Allbirds
Allbirds is the merino wool shoe company Tim Brown co-founded from New Zealand, built on natural materials and listed on the Nasdaq.
- Founded:
- 2016
- Location:
- San Francisco (co-founder from NZ)
- Website:
- allbirds.com
- Listed:
- Nasdaq (2021)
- Material:
- New Zealand merino wool
- What they make:
- Footwear and apparel from natural materials
Allbirds
Allbirds is the merino wool shoe company Tim Brown co-founded from New Zealand, built on natural materials and listed on the Nasdaq.
Allbirds is a footwear and apparel company co-founded by New Zealander Tim Brown and American Joey Zwillinger in 2016. Brown, a former All White (New Zealand men's football international), developed the idea of a shoe made from New Zealand merino wool: simple, comfortable and built from natural materials rather than synthetics.
Allbirds launched as a direct-to-consumer brand, listed on the Nasdaq in 2021 and has since expanded into retail stores across the United States and internationally. The company has faced the challenge every DTC brand encounters at scale: maintaining the simplicity that made it distinctive.
Why Noteworthy
Allbirds is the highest-profile consumer product to emerge from a New Zealand founder in the last decade. Brown took a NZ material (merino) and a NZ design sensibility (restraint, simplicity) and built a global brand on it.
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