Future Baseball Hall of Famer Appears in
Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins® Campaign
Global footwear brand Skechers introduces some legendary batting
power to its lineup by signing former Cardinals and Angels star
Albert Pujols as its latest brand ambassador. The two-time world
champion and future Hall of Famer known as La Máquina will star in
Spanish-language campaigns designed to educate fans about
easy-to-wear and comfortable Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins®.
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Baseball legend Albert Pujols stars in
Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins® campaign. (Photo: Business Wire)
“After 22 years on the field, I'm ready to take it easy, so
these amazing shoes from Skechers that I can put on without any
effort are exactly what I need,” said Albert Pujols. “I’m excited
to be part of the Skechers team. All it took was stepping into a
pair of Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins and it was a home run for
me."
“We know that the appeal of Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins extends
beyond age, location or demographic,” added Michael Greenberg,
president of Skechers. “With his legendary performance at the plate
over a storied decades-long career, Albert Pujols is beloved by
fans from Los Angeles to St. Louis and throughout the Caribbean and
Americas—making him the perfect ambassador to share our Skechers
Hands Free Slip-ins campaign with Spanish-speaking markets. He’s
part of our strategy to ensure that every consumer around the world
understands how easy it is to just slip in and go with this
signature Skechers innovation.”
From his earliest days in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic,
Albert Pujols always had a natural talent for baseball and grew to
become one of the greatest players in Major League Baseball
history. Through 22 seasons in the big leagues, Pujols has been
most associated with the St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Angels
as a first baseman and designated hitter. In addition to winning
two championships with the Cardinals, his career accolades include
three-time National League MVP, 11-time All-Star, six-time Silver
Slugger, and two-time Gold Glove winner. When Pujols retired in
2022, he was number two all-time for both RBIs and total bases, and
only the fourth player ever to surpass 700 home runs. Pujols has
also been recognized for his community service as the 2008
recipient of Major League Baseball’s Roberto Clemente Award, which
is given annually to the player who best exemplifies sportsmanship
and community involvement, as well as receiving the Muhammad Ali
Sports Humanitarian Award at the 2022 ESPYS.
Skechers fields a team of global ambassadors like music icon
Snoop Dogg, lifestyle legend Martha Stewart, stage and screen star
Ashley Park, and a slate of former professional athletes including
Tony Romo, Howie Long, and Sugar Ray Leonard. The roster of elite
pros around the world currently competing in Skechers footwear
includes NBA stars Julius Randle and Terance Mann, golfers Matt
Fitzpatrick and Brooke Henderson, soccer players Harry Kane and
Oleksandr Zinchenko, Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, as well as
pickleball pros Tyson McGuffin and Catherine Parenteau.
An award-winning global brand, Skechers leads the industry with
comfort technologies including Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins®,
Skechers Arch Fit®, Skechers Hyper Burst®, and Skechers Air-Cooled
Memory Foam®, among others.
About SKECHERS U.S.A.,
Inc.
Skechers U.S.A., Inc. (NYSE:SKX), a Fortune 500® company based
in Southern California, designs, develops and markets a diverse
range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel and
accessories for men, women and children. Collections from The
Comfort Technology Company® are available in 180 countries and
territories through department and specialty stores, and direct to
consumers through digital stores and approximately 5,170 Company-
and third-party-owned physical retail stores. The Company manages
its international business through a network of wholly-owned
subsidiaries, joint venture partners, and distributors. For more
information, please visit about.skechers.com and follow us on
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Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking
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domestic and international growth, financial results and operations
including expected net sales and earnings, its development of new
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to such differences include the disruption of business and
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our supply chain; international economic, political and market
conditions including the effects of inflation and foreign currency
exchange rate fluctuations around the world, the challenging
consumer retail markets in the United States, and the impact of
wars, acts of war and other conflicts around the world; sustaining,
managing and forecasting costs and proper inventory levels; losing
any significant customers; decreased demand by industry retailers
and cancellation of order commitments due to the lack of popularity
of particular designs and/or categories of products; maintaining
brand image and intense competition among sellers of footwear for
consumers, especially in the highly competitive performance
footwear market; anticipating, identifying, interpreting or
forecasting changes in fashion trends, consumer demand for the
products and the various market factors described above; sales
levels during the spring, back-to-school and holiday selling
seasons; and other factors referenced or incorporated by reference
in Skechers’ annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 2023 and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q in 2024. Taking
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