A New York Times report published Aug. 5, 2026, said Crocs claimed its global profits were earned in a two-person Malta office, despite selling clogs to 150 million customers in 100 countries. The article described the arrangement as part of a tax strategy used by companies to reduce U.S. income taxes.
Consider Crocs. One of the world’s most profitable shoemakers sells its signature chunky clogs to 150 million customers across 100 countries annually. Yet, come tax season, the Broomfield, Colo., company has claimed that all its global profits were actually earned in this two-person office.
On April 9, 2024, a federal judge allowed consumers’ proposed class action against Crocs to proceed. They allege the company knowingly advertised shoes as all-weather despite shrinkage after prolonged exposure to sunlight and water. The judge found their amended complaint sufficiently identified relevant advertisements and when plaintiffs saw them.
Crocs Inc. failed to convince a federal judge to toss a proposed class action accusing the company of knowingly selling shoes it advertised as all-weather even though they shrank after prolonged exposure to sunlight and water.
Distribution center workers accused Crocs of miscalculating overtime by excluding shift differentials and bonuses from their regular rate. On Aug. 7, 2026, Law360 reported they had moved to settle their Fair Labor Standards Act claims. The available report does not give settlement terms or indicate that a court approved a deal.
Distribution center workers who accused Crocs Inc. of miscalculating overtime pay by excluding shift differentials and bonuses from their regular rate have moved to settle their Fair Labor Standards Act claims...
On Dec. 30, 2010, the EPA announced Crocs agreed to pay $230,000 and remove unsubstantiated antimicrobial claims from shoe packaging. The agency said claims also appeared in advertisements and on Crocs’ website, and that the company agreed to stop making them and cooperated with enforcement staff.
(Denver, Colo.—December 30, 2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that Crocs, Inc. has agreed to remove language on product packaging and pay $230,000 to resolve cases involving unsubstantiated antimicrobial claims for several types of its shoes.
A June 28, 2022 report said Crocs allocated $4,000 for employees’ abortion-related travel costs and announced an expansion of existing benefits to reimburse out-of-state travel. The article described the move amid companies’ responses to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade; it did not detail Crocs’ implementation terms.
Various companies like Nike, Levi Strauss & Co. and LVMH have said that their existing benefits already cover reimbursement for healthcare travel needs including abortion. And many — such as Dick's Sporting Goods, Skechers, Crocs and Amazon have specifically allocated $4,000 to pay for these travel costs. At the same time, other companies like Skechers, Under Armour, Nordstrom and Crocs have announced expansions of their existing benefits to include travel reimbursement expenses for employees who need to travel out of state to receive an abortion. Adidas said its new plan covers travel and lodging expenses up to $10,000.
In a May 1, 2020 interview, CEO Andrew Rees said Crocs had launched an initiative to give healthcare workers free shoes with free shipping. He described the program as having been arranged within days and running for five weeks, with a tremendous response from workers and customers.
It’s an important niche amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with front-line healthcare workers stretched thin and working harder than ever. That’s why the brand launched an initiative to give away free shoes (via free shipping) to healthcare workers – a response to rising demand that the company teed up quickly over the course of a couple of days and has so far been running for five weeks. The response, says CEO Andrew Rees, has been tremendous – both from the workers themselves and customers more broadly.
OpenSecrets’ totals page records federal political contributions associated with Crocs Inc. across election cycles from 2006 to 2024. It shows all listed contributions going to Democrats in most cycles, with 93.67% in 2008; the page’s contribution figures include individuals and do not indicate company-directed giving.
Crocs retained Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer in April 2023 to lobby on intellectual-property infringement, according to newly filed disclosures reported by POLITICO. The firm said it was introducing the company to lawmakers as Crocs sought a Washington presence amid growth and increasingly complex government interactions.
CROCS LOBBIES UP: Crocs, which makes the foam clogs that have become ubiquitous among Gen Z-ers in recent years, has hired its first federal lobbyists amid the resurgence in business. The shoemaker retained Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer in April to lobby on intellectual property infringement, according to newly filed disclosures.
A September 2023 report said Crocs faced backlash in Australia after shoes became caught in escalators, including an incident in which a four-year-old girl nearly lost her foot; it also reported bans at some transport and shopping locations. Crocs said it knew of no bans in any of its markets.
This case comes as Crocs has received some backlash in Australia following several safety-related incidents. According to news.com.au, there have been multiple incidents involving the shoes getting stuck in escalators.
In the report, the news outlet said that a four-year-old girl almost lost her foot in May after the girl's Crocs got stuck in an escalator. While the girl did not sustain serious injuries, the incident is part of a larger push by some businesses in the country to ban Crocs. The report added that the popular shoe has been banned from escalators in airports, train stations and shopping centers.
Joybees claimed Crocs falsely promoted shoes with expired patents as exclusive designs, seeking to maintain an advantage over sellers of similar molded footwear. Courthouse News reported the allegation in a brief dated December 17, 2025; the supplied evidence does not give Crocs’ response or the case’s outcome.
DENVER — Shoe company Joybees claims that Crocs has been falsely promoting shoes with expired patents to make it seem like its clog designs are exclusive to Crocs, to maintain an edge over others that sell similar styles of molded footwear.
In 2010, the SEC alleged that former Deloitte employee John Foley traded Crocs securities using confidential information and enabled trades through friend Timothy Vernier’s account. Foley was on Crocs’ audit team. Four defendants agreed to settle without admitting or denying the allegations; the SEC said it filed no charges against Crocs or Deloitte.
According to the Complaint, which was filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, Foley served as an employee benefits specialist at Deloitte between July 2005 and May 2007, and learned, through his work on Deloitte client engagements, material, non-public information concerning (i) Crocs' first earnings release after going public; (ii) a potential acquisition of YRC by a third party (that ultimately was not consummated); and (iii) the acquisition of Spectralink, via tender offer, by another public company. According to the Complaint, Foley traded in all three issuers' securities based on this material, non-public information through nominee accounts; Foley also tipped his friend Vernier concerning all, and Grassian concerning part, of this information; and both men traded on Foley's communications.
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre lists a report, “Far From Home: Uyghur Workers in Factories Supplying Global Brands,” as containing two allegations associated with Crocs. The page identifies issues including freedom of movement and arbitrary detention, but the supplied text does not describe the allegations or establish Crocs’ role.