Clothing

Winmark Corporate Office

In 1983, Martha Morris was operating a small used sporting goods store in Minneapolis, Minnesota, called Play It Again Sports. She was a client of a consulting firm run by Ron Olson and Jeffrey Dahlberg. When Morris told the pair that she wanted to make her company a franchise, they had their doubts, however, after a surprise visit to the store, Olson and Dahlberg found more than 10 people waiting in line before the store had even opened.

In 1988, Olson and Dahlberg acquired the store from Morris. Play It Again Sports was the first franchise operation for what would become the Winmark Corporation.

The company went public on the NASDAQ in 1993 and is now listed under the ticker symbol WINA. Winmark owns 5 franchised based companies, all of which sell used goods including Music Go Round, Play It Again Sports, Once Upon a Child, Style Encore, and Plato’s Closet. The company also owns Wirth Business Credit, a small business supply leasing company.

In February 2018, the company listed their year-end sales results for 2017 as $24.565 million and $5.66 per share.

Headquarters for the company are located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company maintains a $1 billion market share in a $17 billion industry through its 1,170 franchised operations.

Winmark

In 1988, Olson and Dahlberg acquired the store from Morris. Play It Again Sports was the first franchise operation for what would become the Winmark Corporation.

History

In February 2018, the company listed their year-end sales results for 2017 as $24.565 million and $5.66 per share.

Headquarters for the company are located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company maintains a $1 billion market share in a $17 billion industry through its 1,170 franchised operations.

Mossy Oak Corporate Office

Toxey Haas had a fascination with the camouflage provided by twigs, leaves, branches, and dirt in the forests. He started his own company which features camouflage clothing, hunting gear, and boots in 1986.

The company carries a wide range of items, from guns to bumper stickers, snake proof boots to t-shirts. Haas’ original camo design was turned down by numerous companies as being too simplistic. He paid to have 10,000 yards of his own design printed. The company says that their products are made for folks with an obsession with the outdoors.

Haas has expanded his brand beyond the hunting and camo items his store sells. He recently partnered with fellow alumni George Bryan to create the Mossy Oak Golf Course in West Point, Mississippi. The company also operates Mossy Oak Properties, a real estate company, founded with his friend Chris Howley.

In 2007, the company founded Nativ Nurseries, which grows and sells trees to landscapers and contractors, as well as BioLogic, which sells everything from natural ground covers to soil testing.

Mossy Oak is headquartered in West Point, Mississippi and has approximately 5000 employees

Mossy Oak

History

In 2007, the company founded Nativ Nurseries, which grows and sells trees to landscapers and contractors, as well as BioLogic, which sells everything from natural ground covers to soil testing.

Mossy Oak is headquartered in West Point, Mississippi and has approximately 5000 employees

Duckworth Corporate Office

Duckworth can trace its roots back to when John Helle’s grandfather purchased ranch land for his sheep in Montana for 2 cents an acre.

For many years the Helle family sold the wool from their sheep to brokers, who often mixed it with lower quality wool and sold it to the highest bidder. John Helle says he always wondered where their product ended up being used. In 2014, the family decided that they were going to start making their own products using just the Merino wool from their own sheep.

Duckworth is now a Montana source-verified wool company that uses 100% Helle Rambouillet Merino wool, processed, designed, and 100% sewn in the USA. The company makes its own products, including shirts, underwear, socks, and jackets, from its own Merino sheep and does not outsource it or mix it with lower quality wool.

This is increasingly important as wool now travels farther than ever before it meets your body. Duckworth wool fibers travel from Montana to the Carolinas (once a world powerhouse for textiles) for spinning, knitting, and sewing to strict standards.

Duckworth products are born, sheared, designed, and sewn in the USA. Helle says that the demand for their products has more than doubled in the past 3 years.

Company headquarters are located in Bozeman, Montana.

Duckworth

Duckworth can trace its roots back to when John Helle’s grandfather purchased ranch land for his sheep in Montana for 2 cents an acre.

History

Duckworth products are born, sheared, designed, and sewn in the USA. Helle says that the demand for their products has more than doubled in the past 3 years.

Company headquarters are located in Bozeman, Montana.

Stitch Fix Corporate Office

Stitch Fix, originally named Rack Habit,was founded in 2011 by current CEO Katrina Lake and Erin Morrison Flynn. Lake attended Stanford, where she became interested in statistics and how they were used to influence customers. While she was attending Harvard Business School, she started the idea of Stitch Fix and began working on it from her apartment. Her research told her that people didn’t always like shopping at stores but felt that they couldn’t afford a personal shopper or a styling assistant.

Stitch Fix is an online clothing subscription service which offers personal assistants to help pick out clothing styles for clients. After filling out a questionnaire about styling preferences and body measurements, clients can choose to receive subscription boxes as often as they wish. Clients can keep what they want and return what they don’t want, with free shipping each way.

The company began only selling women’s clothing but has since added men’s wear, maternity clothing, and petite sizes. The company also supports integration with Pinterest boards, allowing customers to add photos of fashion looks that they like.

Stitch Fix has been profitable since 2014. In July 2016, the company ended its fiscal year with recorded sales of $730 million. The company has also raised $42 million from outside investors.

In July of 2017, the company went public on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol: SFIX.

Company headquarters are located in San Francisco, California.

Stitich Fix

History

Stitch Fix has been profitable since 2014. In July 2016, the company ended its fiscal year with recorded sales of $730 million. The company has also raised $42 million from outside investors.

In July of 2017, the company went public on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol: SFIX.

Company headquarters are located in San Francisco, California.

Chanel Corporate Office

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was an orphan who learned all about sewing and dressmaking from the nuns at the orphanage where she lived. When she was 18, she opened a hat-making shop on the ground floor of the Parisian flat of the textile businessman Etienne Balsan. Because the Balsan flat also was a salon for the French hunting and sporting élite, Chanel had the opportunity to meet many mistresses and wives, who became fans of her hats and, soon afterward, her dresses.

At a time when corsets and large feathered hats were still in style, Chanel was unique in that she was more interested in comfort than style. She instantly did become a fashion icon, as women everywhere began ditching their corsets and wearing “the little black dress” and the Chanel suit dress.

The color black was only worn by widows or those in mourning until Chanel introduced it as an acceptable fashion statement with “the little black dress. Chanel is also known for using jersey cloth, which was commonly used for men’s underwear.

In 1921, Chanel asked a perfume maker to create a new fragrance to match her clothing. This perfume, which she named Chanel #5, is now the best-known perfume name in the world. The #5 name came simply from the perfume batch that Chanel liked best. While Chanel stores in Europe had to close during WWII, Chanel herself was allowed by the Nazi regime to continue making her perfume. After the war, she decided to retire to Switzerland.

Chanel grew bored with retirement, however, and returned to France, to find the world was enamored with a new designer, Christian Dior. Determined to get back into the business, Chanel created new suits, a line of jewelry, and what would become the infamous handbag design with the double C embossed into the leather.

Coco Chanel passed away in 1971, but her infamous stores and products continue on. The company has more than 300 stores located around the world and an untold number of upscale stores carry her designer items.

In 2016, the company had an estimated annual revenue of $5.2 billion. The corporate office for Chanel in the USA is located in New York, New York.

Chanel

History

In 2016, the company had an estimated annual revenue of $5.2 billion. The corporate office for Chanel in the USA is located in New York, New York.