Clothing

DSW, Inc. Corporate Office

DSW can trace its roots back to 1969 when Jay L. Schottenstein opened as the Schonac corporation as a shoe licensee for Value City.

DSW (Designer Shoe Warehouse) opened its first store in 1991 in Dublin, Ohio. In 1998 Value City Department Stores purchased DSW.

In 2004 Retail Ventures consolidated subsidiaries of the then-defunct Value City company. DSW was operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Retail Ventures until DSW was spun-off in 2005.

Today DSW sells brand-name footwear at discount prices through 501 stores in 40 states and Puerto Rico. On average, stores are 22,000 square feet and stock 23,000 pairs of shoes.

DSW, along with 170 other shoe retailers, wrote a letter to Donald Trump in May 2019, asking him to exempt shoes from his list of items from China subject to the administrations new 25% tariff, calling the tariff “catastrophic.”

The company trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DSW, is #872 in the Fortune 1000, has 11,800 employees, and had $2.50 billion in revenue in 2014.

DSW, Inc.

DSW can trace its roots back to 1969 when Jay L. Schottenstein opened as the Schonac corporation as a shoe licensee for Value City.

DSW (Designer Shoe Warehouse) opened its first store in 1991 in Dublin, Ohio. In 1998 Value City Department Stores purchased DSW.

History

In 2004 Retail Ventures consolidated subsidiaries of the then-defunct Value City company. DSW was operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Retail Ventures until DSW was spun-off in 2005.

Today DSW sells brand-name footwear at discount prices through 501 stores in 40 states and Puerto Rico. On average, stores are 22,000 square feet and stock 23,000 pairs of shoes.

The company trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DSW, is #872 in the Fortune 1000, has 11,800 employees, and had $2.50 billion in revenue in 2014.

Brown Shoe Company Corporate Office

Brown Shoe Company was founded in 1878 as Bryan, Brown, and Company by George Warren Brown and Alvin Bryan.

Today the company operates the 1,100-location Famous Footwear chain, the e-commerce site shoes.com, and specialty retail store Naturalizer.

Brown Shoe owns and markets the brands LifeStride, Via Spiga, Naturalizer, Sam Edleman, and Franco Sarto, and owns licensed brands Dr. Scholl’s, Fergie Footwear, Carlos by Carlos Santana, and Vince. In addition, the company operates American Sporting Goods Corporation as a subsidiary.

Brown Shoe Company trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BWS, is a member of the S&P 600, is a member of the Russell 2000, is #826 in the Fortune 1000, and had $2.57 billion in revenue in 2014.

Brown Shoe Company

Brown Shoe Company was founded in 1878 as Bryan, Brown, and Company by George Warren Brown and Alvin Bryan.

Today the company operates the 1,100-location Famous Footwear chain, the e-commerce site shoes.com, and specialty retail store Naturalizer.

History

Genesco Corporate Office

Genesco was founded by James Franklin Jarman and William Hatch Wemyss in 1924 as the Jarman Shoe Company. The company changed its name to General Shoe Company in the 1930’s before going public in 1939.

The company was chosen to be one of the original members of the S&P 500 in 1937, and two years later changed its name to Genesco.

Today Genesco sells dress and casual footwear and sports apparel in over 2,500 stores in the United States Puerto Rico, as well as international locations in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. The company’s fastest-growing division is the Lids Sports division, which operates the Lids Locker Room website and retail chain.

Genesco trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GCO, is a member of the S&P 600, is a member of the Russell 2000, is #802 in the Fortune 1000, has 9,200 employees, and had $2.76 billion in revenue in 2014.

Genesco

The company was chosen to be one of the original members of the S&P 500 in 1937, and two years later changed its name to Genesco.

History

Wolverine World Wide Corporate Office

Wolverine World Wide has its roots in the 1883 founding of a utility company by G.A. Krause, who built a shoe factory in Michigan in 1903.

Today the company is known for its own brand of shoes, Wolverine, as well as the Merrill, Bates, Chaco, Keds, Saucony, Sebago, Stride Rite, Hush Puppies, and HyTest brands. Wolverine also manufactures footwear for Caterpillar (CAT), Harley-Davidson, and Patagonia,

Wolverine World Wide sells its footwear globally through independent distributors, specialty retailers, department stores, and internet retailers. The company also maintains more than 60 internet sites.

Wolverine World Wide trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol WWW, is a member of the S&P 600, is a member of the Russell 2000, is #785 in the Fortune 1000, has 6,600 employees, and had $2.76 billion in revenue in 2014.

Wolverine World Wide

Wolverine World Wide has its roots in the 1883 founding of a utility company by G.A. Krause, who built a shoe factory in Michigan in 1903.

History

The Jones Group Corporate Office

The Jones Group was founded in 1970 by Sydney Kimmel when he became president of the Jones Apparel Division in the W.R. Grace & Company.

He bought the fashion division in 1975 and incorporated it as Jones Apparel Group.

The new company grew quickly and in 2004 bought the luxury department store Barneys New York for $400 million, which it sold in 2007 for $943.2 million to Dubai-based investment firm Istithmar.

In December of 2013 private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought The Jones Group and split it up into four companies: Nine West Holdings, Easy Spirit, Ann Klein, and NW Jewelry Group.

Nine West Holdings

The Jones Group was founded in 1970 by Sydney Kimmel when he became president of the Jones Apparel Division in the W.R. Grace & Company.

He bought the fashion division in 1975 and incorporated it as Jones Apparel Group.

The new company grew quickly and in 2004 bought the luxury department store Barneys New York for $400 million, which it sold in 2007 for $943.2 million to Dubai-based investment firm Istithmar.

History

In December of 2013 private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought The Jones Group and split it up into four companies: Nine West Holdings, Easy Spirit, Ann Klein, and NW Jewelry Group.