Timberland History

Timberland is a world's known company for mountain climbing and hiking boots, but they are an important element of fashion these days. These boots are quite popular in the African American, Latin & West Indian culture of New Jersey & New York. Apart from making boots and shoes the Timberland Company is also into apparel market including leather goods, eyewear, watches and many other goods.

It all started in 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts where Nathan Swartz started as an apprentice stitched boots. In 1952 he bought half an interest of Abington Shoe company and later he bought the remaining also in 1955 and than brought his son into this business and after 10 years the company introduced the injection molding technology for shoes which fused the leather upper without stitching with the soles and the result was a waterproof shoe. They were the first to introduce this technology in the shoe industry that time.

The name Timberland came for the waterproof leather boot which became very popular and because of this reason the company official name was changed to TIMBERLAND Company. These waterproof boots are made of premium leather uppers, leather linings, thermal micro fiber and quality foam, padded collar, rustproof hardware, taslan fiber laces, sole made of polyurethane construction attached to durable rubber outsole and fiber glass shanks.

After 1978 the Timberland Company became more than a boots making company and started introducing its line of casual and boat boots to its product range of footwear. And it the 1980's the company expanded internationally, first into the Italian market and later to many other countries as an international lifestyle brand and added clothing and women's shoes to its products. It was in Italy when Sidney Swartz one of the founder's sons took the leadership. And he still serves the chairman of the company. The company produced more great products and expanded it product range to watches, socks, backpacks, kids boots and gears through out the 1990's.

In 1998 the timberland company introduced the Timberland Pro series "Work boots for professionals" which promised to be durable, long lasting, comfortable and fits well. Later Jeffrey Swartz took over as the CEO of the company and changed Timberland to a socially responsible corporation continuing the legacy of his ancestors.

The Timberland Company is into community service also, it encourages striving to unite young people from various backgrounds.  The company also participates in a program which gives employees 40 hours paid off time to serve for their communities.

In 2006 Timberland acquired a British based clothing company named Howies and recently acquired Ipath a skateboard footwear company. The timberland shoes are used by various actors and actresses in various movies in the Hollywood. Steve Irwin "The crocodile Hunter" use to wear timberland boots. The American record producer and composer Timothy Z. Mosley known as Timbaland got his name for wearing timberland boots on stage which became popular in hip hop fashion.

The Timberland Boots are committed to footwear better and have become a classic in the casual footwear around the world. They are built to withstand any environment and outlast every thing.

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