New Yorker (clothing)

NewYorker
Company type	Private company
Industry	Clothing; Retail
Founded	1971; 53 years ago
Headquarters	Braunschweig, Germany
Key people	Friedrich Knapp, Chairman & CEO
Products	Wear; Accessories
Website	newyorker.de

NewYorker, legally NewYorker Group Services International GmbH & Co.KG, is a German clothing retailer headquartered in Braunschweig that primarily addresses the target group of 12- to 39-year-olds.

Overview

In 1971 the first NewYorker store was opened in Flensburg.^[1] In December 2006, the company won the first billion in sales. By March 2015, the company owned 1,000 branches in 39 countries:^[2] Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates.

In March 2012 Olly Murs became the face for NewYorker's men spring/summer range^[3] and customers were able to get their photos taken with a cardboard cut-out of Murs.

The company has over 16,000 employees.^[2] NewYorker is naming sponsor of the Braunschweig-based German Football League team New Yorker Lions and the Basketball Bundesliga team New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig. The company also sponsors the international b-boy competition Battle of the Year.

Stores

Europe:

Country	Number of stores
Germany	285
Austria	91
Poland	82
Russia	74
Czech Republic	51
Hungary	36
Switzerland	34
Romania	32
Slovakia	30
Spain	29
Netherlands	28
France	26
Sweden	26
Croatia	24
Serbia	20
Slovenia	16
Bulgaria	11
Bosnia and Herzegovina	9
Norway	9
Estonia	8
Finland	8
Lithuania	8
Italy	7
Portugal	6
Latvia	5
Ukraine	5
Denmark	4
Belgium	2
Luxembourg	2
Macedonia	2
Montenegro	1