Brooks

Brooks Running was founded in 1914 in Philadelphia by Morris Goldenberg as a small American footwear manufacturer specifically focused on producing technically-engineered athletic shoes for the broader American athletic community. The brand has been one of the longest-continuously-operating American athletic-footwear brands — over 110 years of continuous operation — and one of the defining global running-specialist footwear brands. The Brooks Running vocabulary settled around several specific products: the iconic Brooks Adrenaline GTS (the brand's defining product since 2000 — a Brooks DNA-cushioned road-running shoe widely considered one of the best-selling road-running shoes globally over the past 20 years), the Brooks Ghost neutral-cushioned road-running shoe programme, the Brooks Glycerin premium-cushioned variant, the Brooks Hyperion racing-shoe programme, various technical-fabric trail-running shoe variants, and a colour palette anchored to washed-black, washed-navy, military-olive, oxblood, ecru, plus the brand's recurring use of saturated red-and-yellow safety colour combinations and the iconic American-running-aesthetic accent combinations. The brand is owned by Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK), the publicly-listed American conglomerate controlled by Warren Buffett. Brooks Running operates approximately 200 retail flagship stores globally — anchored to the broader US, Japan, and the broader running-specialty retailer network. The brand has been one of the most rigorously committed continuously-American-anchored 'road-running-specialist' footwear brands.