Inside a new factory near Louisville, Kentucky, bright orange robots will soon begin carefully loading boot parts into a machine that adds soles. It’s one step in the highly automated process of ...

New Balance Athletics plans to close its Norridgewock shoe-making factory in the coming months, moving operations there to a newly expanded facility in Skowhegan. All 230 jobs in Norridgewock will ...

The history of "the old shoe factory," a five-level International Shoe Plant at Cape Girardeau is an indication of the trend in the shoe-making industry. International employed 1,200 workers in its ...