The W. L. Douglas Shoe Company: Background of a Recent Merger

Charles W. Chatfield

Business History Review, 1950, vol. 24, issue 4, 159-183

Abstract: The W. L. Douglas Shoe Company, founded in Brockton, Massachusetts, in 1876, achieved an outstanding success as the first shoemanufacturing company to establish its own chain of retail stores. After World War I, however, the company entered a long and dreary decline which resulted finally in its removal to another state and its eventual sale to another company. This recent merger, with Arthur Million, Inc., a subsidiary of the General Shoe Corporation, marks the end of W. L. Douglas as an independent company.

Date: 1950
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