Caleres

Caleres Inc.
FormerlyBrown Shoe Company
(1875–2015)
Company typePublic
IndustryRetail, wholesale
Founded1875; 149 years ago (1875)
HeadquartersClayton, Missouri, U.S.
Number of locations
1,369 (January 2011)[1]
Key people
Jay Schmidt (CEO)
ProductsFootwear
RevenueSteady$2.968 billion (2022)[2]
Number of employees
13,400[3]
Websitecaleres.com

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.[4][5] Founded in 1878 as Bryan, Brown & Company in St. Louis, it underwent several name changes;[6] for a time, the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company was the largest manufacturer of shoes in America. It went bankrupt in June 1939.[7]

In the 1970s, Brown operated Famous Footwear, Cloth World fabric stores, Bottom Half jeans stores, and Meis department stores.[8] On May 27, 2015, Brown Shoe changed its name to Caleres.[9] Current brands include Famous Footwear, Sam Edelman, Allen Edmonds, Naturalizer, and Vionic.

  1. ^ "รองเท้าผู้หญิง 10 ยี่ห้อรองเท้าที่ได้รัความนิยมากที่สุด และทนทานดีที่สุด". รองเท้าผู้หญิง อัพเดทรองเท้าใหม่ๆทุกวัน. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  2. ^ FORM 10-K (PDF) (Report). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 24, 2023. p. 54. Retrieved November 9, 2023. Net sales: $2.968 billion
  3. ^ "Brown Shoe Company", data from Hoover's
  4. ^ "Clayton city, Missouri Archived 2009-09-06 at the Wayback Machine." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on June 13, 2009.
  5. ^ "We're Brown Shoe." Brown Shoe Company. Retrieved on January 23, 2010.
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