Red Wing Shoes

Products

The company produces Oxfords, chukkas, hiking boots, and logger styles, as well as work boots. In 1977 they started producing urethane soled boots for improved comfort. While the core of Red Wing's focus is on work boots, in 2008 Red Wing Shoes added a Heritage catalog and also has experimented with more fashion-oriented shoes.

In 2024, Red Wing offered to stitch "wills" into the tongue of boots purchased, as part of a "Will your Wings" campaign.

Manufacturing

The Red Wing Shoe brand is primarily handmade in the USA with American materials at the company's plants in Red Wing, Minnesota, and Potosi, Missouri. They also manufactured shoes in a Danville, Kentucky, factory, until its closure in June 2010. As of 2014, there are six sources of manufacture: completely made in the USA, made in the USA with imported materials, assembled in the USA with imported components, made in China, made in Korea, and made in Vietnam.

In addition to manufacturing footwear under their own name, Red Wing Shoes also manufactures shoes under the Irish Setter Boots, Vasque (discontinued in 2024), Carhartt (discontinued in 2011), and Worx brands. These other Red Wing brands include a majority of models manufactured in Vietnam and Cambodia.