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This article is about the company. For the American fashion designer, see Tommy Hilfiger
Tommy Hilfiger Group
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryTextiles
Founded1985; 39 years ago (1985)
HeadquartersCheung Sha Wan, Hong Kong
New Jersey, United States
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Key people
Tommy Hilfiger (founder)
Daniel Grieder (current CEO)
Productsfabrics, designer wear, denim, cosmetics & toiletries, cars, bikes, bus, home furnishings etc
Increase US$1.5 billion (FY 2009)
Increase US$6 billion (FY 2009)
Total assetsDecrease US$8.7 billion (FY 2009)
Total equityIncrease US$
OwnerPVH (since 2010)
Websitetommy.com

Tommy Hilfiger, formerly known as Tommy Hilfiger Corporation and Tommy Hilfiger Inc., is an American multinational corporation that focuses on fashion, apparel, design, fragrance retail company, offering men’s, women’s and children’s apparel, sportswear, denim, and a range of licensed products such as accessories, jewelry, watches, fragrances and home furnishings.[2][3]

History

Background and founding (1960s-1990s)

Tommy Hilfiger’s career in fashion began in 1968, when he co-founded a clothing and record store named People’s Place in upstate New York. Using $150[4] he'd saved from working at a petrol station as startup money,[4] he oversaw the expansion of the company into a chain[5] of ten stores. Despite meeting with initial success,[4] People's Place filed for bankruptcy in 1977.[4] In 1979 Hilfiger moved to New York City to pursue a career as a fashion designer,[6] working on several different labels including Jordache Jeans.[7][5] In the early 1980s he met Mohan Murjani, an “Indian textile magnate” hoping to launch a line of men’s clothing. With Murjani’s backing[5] in 1985 Hilfiger debuted his first signature collection,[8] which featured modernized versions of button-down shirts, chinos, and other classic preppy styles. The casual youthful attitude of these first designs would remain a trait of the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation's later collections.[9] The new clothing line made its debut with a high-profile marketing campaign, which included a large billboard in Times Square[8] by advertiser George Lois.[10] The Tommy Hilfiger brand left Murjani International in 1989, with Silas Chou instead providing financial backing.[11] That year Lawrence Stroll and Joel Horowitz, both former executives of Ralph Lauren, were hired as executives of the newly formed company Tommy Hilfiger, Inc., which had an initial focus on casual male sportswear.[11]

Growth of popularity and product lines (1990s)

Freha beja Erichsen at Tommy Hilfiger Spring 2009
Tommy Hilfiger designer glasses

The Tommy Hilfiger Corporation went public in 1992.[5] After licensing Pepe Jeans USA in 1995, in 1996 Tommy Hilfiger Inc. began distributing women's clothing.[11] By the end of the next year Hilfiger had opened his first store in Beverly Hills, which was followed by a store in London in 1998.[11] The company launched its bed and bath line in 1998.[5]

Throughout the 1990s the company's marketing division worked in tandem with the popular music industry, and as early as 1993 Hilfiger was an official sponsor for Pete Townshend's Psychoderelict tour. In the early 1990s a baggier, less tailored menswear look came into fashion, and Hilfiger gave his clothes a more relaxed fit.[12] As roomier styles with oversized logos became popular with hip-hop artists in the mid-to-late ’90s,[13] Hilfiger's style of clothing became both increasingly popular with the American "preppy" scene and as hip hop fashion,[8] and when Snoop Dogg wore a Hilfiger sweatshirt during an appearance on Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, it sold out of New York City stores the next day.[14] Moreover, Hilfiger courted the new hip hop market, and rappers like Puffy and Coolio walked during his runways shows.[14] With collections often influenced by the fashion of music subcultures, The clothes are also marketed in connection with the music industry,[15][16] and American R&B icon Aaliyah became the much-publicized spokesperson for Tommy Hilfiger Corporation in 1997.[17] The company would later sponsor Sheryl Crow’s “If It Makes You Happy” tour in 1997,[18] Britney Spears 1999 ...Baby One More Time Tour,[19][20] and and Lenny Kravitz’s 1999 Freedom tour.[21]

PVH acquisition and recent years (2000s)

When PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH) (then known as Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation) acquired the company in May 2010, Gehring also assumed the role of CEO of PVH’s international operations, while Hilfiger remains the company's Principal Designer and provides leadership and direction for all aspects of the design process.[2] In October 2013, Daniel Grieder became CEO of the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation.[22]

The company licenses the brand to its OEM company through its subsidiary Tommy Hilfiger Licensing LLC, which is based in New Jersey.[23] The licensing company owns the rights to the logo.[24]

Product lines

Tommy Hilfiger delivers its products worldwide under the Tommy Hilfiger and Hilfiger Denim brands,[25] and also has a breadth of collections including Hilfiger Collection, Tommy Hilfiger Tailored, men’s, women’s and kid’s sportswear, denim, accessories, and footwear. In addition, the brand is licensed for a range of products such as fragrances, eyewear, watches and home furnishings.[26]

  • Tommy Hilfiger – the main line of the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation, like the company's other lines it is influenced by classic American fashion, or more specifically what the company dubs “preppy with a twist.” It targets customers in the 25 to 40 year-old range.[26]
  • Hilfiger Denim – more casual than the Tommy Hilfiger label, it targets both men and women in the 18 to 30 year-old range. Beyond jeans, the line also includes denim separates, footwear, bags, accessories, eyewear and fragrances.[26]
  • Hilfiger Collection - intended for women, the clothing line blends classic American influences with contemporary styles. The clothes are marketed towards women age 25 to 40. The designs periodically debut during New York Fashion Week.[26]
  • Tommy Hilfiger Tailored - an American menswear line meant to the 25 to 40 year-old demographic. Styles vary from formal suits to casual wear, with a focus on what the Tommy Hilfiger Group website describes as "precision fit, premium fabrics, updated cuts, rich colors and luxe details.”[26]

Marketing and advertising

File:Tommmy Hilfiger spring campaign 2014.jpg
Tommmy Hilfiger spring campaign 2014, showing "the Hilfigers."

