Liverpool, N.Y. — If you were in a business that seemed to be in the crosshairs of a corporate titan like Nike, you might feel a little panicky. Of course, it would help to have over 90 years of ...

One of the world’s biggest companies is trying to shake up a business dominated for decades by a Central New York firm. Nike is rolling out an app, Nike Fit, that will allow customers shopping online ...

On a quiet street in Syracuse, N.Y., a small factory makes an American classic: a flat metallic object that millions of people recognize by sight, but few know by name. It’s the Brannock Device, ...

It's a back-to-school tradition: a visit to the neighborhood shoe store, where employees pull out a well-worn metal foot measuring tool from under a seat to measure children's feet, fit them with the ...

LIVERPOOL, N.Y.—Many have tried, but no one has ever come up with a more elegantly simple way to measure the human foot than Charles Brannock, inventor of that ubiquitous metal gadget found in shoe ...