File consists of annual reports for Greb Industries Limited for the years 1967-1971 and 1973, and a photocopy of the report for 1972. File also includes interim reports to shareholders (some photocopies), press clippings, a press release, a public relations pamphlet, and a letter to shareholders.

File consists of an agreement between H.D. McKellar (president) and Charles E. Greb Sr. (vice-president) regarding the transfer of shares of the Berlin Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited from the former to the latter as the company approached insolvency.

File consists of an agreement between the Berlin Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited and the Greb Shoe Company Limited regarding the sale of the former to the latter.

File consists of reports from The Mercantile Agency, R.G. Dun & Co. (Toronto, ON) about the Berlin Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited.

File consists of a report from The Bradstreet Company (Toronto, ON) about the Berlin Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited.

File consists of material relating to the specifications for the construction of the Greb Shoe Company office building in Kitchener, Ontario. Includes a carbon copy of the ts. specifications supplied by Jenkins & Wright, architects (Kitchener, ON), and proposals and correspondence relating to the building contract.

File consists of a ts. notice about the agreement whereby Erwin C. Greb purchased the controlling interest in the Greb Shoe Company held by Charles Greb for $10 000. Notice contains ms. notes.

File consists of a small leather-bound binder of note paper containing ms. and ts. notes, probably belonging to Erwin C. Greb. Includes charts relating to the costs of producing footwear, including the materials, equipment, and overhead expenses. Also includes notes relating to inventory, a recipe for tan cleaner, etc.

File consists of ts. and ms. production reports, including numbers for standard screw, welts, and stitchdown types of footwear. One report describes production for the Greb Shoe Company Limited from 1933 to 1948, and the other untitled report describes production from 1936 to 1949.

File consists of material relating to the sale of Greb Industries Limited to Warrington Product Limited (Don Mills, ON) in 1974.

Includes photocopies of draft agreements and a draft offer to purchase, photocopies of the closing documents relating to the sale (including agreements, schedules, financial statements and correspondence), press clippings, photocopies of organizational charts, research reports about Warrington, Warrington annual reports (1972, 1973), correspondence, the cash offer by Warrington sent to Greb sharholders, and other photocopied documents.

File consists of two letters from president Harry Greb regarding the sale of Greb Industries Limited to Warrington Products Limited. One letter is addressed to the employees and the other to the shareholders.

File consists of material relating to the retirement dinner on February 7, 1975, given in honour of Harry D. Greb, Arthur C. Greb, Ross E. Hahn, and John D. Campbell. Includes correspondence and memoranda about the event, a guest list, the evening's agenda, a press release, press clippings, ephemera, ms. notes, and a photograph of Charles E. Greb seated at a table with John A. Pollock and others. Includes personal correspondence to Charles expressing best wishes to the retiring executives.

Series consists of material relating to the sales, marketing, and advertising of Greb Shoes and its various brands, including Hush Puppies, Bauer, Mohicans, Ramblers, and Cat Treads. Includes magazine and newspaper advertisements, fliers, point-of-purchase advertisements, advertisements for Greb retailers and sales staff, speeches given at a sales meeting, a marketing case study, and other advertising material.

File consists of material relating to the 1971 Hush Puppies colouring contest national advertising campaign. Includes a ts. description of the campaign, an advertisment for Hush Puppies retailers, and an advertisement clipped from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

File consists of a presentation about Greb Shoes given at the international Hush Puppies licencees meeting in Tunis in 1968. Contains information about the history of the company and Greb's experience with Hush Puppies, as well as the development of advertising and marketing at Greb. Presenters included Jack Campbell, Jerry Goodis, and Charles E. Greb. The presentation is divided by tabs for the years 1959 to 1968, followed by a section entited "Slides and commercials".

Series consists of company newsletters, produced and distributed for internal communications and publicity purposes. The Cobbler, published by the Greb Shoes Employees' Association, was begun in 1952. It was replaced with the Greb Newshound in 1962, and was published until [ca. 1971?]. In 1978, a new company newsletter, Greb Footnotes, was launched. Series may not include a complete run of any one publication, and some issues may be missing.

File consists of ten issues of the newsletter The Cobbler, published by the Greb Shoe Employees' Association. Includes vol. 2, no. 1/2, 3-6, 7/8, 9-12.

File consists of issues of the employee newsletter Greb Newshound. Includes issues 1-32 and 34-44.

File consists of a ts. history of the Bauer Skate Company and the skate industry in North America, written by Don Bauer.

File consists of a scrapbook containing press clippings related to Greb Shoes. Clippings are loose between pages. Some pages of the scrapbook are blank.

