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Wolverine World Wide
Company typePublic
Traded as
  • NYSE: WWW
  • S&P 600 component
Industry
  • Apparel
  • Accessories
Founded1883; 141 years ago (1883)
Founders
  • G. A. Krause
  • Fredrick Hirth
Headquarters
Rockford, Michigan
,
U.S.
Key people
Chris Hufnagel (CEO)
ProductsFootwear, apparel, accessories, sportswear
RevenueIncrease US$2.68 billion (2022)[1]
Number of employees
4,300
Subsidiaries
  • Bates
  • Cat Footwear
  • Chaco
  • Grasshoppers
  • Harley-Davidson Footwear
  • Hush Puppies
  • Hytest
  • Keds
  • Merrell
  • Saucony
  • Sperry Top-Sider
  • Stride Rite (licensed)
  • Sweaty Betty
  • Wolverine Boots and Shoes
Websitewolverineworldwide.com

Wolverine World Wide, Inc. or Wolverine Worldwide, is a publicly traded American footwear manufacturer based in Rockford, Michigan. The shoemaker is known for its eponymous brand, Wolverine Boots and Shoes, as well as other brands, such as Hush Puppies, Chaco, and Merrell. The company also manufactures licensed footwear for other firms, such as Caterpillar and Harley-Davidson. In 2012, Wolverine World Wide added Saucony, Keds, Stride Rite and Sperry Top-Sider to its list of brands, after acquiring the Performance Lifestyle Group of Collective Brands in a $1.23 billion transaction that also involved the sale of Payless ShoeSource and Collective Licensing International to private equity firms Blum Capital Partners and Golden Gate Capital.[2]

  1. ^ "2022 Annual Report" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Wolverine, Golden Gate, Blum agree to buy company whose brands include Keds, Sperry Top-Sider". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 28 October 2019.

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