Hampshire Group Limited - Fashion Company Profile
Hampshire Group, Limited was a U.S. provider of women's and men's sweaters, wovens and knits - a sweater specialist whose own announcement of November 25, 2016 records its Chapter 11 filing and the orderly wind down of its business. Its record is kept here as history.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Closed - on November 25, 2016 the company announced that it and two U.S. subsidiaries had filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in Delaware to facilitate the orderly wind down of their business operations; an asset sale followed in January 2017
- Type
- Was a public company (OTC Markets: HAMP)
- Business
- A provider of women's and men's sweaters, wovens and knits, and a designer and marketer of branded apparel
- Record
- Its divisions included Hampshire Designers, Item-Eyes and Hampshire Brands; owned brands included Designers Originals and Requirements, with licences including Geoffrey Beene and Dockers for men's sweaters
Company Profile
This page is therefore a historical profile, with no shop box and no official-site button: the full record - the November 2016 announcement in full, the three divisions, the brand and licence lists and the 1956-to-2008 sweater timeline - is kept in full on the history page.
As recorded, Hampshire was a leading U.S. provider of women's and men's sweaters, wovens and knits, and a growing designer and marketer of branded apparel. Its customers were leading retailers - Macy's, Kohl's, JC Penney, Dillard's, Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom are named - for whom it provided trend-right, branded apparel. Owned brands included Spring+Mercer, described as its newly-launched better apparel line, Designers Originals, the company's first brand and still a top-seller in department stores, Mercer Street Studio, Requirements and RQT. It also licensed the Geoffrey Beene and Dockers labels for men's sweaters, both described as market leaders in their categories, with newer licenses for Joseph Abboud and Alexander Julian men's tops and bottoms.
Hampshire Group History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Hampshire Group History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
What did Hampshire Group announce on November 25, 2016?
That the company and two U.S. subsidiaries had filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in Wilmington, Delaware to facilitate the orderly wind down of their business operations, in the historical record.
What did Hampshire Group sell?
Women's and men's sweaters, wovens and knits and branded apparel, through its Hampshire Designers, Item-Eyes and Hampshire Brands divisions, in the historical record.
Which brands did Hampshire own or license?
Owned brands included Designers Originals, Spring+Mercer, Mercer Street Studio, Requirements and RQT; licences included Geoffrey Beene and Dockers for men's sweaters, in the historical record.
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