the cheap black shoes on polyurethane soles had flooded in from Iraq, followed by other Middle East countries and finally from the rest of the world.
19,000 pairs were ordered from the United States.
Throwing shoes is considered a grave insult in the Arab world, but Turk insists that the shoes could not hurt Bush too much.
"They only weigh 300 grammes (10 ounces)," he said.
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