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Foot Locker

#4362

Rank

$2.01B

Marketcap

US United States

Country

Foot Locker
Leadership team

Mr. Richard A. Johnson (Exec. Chairman)

Mr. Andrew E. Page (Exec. VP & CFO)

Mr. William Scott Martin (Exec. VP and Chief Strategy & Corp. Devel. Officer)

Products/ Services
Fashion, Retail, Sports
Number of Employees
1,000 - 20,000
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Established
1974
Company Registration
SEC CIK number: 0000850209
Net Income
500M - 1B
Revenue
Above - 1B
Traded as
FL
Social Media
Overview
Location
Summary
Foot Locker, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an athletic footwear and apparel retailer. The company engages in the retail of athletic footwear, apparel, accessories, equipment, and team licensed merchandise under the Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Eastbay, atmos, WSS, Footaction, and Sidestep brand names. As of January 29, 2022, it operated 2,858 retail stores in 28 countries across the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia; and 142 franchised Foot Locker stores located in the Middle East and Asia. The company also offers its products through various e-commerce sites and mobile apps. Foot Locker, Inc. was founded in 1879 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
History

In 1963, the F. W. Woolworth Company purchased the Kinney Shoe Corporation and operated it as a subsidiary. In the 1960s, Kinney branched into specialty shoe stores, including Stylco in 1967, Susie Casuals in 1968, and Foot Locker on September 12, 1974. The first Foot Locker opened in the Puente Hills Mall in City of Industry, California. Woolworth also diversified its portfolio of specialty stores in the 1980s, including Afterthoughts, Northern Reflections, Rx Place, and Champs Sports. By 1989, the company was pursuing an aggressive strategy of multiple specialty store formats targeted at enclosed shopping malls. The idea was that if a particular concept failed at a given mall, the company could quickly replace it with a different concept. The company aimed for 10 stores in each of the country's major shopping malls, but this never came to pass as Woolworth never developed that many successful specialty store formats.

In 1988, the F.W. Woolworth Company incorporated a separate company called the Woolworth Corporation in the state of New York. The Woolworth Corporation was responsible for the operations of the Foot Locker stores, among the other specialty chains operated by Woolworth's. One of its first moves was the acquisition of Champs Sports and to rename itself the Woolworth Athletic Group.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the F.W. Woolworth Company's flagship department store chain fell into decline, ultimately culminating in the closure of the last stores operating under the name of Woolworth's in the United States in 1997. Deciding to continue aggressive expansion into the athletic business in the following years, the company acquired Eastbay in 1997, which was the largest athletic catalog retailer in the United States, as well as subsequent purchases of regional storefront retailers Sporting Goods and The Athletic Fitters . After 1997, Wal-Mart replaced Woolworth in the Dow Jones average. The Woolworth Corporation remained the parent company of Foot Locker, and in 1998 it changed its name to "Venator Group, Inc." By the 1990s, Foot Locker was responsible for more than 70 percent of Kinney Shoe Corp. sales, while traditional shoe retailer Kinney was in decline. Venator announced the shuttering of the remaining Kinney Shoe and Footquarters stores on September 16, 1998.On February 12, 1999, a federal jury in Austin awarded $341,000 to a former Foot Locker shoe store manager who said the company systematically discriminated against its African American employees by offering more opportunities for promotions to white managers.

As the "Foot Locker" brand had become the Woolworth/Venator company's top performing line, on November 2, 2001 Venator changed its name to Foot Locker, Inc. On November 19, 2004, Foot Locker announced that its quarterly profit rose 19 percent, helped by stronger sales.In 2004, Foot Locker acquired the Footaction USA brand and approximately 350 stores from Footstar for $350 million. On April 14, 2004, Foot Locker Inc. announced that it agreed to buy about 350 Footaction stores from bankrupt Footstar Inc. for $160 million to expand in urban areas.On January 10, 2005, the company announced that Nick Grayston was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer of its

Foot Locker U.S. division, succeeding Tim Finn who retired from the company.In 2007, Foot Locker joined with schoolPAX to launch the Foot Locker School Rewards Program, designed to provide charitable donations to schools who sign up and shop at Foot Locker with a custom-coded keytag or school code.

Foot Locker purchased CCS, a skateboarding equipment retailer, from Alloy for $103 million in cash.In 2011, Foot Locker joined DoSomething.Org for the Foot Locker Scholar Athletes program, which honors high school athletes for demonstrating academic excellence as well as flexing their hearts on their sports team and in their communities.

On June 26, 2012, Foot Locker celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first stock offering made by its predecessor, the F. W. Woolworth Company, on the New York Stock Exchange by ringing the Closing Bell for the trading day.

In 2013, the company acquired the German retailer Runners Point Group.After not meeting corporate expectations, Foot Locker planned to close its CCS unit but instead sold it to Daddies Board Shop in 2014.Foot Locker has steadily risen in Fortune 500 rank, from 446 in 2011 to 363 in 2018. Foot Locker recorded a record turnover of 7.151 million dollars at the end of fiscal year 2015.In 2019, Foot Locker invested $100 million in GOAT, an online resale marketplace for sneakers. In 2021, Foot Locker acquired Los Angeles-based athletic retailer WSS and Tokyo-based Atmos. In 2022, Foot Locker announced it would aim to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.Several Foot Locker stores were damaged in rioting and looting, with two locations destroyed by arson, during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul in May 2020.

Mission
We are committed to leveraging the passions of our leaders across the globe.
Vision
Global diversification is a vital component of the Company's strategic positioning. This diversification is unique in the athletic footwear and apparel industry and provides many distinct advantages.
Key Team

Mr. Andrew I. Gray (Exec. VP of Global Lockers & Champs Sports)

Mr. Franklin R. Bracken (Exec. VP & Chief Commercial Officer)

Ms. Mary N. Dillon (CEO, Pres & Director)

Mr. Robert Higginbotham C.F.A. (Sr. VP of Investor Relations, Financial Planning & Analysis)

Mr. Elliott Rodgers (Exec. VP & COO)

Ms. Sheilagh M. Clarke (Exec. VP, Gen. Counsel & Sec.)

Ms. Giovanna Cipriano (Sr. VP & Chief Accounting Officer)

Recognition and Awards
Foot Locker won 2 awards in 2017. In 2017, Foot Locker won for Best Companies in New York and Best Company Leadership. Based on 2,118 ratings and 262 participants, employees at Foot Locker are satisfied with their work experience. The overall culture score, 70/100 or B, incorporates employee ratings based on their feedback on the Perks And Benefits, Office Culture, Retention and more.
References
Foot Locker
Leadership team

Mr. Richard A. Johnson (Exec. Chairman)

Mr. Andrew E. Page (Exec. VP & CFO)

Mr. William Scott Martin (Exec. VP and Chief Strategy & Corp. Devel. Officer)

Products/ Services
Fashion, Retail, Sports
Number of Employees
1,000 - 20,000
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Established
1974
Company Registration
SEC CIK number: 0000850209
Net Income
500M - 1B
Revenue
Above - 1B
Traded as
FL
Social Media