Endicott Johnson Corporation

Endicott Johnson Corporation
PredecessorLester Brothers Boot and Shoe Company
Founded1899
FateAcquired, 1995
SuccessorRocky Shoes and Boots
Headquarters,
USA
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
George F. Johnson and Henry Bradford Endicott
ProductsShoes, Boots, Rubber, Paracord, Welts, and related care products
Number of employees
20,000 (peak, c. 1920)

The Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company ("E-J") was a prosperous manufacturer of shoes based in New York's Southern Tier, with factories mostly located in the area's Triple Cities of Binghamton, Johnson City, and Endicott. An estimated 20,000 people worked in the company's factories by the 1920s, and an even greater number worked there during the boom years of the mid-1940s when, helped by footwear it produced for the military during the war years, it was producing 52 million pairs of shoes a year. During the early 1950s, the work force was still approximately 17,000 to 18,000. Today, EJ Footwear, LLC operates as a unit of Nelsonville, Ohio-based Rocky Shoes & Boots, Inc.