Top Shoe Brands Made in Vietnam: 20 Major Brands and the Factories Behind Them
Look at the label inside your running shoes, and there's a good chance it says Made in Vietnam. Nike makes 52 percent of its footwear there and Adidas 41 percent, and Puma, On, Crocs, Columbia, and Dr. Martens all lean heavily on Vietnamese factories too. Only China exports more shoes.
I've been sourcing from Asia since 2012, and our Vietnam team has worked out of Binh Duong, next door to Dong Nai's shoe factories, since 2014. Every brand on this list has public evidence that it makes shoes in Vietnam. That doesn't mean every pair it sells is made there: most of these brands make shoes in several countries.
Thinking about making your own shoes? Start with how to find a manufacturer in Vietnam.
What this guide covers
Shoe Brands Made in Vietnam at a Glance
Vietnam exported nearly $29 billion worth of leather goods, footwear, and handbags in 2025, according to Lefaso, the country's leather and footwear association. Here are some of the best-known brands making shoes there.
| Brand | Segment | What is made | Where in Vietnam |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nike | Athletic | Sneakers across most categories | Dong Nai, Ho Chi Minh City, Tay Ninh, Vinh Long |
| Adidas | Athletic | Sneakers across most categories | Dong Nai, Ho Chi Minh City, Tay Ninh |
| Puma | Athletic | Sneakers and sportswear | Ho Chi Minh City (including the old Binh Duong) |
| New Balance | Athletic | Running and lifestyle sneakers | Ho Chi Minh City (Pou Chen's Pouyuen complex) |
| FootJoy | Golf | Golf shoes | Tay Ninh (the old Long An) |
| ASICS | Running | Running shoes | Ho Chi Minh City (Pou Chen's Pouyuen complex) |
| On | Running | Running shoes | Dong Nai, Ho Chi Minh City, Phu Tho |
| HOKA | Running | Road and trail running shoes | Thanh Hoa, Hai Phong, Dong Thap, Dong Nai |
| Allbirds | Casual | Wool and plant-fiber sneakers | Contract factories (all of its footwear) |
| Skechers | Casual | Walking and casual shoes | Ho Chi Minh City (TBS Group in Di An) and others |
| Crocs | Casual | Molded clogs and sandals | Contract factories |
| HEYDUDE | Casual | Casual slip-ons | Contract factories |
| Columbia and SOREL | Outdoor | Hiking shoes, winter boots | Contract factories |
| Merrell | Outdoor | Hiking shoes and boots | Southern Vietnam contract factories |
| Salomon | Outdoor | Trail running and hiking shoes | Ho Chi Minh City (Pou Chen's Pouyuen complex) |
| Dr. Martens | Boots | Leather boots and shoes | Contract factories |
| Clarks | Leather | Leather casual and dress shoes | Contract factories shared with other brands |
| ECCO | Leather | Leather comfort shoes and uppers | Its own factory in Bau Bang (the old Binh Duong) |
| Steve Madden | Fashion | Women's fashion footwear | Contract factories |
Brand names link to their profiles below, along with each brand's Vietnam share where it's public. Locations come from brand supplier lists, filings, and news reports; the Pouyuen details date from 2020, and HOKA's locations come from Deckers' 2022 supplier list. Province names are the ones in place since July 2025.
Athletic and Running Shoe Brands Made in Vietnam
This is Vietnam's home turf. It's the top production country for both Nike and Adidas, and running brands like On lean on it even more.
Nike
More than half of Nike Brand shoes now come from Vietnam: 52 percent in fiscal 2026, against 27 percent from Indonesia and 16 percent from China, according to Nike's latest annual filing. Nike doesn't actually make them, though. Independent contract manufacturers own and run the shoe factories. Nike's own footprint in Vietnam is much narrower: its Air Manufacturing Innovation plant in Dong Nai, which makes the Air-Sole cushioning units that go into its shoes.
Adidas
Adidas made 41 percent of its footwear in Vietnam in 2025, and Vietnam was its biggest sourcing country for everything it makes. What stands out is how it works there. Adidas puts its own product developers inside its partners' factories in Vietnam and Indonesia, a setup it calls creation at source, so development happens right next to production.
Puma
Vietnam passed China in 2025 to become Puma's biggest production country, with 29 percent of its total volume, apparel and accessories included. A year earlier, China was still ahead.
On
On is close to all-in: about 90 percent of its shoes came from Vietnam in 2024, and the rest from Indonesia.
