Payless ShoeSource

American shoe distribution company
Organization business Q7156755
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Payless ShoeSource

Summary

Payless ShoeSource is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,287 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Payless ShoeSource is in the country of United States[3].
  • Payless ShoeSource is in the country of US[4].
  • Payless ShoeSource's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Payless ShoeSource's instance of is recorded as shoe store chain[6].
  • Payless ShoeSource's instance of is recorded as public company[7].
  • Payless ShoeSource's headquarters location is recorded as Topeka[8].
  • Payless ShoeSource's Commons category is recorded as Payless ShoeSource[9].
  • 1956 marks the founding of Payless ShoeSource[10].
  • Payless ShoeSource's parent organization or unit is recorded as Airwalk[11].
  • Payless ShoeSource's official website is recorded as http://www.payless.com[12].
  • Payless ShoeSource's legal form is recorded as Delaware corporation[13].
  • Payless ShoeSource's legal form is recorded as XTIQ[14].
  • Payless ShoeSource's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+28646'}[15].
  • Payless ShoeSource's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+29606'}[16].
  • Payless ShoeSource's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+27743'}[17].
  • Payless ShoeSource's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+27264'}[18].
  • Payless ShoeSource's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+5070'}[19].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300QN6WZPQK5U0K47[20]

  • Registered legal name: Payless Inc.[21]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[22]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[23]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[24]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[25]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[26]

  • LEI first registered: 2013-09-21[27]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[28]

  • LEI next renewal: 2017-05-24[29]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[30]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[31]

  • Authority entity ID: 2884437[32]

  • Other names: Payless Shoesource, Inc., Collective Brands, Inc.[33]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[34]

Body

Founding

1956 marks the founding of Payless ShoeSource[10].

Operations

Payless ShoeSource's headquarters location is recorded as Topeka[8]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as Airwalk[11].

Why It Matters

Payless ShoeSource ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,287 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [20] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [21] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [22] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [23] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [24] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [25] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [26] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [27] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [33] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [34] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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