Jones Apparel Group - Fashion Company Profile
Jones Apparel Group - later The Jones Group - was the Bristol, Pennsylvania designer, marketer and wholesaler behind Jones New York, Nine West, Anne Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt, taken private by Sycamore Partners in 2014 and split into separate companies, so it no longer operates as a single group.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- No longer operates as a single company - The Jones Group was acquired by Sycamore Partners in 2014 and split into separate companies; its flagship brand, Jones New York, was sold to Authentic Brands Group in 2015
- Type
- Formerly public (NYSE: JNY); taken private by Sycamore Partners in the 2014 acquisition (announced December 19, 2013, at about $2.2 billion in total value) and renamed Nine West Holdings in its remainder
- Headquarters
- Bristol, Pennsylvania, United States (headquarters of the former group, with New York City offices)
- Founded
- 1970, as the Jones Apparel division of W.R. Grace & Co., by Sidney Kimmel; incorporated as Jones Apparel Group in 1975
Company Profile
A company that no longer operates carries no shop box and no official-site button: there is no single Jones Apparel Group website to visit, and its former brands should be checked through their present owners - Jones New York, for example, has belonged to Authentic Brands Group since 2015. The full record - the 2008 brand list, the brand-by-brand descriptions and the dated Sycamore, split and Jones New York sale entries - is kept in full on the history page.
The nationally recognized brands in 2008, as historical descriptions list them, were Jones New York, Nine West, Anne Klein, Gloria Vanderbilt, Kasper, Bandolino, Easy Spirit, Evan-Picone, l.e.i., Energie, Enzo Angiolini, Joan & David, Mootsies Tootsies, Sam & Libby, Napier, Judith Jack, Albert Nipon and Le Suit. Each brand was differentiated by its own distinctive styling, pricing strategy, distribution channel and target consumer. Around the owned list sat licensed businesses: costume jewelry under the Givenchy brand, footwear under the Dockers Women brand, and apparel under the Rachel Roy brand, while the company in turn licensed its own trademarks - Jones New York, Evan-Picone, Anne Klein New York, Nine West, Gloria Vanderbilt and l.e.i. among them - to select manufacturers for products it did not itself make.
Jones Apparel 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.
Jones Apparel Group History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
What happened to Jones Apparel Group?
Sycamore Partners acquired The Jones Group in 2014 and split it into separate operating companies - Nine West Group, One Jeanswear Group, Jones New York, the Kasper Group, Stuart Weitzman and Kurt Geiger - renaming the remainder Nine West Holdings.
Who owns Jones New York now?
Authentic Brands Group, which purchased the Jones New York brand in 2015 after Sycamore Partners closed its retail stores.
When was Jones Apparel Group founded?
Sidney Kimmel founded the Jones Apparel division of W.R. Grace & Co. in 1970, and bought the division out with Gerard Rubin in 1975, incorporating it as Jones Apparel Group.
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