PVH Corp. is an American clothing company which owns brands such as Tommy
Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Van Heusen, IZOD, Arrow, and licenses brands such as
Geoffrey Beene, BCBG Max Azria, Chaps, Sean John, Kenneth Cole New York, JOE
Joseph Abboud and MICHAEL Michael Kors. Organization
PVH Corp has its main headquarters in Manhattan, with administrative offices
in Bridgewater, New Jersey; Las Vegas, Nevada and Los Angeles, California.
Additional distribution facilities in the United States are located in
Brinkley, Arkansas; McDonough, Georgia; Jonesville, North Carolina; Reading,
Pennsylvania; and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
PVH has several sourcing facilities worldwide, located in Bangladesh, India,
Sri Lanka, China, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia,
Mongolia, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan. The corporation employs over
12,000 people worldwide. History
The history of Phillips-Van Heusen goes back in part to Dramin Jones, a Prussian
immigrant who founded D. Jones & Sons, which had become the largest shirt-maker
in the United States by the 1880s. Separately, in 1881, Moses Phillips and
his wife Endel began sewing shirts by hand and selling them from pushcarts to
local anthracite coal-miners in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. This grew into
a shirt business in New York City that placed one of the first ever shirt
advertisements in the Saturday Evening Post. D. Jones & Sons merged with
Phillips after Dramin Jones's death in 1903. Later Isaac Phillips met John Van
Heusen, resulting both in their most popular line of shirts and in the
subsequent renaming of the corporation to Phillips-Van Heusen in the 1950s.
The Phillips-Jones Corporation received a patent for a self-folding collar in
1919; the corporation released the product to the public in 1921 and it
became successful. The first collar-attached shirt was introduced in
1929. The Bass Weejun was introduced in 1936. Geoffrey Beene shirts were
launched in 1982. In 1987, Phillips-Van Heusen acquired G.H. Bass. In 1995, the
corporation acquired the Izod brand, followed by the Arrow brand in 2000, and
the Calvin Klein company in 2002. After acquiring Superba, Inc., in
January 2007, PVH now owns necktie licenses for brands such as Arrow, DKNY,
Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica, Perry Ellis, Ted Baker, Michael Kors, JOE Joseph
Abboud, Original Penguin and Jones New York. The corporation began making men's
clothing under the Timberland name in 2008, with women's clothing following in
2009, under a licensing agreement. On March 15, 2010, Phillips-Van Heusen
acquired Tommy Hilfiger for $3 billion. In the third quarter of 2010 losses made
on the "Van Heusen" brand led to the decision to pull it out of all European
trading markets. As of March 2011 the company sells no products under that
name in Europe. All European staff became redundant as a result.
In November 2013 PVH sold the G.H. Bass brand and all of its assets, images and
licenses to AM Retail Group. Distribution
PVH provides products to many popular department stores, such as Sears, JC
Penney, Macy's, MYER, David Jones, Kohl's, and Dillard's, both through its
own labels and private label agreements. PVH also sells its products directly to
customers through about 700 outlet stores under the brand names Van Heusen,
IZOD, and Calvin Klein. These stores will sell the full range of
Calvin Klein product at full price, differing from existing outlet stores.
The stores will be about 10,000 square feet. Phillips-Van Heusen is closing its
Geoffrey Beene outlet retail division by the end of fiscal year 2008.
Approximately 25 percent of the Geoffrey Beene outlet stores will become Calvin
Klein stores, while the remaining 75 percent of stores will close entirely.
The company will continue to license the Geoffrey Beene brand name for Geoffrey
Beene brand dress shirts and men's sportswear until at least 2013.
Marketing Historically, PVH has not had a strong
advertising presence of its own, preferring to let its department store
customers market their products within its stores.
On October 4, 2007, PVH took over naming rights to the Meadowlands Sports Complex
arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The arena's name was changed to the Izod
Center, and the change became effective on October 31, 2007. The corporation
will pay about $1.3 million a year over the next five years for the naming
rights, and will handle marketing for arena events.
Controversy = Environmental practices=
In July 2011, PVH—along with other major fashion and sportswear brands including
Nike, Adidas and Abercrombie & Fitch—was the subject of a report by the
environmental group Greenpeace entitled "Dirty Laundry". PVH is accused of
working with suppliers in China who, according the findings of the report,
contribute to the pollution of the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers. Samples taken
from one facility belonging to the Youngor Group located on the Yangtze
River Delta and another belonging to the Well Dyeing Factory Ltd. located on a
tributary of the Pearl River Delta revealed the presence of hazardous and
persistent hormone disruptor chemicals, including alkylphenols, perfluorinated
compounds, and perfluorooctane sulfonate.
PVH responded with a commitment to Detox the Textile industry.
References External links
Corporate website IZOD website
IZOD CENTER website Van Heusen website
Calvin Klein website Tommy Hilfiger website