File consists of material relating to Greb Shoes during the 1950s. Includes press clippings (some photocopies and reprints), memoranda to Canada West Shoe Manufacturing Company customers, and a photograph.

File consists of press clippings and other material relating to Greb Industries and Greb Shoes during the 1960s, and Charles E. Greb's tenure as manager of the Winnipeg plant. Includes news releases, correspondence, footwear price lists, product tags, a memorandum to retail customers, ts. speeches by Charles E. Greb and J.D. Campbell (vice-president, marketing), and other documents.

Press clippings also relate to local history and news in Kitchener-Waterloo, the death of politician Maitland Steinkopf (also founder of Canada West Shoe Manufacturing Company), and GGD advertising agency (used by Greb). Photographs are of men and women wearing Greb footwear, Hush Puppies displays, an unidentified event attended by Harry and Arthur Greb, and Charles E. Greb awarding Best in Show at the K-W Kennel Club.

File consists of press clippings and other material relating to Greb Industries and Greb Shoes during the 1960s, and Charles E. Greb's tenure as manager of the Winnipeg plant. Includes news releases, correspondence, footwear price lists, product tags, a memorandum to retail customers, ts. speeches by Charles E. Greb and J.D. Campbell (vice-president, marketing), and other documents.

Press clippings also relate to local history and news in Kitchener-Waterloo, the death of politician Maitland Steinkopf (also founder of Canada West Shoe Manufacturing Company), and GGD advertising agency (used by Greb). Photographs are of men and women wearing Greb footwear, Hush Puppies displays, an unidentified event attended by Harry and Arthur Greb, and Charles E. Greb awarding Best in Show at the K-W Kennel Club.

File consists of material relating to Greb Industries Limited and the career and community involvement of Charles E. Greb during the 1980s. Includes press clippings (some photocopied), correspondence addressed to Greb, ephemera, and a photograph of the site of a Greb Shoes factory before construction. Includes a letter from Prime Minister Trudeau's correspondence assistant thanking Greb for a letter sent in support of Trudeau's peace initiatives.

File consists of an article clipped from a Berlin (now Kitchener) newspaper entitled, "A promising industry" with the subtitle "although in operation for only three months the Berlin Boot Company already employs 65 hands". A colour photocopy is also included.

Photocopied reports from The Mercantile Agency, R.G. Dun & Co., Toronto,about the Berlin Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited.

File consists of a ts. notice (photocopy) about the agreement whereby Erwin C. Greb purchased the controlling interest in the Greb Shoe Company held by Charles Greb for $10 000. Notice contains ms. notes.

File consists of an agreement (photocopy) relating to the sale of the property and building at Mansion and Chestnut Streets in Kitchener to Erwin C. Greb by Gourlay & Fogelberg, Ltd. File also includes an ms. sketch of the property and a statement of adjustments (photocopies).

File consists of two agreements (photocopies) relating to the re-organization of the Greb Shoe Company Limited, and the surrender of letters patent for the Greb Shoe Company Limited. In 1930, Erwin C. Greb issued a new charter to replace the 1916 charter.

File consists of ts. and ms. production reports (photocopies), including numbers for standard screw, welts, and stitchdown types of footwear. One report describes production for the Greb Shoe Company Limited from 1933 to 1948, and the other untitled report describes production from 1936 to 1949.

File consists of a colour photocopy of two pages from the minutes of the October 7, 1953 meeting of the Greb Shoes Employees' Association.

File consists of a colour photocopy of a page from the December 1953 issues of the employee newsletter The Cobbler, containing a Christmas greeting from president Harry Greb.

File consists of colour photocopies of pages from the minutes of meetings of the Greb Shoes Employees Association on September 29 and December 15, 1954, January 24 and March 21, 1955. Pages contain references to the closure of the Mansion Street plant, the company's competitive position, and reduced work weeks for employees.

File consists of a ts. case study (photocopy) of Greb Shoes Limited and the marketing of the Hush Puppies brand, prepared by Brian W. Jones for a class at the School of Business Administration, Univeristy of Western Ontario (London, ON).

File consists of material relating to Charles E. Greb's research about the history of the Tebbutt Shoe and Leather Company in Trois-Riviers, Quebec, for the book The Greb Story. Includes correspondence between Charles E. Greb and Jack Tebbutt (and others), and a ts. history of the Tebbutt Shoe and Leather Company.

File consists of a collection of ts. presentations (photocopy) given at the first world wide Hush Puppies advertising and marketing conference held in Djerba, Tunisia, in February 1968. Presentations are from the following countries: USA, Netherlands, South Africa, Canada, France, West Germany, England, El Salvador, Australia, Sweden, Japan, Austria, and Mexico. File also includes an unrelated press clipping (photocopy) about Velvet, the Hush Puppies basset hound mascot.

