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Perry Ellis International is an international marketer of clothing headquartered in Miami, Florida, offering a diverse portfolio of brands through multiple distribution channels and focusing mostly on sportswear and casual clothing for niche markets. Its listed brands include Perry Ellis, Original Penguin, Munsingwear, Cubavera, Farah, Grand Slam, Jantzen, John Henry, Mondo di Marco, Natural Issue, Redsand and Tricots St. Raphael, alongside licensed lines.
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Perry Ellis International is an international marketer of
clothing, offering a diverse portfolio
of brands through multiple distribution channels; focusing mostly
on sportswear and casual clothing for niche markets. It is headquartered
in Miami, Florida,
USA.
Current Licenses (time sensitive information - see their site for more current detail)
"Perry
Ellis International, Inc." Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
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Perry Ellis International is best understood as a portfolio business. Instead of selling one label, it markets many brands through multiple distribution channels, focusing mostly on sportswear and casual clothing for niche markets. The brand list in the definition shows the breadth: Perry Ellis itself, Original Penguin, Munsingwear, Cubavera, Axis and Axist, Farah, Girl Star, Gotcha, Grand Slam, Havanera, Jag, Jantzen, John Henry, MCD, Mondo di Marco, Natural Issue, Pro Player, Redsand, Savane and Tricots St. Raphael. Each name addresses a different customer, price level or activity, from golf and swim to Latin-inspired menswear, so the company can place several labels inside the same department store without them competing directly with each other.
Licensing is the second engine. Licensed brands in the list include Dockers, Nike Swim, PGA Tour and PING Collection, and the definition also records dated license notices from 2005, such as Weeplay LLC extending the Original Penguin brand to newborn, infant and toddler sizes and Lupo International manufacturing and distributing Mondo di Marco menswear in the United States and Canada. Those examples show how a portfolio owner earns from a name without making every product itself: the owner controls the brand and approves the product, a specialist licensee makes and distributes a category, and both sides benefit from recognition neither could build as quickly alone. The definition flags its license information as time sensitive, which is correct practice, because licenses are contracts with terms and territories and they change.
The company is headquartered in Miami, Florida, a base that fits its strength in warm-weather sportswear, golf clothing, swim and Latin-market brands such as Cubavera and Havanera. The Perry Ellis name at the head of the portfolio comes from the American designer whose menswear reshaped casual dressing, and the company built around that name expanded by acquisition and licensing into a group. Original Penguin connects this page to the letter O definition, where the Penguin brand, introduced by Munsingwear in 1955, was bought by Perry Ellis International in 1996 and relaunched with a new sportswear collection in Spring 2003, an example of the portfolio model applied to a heritage name.
Perry Ellis International was taken private in 2018. That status is given here as a dated fact; brand ownership, licenses and distribution change over time, so current details should be checked on the company's official website. For researchers, the definition remains the clearest compact map of the group's shape in its listed period: a Miami-based marketer, a long owned-brand list centred on sportswear and casual clothing, and a licensing operation extending those brands into categories and territories the company does not serve directly.
Perry Ellis International is an international marketer of clothing, offering a diverse portfolio of brands through multiple distribution channels, focusing mostly on sportswear and casual clothing for niche markets. It is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Listed brands include Perry Ellis, Original Penguin, Munsingwear, Cubavera, Farah, Grand Slam, Jantzen, John Henry, Mondo di Marco, Natural Issue, Redsand, Savane and Tricots St. Raphael, plus licensed brands such as Nike Swim, PGA Tour and PING Collection.
Perry Ellis International was taken private in 2018, after the period covered by the brand and license lists in the definition. Current company details should be checked on the company's official website.