About Us

2ND FLOOR is a design firm located in Boca Raton, FL that specializes in footwear design, development, and sourcing.
Founded by Gibo Debiase–Florence Italy.

2ND FLOOR strength lies in the price point area with a branded execution. With an entirely vertical set up, 2ND FLOOR ’s US team of customer service and design communicates daily with (GDI) Great Day International Limited in China, and works hand in hand on product development and production.

GDI facilitates all development and production overseas. With an in-house sample room, GDI handles the entire product development process from initial prototype development, to sales samples along with the support of our factory network. GDI has a staff of 10 people including the PD team and operations. The operations team manages order placement from initial placement all the way through to the final shipment. This includes pricing, QC, Documentation, logistics, and daily communication with our domestic customer service team. GDI works on a first cost basis so our customers typically obtain ownership of the goods at the port on the Asia side. We produce and ship roughly 1 million pairs a year to our distributors and partners throughout the world.

License and Entertainment Division
Our team is fully dedicated to character License Footwear. From specific designs to Factory compliance department.

Active Performance Division
We sleep, breathe, eat Action and Performance amongst the Design team; As well as we collaborate with a selected group of factories dedicated solely to Performance Footwear.