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Jones Apparel Group, Inc. (NYSE: JNY), a Fortune 500 company, is an American designer, marketer and wholesaler of branded clothing, shoes and accessories. Although its headquarters are in Bristol, Pennsylvania, it maintains four offices in New York City, and it also markets directly to consumers through specialty retail and value-based stores.
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In 1970, Sidney Kimmel founded and became President of the Jones Apparel Division of W.R. Grace & Co. Together with Grace accountant Gerard Rubin, Kimmel bought Grace's fashion division in 1975, incorporating it as Jones Apparel Group. Jones expanded quickly by bringing out new labels and licensing others, such as Christian Dior.
In the early 1980s, Jones Apparel offered the sweatsuit fashions of Norma Kamali, and in 1984 they acquired the license for the Gloria Vanderbilt line from Murjani.
In the early 1990s, Jones again took off. The company expanded with new lines, such as Rena Rowan and Jones & Co.
Jones Apparel Group's brands include:
Albert Nipon
Anne Klein
Bandolino
Easy Spirit
Energie
Enzo
Angiolini
Erika
Evan-Picone
Gloria Vanderbilt
Joan & David
Jones New York
Judith Jack
Kasper
l.e.i.
Le Suit
Mootsies
Tootsies
Napier
Nine West
Norton McNaughton
Sam & Libby
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Jones Apparel Group's method was accumulation. Rather than build one famous name, it brought out new labels and licensed existing ones, so its list eventually covered women's career clothing, footwear, jeans and jewelry at once: Albert Nipon, Anne Klein, Bandolino, Easy Spirit, Energie, Enzo Angiolini, Erika, Evan-Picone, Gloria Vanderbilt, Joan and David, Jones New York, Judith Jack, Kasper, l.e.i., Le Suit, Mootsies Tootsies, Napier, Nine West, Norton McNaughton and Sam and Libby. Licences filled the gaps a portfolio cannot grow quickly on its own — costume jewelry under the Givenchy brand, licensed from Givenchy Corporation, and footwear under the Dockers Women brand, licensed from Levi Strauss and Co.
The group's history runs through fashion's conglomerate era. Sidney Kimmel founded the Jones Apparel Division of W.R. Grace and Co. in 1970, bought the division with Gerard Rubin in 1975, and expanded through the early 1980s with licences such as Christian Dior and the sweatsuit fashions of Norma Kamali, and in 1984 the Gloria Vanderbilt line from Murjani. In the early 1990s the company took off again with new lines such as Rena Rowan and Jones and Co.
Jones also owned a famous store. In 2004 the company purchased the luxury department store chain Barneys New York for 400 million dollars, and sold it in September 2007 to the Dubai-based investment firm Istithmar for 942.3 million dollars. Alongside wholesaling to other retailers, Jones markets directly to consumers through its own chain of specialty retail and value-based stores, giving its brands an outlet channel under its own control. With headquarters in Bristol, Pennsylvania and four offices in New York City, the group sits between the two centres of its business: corporate operations in Pennsylvania and the fashion trade in New York.
Jones Apparel Group is a designer, marketer and wholesaler of branded clothing, shoes and accessories, and also markets directly to consumers through its chain of specialty retail and value-based stores. It markets costume jewelry under the Givenchy brand and footwear under the Dockers Women brand under licence.
Its brands include Albert Nipon, Anne Klein, Bandolino, Easy Spirit, Energie, Enzo Angiolini, Erika, Evan-Picone, Gloria Vanderbilt, Joan and David, Jones New York, Judith Jack, Kasper, l.e.i., Le Suit, Mootsies Tootsies, Napier, Nine West, Norton McNaughton and Sam and Libby.
In 1970 Sidney Kimmel founded and became president of the Jones Apparel Division of W.R. Grace and Co. Together with Grace accountant Gerard Rubin, Kimmel bought Grace's fashion division in 1975 and incorporated it as Jones Apparel Group. The company expanded with new labels and licences, including Christian Dior, Norma Kamali sweatsuit fashions in the early 1980s and the Gloria Vanderbilt line in 1984.