After Decades on the Job Site, Bobcat Company Gets Into Work Boots With New Shoe License

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Stephen Garner

Mon, April 13, 2026 astatine 8:00 AM CDT 2 min read

Just months aft acquiring the licence to grow Chinese Laundry successful the U.S., SCL Footwear Group has inked a caller woody with planetary instrumentality and worksite solutions concern the Bobcat Company.

Through this strategical partnership, SCL Footwear Group volition design, manufacture and administer Bobcat-branded footwear. The institution noted that the archetypal postulation focuses connected “jobsite-ready functionality that balances durability, comfortableness and mundane versatility,” and spans crossed enactment boots and shoes.

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“SCL Footwear Group is arrogant to spouse with Bobcat, a marque agelong recognized for its strength, reliability and durability,” Joe Safdeye, enforcement vice president astatine SCL Footwear Group, said successful a statement. “With Bobcat footwear, we’re translating that practice into a enactment built for today’s workforce—combining all-day comfort, rugged show and dependable quality. Designed with the aforesaid absorption connected precision and agility that defines Bobcat machinery, the postulation delivers professional-grade enactment boots astatine exceptional value.”

Laura Ness Owens, main selling serviceman astatine Bobcat, added that the marque is “built astir the radical who amusement up each time and bash the work.”

“Partnering with SCL Footwear Group allows america to transportation that committedness into enactment footwear, supporting professionals wherever the occupation takes them,” Owens noted.

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The Bobcat footwear collection, which retails betwixt $79.99 and $109.99, is present disposable done Walmart.com, with opportunities for expanded organisation implicit time.

The caller licence announcement comes aft SCL Footwear Group inked a woody successful February to grow Chinese Laundry crossed the state aft the statement was sold to Gordon Brothers’ marque absorption part for an undisclosed sum. Under the presumption of the deal, Gordon Brothers acquired the intelligence spot of each 4 of the company’s labels — Chinese Laundry, Dirty Laundry, CL by Laundry and 42 Gold.

SCL Footwear Group specializes successful the wide accumulation and organisation of worth men’s, women’s, and children’s footwear. It besides produces shoes nether the labels of Goodyear, Daisy Fuentes and Harborsides.