Brown Shoe

Brown Shoe
Brown Shoe Company
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQBWS
Industry Retail, Wholesale
Founded 1875
Headquarters Clayton, Missouri
Number of locations 1,369 (January 2011)[1]
Key people Ron Fromm (Chairman)
Products Footwear
Revenue steady$2.24 billion (2009)
Employees 10,000+
Website www.brownshoe.com

Brown Shoe Company NYSEBWS is a footwear company that owns a variety of footwear brands in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters is located in Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.[2][3]

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Origins

Buster Brown and his dog Tige have been mascots for Brown Shoe, Co., since 1904.

The company was created in St. Louis and was originally named Bryan, Brown & Company after its founders George Warren Brown and Alvin Bryan. The name was changed to Brown Shoe Company in 1893. The George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis was endowed in 1925 by G.W. Brown's widow.

Business operations

Brown Shoe Company, Inc. is a $2.3 billion footwear company with worldwide operations. The company operates the 1,100-store Famous Footwear chain. It also operates 300 specialty retail stores in the United States, Canada and China under the Brown Shoe Closet, FX LaSalle and Naturalizer names, and Shoes.com and other various .com's, the Company's e-commerce subsidiary. Brown Shoe's wholesale divisions own and market leading footwear brands including Naturalizer, LifeStride, Via Spiga, Nickels Soft, Connie and Buster Brown; it also markets licensed brands including Franco Sarto, Etienne Aigner, Dr. Scholl's, Carlos by Carlos Santana and Fergie Footwear branded footwear for adults, and Barbie, Nickelodeon character footwear for children.

Company mascots

Since 1904, its mascots have been cartoon characters Buster Brown and his dog Tige. They both appear on the company's television commercials. In the 1940s and 50s the company made a brief foray into the comic book publishing industry, producing Buster Brown Comics, which featured the character on the cover, but contained different adventure features, such as Robin Hood. For a brief time in the 1980s and 1990s, the characters were updated to look more contemporary.[4]

Richard Barker played Buster Brown in the Brown Shoe Company advertising campaign as a small child. There is a book written about Richard Barker and his life as Buster Brown in the advertising campaign. The book about Richard Barker is titled “Buster Brown and the Cowboy”.

See also

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References

  1. ^ Brown Shoe 2010 Annual Report - Financials (10-K)
  2. ^ "Clayton city, Missouri." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on June 13, 2009.
  3. ^ "We're Brown Shoe." Brown Shoe Company. Retrieved on January 23, 2010.
  4. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmC8uVhGlHQ

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