Liz Claiborne Inc. - Fashion Company Profile
Liz Claiborne Inc., founded in New York in 1976, was the company that taught American working women to dress in coordinated separates - a public fashion house whose name, brands and corporate shell each went separate ways after 2011.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- No longer operates independently - the namesake Liz Claiborne brand was sold to JCPenney in 2011, and the corporation renamed itself Fifth & Pacific Companies in May 2012, then Kate Spade & Co. in 2014
- Public or Private
- Was public (NYSE: LIZ, then FNP); its successor, Kate Spade & Co., was acquired by Coach, Inc. (now Tapestry, Inc.) in 2017
- Headquarters
- New York City, New York, United States
- Founded
- 1976, by Liz Claiborne, Art Ortenberg, Leonard Boxer and Jerome Chazen
Company Profile
The company no longer exists in its filed form: in November 2011 JCPenney bought the worldwide rights to the Liz Claiborne brand itself, and the corporation renamed itself Fifth & Pacific (2012) and then Kate Spade & Co. (2014) around its remaining brands. There is no shop box here - the Liz Claiborne name is a licensed JCPenney brand today, not this company's product. The 1976 separates revolution and the founders' succession are kept in full on the history page.
Below those announcements sits the summary the filing itself dates as prior to October 12, 2011: Liz Claiborne Inc. designs and markets an extensive range of branded women's and men's apparel, accessories and fragrance products, with a diverse portfolio of quality brands available domestically and internationally via wholesale and retail channels, meeting consumers' fashion needs from classic to contemporary, active to relaxed and denim to streetwear. The announcements and the summary belong to different moments - one describes the portfolio being dismantled and renamed, the other the portfolio at work - and this rebuild keeps the filing's own 'prior to' label on the second, so no reader mistakes the pre-sale company for the post-sale one.
Liz Claiborne Inc. 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- its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Liz Claiborne Inc. History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
What happened to Liz Claiborne Inc.?
It sold its namesake brand to JCPenney in 2011, renamed itself Fifth & Pacific Companies in 2012 and Kate Spade & Co. in 2014, and was acquired by Coach, Inc. in 2017.
Who owns the Liz Claiborne brand now?
JCPenney bought the worldwide rights to the Liz Claiborne family of brands in 2011; the label is sold through JCPenney.
When was Liz Claiborne Inc. founded?
In 1976, in New York, by designer Liz Claiborne with Art Ortenberg, Leonard Boxer and Jerome Chazen.
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