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Paul Fireman
American businessman (born 1944)
Paul Fireman | |
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| Born | February 14, 1944 (1944-02-14) (age 80) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Employer | Fireman Capital Partners |
| Spouse | Phyllis Brenner[1] |
Paul Fireman (born February 14, 1944) is an American businessman, who for 26 years led Reebok International, Ltd. as chairman and CEO. Fireman sold Reebok to Adidas in 2005.
Early life and education
Fireman was born February 14, 1944, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a Jewish family[1] and raised in the working-class city of Brockton, Massachusetts, also called 'Shoe City'. He attended high school at Tabor Academy, a private secondary school in Marion, MA and matriculated to Boston University, but did not graduate.[2]
Personal life
Fireman and his wife Phyllis[2] (née Brenner) grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts and met at age 12 at a YMHA mixer. Fireman and his wife, Phyllis, are competitive bridge players. In 2014, his team won the Roth Open Swiss Teams at the
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Fireman, Paul
(1944-)
Reebok International
Overview
Paul Barry Fireman accomplished what others considered impossible. He transformed his family's wholesale sporting goods business into Reebok International, one of the world's chief contenders in the athletic shoe market. Fireman attended a trade fair in Chicago in 1979 and was impressed by a display of hand-sewn leather sneakers called "Reeboks," which were made by the world's oldest athletic shoe company, J.W. Foster & Sons. Six months later, he had convinced the British company to let him distribute the shoes in the United States. Within five years, Fireman's company, Reebok, U.S.A., bought out all rights to the shoe, and Reebok International was born. Fireman worked to create a market for designer sneakers. By 1987, his company became the leading manufacturer of athletic footwear in the United States, and was second only in the world to Adidas.
Personal Life
Paul Fireman was born on February 14, 1944, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended Tabor Academy, a private secondary school in Marion, Massachusetts. He enrol
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Reebok
Footwear and clothing company
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Reebok International Limited (REE-bok) is an American footwear and clothing brand that is a part of Authentic Brands Group. It was established in England in 1958 as a companion company to J.W. Foster and Sons, a sporting goods company which had been founded in 1895 in Bolton, Lancashire. From 1958 until 1986, the brand featured the flag of the United Kingdom in its logo to signify the origins of the company. It was bought by German sporting goods company Adidas in 2005, then sold to the United States–based Authentic Brands Group in 2021. The company's global headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Seaport District.
History
Early years
In 1895, Joseph William Foster at the age of 14 started work in his bedroom above his father's sweetshop in Bolton, England, and designed some of the earliest spiked running shoes.[4] After his ideas progressed, he founded his business J.W. Foster in 1900; later he joined with his sons and changed the company
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