# Source: https://businessownerindex.com/company-reference/converse-q319515/

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# Converse

American shoe company and brand

## Company context

The public record describes Converse as American shoe company and brand. Its recorded founding year is 1910.

Public business description

American shoe company and brand

Country recorded for the company

United States

Founding year in source record

1910

## Recorded founders

- [Marquis Mills Converse](https://businessownerindex.com/founder-reference/people/marquis-mills-converse-q105414588/) · founder of Converse Inc.

The linked people are recorded under the company’s founder property in the cited dataset. This is a founding association, rather than a verification of current equity or management responsibility.

## Understanding Converse in context

Converse is included because its public company record connects a named business to an identifiable founding team. The business description, “American shoe company and brand,” supplies the context for that relationship, with a recorded starting year of 1910. The founding association shown here is with Marquis Mills Converse. A single association in this library should not be read as a complete list of everyone who helped establish the business.

The [company website listed in the source](https://www.converse.com/) is the next place to research its current offering. Compare the company’s own description, its leadership information, and dated announcements with this reference record before drawing conclusions about today’s business. A founding year describes a historical event; it does not measure business scale, growth, or the length of a founder’s continuing involvement.

## Research context: Retail and consumer businesses

Consumer-business research should separate the brand customers recognize from the legal organization behind it. A brand may sell directly, through stores, through wholesale partners, or through several channels. The available founding association does not establish the present channel mix or whether ownership has changed.

### Questions for researching Converse

- Does the company’s official site explain the current products and sales channels?
- Is the founder associated with the brand, its original operating company, or a later parent organization?
- Which dated business records support the company history rather than repeating an undated biography?

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## Research trail

- [Wikidata public record Q319515](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319515): company description, country, founding year where present, and founder associations.
- [Converse website as listed in the public record](https://www.converse.com/)

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