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C. & J. Clark International Limited (trading as Clarks) is a British footwear manufacturer and retailer founded in 1825 by Cyrus Clark in Street, Somerset, where its headquarters remain. As of October 2023, the brand has 320 stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and hundreds of franchises located in the Americas, Europe and the Asia Pacific.
The Shoe Museum in Street, Somerset, England exhibited shoes dating from the Roman era to the present day. The museum closed on 27 September 2019. [1]It showed the history of the Clark family and their company C. & J. Clark and its connection with the development of shoemaking in the town, [2] as well as the Latin Verse Machine, a poetry generator built by C. & J. Clark's cousin John Clark in ...
In the 19th century Cyrus Clark started a business in sheepskin rugs, later joined by his brother James, who introduced the production of woollen slippers, and later, boots and shoes. [1] However, shoes are no longer manufactured there. Clarks Village opened on 14 August 1993 and gained over two million visitors in its first year.
Nathan Clark's shoe company, C&J Clark, made the desert boot famous, modeled after the same round toe and style of Veldskoene. Clark was inspired by the shape and design of Veldskoene he discovered for sale in the bazars of Cairo, which were imported to Egypt from South Africa. At first desert boots were for the youths. In England, the mods ...
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C&J or C & J may refer to: Clean and jerk, a composite of two weightlifting movements; the clean and the jerk, most often performed with a barbell; Cutfather & Joe, a Danish record production and remixing duo, sometimes credited as C&J or C & J on music releases; C. & J. Clark, a British shoe manufacturer and retailer known as Clarks
His wife was a first cousin of Cyrus Clark and James Clark who founded the shoemakers C. & J. Clark. [2] His father died in 1826, and he was educated at Sidcot School near Weston-super-Mare, before becoming an apprentice to his uncle, who was a miller and confectioner. He married Elizabeth Sarah Meteyard in 1850.
So common name comes first and we mention C. & J. Clark International somewhere in the lead. As there is an incoming redirect from that name, it is also bolded. You are misinterpreting the guideline to try to enforce a rendering that makes this worse for the reader. I also object to the two primary sourced citations in the lead, per MOS ...