FootJoy
FootJoy made one of the cleanest moves out of China. Its parent, Acushnet, shifted golf shoe production from a joint-venture factory in Fuzhou, China, to a partner's factory in Long An (now part of Tay Ninh) during 2024, and stopped making shoes in China in January 2025. In January 2026 it formed a new joint venture with that Taiwanese partner to manage footwear production in Vietnam. Nearly all FootJoy shoes now come from that one factory.
Casual and Lifestyle Shoe Brands Made in Vietnam
Casual brands tend to spread production across more countries, but a few are shifting toward Vietnam fast.
Skechers
Skechers splits much of its sourcing between China and Vietnam, based on Raymond James figures reported by Reuters. TBS Group, one of Vietnam's biggest shoemakers, lists Skechers among its long-term customers.
Crocs and HEYDUDE
Crocs and HEYDUDE share a parent company and are heading in opposite directions. Vietnam's share of Crocs-brand production has been slipping, from 56 percent in 2023 to 51 percent in 2024 and 45 percent in 2025, though its biggest manufacturer still works mostly in Vietnam. HEYDUDE, which Crocs bought in 2022, is going the other way. Vietnam made 5 percent of its shoes in 2023, 20 percent in 2024, and 44 percent in 2025, as production moved out of China.
Outdoor and Work Boot Brands Made in Vietnam
Outdoor and boot brands are some of the most Vietnam-heavy names in footwear.
Columbia and SOREL
Columbia Sportswear, which owns both brands, made about 80 percent of its footwear in Vietnam in 2024 and about 15 percent in China. That's a company-wide figure, not a split by brand.
Dr. Martens
Most Dr. Martens products were made in Vietnam in fiscal 2025, and the company planned to source 62 percent of its footwear there for fall/winter 2025, with most of the rest coming from Laos.
Merrell
Merrell shows the flip side of leaning on one country. When COVID-19 shut factories in southern Vietnam in 2021, parent Wolverine World Wide said Merrell took the biggest hit of any of its brands: at least $25 million in lost sales in a single quarter.
Dress and Leather Shoe Brands Made in Vietnam
This is where Vietnam is strong but not the whole story, because leather dress and comfort brands spread production across several countries. If you're making leather dress shoes, our guide to dress shoe manufacturers in Vietnam covers the factories that take smaller runs.
Clarks
In the latest breakdown on its website, for spring/summer 2022, Clarks made 14.6 percent of its shoes in Vietnam, behind China, Cambodia, and India. Most of its factories make shoes for other brands too.
ECCO
ECCO is the exception to the contract model: it owns its factories. It came to Vietnam in 2015 to stitch shoe uppers for its other plants, then moved into a purpose-built shoe factory in Bau Bang Industrial Park (the old Binh Duong) in 2020.
Steve Madden
Steve Madden shows how fast a fashion brand can move, and how hard it is to leave China completely. It sourced more than 70 percent of its products from China in 2024, cut that to about 30 percent by fall 2025 after US tariffs on Chinese goods spiked, and was back to about 40 percent by early 2026. Vietnam is one of the countries that picked up the work, along with Cambodia, Mexico, and Brazil.
The Factory Groups That Make These Shoes in Vietnam
Almost none of these brands own the factories that make their shoes. Contract manufacturers do, and a handful of Taiwanese and Korean groups are some of the biggest. In Nike's 2026 supply data, Korea's Chang Shin runs six facilities with about 39,000 workers, centered on Dong Nai, and Taiwan's Ching Luh runs four with about 29,000 workers in Dong Nai and Tay Ninh.
Pou Chen
Taiwan's Pou Chen calls itself the world's largest maker of branded athletic and casual shoes, and its customers include Nike, Adidas, ASICS, New Balance, Timberland, and Salomon. About a third of the pairs it shipped in 2023 came from Vietnam, and as of 2020 its Pouyuen complex in Ho Chi Minh City's Binh Tan district was making shoes for most of those brands.
Hwaseung
Hwaseung, another Korean group, makes Adidas shoes at two plants, one in Dong Nai and one in An Giang, that employ more than 15,000 people between them.
TBS Group
TBS Group is the big Vietnamese-owned name. Founded in 1989 and based in Di An (the old Binh Duong), it lists Skechers, Wolverine, and Decathlon among its long-term footwear customers.
Where the Clusters Are
Dong Nai makes more footwear than any other province. Most of the rest of the southern base is in Ho Chi Minh City, which took in Binh Duong in the July 1, 2025 province mergers, and Tay Ninh, which took in Long An. There's a smaller northern base that includes Thanh Hoa, Hai Phong (the old Hai Duong), and Phu Tho (the old Vinh Phuc). Older certificates and supplier lists often still show the old province names, so check that the company name and factory address match across a supplier's documents.
