Vivobarefoot makes thin, wide and flexible shoes designed around what it calls natural foot movement. Its company page names cousins Galahad and Asher Clark as founders and dates the standalone business to 2012. The barefoot design and related health language express the company's approach rather than proving a medical benefit for every wearer. Fit and adaptation can differ by person and use; the history does not establish the materials or environmental footprint of each shoe.
Same category, HQ in United Kingdom
INInov-8 is a sports brand making footwear and apparel for trail running, hiking and functional fitness, including shoes such as the F-LITE MAX. It was founded in 2003 in the fells and mountains of the English Lake District, and says it aims to support the world's physical and mental fitness through pioneering products that keep athletes in the flow, balancing design between the body and the environment.
Sports apparel and footwear
MOMontane makes lightweight, breathable outdoor clothing and equipment for the trail and for racing, designed for a life spent outside. For more than 30 years it has aimed to create cutting-edge outdoor kit, backed by expeditions to hostile corners of the planet, athletes who push limits, and long-standing partnerships with some of the world's toughest endurance events. It says it works closely with mountain professionals in hostile conditions as a proving ground for its gear.
Sports apparel and footwear
RARab is an outdoor-equipment brand that began in 1981 when mountaineer Rab Carrington made a down sleeping bag in his Sheffield home. Its range later expanded beyond sleeping bags to technical mountain clothing and equipment for climbing, hiking and exposure to harsh weather. The brand says its sleeping bags are still hand-filled, stitched and finished in Derbyshire; the founding story is about the brand, not a claim that every product is made there.
Sports apparel and footwear
SKSKINS is a compression-sportswear brand whose first Australian company was established in 1998, after compression-for-sport concepts emerged in 1996. Its first black garments with yellow stitching launched in 2002, followed by later SERIES ranges for training, competition and recovery. The brand says new owners took over in 2019 and a new team relaunched the line in 2020; its claims about compression benefits are brand claims, not independent medical findings.
Sports apparel and footwear
SPSports Direct is a UK sports retailer founded in 1982 by Mike Ashley, who opened his first shop selling sporting and skiing goods in Maidenhead. It sells sports clothing, footwear, accessories and equipment in store and online, from brands such as Nike, adidas and Slazenger. It has hundreds of stores across the UK, Europe and Malaysia and is part of Frasers Group.
Sports retail
BRBrogini sells riding boots and related equestrian footwear, founded by Ginette Brogan. It ships internationally from the UK.
Riding boots
CACanterbury of New Zealand calls itself the original rugby brand, with more than 120 years of history and roots in rugged army uniforms. It launched the Invincibles All Blacks kit in 1924, has been official kit partner to Ireland Rugby since 2014 and to the British & Irish Lions since 2017, and makes rugby teamwear, training kit and clothing for teams at all levels. Canterbury of New Zealand is owned by Pentland Brands, which says the brand joined its group in 2012.
Rugby apparel and footwear
ELEllesse is an Italian sports-fashion brand founded in 1959 by tailor Leonardo Servadio. Its clothing draws on skiing and tennis, with sportswear, footwear and everyday styles sold through its stores. Pentland Brands lists ellesse among the brands it owns and describes its earlier sponsorship of tennis player Chris Evert. The brand's fashion and athletic claims are its own; that historic sponsorship is not evidence of a current endorsement.
Sports apparel and footwear
