Pony International is the shoe company in the United States that create the Pony Shoes. Aside from the Pony Shoes, the company also creates a collection of apparel.

The history of the Pony shoes

When the company was founded in Brooklyn in 1972, the brand easily gained the worldwide market that its sales in the middle part of the 1980’s reached $800 million. For ten years from 1996, the Pony Shoes brand was partly owned by Global Brand Marketing, Inc., a private company that is located in Santa Barbara, California. A large part of Pony International was owned by Global Brand in 2003. Just a few years ago, Sharp Gain Profits bought Pony International and relaunched the brand in 2008, this time in San Diego.

Who endorses Pony shoes?

Pony Shoes is known for the casual and athletic line of footwear. Several personalities have contributed to the popularity of the brand. They include: Pele, Earl Campbell, Willie Stargell, Sharif Khan, Leon Spinks, Darrell Dawkins, Tracy Austin, David Thompson, Larry Holmes, Giorgio Chinaglia, the US Football League, Dan Marino, Spud Webb, Anne White and Pete Rose.

In the early 2000s, Pony apparel was endorsed by the rock bands Staind, Korn and Limp Bizkit. Pony even made a shoe design exclusively for Korn lead singer Jonathan Davis, which he wears every time the band plays.

What products does Pony International offer?

Pony International is a manufacturer of athletic footwear and apparel. It also offers sport apparel and even street wear. Even non-athletes, like Snoop Dogg, also endorse the brand. Pony has also designed the kits of some football teams in the 1990s. It was named as the official shoe of the American Basketball Association.

What makes Pony shoes unique?

Pony is proud of the Pony Elements that are in every shoe that is created by the company. These Pony elements are likened to a DNA that defines what the shoe is made of. These are the Pony Element in each pair of Pony Shoes: ultimate flexibility, maximum breathability, lightweight, antimicrobial interior, low construction, enhanced stability, harder rubber, 2 foam densities, 3 foam densities for cushioning, environmentally responsible manufacture and collapsible construction to maximize space.

These Elements are shortened into Articulate, Ventilate, Lite, Sockless, Low Profile, Exoframe, Duro Plus, 2-D, 3-D, Green and Collapse. These Pony Elements are the products of years of research to enhance the technology used in the Pony Shoes. These are also the reasons that the shoes are preferred by many athletes all over the world.