Last year thousands of workers at China's largest sneaker factory, who makes over 300 million pairs of sneakers a year, or an estimated 1/5 of the world's athletic shoes, had gone on strike. Now, the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Crafting the latest trends in global footwear used to be the pride of U.S. shoe industry workers, but most of those jobs left long ago for Asia. Now, the American sneaker ...

I vividly remember the first time I set foot inside a Nike Factory outlet. It was the summer of 1990 and we were on a family trip to Florida. At the time I was 9 years old wearing a size 9 men’s shoe ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – China is the world’s factory for cars, toys and computers. But not sneakers. China is losing that title to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City. Factories that ring the fast-paced ...

For decades, Western companies have made everything from clothes to toys in Asia, Eastern Europe or Latin America, taking advantage of cheaper labor and highly developed supply chains. But the ...

China, which still maintains its status as the "world's factory" for cars, toys, and computers, no longer does so in the sneaker industry. As global brands shifted their supply chains to Vietnam, ...