Revenue From Contracts With Customers (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 29, 2018

Revenue From Contracts With Customers [Abstract]

Disaggregation of Revenue [Table Text Block]

The wholesale channel includes royalty revenues given the similarity in the Company’s oversight and management, customer base, the performance obligation (footwear and apparel goods) and point in time completion of the performance obligation.

	Fiscal Year
(in millions)	2018		2017		2016
Wolverine Outdoor & Lifestyle Group:
Wholesale	$	828.5	$	829.3	$	778.6
Consumer-direct	123.4		110.6		104.5
Total	951.9		939.9		883.1
Wolverine Boston Group:
Wholesale	762.0		814.5		894.4
Consumer-direct	133.5		174.3		273.1
Total	895.5		988.8		1,167.5
Wolverine Heritage Group:
Wholesale	300.7		315.0		338.0
Consumer-direct	19.6		12.9		9.0
Total	320.3		327.9		347.0
Other:
Wholesale	64.1		74.3		63.3
Consumer-direct	7.4		19.1		33.7
Total	71.5		93.4		97.0
Total revenue	$	2,239.2	$	2,350.0	$	2,494.6

Contract with Customer, Asset and Liability [Table Text Block]

The Company’s contract balances are as follows:

(In millions)	December 29, 2018		December 30, 2017
Product returns reserve	$	13.6	$	12.6
Customer rebates liability	12.8		10.4
Customer markdowns reserve	4.0		6.4
Other sales incentives reserves	2.3		3.3
Customer advances liability	3.8		6.7