DSW Parent Designer Brands Acquires Shoes.com Domain
Shoes.com is changing hands again — this timing joining the Designer Brands Inc. family.
In a statement sent to FN today, the DSW parent company said it has acquired “the key strategic retail domain ‘Shoes.com’ and associated intellectual property assets” for an undisclosed amount. Private equity firm CriticalPoint Capital LLC is the last publicly known parent company of Shoes.com, but Designer Brands declined to reveal whether it was the seller.
A spokesman for the company noted that the domain and IP were Running Shoes carved out as part of the sale, and that Designer Brands did not purchase any underlying operating business assets.
A landing page on Shoes.com currently states that the dotcom is now “part of DSW” and a link directs shoppers to the DSW.com site. Customers with qu...





