Who We Are

We’re Brown Shoe Wholesale.

Designing and marketing fashion-right brands.
We’re the leading supplier of footwear to all channels of distribution, from better-grade department stores to the most successful mass merchants. You know us as Naturalizer, LifeStride, Dr. Scholl’s, Via Spiga, Nickels Soft, Franco Sarto and Carlos by Carlos Santana, as well as kids’ brands like Buster Brown and Barbie. (Headquarters in St. Louis, MO and Brown New York in New York, NY.)

We’re Famous Footwear.

The joy of shoe shopping success.
With more than 1,000 stores and more than 120 million customers every year, we are proud to be America’s #1 retailer of brand-name, value-priced shoes for the entire family. (Headquarters in Madison, WI.)

We’re Shoes.com.

The ease of shoe shopping online.
Shoes.com is an online shoe mega store featuring more than 150 leading footwear brands and thousands of the latest styles.

We’re Brown Shoe Specialty Retailing.

Serving our customers in stores and on-line.
Our footwear branded stores like Naturalizer, Via Spiga, Franco Sarto, and our online mega-brand stores, like Shoes.com, deliver the merchandise and shopping experience customers expect and deserve. (Headquarters in St. Louis, MO.)

We’re Brown Shoe International.

Sourcing that spans the globe.
We’ll go to the ends of the earth for our customers—literally. Through our offices around the world, associates in our International division source more than 90 million pairs of shoes every year.