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Northshore October 2025
One hundred and two years in the making, the story of North Andover-based global footwear juggernaut Converse is the stuff of a bestseller. In 1908, Marquis M. Converse founded what started as a rubber company, with a capital investment of $250,000. The most seasoned of businessmen couldn’t have predicted that the footwear line—boots and rubbers—would not only weather the harshest North Shore winters, but that Converse as a brand would withstand the test of time, revolutionizing basketball and the face of sports. On October 15, 2010, Converse, paying homage to its local roots and independent spirit, opened its first stan
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