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 ...

Nike Inc.’s new shoe-sizing technology doesn’t worry the company that’s been measuring feet for 92 years. Brannock Device Co. manufactures the ubiquitous shoe-store contraption that you’ve almost ...

How shoes are made and natural changes to your feet can cause you to reach for a different size. Experts explain why.

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 ...

Ever wondered what that foot-measuring gizmo in shoe stores is called? Invented by Charles F. Brannock and patented in 1926, the heel-cupping metal implement, used for generations to torture children ...