Athletic Shoes - Kindle Non-Fiction

Athletic Shoes 
by George Puckett 

We start at the beginning in the 1800s with the Plimsolls' These were the first tennis shoes, invented in England.

In 1908 the Convers company came into existence concentrating on basketball shoes.

Many people don't know that two of the most dominant brands were developed by German brothers. Those brands are Addidas and Puma.

It's almos unbelievable but the global footware market is expected to reach 195 Billion dollars by 2015.

Nike, headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area is the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$24.1 billion in its fiscal year 2012 (ending May 31, 2012.

From its humble beginning in England in the 1800s you can find athlectic shoes for runnin, walking, jogging, basketball, dressing up and even for playing Tennis.

This book tells it all!