DID YOU KNOW…?

We'd like you to get to know us.

This is where we tell you all about ourselves, from our beginnings to the present day. Here you'll find our story, how we make our footwear and what we stand for: it is how we make quality shoes for the youngest members of the family.

  • 1968

    WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

    Our story begins in Elche, with Grupo Garvalín. That is where we learned to understand materials, to take care over how shoes are made and to pay attention to the details that make a shoe comfortable. Years later, that experience would meet science.


  • 1996

    UNDERSTANDING THE FOOT TO RESPECT ITS GROWTH

    Biomecanics was born, and with it our collaboration with the Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia (IBV). We studied how a child's foot changes and how it moves at each stage. That knowledge became the basis of our designs: footwear should adapt to the foot and to what it needs.

  • 2020

    OUR COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION, RECOGNISED

    We received the Most Innovative Brand award at the MIA awards. It recognises an approach to footwear that begins with observation, continues through research and takes shape in solutions for what the foot needs.

  • 2021

    STILL LEARNING FROM HOW IT MOVES

    Together with the IBV, we launched a study into how footwear influences the way children learn to walk. We analysed different types of footwear, as well as walking barefoot, to keep deepening our understanding of the relationship between the foot, movement and the ground.

  • 2024

    THE SCIENCE OF COMFORT GROWS TOO


    We introduced our ConeTech technology, developed together with the IBV. Its network of interconnected nodes adapts the sole's response and helps to distribute pressure.

  • 2025

    BEING THERE ALSO MEANS LISTENING

    Growing up is part of childhood. Learning to parent is part of family life. With “El pasillo de la duda”, we gave a voice to the pressures and uncertainties that come with that learning. The campaign received two awards at El Chupete: Branded Content and the Sapos y Princesas special award.

  • 2026

    THIRTY YEARS OF UNDERSTANDING GROWTH

    Since 1996, every piece of research has taught us something new. We are turning thirty with the same purpose: to turn our knowledge of the foot into footwear that respects its nature. Natural Growing is still how we look to the future.

Design and product development: we are international

Our long experience in the sector, in working with raw materials and in production processes, combined with talent put to work for creativity, results in a product suited to an increasingly informed and demanding customer.

More than half a century on, Elche (Spain) is still home to our headquarters and our international logistics centre: this is where every model is designed and developed. Our growth from 1968 to today has brought new challenges and goals, and today we manage and oversee a number of manufacturing sites. Our expert staff travel to them to audit every process, ensuring the high quality we stand for and making sure that all the health and prevention standards required by the European Union are met.

Our team: still growing, day by day

Grupo Garvalín is made up of a large team of professionals who complement and strengthen one another, and for whom doing their job well is what matters most. Behind every design and every production process, our people bring all their knowledge to bear in pursuit of the highest standards. From design to the point of sale, we look after every process as if it were the only one.

Quality and innovation in Biomecanics footwear

With more than half a century in children's footwear, our mission at Grupo Garvalín remains very clear: to help the youngest members of the family walk comfortably and happily. That takes high standards, well-honed technique, design that keeps improving and a strong sense of what is genuinely useful.

It is a challenge that drives us every day to keep growing and to offer the best quality in every pair of shoes. A seemingly simple challenge that nonetheless holds a statement of intent and a particular way of working, present in every one of our collections and every manufacturing process.