industry footwear founded 1994 1 headquarters burnaby british columbia canada key people susan vann general manager products soft soled shoes apparel number of employees 500 website www.robeez.com robeez footwear is a soft soled baby shoe company that manufactures over 70 different children shoe designs . robeez is headquartered in burnaby british columbia canada and is a division of stride rite corp. origins and history edit the robeez baby shoe company was started by sandra wilson in the basement of her vancouver canada home . while being a stay at home mom after a recent layoff wilson was unable to find baby shoes that would stay on her son s feet properly she came up with an idea for a pair of soft soled leather booties that would not slip off . the suede non slip sole allowed her toddler named robert to walk without sliding and the elastic ankle band ensured the shoes didn t easily fall off . the inspiration for the robeez name came from her son . 2 the robeez company was purchased by the stride rite corporation for 27.5 million in september 2006 . 3 suede bottom of 10th anniversary robeez shoes robeez gecko design references edit the robeez story robeez footwear retrieved on december 11 2007 . robeez footwear better by design pdf . stride rite buys robeez . september 6 2006 . external links edit robeez website stride rite corp. retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title robeez & oldid 683357458 categories companies established in 1994 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 september 2015 at 20 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view