DISTRIBUTION
Company: Belleville Boot
Location: Belleville
Posted on: April 27, 2021
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Job Description:
BELLEVILLE BOOT
HIRING FOR:
Distribution: $13.50/hr
Forklift experience needed 7 AM - 3:30 PM
EEO/AA Employer/M/F/Vet/disabled
BENEFITS INCLUDE:
All candidates must pass a pre-employment drug test.
Belleville Boot continues to be the leading provider and innovator
of combat, protective, flight and tactical military boots for the
US Department of Defense (DoD)
Our History
1904
Belleville Shoe Mfg Co founded
Five Belleville businessmen – Adolph Knobeloch, H.E., Leunig, J.B.
Reis, James Rentchler and William Weidmann – founded Belleville
Shoe Manufacturing Co. in 1904, employing 50 workers and making 50
to 75 pairs of shoes a day. Though none of the five had any
experience in shoe-making, they were confident of their market and
within a few years, they were selling shoes from coast to
coast.
1917-1933
Received 1st order for combat boots
During World War I, Belleville Shoe received its first order for
military footwear. This began an enterprise that has sustained the
company ever since. Belleville has revolutionized from a small
operation into today's large, technology-driven business which
develops and produces breakthrough footwear for the nation's armed
forces.
1945
Awarded the "E" for Excellence Award by the War Department
Military production resumed during World War II, and the War
Department was so impressed with the firm's products and its
unfailing on-time delivery that it bestowed its coveted Army-Navy
"E" Award on the firm in 1945. Of the 90 companies producing combat
boots during the war, only five received this distinction. In the
years since, the government has repeatedly honored the company for
its quality and performance.
1950-1960's
Partnered with Rawlings Sporting Goods to manufacture and
distribute athletic footwear
Belleville Shoe branched out into athletic shoe production, making
baseball, football, golf, soccer, bowling and track shoes under the
RAWLINGS brand. Baseball great Stan Musial was their best customer;
he would typically go through six or seven pairs in a season.
According to the New-Demo-Crat at the time, "the majority of
Olympic track stars and almost all major league baseball players
wore shoes made at Belleville."
1991
Earned the Defense Quality Excellence Award from DLA
The company won the Defense Department's prestigious Defense
Quality Excellence Award in appreciation for its performance in
meeting an urgent, accelerated deadline. Belleville delivered
120,000 pairs of desert boots on or ahead of the revised schedule.
The Defense Logistics Agency, which conferred the award, noted that
of 656,000 boots Belleville produced in the year from Aug. 18, 1989
to Aug. 17, 1990, not a single boot failed to meet government
quality requirements.
1993
Named National Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year
The company competed first regionally and then nationally for the
award, which recognizes outstanding small businesses that supply
the federal government. Belleville Shoe eclipsed 147 other
nominated companies to take the prize. These 147 nominees came from
the ranks of 75,000 small businesses performing federal contract
work.
2002
Expanded capacity by opening a second factory in Dewitt,
Arkansas
Belleville made the shift from a traditional military boot
specification adopter to the leading footwear innovator, allowing
Belleville to be first to market with new boot designs and
construction methods. The sharp increase in military production
required a corresponding expansion in capacity.
2006
Received Vendor Excellence Award in large business Category
Belleville Shoe was the Large Business award recipient when the
Defense Logistics Agency honored 18 industry partners with their
Vendor Excellence Award. The award recognizes individual businesses
that have demonstrated outstanding efforts to partner with DLA and
improve the agency's mission - providing supplies and services to
America's war fighters – which includes excellence in superior
product quality, on-time delivery, superior customer service,
reliability, dependability, consistency and accuracy.
Belleville was nominated for this category based on its superior
support to Defense Supply Center Philadelphia with the introduction
of the hot-weather Army combat boot and temperate-weather Army
combat boot.
2008
Opened 3rd factory in Forrest City, Arkansas
Due to increased demand among all services for our military boots,
Belleville opened a third 31,000 square-foot factory in Forrest
City, AR to again, increase our boot making capacity.
2009
Tactical Research by Belleville line introduced
Belleville continued its extensive investment in footwear
technology and science through the creation of our Tactical
Research division; which combines 100+ years of boot-making
knowledge with the world's most advanced materials and highest
quality factories to provide innovative footwear solutions to
tactical needs.
Today
Belleville Boot continues to be the leading provider and innovator
of combat, protective, flight and tactical military boots for the
US Department of Defense (DoD)
At 108 years old and over 1 million pairs of military boots sold
annually, Belleville is still the oldest and largest US military
boot provider.
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