Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Athletic shoe companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 181 athletic shoe companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 145,258 professional contacts across them, including 31,001 with verified work emails and 32,152 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers athletic shoe companies worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 7, 2026. Country and city lists for athletic shoe companies follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest athletic shoe companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 59,645 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NIKE, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 19,637 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Foot Locker, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 11,140 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Skechers is a Fortune 500® company, a growth-oriented brand that designs, develops, and markets a diverse product portfolio of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 9,310 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VF is redefining what it means to be the world’s best apparel, footwear and equipment company, powering iconic active lifestyle brands including The North Face®, Vans® and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 8,835 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1906, New Balance began as a humble one-man operation founded on the belief that “we were born to move,” and has since grown into an international corporation, selling footwear…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 7,369 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are JD Finish Line, a premium retailer providing the latest and most exclusive athletic sneakers, apparel and accessories since 1976.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 7,196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Designer Brands is one of the world's largest designers, producers, and retailers of the most recognizable footwear brands and accessories, transforming and defining the footwear…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 4,707 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About us: Hibbett, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a leading athletic-inspired fashion retailer with nearly 1,100 Hibbett and City Gear specialty stores, located in 35…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 4,254 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “K-Swiss was founded in 1966 by two Swiss brothers, who ventured to sunny southern California, where they introduced one of the first all leather tennis shoes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 3,736 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Champs Sports is a subsidiary of Foot Locker and is the Official Provider of Game.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3,389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deckers Brands is a global organization that has been developing and nurturing brands into global icons since 1973.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,278 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PASSIONATE.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,078 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Foot Locker’s global house-of-brands inspires and empowers youth culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 707 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1983, Road Runner Sports has been sharing our passion, growing our family and helping our Customers find their best fit in gear that will keep them moving!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 362 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Capelli Sport is a global sports brand based in New York City, that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets high quality athletic apparel, accessories, and equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rebel Athletic is not your average apparel brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hotter Shoes (Hotter.com) is one of the UK’s leading footwear brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1966, Footwear Unlimited has been a leader in designing, manufacturing, and distributing footwear.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Loeffler Randall designs, markets, and sells footwear and accessories to a list of the world's leading retailers including Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Soul.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TLF was established in 2012 as a premium athletic and lifestyle apparel brand, pioneering a new category of Gym-To-Street® Wear products engineered for your toughest training…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SHOEBACCA.com is a full-scale online retail footwear company dedicated to helping customers and their families lead active, healthy lifestyles!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 2004 we set out to cater for the needs of all runners and opened our first running shop in Glasgow, based within the Tiso Outdoor Experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Y1 SPORT LIMITED is a sporting goods company based out of United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1993, CJ Premium has been a family owned and operated business with an emphasis on community and customer service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: athletic shoe companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names athletic shoe companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of athletic shoe companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name athletic shoe companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Athletic shoe companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 7, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among athletic shoe companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 2 countries, largest first: the United States, the United Kingdom. Country and city lists for athletic shoe companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “athletic shoe companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names athletic shoe companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among athletic shoe companies, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 31,001 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 7, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Athletic shoe companies by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Athletic shoe companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names athletic shoe companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many athletic shoe companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 181 athletic shoe companies worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
NIKE, headquartered in Beaverton, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most athletic shoe companies?
The United States leads with 146 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (35). Every athletic shoe companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most athletic shoe companies?
London leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by New York (9) and Los Angeles (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 31,001 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 181 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 7, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.