Shoe designer Rockport Company LLC has notified state officials that it may shut down its headquarters in West Newton as soon as July, a move that could eliminate nearly 150 jobs. In a notice filed on ...

Rockport is getting into golf. “For the past 50 years, Rockport has been an innovator in comfort technology, and with our new Rockport Golf collection launching in three of the top five golf markets, ...

NEW YORK– Rockport is stumbling into bankruptcy, with the shoe maker saying Monday that it is filing for Chapter 11 protection. Newton, Massachusetts-based Rockport Group will sell its assets to ...

Rockport Group became the latest shoe company to trip on retail's rocky terrain Monday as it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company, whose shoe brands include Rockport, Aravon and ...

Footwear maker The Rockport Group LLC said Monday that it has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and has entered into a deal in which all of its assets have been purchased by a unit ...

Rockport looks to show that dress shoes can be both comfortable and light, with a new campaign showcasing how light and versatile its new line of shoes (which include Adiprene from Adidas sport shoes) ...

As a Cornell University student in the late 1960s, Bruce R. Katz had no interest in following his father and grandfather into the dying New England shoemaking business. He aimed to build a boat and ...

As Bruce Katz and his father pioneered the walking shoes market, their goal was nothing short of striding briskly into marketing history. “We want to be to walking what Jane Fonda was to aerobics,” ...

NEW YORK- Rockport is stumbling into bankruptcy, with the shoe maker saying Monday that it is filing for Chapter 11 protection. Newton, Massachusetts-based Rockport Group will sell its assets to ...

Since its founding in 1971, the comfort footwear brand has changed hands several times. Reebok bought the company in the 1980s. Adidas in turn acquired the brand when it bought out Reebok in 2005. Ten ...