It was in 1956 that Mr. Iqbal Ahmad founded the first stone of what is PARVEZ SHOES PVT LTD (PSL) today. Under the business name of UPPER INDIA LEATHER WORKS, Mr Ahmad manufactured industrial leather belts and worked together to build a profitable venture by producing goods of superior quality. INDIAN TANNING INDUSTRIES (ITI) was instituted in 1969 with new and improved techniques and broader industries covering vegetable tanned leather. It further moved into chrome tanned finished leather industry, which was used especially for safety footwear, and thus established itself globally under the export house name of ITI.