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Puma is an international athletic company based out of Germany that produces high quality footwear and sports clothing. Puma is well known for its soccer shoes, though it produces many more styles. The company sponsors many sporting events and some of the biggest athletes in sports today.
The history of Puma is an interesting one. Rudolph and Adi Dassler started a shoe company in 1924 called Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory. Their father had worked in a shoe factory, which had inspired the brothers’ interest in shoes. The factory was ran out of their mother’s laundry shop, and it is said the brothers used a stationary bicycle to generate power to run their equipment. This company would later become Puma. (more...)