Originally Posted by Sangetsu

Depends on where you studied grammar. If you studied English in England you would have learned that a company is an organization of more than one person, and as such, can be considered plural, and that "make" would be the correct word.

You could say "Vans are making a new fixed gear shoe.", or "Vans make a fixed gear shoe". According to my Oxford dictionary of English grammar, both of these are correct sentences.