About the Company
Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, also known as PVH Corp. is a Manhattan-based clothing company. The company has a workforce of more than 30,700 employees working across its plants and other operations as of 2020. The company has operations all across the globe in countries like Bangladesh, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, China, Honduras, Malaysia, etc. In the US, it has plants located in Brinkley, Jonesville, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas, McDonough, North Carolina, etc.
The company markets its garments under three primary brands, namely Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Heritage Brands. Under Heritage Brands, it has labels such as Geoffery Beene, IZOD, True&Co., Warner’s, Van Heusen, ARROW and Olga. The company distributes these brands across 100 countries and has more than 40,000 associates globally. It also licenses brands like Michael Kors and Kenneth Cole New York. Its former name was partly taken from John Manning Van Heusen, a Dutch immigrant who invented a new process of fusing cloth on a curve in 1910. The company’s origin dates back to 1881 when Mosses Philip and his wife started to make shorts and sell them from pushcarts. This slowly took the shape of a stable business in New York City, and D Jones & Sons, a shirt manufacturing company founded in 1865 by Darmin Jones merged with them in 1907. Its name then changed from M Phillips & Sons to Phillips-Jones. It acquired Van Heusen from John Van Heusen and renamed it in 1957 to Phillips-Van Heusen. The company has been officially known as PVH since 2011.
Over the years, PVH acquired several companies such as GH Bass in 1987, IZOD in 1995, ARROW in 2000, Calvin Klein in 2002, Superba, Inc. in 2007, Tommy Hilfiger in 2010, Warnaco Group in 2013, True&Co. in 2017, Geoffrey Beene in 2018, etc. As of 2021, it is a component of the Standard and Poor’s 500 index and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under PVH as its ticker symbol. The company entered the Fortune 500 list in 2011, and as of 2020, it ranks 322nd on this list. It is also a part of the Forbes Global 2000 2020 and Just Companies 2021 lists. In 2020, the company was recognised by other prestigious organisations and sealed a position on the 100 Most Sustainable Companies list by Barron, America’s Most Responsible Companies list by Newsweek magazine, etc.;
Organisation | PVH Corp |
Industry | Apparel Manufacturing |
HeadQuarters | New York, NY |