Shoe Zone (stylised as shoezone) is a budget footwear retailer in the United Kingdom.
Brothers Michael and Christopher Smith bought controlling shares in the footwear company, Bensonshoe, in 1980 (which was founded by their grandfather.
[5] In January 2009, it bought Leicester-based Stead & Simpson and converted many stores to the Shoe Zone brand.
In 2021, the company made headlines when Peter Foot stepped down as finance director and was replaced by Terry Boot, a humorous double example of aptronyms.
In 2020, Shoe Zone raised debt for the first time in 15 years with a £15M CLBILS facility from NatWest.