C&J Clark

C&J Clark is a British shoe manufacturer with a high-street retail operation. The business is based in Street, Somerset. Started in 1825 as a business making sheepskin rugs and slippers, using out-workers in the town, it has expanded to become a semi-global shoe brand, with operations in the United States, Europe and Japan.

For much of the life of the business, the company manufactured its own shoes in Somerset, building several factories in the area. Rising costs and low productivity forced production abroad, and while shoe design is still predominantly done in the United Kingdom, manufacturing is contracted out to India, China and Vietnam.