What brand name was registered by the Wolverine Shoe and Tanning Company in 1961?
Wolverine World Wide In 1921, the company changed its name to Wolverine Shoe and Tanning Corporation.From 1916-1923, its earnings increased 700%. [Wolverine World Wide booklet 11/1/1983 "A Tradition of Success"] In 1941, during World War II, the Wolverine Shoe and Tanning Company began to work for the U.S. Navy, developing pigskin gloves and inventing what later became known as pigskin suede. In 1964, the company changed its name to Wolverine Worldwide, Inc. and in 1965 became a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Hush Puppies, a casual footwear brand founded by the company, quickly rose to popularity in the
S. B. Foot Tanning Company shoe leather produced. Tanneries process animal skins with the use of chemicals to alter the proteins and produce a durable and flexible product. Whether the tanning process is done using vegetable tanning, chromium salt tanning or another process, solid and water waste are inevitable by-products. Currently, all hides used by S.B. Foot Tanning Company are pre-processed to a “wet-blue” state prior to delivery to the tannery for final tanning and dying. The three stages of Wet-Blue processing (pretanning, tanning, finishing) produce 450–600 kg of waste per ton of processed leather. The treatment of this waste is governed by EPA rules