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Shoe Store Owners Win New Balance Award for Outstanding Community Work

The Sajdak family, New Balance and Stan's Fit For Your Feet Receive New Balance Athletic Shoe Company's Riley Award.

The Sajdak family, owners of the New Balance Stores of Greenfield and Brookfield, as well as the Stan’s Fit For Your Feet shoe stores in Brookfield, Glendale and Greenfield, were recently honored with the New Balance Athletic Shoe Company’s Riley Award.

The annual award recognizes a few select New Balance store owners in the U.S. and Canada who offer outstanding in-store experiences in addition to being an active partner in the community in which they serve. Recipients who are recognized by their peers for this honor go the extra mile to help their customers. 

The Sajdaks, and their two New Balance stores and three Stan’s Fit For Your Feet stores, were recognized for their creation of the Share-A-Pair Shoe Drive, which over the past five years has collected over 140,000 pairs of new and gently used shoes. The shoes are then distributed to the needy at Father Gene’s Help Center in West Allis; Repairers of the Breach Homeless Day Shelter in Milwaukee; and Soles4Souls, a national organization that provides shoes to less-fortunate people around the world. The stores were also recognized for their local involvement in Race for the Cure; Girls on the Run; Brigg’s & Al’s Run and Walk for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin; and for helping to fund the of cost of school supplies for the
school located within Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.

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“This national recognition from New Balance is a huge honor for our fourth-generation family-owned business,” said Jim Sajdak, president of the New Balance Greenfield and Brookfield stores and all Stan’s Fit For Your Feet locations. “Our family has been in the shoe business in Milwaukee for 62 years with our Stan’s locations and for 12 years with our New Balance stores. We pride ourselves on making it part of our mission to help those who are less fortunate. It’s our way of giving back to the community that has supported our businesses for so many years.”

The New Balance Company Riley Award has been in existence for five years. It is named after the founder of New Balance — an English doctor William Riley — who started the New Balance Arch Company in Boston in 1906, to help people with problem feet.

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New Balance in Greenfield is located at 7411 W. Layton Avenue in the Layton Plaza, and the New Balance in Brookfield is located in The Plaza at 17155 W. Bluemound Road in Brookfield. Both stores are open weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturdays from 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and Sundays from noon-5 p.m. For more information call 414-431-6300 in Greenfield or 262-432-1400 in Brookfield or visit http://www.nbmke.com/.

Stan’s Fit For Your Feet Brookfield store is also located in The Plaza at 17155 W. Bluemound Road, Stan’s Glendale store is across from Bay Shore Town Center
at 505 W. Silver Spring Drive and . All are open Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call 262-821-1130 in Brookfield, 414-464-1930 in Glendale or 414-431-6300 in Greenfield or visit http://www.stansfootwear.com/

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