Sorel - Fashion Company Profile
Sorel is the winter-boot brand introduced in Kitchener, Ontario in 1962 - the rubber-toed, leather-upper boot that became a cold-weather icon, owned since 2000 by Columbia Sportswear and based in Portland, Oregon.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - a Columbia Sportswear brand of winter and all-season footwear, headquartered in Portland, Oregon
- Type
- Brand of a public company - Columbia Sportswear Company (Nasdaq: COLM), which bought the Sorel trademark in 2000
- Headquarters
- Portland, Oregon, United States
- Founded
- 1962, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - introduced by the Kaufman Rubber Company under Arthur Ratz Kaufman
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Company Profile
Sorel's current boots and shoes are on its website, linked above, and the shop box covers Sorel products sold through Amazon and eBay. The profile this page keeps is the brand's own account of itself: founded on boots that balance construction and protection, and grown - under Columbia Sportswear's ownership since the 2000 trademark purchase - from a Canadian winter specialist into an all-season footwear brand that treats function as a fashion material. Its Portland headquarters, the filing notes with pride, sit in the heart of downtown, walking distance from Pioneer Courthouse Square and Waterfront Park.
When Kaufman Footwear went bankrupt in 2000, Columbia Sportswear bought the Sorel trademark, and the brand was rebuilt from Portland, Oregon - where its headquarters sit in the heart of downtown, walking distance from Pioneer Courthouse Square, Director Park, the Portland Art Museum and Waterfront Park, a geography the filing describes with evident civic pride. Under Columbia (Nasdaq: COLM) Sorel expanded from its winter-boot core into all-season fashion footwear, while keeping the rubber-toe, leather-upper silhouette that made the name.
Common Questions
When was Sorel founded?
In 1962, by the Kaufman Rubber Company of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - the brand of founder Arthur Ratz Kaufman's footwear business, built on premium winter boots balancing construction and protection.
Who owns Sorel now?
Columbia Sportswear Company (Nasdaq: COLM), which bought the Sorel trademark out of the Kaufman Footwear bankruptcy in 2000. Sorel is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
What is Sorel best known for?
Winter boots - the rubber-toed, leather-upper cold-weather boot is its signature - expanded in recent years into all-season footwear that pairs function with fashion.
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