Acme (ακμή; English transliteration: akmē) is Ancient Greek for "(highest) point, edge; peak of anything", being used in English with the meaning of "prime" or "the best", initially when referring to a period in someone's life[1] and then extending to anything or anyone who reaches perfection in a certain regard.

[2] During the Great Depression, two Chicago shoe manufacturers, Jessel Cohn and his son, Sidney, decided to move their children's and infants' shoemaking plant from Chicago, Illinois, to Clarksville, Tennessee.

They set up their business in a two-story brick building on Crossland Avenue and called it the Acme Shoe Manufacturing Company.

They hired 100 employees and began producing sandal-like footwear for children and infants under the name Just-Kids.

Brown, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, and placed under the Double-H Boots brand label, where it remains today.