The Brown Shoe Company Factory is a historic factory located at 212 S. State St. in Litchfield, Illinois.
 The factory opened in 1917 to produce shoes for the St. Louis-based Brown Shoe Company.
 Prominent St. Louis architect Albert B. Groves designed the factory, which was one of twelve he designed for the company.
 The factory became Litchfield's second-largest industry and brought the community prosperity through the Great Depression; in addition, its employees formed a civic organization that created a public park on company property.
 The factory closed in 1967; it was later used by cabinet manufacturer Adenca.
Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take Factory, also known as the International Hat Company Warehouse, is a historic building location at 1201 Russell Boulevard in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
 Built in 1904, by renowned architect Albert B. Groves, the building was originally a factory for the Brown Shoe Company, based in St. Louis.
 In 1954, the factory was subsequently converted into a warehouse by the International Hat Company.
 The site has been recognized as a testament to Grove's architectural expertise in the principles of factory design, namely technical advances in layout planning, operational efficiency, and employee safety.
 Additionally, the factory epitomizes the early 20th century cultural transformation and socio-industrial development of St. Louis into a manufacturing powerhouse.
 In particular, the Brown Shoe Company is recognized as a principal player in challenging the 19th century dominance of the New England shoe industry.
 This significantly contributed to the early 20th century sobriquet of St. Louis as the city of "shoes, booze, and blues."
 The Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take factory is considered to be among the pioneering industrial facilities of this historic transformation.
Vivobarefoot is a minimalist running shoe company.
 Their technology, invented by Tim Brennan and developed by British shoe company Terra Plana, is aimed at offering the optimum biomechanics and posture commonly associated with walking barefoot and barefoot running and advocated within the barefoot movement and barefoot running community.
 It has been described as "as close to going barefoot in the city as you can get."
 The most prominent shoe using this technology is their Evo running shoe.
The Shoe Company is a Canadian shoe and apparel store, originating from the Greater Toronto Area.
 They currently operate 65 stores from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
 Leonard Simpson is the founder of Town Shoes and had predicted a growth opportunity for footwear to be sold in a big box format.
 He then created The Shoe Company and has also recently purchased the Western Canada-based Shoe Warehouse.
The Bacup Shoe Company is a footwear company based in the village of Stacksteads, near Bacup, Lancashire, England.
 The Bacup Shoe Co. was founded and incorporated in 1928 by Ernst Goodwin.
 The Bacup Shoe company was one of the last well known footwear manufacturers to stop manufacturing in the late 1990s and turn to importing footwear from the Far East.
 Suppliers are based in China (where the company is also based), Vietnam and Spain.
The Aldo Group is a Canadian Moroccan retailer that owns and operates a worldwide chain of shoe and accessories stores.
 The company was founded by Aldo Bensadoun in Montreal, Quebec, in 1972, where its corporate headquarters remain today.
 It has grown to become a worldwide corporation, with nearly 3,000 stores under three retail banners: ALDO, Call It Spring/Spring and GLOBO.
 Stores in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Ireland are owned by the Group, while international stores are franchised.
 The company once operated the now closed or rebranded banners.
 Little Burgundy (which it sold to Genesco), Simard & Voyer, Christian Shoes, Access, Pegabo, Transit, Stoneridge, Locale, Feetfirst and FIRST (which was the American version of Feetfirst).
Albert "Aldo" Bensadoun, is originally an Algerian-Canadian businessman, investor and philanthropist.
 He is the founder and executive chairman of the ALDO Group, a retail shoe company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
 Bensadoun is a sponsor of the ALDO Racing team, which has competed four times in the Dakar Rally.
Genesco Inc. is an American publicly owned specialty retailer of branded footwear, licensed and branded headwear and licensed sports apparel and accessories and is a wholesaler of branded and licensed footwear based out of Nashville, Tennessee.
 Through its various subsidiaries as of the end of 2013, Genesco operates 2,459 retail stores throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland and wholesales branded and licensed footwear to more than 1,025 retail accounts.
 Founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, the company changed its name to the General Shoe Company in the 1930s and became a public company in 1939.
 The company took its current name, Genesco, in 1959.
 Genesco exited footwear manufacturing in 2002 and now contracts with independent, third parties located outside the United States to manufacture its branded and licensed footwear.
 In June 2011, Genesco acquired UK retail chain and web business Schuh.
 This was seen as a huge step for the business as it gave them an already well established grounding in a market outside of the U.S.
Fore Shoe Company Building, also known as the Washington Shoe Company Building and Kane Dunham & Kraus Shoe Company Building, is a historic shoe factory building located at Washington, Franklin County, Missouri.
 The original section was built in 1925, and is a two-story, reinforced concrete and wood beam structure sheathed in brick.
 A two- and three-story brick addition was built in 1927, and is of steel frame construction.
 The building features a prominent brick smoke stack and measures approximately 58,000 square feet of floor space.
 The factory closed in 1971.
The Florsheim Shoe Company Building is a former factory for the Florsheim Shoe Company and a Chicago Landmark in the Avondale neighborhood.
 The building was built between 1924 and 1926 when the Florsheim Shoe Company had "2,500 employees, 71 retail outlets, 9,000 dealers and a network of regional wholesale distributors".
 The architect of the building was Alfred Alschuler who designed numerous Chicago Landmarks and NRHP designated buildings.
 The building was a factory for Florsheim until 1986, when it became the warehouse for a records management.
 The building, located at on the 3900 block of West Belmont Avenue is now luxury lofts.
 The Commission on Chicago Landmarks designated the building a Chicago Landmark on March 29, 2006.

Question: In which year Albert Bensadoun founded his retail shoe company?
Answer: 1972