File consists of a newspaper article clipped from the [Kitchener-Waterloo Record?] on June 9, 1969 entitled "Greb buys Collins Safety Shoe Firm".

File consists of material (photocopied) relating to the 1971 Hush Puppies colouring contest national advertising campaign. Includes a ts. description of the campaign, an advertisment for Hush Puppies retail customers, and an advertisement clipped from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

File consists of a newspaper article clipped from the February 8, 1979 Kitchener-Waterloo Record entitled "Executives at Greb Industries are in high-risk category".

File consists of correspondence (photocopies) between Charles E. Greb and John Simth (general manager, Greb Kitchener Operations) regarding four original pictures by local artist Douglas Ratchford (gifts to Harry Greb in the 1970s) kept at Greb's Kitchener location, and the board room table and chairs belonging to Charles E. Greb.

File consists of a photocopy of an application by Erwin C. Greb and the Greb Shoe Company Limited for membership in the Shoe Manufanufactuers Association of Canada.

File consists of a photocopy of an ms. chart of figures relating to Hush Puppies incoming orders during the 1960s and 1970s.

File consists of a colour photocopy of the cover of the v. 1, December 1962 issue of the company newsletter, the Greb Newshound.

File consists of three pages (photocopies) clipped from the April, 1953 issue of Shoe & Leather Journal containing advertisements for Greb retail customers, and correspondence (photocopied) among Charles E. Greb, Ross E. Hahn (assistant General Manager) and the Vylyt Corporation (New York, NY) regarding the use of Vylyt soles for Greb footwear.

File consists of photocopies of a news release and memoranda to staff from Greb Industries Limited presdient Stanley B. Frieze regarding the relocation of the administration offices, distribution and customer service facilites from Kitchener to 6500 Millcreek Drive in Mississauga.

File consists of an album containing photographs of a retirement dinner in honour of Harry D. Greb, Arthur C. Greb, Ross E. Hahn, and John D. Campbell, held on February 7, 1975. Includes a list of guests in attendance.

File consists of one audio cassette.

Fonds consists of records relating to the history, administration, and operations of Greb Industries Limited and its predecessors, the Greb Shoe Company Limited and the Berlin Shoe Manufacuring Company Limited, as well as its subsidiary companies. Includes letters patent and by-laws, minutes, financial statements, annual reports, correspondence and memoranda, legal documents, press clippings, newsletters, reports, presentations, advertisements, photographs, ephemera, and audio and video recordings.

Series consists of records relating to the incorporation and administration of the Greb Shoe Company Limited. Includes letters patent; by-laws; minutes of meetings of the board of directors from the date of incorporation on June 9, 1916, to October 30, 1930; and agreements.

File consists of a statutory agreement and a notice regarding special by-law no. 6 (to change the number of directors) of the Greb Shoe Company Limited.

File consists of two agreements relating to the re-organization of the Greb Shoe Company Limited, and the surrender of letters patent for the Greb Shoe Company Limited. In 1930, Erwin C. Greb issued a new charter to replace the 1916 charter.

File consists of a report on the Greb Shoe Company Limited from Dun & Bradstreet of Canada (Toronto, ON).

File consists of an agreement relating to the sale of the property and building at Mansion and Chestnut Streets in Kitchener to Erwin C. Greb by Gourlay & Fogelberg, Ltd. File also includes an ms. sketch of the property and a statement of adjustments.

File consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence of Erwin C. Greb with Bank of Toronto branch managers Thomas How and E.W. Lamprey regarding the finances of the Greb Shoe Company. Some letters are marked 'personal'.

File consists of a report about the earnings for Greb Industries Limited from 1967 to 1971, the capitalization rate for outstanding Class C shares as of December 31, 1971, and the sale of the company to Warrington Products Limited in 1974.

File consists of the financial statements for the Berlin Shoe Manufacturing Company Limted for the years ending December 31, 1913 to 1915, and for the Greb Shoe Company Limited for the years ending December 31, 1916 to 1918. Statements prepared by Scully and Scully, accountants (Berlin/Kitchener, ON).

File consists of financial statements for the Greb Shoe Company Limited for the years ending December 31, 1941 and 1945-1948. Statements were prepared by Thorne, Mulholland, Howson & McPherson, chartered accountants (Toronto, ON).

File consists of monthly ms. reports containing information about the number of salaried and hourly employees, hours worked, wages earned, and the number of working days.

File consists of material relating to the sale of Greb Industries Limited to Warrington Product Limited (Don Mills, ON) in 1974.

