Endicott Johnson Corporation

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Endicott Johnson Corporation

Predecessor	Lester Brothers Boot and Shoe Company
Founded	1899
Fate	Acquired, 1995
Successor	Rocky Shoes and Boots
Headquarters	Endicott, New York , USA
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	George F. Johnson and Henry Bradford Endicott
Products	Shoes, Boots, Rubber, Paracord, Welts, and related care products
Number of employees	20,000 (peak, c. 1920)

The Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company ("E-J") was a prosperous manufacturer of shoes based in New York's Southern Tier, with factories mostly located in the area's Triple Cities of Binghamton, Johnson City, and Endicott. An estimated 20,000 people worked in the company's factories by the 1920s, and an even greater number worked there during the boom years of the mid-1940s when, helped by footwear it produced for the military during the war years, it was producing 52 million pairs of shoes a year. During the early 1950s, the work force was still approximately 17,000 to 18,000. Today, EJ Footwear, LLC operates as a unit of Nelsonville, Ohio-based Rocky Shoes & Boots, Inc.