[1] The company also manufactured athletic shoes through the "Dunlop Footwear" division.

In 1939 the company introduced the Volley shoes, designed by tennis player Adrian Quist, who convinced Dunlop to make tennis shoe with the same sole pattern he had seen while touring on North America.

Players who wore the Volley included Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad, Frank Sedgman, Neal Fraser, John Bromwich, Evonne Goolagong-Cawley, Margaret Court, among others.

[5] As a result, the company introduced the KT-26 running shoe, which originated as the Osaga KT-26 in the US and was then sold mainly in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

In 2004, Dunlop Sports Australia became a division of Pacific Brands.