Includes photocopies of draft agreements and a draft offer to purchase, photocopies of the closing documents relating to the sale (including agreements, schedules, financial statements and correspondence), press clippings, photocopies of organizational charts, research reports about Warrington, Warrington annual reports (1972, 1973), correspondence, the cash offer by Warrington sent to Greb sharholders, and other photocopied documents.

File consists of a colour photocopy of an application by Erwin C. Greb and the Greb Shoe Company Limited for membership in the Shoe Manufacturers Association of Canada.

File consists of a ts. case study of Greb Shoes Limited and the marketing of the Hush Puppies brand, prepared by Brian W. Jones for a class at the School of Business Administration, Univeristy of Western Ontario (London, ON).

File consists of three pages clipped from the April, 1953 issue of Shoe & Leather Journal containing advertisements for Greb retailers.

File consists of issues of the employee newsletter Greb Newshound. Includes issues 1-32 and 34-44.

Series consists of records relating to the Greb Shoe Quarter Century Club, the Greb Shoes Employees' Association, and the Valentine and Martin Employees' Association. Includes association constitutions, by-laws, meeting agendas and minutes, and financial statements; newspaper clippings; correspondence; membership rolls and rosters; ephemera; photographs; and other material.

File consists of material relating to the formation and operation of the Greb Shoes Employees' Association. Includes a petition requesting to organize the GSEA, memoranda from management to employees, the association constitution, notices and agendas for meetings, minutes of meetings from March 1952 to January 1958, financial statements, and membership rosters from 1952 to 1957.

Series consists of material relating to the public relations activities of Greb Industries Limited, and in particular to the Greb Hiking Bureau, a project organized by Greb Shoes to promote recreational hiking in Canada, but also includes material relating to the Oktoberfest road races, sponsored by the company. Includes pamphlets, reports, news releases, and other material.

File consists of material relating to the Greb Hiking Bureau and hiking in Canada. Includes publicity material created by the Greb Hiking Bureau: pamphlets, reports, news releases, and a Canadian hiking trail guide. File also includes a carbon copy of a speech given by Charles E. Greb to the Kitchener YMCA about hiking, Bruce Trail Association membership cards, and a brochure about the 1972 Okotoberfest road races, sponsord by Greb Industries Limited.

File consists of press clippings relating to the formation of the Canada West Shoe Manufacturing (1978) Co. Ltd. in Winnipeg, MB.

File consists of a scrapbook containing press clippings related to Greb Industries Limited. Clippings are loose between pages. Most pages of the scrapbook are blank.

File consists of press clippings and other material relating to Greb Industries and Greb Shoes during the 1970s. Includes articles and advertisements clipped from newspapers and magazines (some photocopies), memoranda from the company president to employees regarding organizational changes, news releases, ms. notes, and ephemera.

File also includes a photograph of the basset hound Velvet, as well as sundry documents such as a sales conference agenda, restructuring proposal, a speech given by Harry Greb to a GSEA banquet, etc.

File consists of a scrapbook containing press clippings related to hiking and hiking trails. Clippings are loose between pages. Some pages of the scrapbook are blank.

File consists of the May, 1970 issues of Successful Business (advertising newsletter), containing an article about Hush Puppies.

File consists of correspondence between Charles E. Greb and John Simth (general manager, Greb Kitchener Operations) regarding four original pictures by local artist Douglas Ratchford (gifts to Harry Greb in the 1970s) kept at Greb's Kitchener location, and the board room table and chairs belonging to Charles E. Greb.

Series consists of records relating to the book The Greb Story by Tom Briggs and Charles E. Greb (Kitchener: Grebco Holdings Inc., 2008), and in particular, files of supporting documentation corresponding to the endnotes in the book. Includes press clippings (some photocopied), agreements, reports, correspondence and memoranda, speeches, news releases, ephemera, a ledger, photocopied pages from company newsletters and employees association meeting minutes, and other material.

File also includes photographs used as illustrations in the book.

File consists of photographs and one advertisment used as images in The Greb Story. Some photographs include ts. or ms. cutlines taped to the verso. Not all photographs and advertisements used in the book are present in the file. Duplicate photographs may be present.

File consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence (photocopies) of Erwin C. Greb with Bank of Toronto branch managers Thomas How and E.W. Lamprey regarding the finances of the Greb Shoe Company. Some letters are marked 'personal'.

File consists of a cheque (photocopy) from Erwin C. Greb to J.B. Martin for $200 000 for the 1938 purchase of Valentine and Martin Limited, and a memorandum (photocopy) from Harry Greb to the customers of Valentine and Martin regarding the merger with the Greb Shoe Company in 1950.

