Brown Shoe Company is a consumer-driven footwear company that operates nearly 1,300 retail shoe stores throughout the United States and Canada. The company is also a marketer and supplier of more than 75 million pairs of branded, private label and licensed footwear to department stores, mass-merchandisers, independent and specialty stores. Brown Shoe owns and operates the Famous Footwear retail chain, which has more than 900 stores in the United States that sell brand name shoes. The Famous Footwear chain is also known by other store names depending on the location, such as Supermarket of Shoes, Warehouse of Shoes and Factory Brand Shoes. Brown Shoe Company also operates the Naturalizer specialty retail stores, which have nearly 350 locations in the U.S. and Canada. The company employs nearly 12,000 people worldwide. Brown Shoe Company is headquartered in St. Louis and maintains offices in Brazil, Italy, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.