New Balance announces the addition of the 993 to the brand's domestic manufacturing customization program. The program launched in April 2011 with the US574, the first customizable athletic shoe made in the USA. The 993 and US574 are made at the company's Norridgewock, Maine manufacturing facility. Both are timeless running silhouettes are available exclusively through http://www.shopnewbalance.com/customize .
“The New Balance Custom 993 enables you to be the designer and choose from premium material and color options to personalize your own iconic New Balance 993, a legendary style from New Balance,” says Steve Gardner, Strategic Business Unit Manager for New Balance Lifestyle. “Once you design your 993, our associates in Norridgewock will use their high quality craftsmanship to produce it for you.”
There are twenty areas to customize with your color choices including the base, mesh, vamp, heel wrap, saddle, tongue and accents. The premium nubuck leather and suede offered on the 993 is available in twenty three colors and is individually cut by New Balance associates now with an option of a leather or reflective heel tab. The 993 can be personalized with up to eight characters per shoe stitched on the foxing on the shoe's back tab and there are sixteen choices of embroidery thread. The 993 is available for $174.95 plus shipping in men's sizes 7-12, 13, 14, 15, 16 in widths D and 2E and women’s sizes 5-10, 11, 12, 13 in widths B and D. The 993 is shipped out within 4-8 business days of ordering.
New Balance's Norridgewock, Maine, manufacturing facility was established in 1982 and today employs more than 350 associates. As the only athletic shoe company that currently manufactures footwear in the U.S., New Balance employs 1,200 associates across five New England facilities to produce a quarter of the brand’s U.S. footwear shipments each year. Where the domestic value is at least 70 percent, the shoe is labeled “Made in USA.”