File consists of a colour photocopy of a page from the minutes of the February 3, 1954 meeting of the Greb Shoes Employees Association.

File consists of a photocopy of a the minutes of the November 14, 1956 meeting of the Greb Shoes Employees Association.

File consists of a newspaper article clipped from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record on October 30, 1965 entitled "Greb Shoe firm purchases 4 Bauer-owned companies".

Photocopied history of the Bauer Skate Company and the skate industry in North America, written by Don Bauer.

File consists of two letters (photocopies) from president Harry Greb regarding the sale of Greb Industries Limited to Warrington Products Limited. One letter is addressed to the employees and the other to the shareholders.

File consists of news releases from Kodiak Group Inc. regarding the purchase of Terra Footwear and the launch of an industrial line of footwear in the US. News releases are print-outs from the World Wide Web.

File consists of material (photocopied) relating to the Greb Shoe Quarter Century Club, including the launch of the club in 1953, annual banquets, and the chapters in Winnipeg and Trois-Rivieres. Includes press clippings (some photocopies), news releases, programs from annual banquets, and correspondence, including a letter to Harry Greb from L.O. Breithaupt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

Includes two photographs, one of long service members Frederick and Milt Daub and employee Walter Daub; and one of the head table at the inaugeral banquet.

File consists of photographs taken at various conferences and events. Includes photographs of men (including Charles E. Greb and Jack Campbell) standing and sitting around a table, photographs of unidentified men seated at a table at a dinner event, and photographs taken during the 1974 Hush Puppies World Conference.

File consists of photographs taken during the Kitchener portion of the Hush Puppies World Conference in 1974. Most photographs were taken during an Okotoberfest dinner and dance held for the delegates at the Concordia Club. File also photographs of conference delegates disembarking a plane, standing in front of the Greb Industries administrative offices, having conversations, and visiting the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and Toronto Island. Duplicate photographs may be present.

File consists of photographs taken at Quarter Century Club banquets in Kitchener and Trois-Rivieres. Includes photographs of club members receiving a gift, and group portraits. Some photographs include Harry Greb and Arthur C. Greb. Duplicate photographs are present.

File consists of photographs taken at retirement dinner in honour of Harry D. Greb, Arthur C. Greb, Ross E. Hahn, and John D. Campbell, held on February 7, 1975. Duplicate photographs may be present.

File consists of a group photograph of Greb Shoes sales staff, as well as enlarged computer print-outs of the photograph (including one on photographic paper). Includes a print-out of e-mail correspondence between Charles E. Greb and Frank McFarlane attempting to identify the men in the photograph and ms. notes.

File consists of a mounted aerial photograph of the Valentine and Martin Limited factory on Breithaupt Street in Kitchener.

File consists of a mounted group photograph of the employees at the original Valentine and Martin Limited factory at Bridgeport and Regina Streets in Waterloo.

File consists of an audio reel recorded at a retirement dinner in honour of Harry D. Greb, Arthur C. Greb, Ross E. Hahn, and John D. Campbell, held on February 7, 1975.

File consists of an audio reel in a box labelled "July 29, 1974, Hush Puppies Conference".

File consists of three film reels containing television commercials for men's and ladies' Hush Puppies and Greb Cat Treads and Kodiak work boots. The commercials have been converted to a DVD which is also found in the file.

File consists of a leather-bound volume in which are pasted the letters patent and by-laws for the Greb Shoe Company Limited, created in 1916; special by-laws passed during the life of the company; and the acceptance by the Province of Ontario of the surrender of the company's letters patent in 1931. Volume also includes a register of shareholders.

File consists of a leather-bound volume in which are pasted the minutes of the Board of Directors of the Greb Shoe Company Limited from June 10, 1916 to October 30, 1930, and the acceptance by the Province of Ontario of the surrender of the company's letters patent in January, 1931. File also includes several loose proxy forms and two pieces of correspondence.

Series consists of records relating to the administration of Greb Industries Limited; its subsidiary companies, Valentine and Martin Limited and Greb Shoes Limited; and its predecessors, the Greb Shoe Company Limited and the Berlin Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited. Records relate to company management, accounting, personnel, operations, facilities, and the sale of Greb Industries Limited to Warrington Products Limited.

Includes financial statements, annual reports, correspondence, memoranda, ms. notebooks, reports, manuals, agreements, press clippings, and other material. Annual reports cover the period from 1967 to 1973. Financial statements are present for the Berlin Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited (1913-1915), Greb Shoe Company Limited (1916-1918, 1941, 1945-1948), Greb Industries Limited (1976), and Valentine and Martin Limited (1943-1951).