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LaCrosse was established in Wisconsin in 1897 as the La Crosse Rubber Mill in the city of La Crosse. [2] The company became the largest employer in that city in 1930. [ 2 ] In 1994, the company acquired Portland, Oregon-based Danner Boots in a merger that was expected to create a company with an annual revenue of $100 million. [ 1 ]
In July 2014, White's Boots was sold to LaCrosse Footwear of Portland, Oregon, which also owns Danner Boots. LaCrosse Footwear's chief financial officer, Kirk Layton, cited the made-in-America heritage of White's Boots as a motivating factor for the buyout. LaCrosse Footwear is itself owned by Tokyo-based retailer ABC-Mart. [5]
The Shinola Company, founded in Rochester, New York in 1877, as the American Chemical Manufacturing and Mining Company, produced the polish under a sequence of different owners until 1960. [1] "Shinola" was a trade name and trademark for boot polish. [A] The suffix -ola is a popular component of trade names in the United States.
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Boots being made at a Red Wing Shoes factory in the U.S. The Red Wing Shoe brand is primarily handmade in the USA with American materials at the company's plants in Red Wing, Minnesota and Potosi, Missouri. They also manufactured shoes in a Danville, Kentucky, factory, until its closure in June 2010.
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