Brown Shoe Company Inc.

Exporter
PO Box 29, Saint Louis, MO 63166-0029, United States
(800)766-6465, (314)854-4000, (314)854-4274 fax, http://www.brownshoe.com

Primary SIC: Footwear, Except Rubber, Not Elsewhere Classified, Primary NAICS: Other Footwear Manufacturing
Description: Brown Shoe Company, Inc. was founded in 1878, and incorporated in 1913. Its current activities include the operation of retail shoe stores and the sourcing and marketing of footwear for women, men and children. The company's reportable segments include Famous Footwear, wholesale operations, specialty retail and other. Wholesale operations source and market branded, licensed and private-label footwear primarily to department stores, mass merchandisers, independent retailers and company-owned Naturalizer retail and Famous Footwear stores. The other segment includes corporate assets and administrative and other expenses which are not allocated to the operating units. As of early 2008, the company's retail operations included 1,358 retail shoe stores in the United States, Canada, and China. Famous Footwear, which represents the company's largest division, operated 1,074 stores at the end of 2007, primarily selling branded footwear for the entire family. The specialty retail operations include 144 stores in the United States, 135 stores in Canada; and five stores in China at year-end, selling primarily Naturalizer brand footwear in regional malls and outlet centers. In 2005, Brown Shoe Company acquired Bennett Footwear Holdings LLC and its subsidiaries. More

Manufacturing: Leather and manmade footwear and trimmings.