By coincidence, I just read this: New Balance seem to be booming - http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2015/02/04/new-balance-enters-global-soccer-market/
Most of my 'casual wear' trainers are not technical in the slightest - there are no sports I'd choose to wear them for. Most of those discussed on this thread have clearly been selected without sport in mind too.
Conversely (no pun intended), the trainers I use for running were chosen after...
I'd find it hard to nominate a single pair.
I've undoubtedly spent most of the past 20 years in Adidas classics of some sort or another, with shell toes featuring heavily. For a court shoe, it still has to be Adidas. For a retro-runner, I'm with Herr Tubthumper - the NB 574s take some beating...
I was considering this the other day: just what has happened to Reebok?
I was never much of a fan when I was younger, c25 years ago, but they were on a par with Nike and ahead of Adidas and Puma. They seem to have all but vanished.
(I've just researched and they are now a subsidiary of Adidas...