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

  • Charles W. Chatfield
  • Journal:
    Bulletin of the Business Historical Society / Volume 24 / Issue 4 / December 1950
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 July 2012, pp. 159-183
    Print publication:
    December 1950

  • 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.