Please answer the following question: The G.R. Kinney Company was an American manufacturer and retailer of shoes from 1894 until September 16 1998. Its listing on the New York Stock Exchange symbol KNN began in March 1923. The shoe concern was started byGeorge Romanta Kinney whose father ran a general store in rural Candor New York. The father became indebted and George vowed to repay his indebtedness. In 1894 at the age of 28 he had saved enough to purchase a Lester retail outlet in Waverly New York. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Company