In 1985, to help him launch his first collection, Hilfiger hired advertiser and graphic designer George Lois[10] to make a billboard for the center of Times Square in New York City.[8] Instead of models, the ad featured the initials of three well-known fashion designers—“PE” (Perry Ellis), “RL” (Ralph Lauren), “CK” (Calvin Klein), and announced that “TH” (Tommy Hilfiger) was the next great menswear designer. The billboard created a stir in the fashion press, and succeeded in creating awareness of the Hilfiger name.[27] In subsequent years Hilfiger and Lois collaborated again on other ads for the Hilfiger brand. One campaign, in 1990, compared Hilfiger’s American style with other “iconic American” classics, such as the 1955 Thunderbird and the 1940 Harley-Davidson bike.[12] Hilfiger courted the new hip hop market in the 1990s,[14] and rappers like Puffy and Coolio walked during its runways shows.[14]

Philanthropy

In 1995 Hilfiger launched The Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation. With an emphasis on health, educational and cultural programs, the organization supports charities that focus on at-risk American youth.[28] In 2013, all philanthropic activities of The Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation were re-named Tommy Cares. A wider-reaching global initiative, Tommy Cares further integrates the brand’s non-profit partnerships, charitable contributions, and employee involvement.[29] On a global scale, Tommy Cares continues to support organizations such as Save the Children, the World Wildlife Fund, War Child,[30] and Millennium Promise.[30]

In support of the non-profit Breast Health International (BHI), since 2008 Tommy Hilfiger has designed handbags for the organization, with a portion of all proceeds from the bags going directly to BHI’s Fund For Living program. The Tommy Hilfiger brand appoints ambassadors for each seasonal line, and in 2013, Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell modeled the BHI bag in a photo shoot with photographer Patrick Demarchelier.[31] Former ambassadors have included Charlotte Gainsbourg, who was photographed by Drew Barrymore. Others include Renée Zellweger, Carla Bruni, Helena Christensen, and Milla Jovovich.[32] In connection with the non-profit Millennium Promise,[33] Katie Holmes served as the ambassador of the 2012 Millenium Promise Collection designed by Tommy Hilfiger.[34]

Locations

A Tommy Hilfiger storefront in Germany

With a head office in Amsterdam, the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation has global flagship stores in the following seven locations:[35][36]

In addition to the flagship stores, anchor stores are located in the cities of Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Cannes, Cologne, Dublin, Florence, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Montréal, Moscow, Mumbai, Munich, New York, Osaka, Panama City, Santiago, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Vancouver, Vienna, and Zurich.[35] The company often operates hundreds of stores in the larger countries, and the subsidiary Tommy Hilfiger Japan Corp., for example, operates 170 stores with 1,000 employees as of 2014.[37] In 2015, the brand launched its first store in Thailand.[38]

Corporate responsibility

PVH, which has owned the Tommy Hilfiger brand since 2010, applies its own corporate code of conduct to its subsidiaries.[36] This code of conduct is in turn extended to business partners, which the Tommy Hilfiger Group specifies as suppliers, contractors, vendors, licensees and agents.[36] Among other rules, the code of conduct dictates nondiscrimination in employment and protects freedom of association for unions, the right to work in a healthy and safe workplace, and the right to fair compensation and scheduling. The code outlaws harassment and abuse, forced labor, and child labor, and dictates that business partners "comply with all applicable environmental laws, rules and regulations at their facilities and in the communities in which they operate, particularly with respect to water, energy, hazardous chemicals, air quality and waste."[36] Among other local legislation, PVH has pledged compliance with the the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 (SB 657).[39]

In the late 1990s, Tommy Hilfiger and other large American textile companies such as Calvin Klein and Sears were defendants in a class-action lawsuit alleging that luxury clothes were being manufactured in sweatshop conditions in Saipan. After a group settlement that admitted no liability, in March 2000, Tommy Hilfiger volunteered to allow independent oversight of their manufacturing on the island.[40] In March 2012, ABC aired a report that 29 workers had died in a factory fire in 2011 in Bangladesh, with the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation included among the factory's clients.[41] PVH Corp. issued a press release in response, stating they would commit $1 million to a two-year program to help facilitate safety programs.[41] The company, however, announced they would not abandon their manufacturing in Bangledash, with PVH CEO Emanuel Chirico stating that the brand was instead "trying for a global solution" and staying at the factories to affect change, as "you need to have a voice at the table to get changes made as you go forward."[42] Tommy Hilfiger later signed a Bangladeshi safety accord along with eighty other Western retailers, with the goal of protecting unionizers.[43] In 2014, PVH was consulting about investing in Ethiopia in relation to Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, with labor rights among the key talking points.[44]

Recognition

For a similar section on Tommy Hilfiger the designer, not the company, see Tommy Hilfiger recognition.

The following is a selected list of awards and recognitions won by the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation: The following is a selected list of awards and recognitions won by the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation:

See also

References

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