Bryant was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the youngest of three children and the only son of Joe Bryant and Pamela Cox Bryant. He is also the maternal nephew of John Chubby Cox. His parents named him after the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu.
Harold Alfond. Harold Alfond (March 6, 1914 â November 16, 2007) was an American businessman who founded the Dexter Shoe Company and established the first factory outlet store.
Grangaard may have added new styles to the Allen Edmonds arsenal and changed its retail strategy, but virtually nothing has changed about the way the shoes are made. Steffes and his teams still craft more than 90 percent of them in Wisconsin, using a painstaking 212-step process.