Caleres - Fashion Company Profile
Caleres is the St. Louis footwear company founded in 1878 and known for most of its history as the Brown Shoe Company - it renamed itself Caleres in May 2015. It runs the Famous Footwear store chain and a portfolio of footwear brands including Naturalizer, Sam Edelman, Allen Edmonds, Vionic and Dr. Scholl's Shoes, and in August 2025 it added the luxury brand Stuart Weitzman, bought from Tapestry. This page is the company's current profile; the Brown Shoe-era record is linked from the Caleres filing's sibling page in this letter and from the history page below.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - St. Louis footwear company; completed its acquisition of the Stuart Weitzman brand from Tapestry in August 2025
- Type
- Public - NYSE: CAL
- Headquarters
- Clayton, Missouri, United States
- Founded
- 1878, in St. Louis, Missouri, as Bryan, Brown & Company - the company traded for most of its life as Brown Shoe Company before renaming itself Caleres in 2015
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Company Profile
Caleres divides its business between the Famous Footwear retail segment and its brand portfolio, and the Stuart Weitzman purchase was made to push the portfolio side toward half of total revenue. The brand-by-brand record the directory has kept for the company is set out in the profile section below.
The structure historical descriptions describe is a portfolio, organised by the role each brand plays in a customer's life. Caleres is a diverse portfolio of global brands which fit people's lives: Family, Healthy Living and Contemporary Fashion. Their products are available virtually everywhere - in the over 1,200 retail stores the company operates, in hundreds of major department and specialty stores, on its branded ecommerce sites, and on many additional third-party retail websites. That three-part portfolio frame is the key to the whole filing, and the sections below follow it brand group by brand group.
Caleres History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Caleres History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
What does the name Caleres mean, and what was the company called before?
From the Latin calere, to glow with passion or intensity, in the historical record. Caleres was formerly known as the Brown Shoe Company, filed separately in the B letter of this directory.
How is the Caleres portfolio organised?
In three groups: Family (Famous Footwear and Famous.com), Healthy Living (Naturalizer, Dr. Scholl's, LifeStride, Bzees and Ryka) and Contemporary Fashion (Sam Edelman, Franco Sarto, Vince, Via Spiga, Diane von Furstenberg, Fergie Footwear and Carlos Santana), sold through over 1,200 company stores, department and specialty stores, branded ecommerce and third-party sites.
When did Caleres acquire Allen Edmonds?
In 2017, in the historical record, which notes Allen Edmonds still maintains its traditional 212-step manufacturing process for Goodyear welted shoes, a basis dating to 1922.
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