Cole Haan

Yarmouth, ME United States

 

Company Description

Cole Haan caters to the well-heeled. It makes and retails upscale footwear and accessories, and is the more fashion-footed unit of athletic products firm NIKE. The shoe maker peddles its products through about 110 Cole Haan stores in the US, as well as another 80 stores in Japan. It also sells its shoes, belts, hosiery, handbags, small leather goods, fine outerwear, and watches online and in stores run by other retailers. Cole Haan has reached into high-end accessories (encroaching on Coach) in recent years. Most of Cole Haan's products are distributed from New Hampshire; its outerwear is made in Italian factories by G-III Apparel. Cole Haan was founded in Chicago in 1928 by Trafton Cole and Eddie Haan.