Rome (CNN) -- He was a clerk at a shoe company, though he hadn't worked for some time.
The twins, who are former college football and basketball players and now run a shoe company together, say they bought identical apartments because they wanted to achieve similar goals.
For example, imagine that a big shoe company wanted to sell a new shoe of theirs.
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Not long after graduating he heard about what was then called Blue Ribbon Sports, a fledgling shoe company in Oregon run by a coach, William Bowerman, and one of his former runners, Philip H.
But any athlete whose agent gets them an equity stake in a major shoe company should never consider leaving that agent ever.
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Reynier van Bommel, the ninth-generation CEO of a family shoe company that bears his name, says the finishing process on its shoes has benefited from training he received in Italy.
Indosole is a for-profit shoe company that creates sandals from re-purposed Indonesian motorcycle ties, decreasing the number of tires hitting the landfills.
For a time, I had hopes of editing the company newsletter in a shoe warehouse.
He has sponsorship deals with Adidas and a South African shoe-polish company, according to James Templeton, his agent.
The import behind that statement is that customers can get on with the business of running a shoe business or a CPG company or a bank and begin withdrawing from the costly, maddening, and ultimately low-value world of evaluating, testing, purchasing, integrating, deploying, monitoring, patching, and babysitting vast swaths of infrastructure and applications and networks and storage.
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The company sees a day when any company--soapmaker, shoe marketer, airline, bank--can act as an Internet service provider (ISP). 1stUp's angle: The marketers pay 1stUp to provide the behind-the-curtain ISP service they offer, giving it away to gain an intimate, ongoing relationship with customers.
Nike, including its Jordan Brand subsidiary, is the dominant basketball shoe company in the States with a 92% market share, according to SportsOneScan, which tracks sports shoe and apparel sales.
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Camper, the Spanish shoe company, runs a chic hotel in Barcelona.
The shoe company is banking on a new ad campaign, featuring players most Americans have never heard of.
Also consider Herbert Levine, the 65-year-old shoe company founded in New York by a husband-and-wife team that for decades produced more than 260, 000 shoes annually.
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Plank just unveiled the company's first shoe, a football cleat.
That's lower than the market multiple and less than its rivals Kenneth Cole and Nike but fairly rich for a company built on something as inconstant as shoe fashions.
The firm envisions a day when any company, from soapmaker to shoe marketer to airline or bank, can act as an Internet service provider. 1stUp's angle: The marketers pay 1stUp to provide the behind-the-curtain ISP service they offer, giving it away to gain an intimate, ongoing relationship with customers.
The company makes Vibram 5 Fingers, a thin latex shoe with individual toes that mimics barefoot running.
The latter is true for Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak, the 55-year-old owner of global shoe company, Ecco, who Forbes pegs as a billionaire.
She had always hiked the mountains as a respite from order forms and insoles at the Bee Bee shoe company in Manchester, where she worked for 20 years and became the manager's assistant.
The company was letting visitors try out its new talking-shoe concept, with a custom-made microcontroller (along with assorted SparkFun pieces) on the tongue of a pair of Adidas.
In 2009 she contacted Modesta with her unique idea for an alternative limb company, and the pair began collaborating on a groundbreaking stereo leg, replete with speakers and stiletto shoe.
Collective Brands may also end up doing a deal: it has hired consulting firms Perrela Weinberg Partners and Kurt Salmon to explore alternatives to enhance shareholder value, including the possible sale of the company or its Payless ShoeSource unit, or it may hatch up a deal involving its Stride Rite shoe division.
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This shoe is also available in the United States through the company's Semi-Bespoke program, and a limited edition of 100 pairs will be released this month.
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