Why Shoe Brands Manufacture in Vietnam
Vietnam's Footwear Supply Chain Is Already Built
Vietnam's footwear industry employs nearly 1.5 million people, and foreign-invested factories earned about 80 percent of its 2025 export revenue, according to Lefaso. The weak spot is materials. Lefaso says the industry still leans heavily on imported leather, chemicals, soles, and accessories. Even Puma, which now makes more in Vietnam than in China, got 79 percent of its polyester and 74 percent of its synthetic rubber from China in 2023.
Vietnam's Trade Deals Reach More Than One Market
Vietnam's trade agreements, including the EVFTA with the EU, the UK-Vietnam agreement, CPTPP, and RCEP, give it lower-duty access to Europe, the UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, and much of Asia, which helps if you sell in more than one market. The same deals cover the other products made in Vietnam, too.
What This Means If You're Launching a Shoe Brand in Vietnam
The Big Factories Probably Aren't Your Factories
It's natural to want the factory that makes Nike's shoes. In practice, the groups above run dedicated lines for a handful of anchor brands, at volumes in the millions of pairs, often with those brands' own developers and supervisors on site. A big group will occasionally take a smaller buyer, but a first order of a few thousand pairs rarely fits those lines, and you'd be the smallest customer in the building. If a factory tells you it makes for Nike, ask which plant would make your order, which lines it would run on, and what minimums apply.
Where a Smaller Brand Fits
Vietnam also has plenty of mid-size factories that work with smaller brands. Before you negotiate a minimum, ask whether it's per style, per color, or per order, because that changes the number. For athletic and casual shoes, Dong Nai factories typically ask for 1,000 to 3,000 pairs per style. Dress shoe factories that serve smaller brands usually start at 500 to 1,000 pairs per style and color, and in our experience a factory quoting 1,000 will sometimes take 500 on a first order if the design is simple and the materials are standard.
Bulk production usually takes 60 to 90 days, and that's production only, not sampling, tooling, or shipping. Factories get busiest from March through June and again from September through November, so book three to four months ahead when you can.
If you can, build your first collection around an outsole that already exists. A new outsole usually means new molds for every size, which adds time and tooling cost. Soles and midsoles often come from specialists, like the EVA foam manufacturers in Vietnam that supply shoe factories, and our list of shoe manufacturers in Vietnam covers the main factories and how to approach them.
Small Runs Work With the Right Factory
Viettano came to us needing a factory that could make dress shoes one pair at a time, each built to a customer's size, style, and materials. We contacted five Vietnamese shoe manufacturers, put together a sourcing report, and ran a two-day factory tour in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in October 2024. The founder visited three factories and had placed sample orders with two of them by the end of the first day. Viettano picked its manufacturer and launched less than a year after starting. Most brands won't need anything that specialized, and mass-produced sneakers can't be made one pair at a time, but it's a good example of how specific the right match can be.
Questions About Shoes Made in Vietnam
Are shoes made in Vietnam good quality?
They can be as good as shoes made anywhere. Vietnam's biggest factories build to Nike and Adidas specs. But quality comes from the brand's materials, specs, and inspections, not the country on the label, and with around 3,000 footwear companies in Vietnam, it varies a lot below the top tier. That's why vetting the factory matters more than where it is.
Is every shoe from these brands made in Vietnam?
No. Most of these brands also make shoes in Indonesia, China, and elsewhere, and it can change by model and season. Check the label on the pair you're holding.
Are there Vietnamese shoe brands?
Yes, though most of them sell mainly at home. Biti's, founded in Ho Chi Minh City in 1982, is the best known, and Ananas and Thuong Dinh are popular local sneaker brands. Exports are a different story: foreign-invested factories earned about 80 percent of the industry's 2025 export revenue.
Can a small brand use the same factory as Nike?
Sometimes, but it's rarely worth chasing. Those groups put most of their capacity into the big brands, and mid-size factories in the same provinces are usually a better fit for a new label.
How can I find out where a brand's shoes are made?
Start with the country-of-origin label on the pair itself. It tells you where that shoe was made, not whether it's genuine. For the bigger picture, check the brand's annual reports and supplier lists. Customs shipment records, searchable through tools like ImportYeti, can help you cross-check which factories ship for a brand, though they don't catch everything.
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