Wolverine World Wide

Wolverine World Wide

Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: WWW S&P 600 component
Industry	Apparel Accessories
Founded	1883; 141 years ago (1883)
Founders	G. A. Krause Fredrick Hirth
Headquarters	Rockford, Michigan , U.S.
Key people	Chris Hufnagel (CEO)
Products	Footwear, apparel, accessories, sportswear
Revenue	US$2.68 billion (2022)[1]
Number of employees	4,300
Subsidiaries	Bates Cat Footwear Chaco Harley-Davidson Footwear Hush Puppies Hytest Merrell Saucony Stride Rite (licensed) Sweaty Betty Wolverine Boots and Shoes
Website	wolverineworldwide.com

Wolverine World Wide, Inc. or Wolverine Worldwide, is a publicly traded American footwear manufacturer based in Rockford, Michigan. The shoemaker is known for its eponymous brand, Wolverine Boots and Shoes, as well as other brands, such as Hush Puppies, Chaco, and Merrell. The company also manufactures licensed footwear for other firms, such as Caterpillar and Harley-Davidson. In 2012, Wolverine World Wide added Saucony, Keds, Stride Rite and Sperry Top-Sider to its list of brands, after acquiring the Performance Lifestyle Group of Collective Brands in a $1.23 billion transaction that also involved the sale of Payless ShoeSource and Collective Licensing International to private equity firms Blum Capital Partners and Golden Gate Capital.^[2]