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The G.R. Kinney Company was an American manufacturer and retailer of shoes from 1894 [1] until September 16, 1998. [2] It was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in March 1923, with the symbol KNN. [3] The shoe concern was started by George Romanta Kinney whose father ran a general store in rural Candor, New York. The father became indebted ...
Shoe Store Successor 1974–present In 1989, moved from Kinney to the new Woolworth Athletic Group division. Company renamed Foot Locker in 2001. The Woolworth company eventually focused on sporting goods only and adopted this name. G.R. Kinney Company: North America Shoe Store Division 1894–1998 Purchased in 1963.
Kinney Shoes – manufacturer and retailer established in 1894 and purchased by F.W. Woolworth in 1963; Kleinhans – a men's clothier in Buffalo, New York that operated from 1893 until 1992; Klopfenstein's – a men's clothier in the Seattle-Tacoma area founded in 1918 and in operation until 1992 [64]
Although established in 1974, and founded as a separate company in 1988, Foot Locker's roots date to 1879, as it is a successor corporation to the F. W. Woolworth Company (“Woolworth's”), which changed its name to Foot Locker in 2001, as many of its freestanding stores were Kinney Shoes and Woolworth's locations. [3]
On October 20, 2001, the company changed names again; taking the name of its top retail performer and became Foot Locker, Inc., which Woolworth started in 1974 under Kinney Shoes. Foot Locker, Inc., is the legal continuation of the original Woolworth; it retains Woolworth's pre-1997 stock price history.
Years later, after signing with a commercial agent, Berry was a spokesman in commercials for Kinney Shoes from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, singing and dancing to the "Great American Shoe Store" jingle. [citation needed]
Thom McAn is an American brand of shoes and was formerly a retail chain. Its shoes have been sold in Kmart and Sears stores. It consists of leather-dress, casual, and athletic shoes (under its Tm Sport label). Until the 1990s, Thom McAn had hundreds of retail stores in the US, and was one of the oldest and best-known shoe retailers in the country.
Kinney Shoe Corp v. Polan, 939 F.2d 209 (4th Cir. 1991), [1] is a US corporate law case, concerning piercing the corporate veil. Facts.