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When people around the world think of America, they usually picture the poor little immigrant that ventures out with only the clothes on his back and a strong will; a person who is willing to work hard and do anything he can to strike it rich and become a success beyond anyone’s wildest dreams.
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Aron Goldfarb is one man who is living the American dream. An immigrant to the United States in 1956 with only his craftsman’s skills and a desire to succeed, he founded G&N Sportswear and started making leather apparel. Together with his son Morris, they personally own 20% of one of the largest apparel groups in the world.
Aron started out small in 1956 with a leather apparel business that mainly produced men’s bomber jackets in New York City. He had 22-year old Morris join him in 1972 but still personally oversaw the growth of his company until 1995 as President or Vice President of the apparel group.
In 1974, G&N Sportswear changed its name to G-III Leather Fashions and started producing women’s leather outerwear in the mid-priced range. The G-III and Colebrook labels were later added to accommodate the men’s leather apparel division. Morris augmented the business by setting up production lines overseas and starting a higher-priced line of leather apparel as Siena label in 1981.
G-III Sport by Carl Banks
By 1988, G-III was the largest independent importer and wholesaler of leather apparel in the US. The biggest step came when Morris Goldfarb was convinced by a family friend, Lyle Berman, that they were undercapitalized and not working at their full potential. Berman offered the Goldfarbs an additional $1.5 million in capital in exchange for directorship of the company. The merger left the Goldfarbs in charge of management and earned the company a very impressive amount for that period. G-III, which became a public company because of the merger, then decided to expand by undergoing an initial public offering in 1989 and was subsequently renamed the G-III Apparel Group. They are currently traded on NASDAQ as GIII.
Leather was being touted in this period as representing “sex and status for everyone from the punk rocker to the secretary to Ivana Trump,” according to a trade newspaper executive. In the 1970s the industry only made uncomfortable, boxlike coats and jackets in shades of black and brown, but the products offered in 1990 was being made from various animal skins that had been treated to be suppler, colorful, and could be molded into more interesting silhouettes. They could be embossed with different patterns and silk-screened to achieve many looks.
Leather was a product that everyone wanted and it seemed G-III would do what it could to supply it. But, they had also decided to get into the textile apparel market to round out their product line. They started to diversify beyond leather apparel and outerwear into other categories in order to reduce seasonal sales and move into more high-end fashion markets.
Touch by Alyssa Milano gives sportiness a feminine side
After venturing into women’s and men’s textile outerwear and sportswear under the Colebrook and Co. label, G-III obtained a license to produce and distribute team logo outerwear for the National Football League. As of today, the brands that they carry for their licensed sports apparel for the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey League include Touch by Alyssa Milano, G-III Sports by Carl Banks, Ladies First by G-III/Carl Banks, Sports 58 (& Design)and G-III for Her. They also manufacture officially licensed college sports apparel for more than a hundred colleges across the United States.
2001 was the company’s year to expand their existing outerwear lines by obtaining a license to market women’s wool outerwear under the Jones New York and JNY Jones New York labels. The men’s lines were expanded as well,
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with a partnership entered into with Sean “P Diddy” Combs to produce and market the Sean Jean men’s outerwear (which later grew to include women’s outerwear and apparel and junior’s sportswear) and another division named the Timberland leather outerwear lines. The outerwear group today includes Kenneth Cole New York and Kenneth Cole Reaction men’s outerwear, Tommy Hilfiger Outerwear, and 115 Wilson’s Leather Outlet Stores.
G-III Apparel has expanded very quickly since 2004, with every year seeing the acquisition of yet another high-end fashion name in the business. The lines they produce and market today aside from those already mentioned are Calvin Klein for women’s suits and dresses, performance wear, and sportswear, Guess?, Ellen Tracy, Jessica Howard, Eliza J, Industrial Cotton, Andrew Marc, Jessica Simpson, American Classics by Colebrook, Cole Haan, Levi’s, Docker’s, Nine West, Winlit, Siena Studio, La Nouvelle Renaissance, and Black Rivet & Design.
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Apparel produced by G-III are sold at Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Saks, Nordstrom, JC Penney, Macy’s, Kohl’s, and 2,400 other stores and specialty boutiques. They are also available on cable television shopping networks, through direct mail catalogs, online at the G-III website and at each brand’s specific websites.
The G-III Apparel Group is headquartered at:
512 7th Ave.
New York, NY
10018
United States
Phone: 212-403-0500
Fax: 212-403-0551
www.g-iii.com
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