Caleres
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Caleres Inc. is an American footwear company that owns and operates a variety of footwear brands. Its headquarters is located in Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The company was founded in 1878 as Bryan, Brown & Company in St. Louis, though it underwent several name changes. The Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company was the largest manufacturer of shoes in America in the early 20th century, but it went bankrupt in June 1939.
Company
CAL- Industry
- Footwear, (No Rubber)
- Exchange
- NYSE
- State of incorporation
- NY
- Entity type
- operating
- Fiscal year end
- Jan 30
via SEC EDGAR
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- 1878–1900: Origins
- 1901–1920s: Growth and labor issues
- 1930s: Great Depression and bankruptcy
- 1940s–1960s: Push into retail
- 1970s–1990s: Diversification as Brown Group
- Since 2000: Name changes
- Business operations
- Executives
- Shoe brands
- Company mascots
- See also
- Footnotes
- External links
Caleres Inc. is an American footwear company that owns and operates a variety of footwear brands. Its headquarters is located in Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The company was founded in 1878 as Bryan, Brown & Company in St. Louis, though it underwent several name changes. The Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company was the largest manufacturer of shoes in America in the early 20th century, but it went bankrupt in June 1939.
In the 1970s, Brown operated Famous Footwear, Cloth World fabric stores, Bottom Half jeans stores, and Meis department stores. Brown Shoe changed its name to Caleres on May 27, 2015, and current brands include Famous Footwear, Sam Edelman, Stuart Weitzman, Allen Edmonds, Naturalizer, and Vionic.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caleres” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.