NSF Food Safety Certification, LLC is accredited to certify to the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety, developed by the British Retail Consortium. The standard helps promote consistency across the supply chain for food and ingredient manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors.
Their first offering, a $50,000 pair of Nike Air Force One So Cals, may just be the most expensive sneakers in the world. (Via Born Rich) Solitaire Kicks offers customers the chance to deck out their sneakers with yellow, blue or white diamonds as well as gold and platinum.
By 1917, these sneakers began to be mass produced. (They got the nickname sneakers because they were so quiet, a person wearing them could sneak up on someone.) That same year, Marquis Converse produced the first shoe made just for basketball, called Converse All-Stars. In 1923, an Indiana hoops star named Chuck Taylor endorsed the shoes, and they became known as Chuck Taylor All-Stars. These are the best-selling basketball shoes of all time. Sneakers Go Global. Sneakers went international in 1924.