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Top 25 Footwear designers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 7,218 footwear designers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 254,966 professional contacts across them, including 35,244 with verified work emails. Italy is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers footwear designers 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for footwear designers 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 footwear designers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19,637 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Foot Locker, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 16,238 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PUMA is one of the world’s leading sports brands, designing, developing, and selling footwear, apparel and accessories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 11,140 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 8,835 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 7,196 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 4,707 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 4,573 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Crocs, Inc, we believe life’s too short for uncomfortable shoes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 4,314 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At ECCO, we've kept people walking since 1963.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 4,256 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Bata Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers and retailers of quality footwear.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 4,254 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3,739 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “1960 yılında kurulan FLO GROUP, bugün Türkiye ayakkabı pazarının öncü firmalarındandır.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3,552 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arezzo & Co agora é Azzas 2154 Shoes & Bags Somos parte do maior grupo de moda e lifestyle da América Latina.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,994 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Relaxo Footwears Limited, incorporated in 1984, stands as a beacon of excellence in the footwear industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,878 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Steven Madden, Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2,484 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Caleres is the home of today’s most coveted footwear brands around the world and represents a diverse portfolio spanning all of life’s styles and experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2,191 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2,024 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empresa líder en el sector retail textil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,927 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Christian Louboutin opened his first boutique in 1991 in Paris.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,888 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BIRKENSTOCK is the inventor of the footbed and is committed to a clear purpose: foot health.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,700 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1969, Pou Chen Group is now the world’s largest branded athletic and casual footwear manufacturer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,650 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Golden Goose is a Next Gen luxury brand specialized in the sourcing, design, and distribution of iconic products, primarily consisting of footwear – sneakers in particular – as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,616 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cole Haan became an independently owned company again in 2013 and is growing rapidly in the US and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,443 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ANTA was established in 1991; while ANTA Sports Products Limited, a widely recognized global sportswear company, was listed on the Main Board of HKEx in 2007 (Stock Codes: 2020…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,404 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Foot Locker, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: footwear designers. 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 footwear designers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of footwear designers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name footwear designers. 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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Footwear designers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 footwear designers, 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
- Every country. Country and city lists for footwear designers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “footwear designers”. 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 footwear designers), 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 footwear designers, 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, 35,244 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 19, 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.
Footwear designers by location
29 lists · largest firstEvery Footwear designers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Footwear designers based in Italy874
- Footwear designers based in the United States813
- Footwear designers based in India578
- Footwear designers based in Brazil390
- Footwear designers based in Spain379
- Footwear designers based in the United Kingdom344
- Footwear designers based in France286
- Footwear designers based in Portugal181
- Footwear designers based in Türkiye168
- Footwear designers based in Germany164
- Footwear designers based in the Netherlands160
- Footwear designers based in Pakistan114
- Footwear designers based in Australia108
- Footwear designers based in Canada92
- Footwear designers based in Argentina84
- Footwear designers based in Indonesia72
- Footwear designers based in Sweden50
- Footwear designers based in Denmark48
- Footwear designers based in Belgium46
- Footwear designers based in South Africa33
Cities
- Footwear designers based in New York, United States127
- Footwear designers based in Agra, India81
- Footwear designers based in New Delhi, India80
- Footwear designers based in Elche, Spain59
- Footwear designers based in Mumbai, India54
- Footwear designers based in Madrid, Spain49
- Footwear designers based in Los Angeles, United States46
- Footwear designers based in Miami, United States26
- Footwear designers based in Milan, Italy25
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 footwear designers, 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 footwear designers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 7,218 footwear designers 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?
Foot Locker, headquartered in New York City, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most footwear designers?
Italy leads with 874 companies, followed by the United States (813) and India (578). Every footwear designers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most footwear designers?
London leads with 143 headquartered companies, followed by New York (127) and Paris (110).
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 35,244 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 7,218 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 19, 2026.
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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.