Our story
Made in Italy. Since 1971.
Since 1971 the Missouri kids shoes brand has been present on the international market with quality collections, elegant and refined, with attention to structural and aesthetic details.
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The inheritance
The inheritance represents that complex patrimony constituted by all that the past has transmitted to the present and that defines the identity of a territory, a population, a social group, a company.
Thus each inheritance represents the testimony of something that happened in the past and can help us understand the present. One can also say that it is the inheritances, the signs of the past, which give value to a story and its protagonists.
Speaking of the goods handed down in families, time forms a patina that indicates longevity, rooting, thickness. The patina becomes the visual witness that a family has been able to preserve for a long time and has also learned to manage it.
It recognizes style, which determines the recognizability of the social position and its own contemporary actions. This is what we are and we do every day.
– The Missouri family business –
Chapters
Five chapters, one family
1971
The beginning
In 1971 Sergio Ferracuti founded Missouri in Monte Urano, a small town in the province of Fermo where shoemaking is a way of life. From the very first pairs the idea was clear: children deserve shoes made with the same skill and the same materials as the finest Italian footwear.
The family
A family business
Missouri has always been a family affair. Children and relatives joined the company over the years, taking on business management, model design, production, quality control and distribution. Decisions are made around one table, and every collection carries the family’s name and responsibility.
The craft
Made in the Marche
The Marche region is one of the great shoemaking districts of Italy. Here Missouri works with expert hands and trusted suppliers: pattern makers, cutters, stitchers and finishers whose know-how is passed down from one generation to the next.
The world
An international voice
From Monte Urano, Missouri collections have travelled to the international children’s fashion market, through trade fairs, showrooms and partnerships with renowned Italian and French fashion brands — always as a proud ambassador of Made in Italy.
Today
Collection by collection
Today, with the Fall Winter 2026/27 collection, Missouri continues to combine heritage and design: elegant, refined shoes with attention to every structural and aesthetic detail, for the kids all over the world.
The film
Perfect stitching and expert hands
The archive
Missouri, through the years
