Apparel Companies O

Welcome to the O section of the Apparel Search Fashion Company Names directory. The chip grid below is this letter's table of contents: 3 company profiles, one chip each, in alphabetical order by company name. O is one of the directory's smallest letters and one of its most varied. No two of its filings do the same job. One sells no clothing at all, only the software that designs and cuts it. One is a Vermont retailer older than the telephone, built on fly fishing and a promise that satisfaction is guaranteed without questions. One is a public apparel group whose brands dress golfers, beachcombers and private label shoppers at the same time. A short letter, honestly kept, teaches a researcher more about the industry's range than a long one filed on autopilot.

The page hub for this letter listed four names, and the fourth deserves its explanation here. Old Navy appears in the page O listing, but its profile lives with its parent: Old Navy is a Gap Inc. brand, filed in the G section alongside the rest of the Gap family. This hub's kept links carry that original route unchanged, so a reader who arrives expecting Old Navy under O is sent to the same place the page sent them. The three profiles that genuinely belong to this letter are the grid below, and each is rebuilt with the page editorial links, photographs and facts kept in full.

Reading the O Profiles: Software, a Sporting Retailer and an Apparel Group

Begin with the toolmaker. Optitex files the letter's technology record: 2D and 3D fashion design software for digitizing, pattern engineering, grading, marking and advanced automatic nesting, running in nineteen languages across more than 20,000 installations. Its customer list runs from Cherokee Uniforms and Land's End to Boeing, BMW and the US Navy, because a pattern system built for sewn products serves any factory that cuts flexible material. Ten dated news articles from 2008 travel with the profile, tracing a year of NVIDIA graphics partnerships, 3D runway features and new language interfaces, and they are all carried in the rebuilt page's kept links.

Orvis files the letter's retail record, and the directory's longest memory. Founded by Charles Orvis in Manchester, Vermont in 1856, it is filed as the longest-running mail order business in the United States, still anchored by a flagship in the same village. Around the world famous fly-fishing gear sit distinctive clothing, home furnishings, gifts and dog products, a no-questions-asked guarantee, outlets promising up to 70% off, more than 500 authorized dealers, and a commitment of 5% of pre-tax profits to conservation. Its store count is kept with its 2009 date attached, the honest way to keep a snapshot.

Oxford Industries files the letter's corporate record. It is a producer and marketer of branded and private label apparel whose owned brands include Tommy Bahama, Ben Sherman and Oxford Golf, whose licenses include Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica and Dockers, and whose stock has traded on the NYSE under OXM since 1964. Its profile opens with a transaction, the January 3, 2011 sale of Oxford Apparel to LF USA for expected proceeds above $95 million, and labels everything after it as the summary prior to that sale. Quote the brand rosters and the forty-five-plus Tommy Bahama stores as that dated record, and the letter reads exactly as Apparel Search filed it. If you know of an important fashion company beginning with O that is missing here, you are welcome to make suggestions, as the page hub invited.