Shoe manufacturing used to be a pretty big deal in the United States. In 1932, International Shoe was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. By the early 1940s, nearly a quarter-million Americans ...

Read about the latest sports tech news, innovations, ideas and products that impact players, fans and the sports industry at SportTechie.com. Global fitness brand Reebok introduced on Thursday its new ...

A typical pair of running shoes generates 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to keeping a 100-watt light bulb on for one week, according to a new lifecycle assessment. A typical pair of ...

In April 2021, Alan Guyan, Kevin Fisher and Trey Hentz began locking themselves in a studio next to Guyan’s garage in Annapolis and tried to figure out how to start a new shoe company. Ten months ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since taking over a California shoe factory, Jaclyn Jones has taken major steps to modernize manufacturing. “I could see so many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After decades of empty factories, Los Angeles has regained its status as a hotbed for fashion and footwear design and production, ...

Adidas and Nike are in a foot race to see who can perfect a knit–not sewn–shoe that will waste less material and doesn’t need as much cheap labor to make. Making a sneaker usually involves quite a bit ...