The ALDO Group is a private Canadian corporation that owns and operates a worldwide chain of shoe and accessory stores. The company founded by Aldo Bensadoun in Montreal, Quebec, in 1927, where it’s corporate headquarters remain today. It has grown to become a worldwide corporation, with nearly 1,600 approximately 1,000 of which are under the ALDO banner. The ALDO Group is present in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland as well as in 60 franchised countries by the end of 2011.