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Caleres knows what is in your closet
Famous Footwear sells the shoes. Sam Edelman, Naturalizer and Allen Edmonds make the names worth asking for. Inside Caleres, the company working both sides of the shoebox.
Payless knows what a name costs.
A fake luxury boutique made its bargain shoes look expensive. Two bankruptcies exposed a harder problem: making affordable footwear pay.
Genesco Inc.
Genesco Inc. is a Nashville-based, footwear-focused retailer and brand operator founded in 1924. Trading on the NYSE as GCO, it runs more than 1,200 stores and a portfolio of retail and lifestyle brands - Journeys, Journeys Kidz, Little Burgundy, Schuh, and Johnston & Murphy - alongside a wholesale and licensed-brands business (Dockers, Levi's, Bass and others). The company generates roughly $2.3-2.4 billion in annual revenue and pairs physical stores with branded e-commerce across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.