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Rockport Shoes files for bankruptcy protection

Posted on 5/14/18 at 7:41 pm
Posted by weagle99
Member since Nov 2011
35893 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 7:41 pm
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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 private equity group Charlesbank under a bankruptcy plan as the shoemaker struggles to compete in a tougher retail market. Charlesbank will serve as the "stalking horse bidder" in a court-supervised sale process. That allows the company to accept other buyout offers Rockport, whose brands include Aravon, Dunham and Rockport, said it will maintain operations through the sale process, but the company is seeking court authorization to close retail stores that are not acquired by Charlesbank or a potential other buyer. It plans to focus on its wholesale, independent and e-commerce sales.



These were the shiz when I was a teenager.


This post was edited on 5/14/18 at 7:42 pm
Posted by Janky
Team Primo
Member since Jun 2011
35957 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 7:42 pm to
I had a pair of rockports. They were comfortable as hell.
Posted by Shooter
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
8982 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 7:44 pm to
look like sperry's
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
41694 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 7:44 pm to
I thought the point of hell was that it was terribly uncomfortable.
Posted by 9001
Pools closed
Member since Jul 2017
2100 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 7:45 pm to
I still have a pair of those boat shoes. Comfy as frick.
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
61106 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 7:54 pm to
I like rockports...wear some to work every day. I need to see if they have some on sale.
Posted by Coater
Madison, MS
Member since Jun 2005
33547 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 8:23 pm to
Rockports were probably better shoes but Eastlands were where it was at back in the day
Posted by southernelite
Houston, TX
Member since Sep 2009
53562 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 8:29 pm to
Rick port was mid grade quality but were pretty comfortable. They just weren’t very stylish.

ETA: my grandma wore rockports almost exclusively, I believe
This post was edited on 5/14/18 at 8:30 pm
Posted by Martini
Near Athens
Member since Mar 2005
49646 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 8:33 pm to
My father died 5 years ago so as their best customer I saw this coming.

In the last year of his life-as he had begun hiding his own Easter eggs I remember talking to my mother nightly and she would say “another god damn box of shoes showed up today. The Salvation Army truck isn’t big enough to haul all of these damn things off.”

He bought a lot of guns that year too that I benefited from so I never complained.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
87145 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 8:34 pm to
Have a pair of slip ons that are really comfy from them.
Posted by BHM
Member since Jun 2012
3894 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 8:36 pm to
Been wearing Rockport for work for over 30 years.
Posted by Slow white bronco
Birmingham
Member since May 2018
32 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 8:50 pm to
quote:

another god damn box of shoes showed up today. 


It must have looked like the holocaust museum over there
Posted by BHM
Member since Jun 2012
3894 posts
Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:08 pm to
Just ordered two of my favorite style just in case.

Essential Details Waterproof Cap Toe.
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