Apparel Companies N

Welcome to the N section of the Apparel Search Fashion Company Names directory. The chip grid below is this letter's table of contents: 10 company profiles, one chip each, in alphabetical order by company name. It is a letter dominated by American sport and the stores that sell it. Two footwear giants file long, acquisition-rich histories from Boston and Beaverton, a Buffalo cap maker files the exclusive right to dress every Major League Baseball team, and an outdoor brand named for a mountain's coldest side files four decades of expedition records, all beside the luxury and specialty retailers who put such goods in front of shoppers.

Around those athletes and retailers, the letter covers change as faithfully as continuity. A luxury group profile holds two dated store snapshots six years apart and its 2015 IPO announcement. A women's specialty chain founded in 1918 carries the 2018 announcement of its new name, RTW Retailwinds, at its head. A holding company page is nothing but a ledger of splits, a bankruptcy and a brand sale, included because researchers need the dates. New Balance and Nike are both filed in this letter.

Reading the N Profiles: Sport, Luxury and Ledgers of Change

Begin with sport, because four of the ten profiles share it. New Balance narrates a Boston fit laboratory becoming a worldwide maker on the strength of width sizing and New England factories. Nike narrates a Eugene handshake becoming a global family of Bauer, Hurley, Converse and Exeter, with Air Max and Air Jordan as its named icons. New Era Cap supplies the fitted cap both worlds wear, more than 35 million a year, while Napapijri and Nautica, two VF divisions filing brief statements, cover expedition travel goods and nautical sportswear from the same parent as The North Face, whose own profile is the longest document in the letter, a 1966 beachside shop followed by a year-by-year expedition record running past 1999.

The retailers interlock just as closely. Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom both tell founder stories a century deep, one built on luxury assortments and dated 2009 and 2015 snapshots, the other on a five-dollar arrival from Sweden, a Klondike stake and a Seattle shoe store that became a national fashion chain. New York & Company shows the specialty formula, proprietary product for women aged 25 to 45 across more than 580 stores in 2009, ending in its renaming announcement. Nine West Holdings closes the letter's business history as pure ledger: the 2013 Sycamore purchase of the Jones Group, the 2014 six-way split, the April 2018 bankruptcy, the July 2018 sale of the Nine West brand to Authentic Brands Group, and the March 2019 emergence as Premier Brands Group.

A note on dating inside this letter, because N mixes living snapshots with finished history more than most. Quote Neiman Marcus store figures with their 2009 or 2015 labels, Nordstrom's 159-store count as its undated snapshot beside a fully dated history, New Balance's sales with their 1992 and 2006 years, and Nike's roughly 29,000 employees as its filing's count. New York & Company and Nine West Holdings are transition records whose announced dates, 2018 and 2019 respectively, should travel with any fact quoted from them. If you know of an important fashion company beginning with N that is missing here, you are welcome to make suggestions.