Industry | Sneaker and apparel reseller |
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Founded | 2018 |
Founder | Eddy Lu Daishin Sugano |
Key people | Eddy Lu (CEO) [1] |
Website | www |
GOAT Group is a holding company that operates e-commerce platforms for sneakers, apparel, and accessories. Formed in 2018, it operates the online marketplaces GOAT, Flight Club, alias, and Grailed.
GOAT Group's origins date back to 2015 with the founding of the online sneaker marketplace GOAT. [2] In 2018, GOAT acquired retail sneaker consignment company Flight Club. GOAT and Flight Club continued to operate as two separate marketplaces and led to the creation of GOAT Group. [2] The acquisition was followed by a $100 million investment from Foot Locker in 2019. [3]
In 2020, GOAT Group launched Alias (styled "alias"), an online platform that allows users to list their own sneakers and apparel for resale. By 2021, GOAT Group was valued at $3.7 billion dollars after it received an additional $195 million private investment in the company. [4] In 2022, GOAT Group purchased Grailed, an online peer-to-peer marketplace for apparel, accessories, and footwear. [5] [6]
GOAT is an online marketplace for sneakers, apparel and accessories. Founded in 2015, it uses a ship-to-verify model and is one of the largest marketplaces for buying and selling new and vintage sneakers, apparel and accessories. [7]
Fight Club is a sneaker consignment store. It operates out of three brick and mortar locations in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami as well as its website. Founded in 2005, it became part of GOAT Group when it was acquired by GOAT in 2018. [8]
alias is an online sneaker and apparel platform that allows users to list their own product for sale. It launched in 2020 as an extension of GOAT's "seller" platform. [4]
Grailed is an online marketplace for apparel and footwear. [9] Founded in 2014, it offers high-end resale items from brands including Raf Simons, Gucci, Balenciaga, and others. [5] Originally launched as a platform for men, it began offering women's footwear and apparel in 2022. [10]
Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN) is a multinational lifestyle retail corporation headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Operating in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, select Western European countries, Poland, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar, the Urban Outfitters brand targets young adults with a merchandise mix of women's and men's fashion apparel, footwear, beauty and wellness products, accessories, activewear and gear, and housewares, as well as music, primarily vinyl records and cassettes.
New Balance Athletics, Inc. (NB), best known as simply New Balance, is one of the world's major sports footwear and apparel manufacturers. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the multinational corporation was founded in 1906 as the New Balance Arch Support Company.
Foot Locker, Inc. is an American multinational sportswear and footwear retailer headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and operating in over 40 countries.
Eastbay was an American supplier of athletic footwear, apparel and sports equipment, selling through direct mail and the internet. In 1997, it became a subsidiary of the F. W. Woolworth Company, later known as Foot Locker, Inc.
Reebok International Limited is an American footwear and clothing brand that is a part of Authentic Brands Group. It was established in England in 1958 as a companion company to J.W. Foster and Sons, a sporting goods company which had been founded in 1895 in Bolton, Lancashire. From 1958 until 1986, the brand featured the flag of the United Kingdom in its logo to signify the origins of the company. It was bought by German sporting goods company Adidas in 2005, then sold to the United States–based Authentic Brands Group in 2021. The company's global headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Seaport District.
Sneaker collecting is the acquisition and trading of sneakers as a hobby. It is often manifested by the use and collection of shoes made for particular sports, particularly basketball and skateboarding. A person involved in sneaker collecting is sometimes called a sneakerhead.
Champs Sports is an American sports retail store, it operates as a subsidiary of Foot Locker. Products sold at Champs Sports include apparel, equipment, footwear, and accessories. As of June 2019, there were 540 store locations found throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The stores are mainly located in shopping malls, and are 3,500 square feet (330 m2) on average.
Swap.com is an online thrift and consignment store offering pre-owned baby, kid's, maternity, men's and women's apparel and accessories. The company operates out of the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, Illinois with a fulfillment center based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Indiatimes Shopping is the e-commerce division of The Times of India Group, India's largest media conglomerate. It is one of the pioneers in electronic commerce in India and services its customers through various channels including online and selling over the phone. It also provided platform services for brands to go online and sell their products in partnership through White-label. Some of the major categories sold through Indiatimes Shopping included men & women footwear, apparel & accessories, lifestyle, home décor, mobile phones, consumer electronics, health & personal beauty products, books, jewellery, baby products and flowers & gifts. Indiatimes Shopping operated through a hybrid model, an mix of warehousing and marketplace.
Poshmark is a social commerce marketplace where users can buy and sell new and secondhand fashion, home goods, and electronics. The platform has over 80 million users, with over 200M available listings. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in Canada (Vancouver), Australia (Melbourne), and India (Chennai). The company operates as an independent subsidiary of Naver Corporation since January 2023.
Chairish is a curated online marketplace for high-end vintage home furnishings and art.
Tradesy was an online peer-to-peer resale marketplace for buying and selling women's fashion. The company was headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
Tata CLiQ is an Indian e-commerce company based in Mumbai, India. It is owned by Tata Digital, under the Tata Group. Tata CLiQ operates in categories such as Fashion, Footwear, and Accessories. Tata Group's E-commerce platform, Tata CLiQ, also launched a premium and luxury fashion and lifestyle destination, Tata CLiQ Luxury, and it houses a wide range of apparel and accessories for men and women by luxury and bridge-to-luxury brands.
StockX is an online marketplace and clothing reseller, primarily of sneakers. Since November 2020, it has also opened up to electronic products such as game consoles, smartphones and computer hardware. The Detroit-based company was founded by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, Greg Schwartz, and Chris Kaufman in 2015–2016. StockX has more than 800 employees in Downtown Detroit. StockX currently has international offices in London, UK, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and has authentication facilities in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood, Moonachie, NJ, and Tempe, AZ. Scott Cutler and Schwartz serve as chief executive officer and chief operating officer, respectively, and Deena Bahri became the company's first chief marketing officer in 2019.
Rebag is a New York-based retail platform, established in 2014, that operates both online and through brick-and-mortar stores. It specializes in the buying, trading, and selling of luxury handbags, accessories, watches, fine jewelry, shoes, and select apparel.
Stadium Goods is a retailer specialised in the resale of aftermarket sneakers. Based in New York City, it operates a shop and a drop-off center in SoHo, Manhattan as well as an online store. The store sells sneakers and streetwear, including rare and limited edition sneakers.
GOAT is an American online platform offering sneakers, streetwear, luxury apparel and accessories through the primary and resale markets. Founded in 2015, GOAT has 50 million members and over 1,000,000 sellers across 170 countries on its platform.
Accent Group Limited is an Australian and New Zealand footwear and clothing retail, wholesaling and distribution company. It has more than 800 retail stores, along with 19 brands, and more than 20 online platforms.
KYX, previously known as KYX World, is an e-commerce platform known for facilitating the rental and purchase of aftermarket and limited-release sneakers to end consumers. KYX was co-founded by entrepreneurs Brian Mupo and Steve Dorfman who launched the company in June 2021. The for-profit LLC is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. In January 2023, the company decided to end the offering of their subscription rental service, announcing so by publishing on their website's homepage.
Kicks Crew is a New York City-based global digital marketplace for footwear, clothing, and accessories, primarily focusing on sneakers. The company's main founding principle was to make the online sneaker market accessible to a broader audience not looking solely for limited edition shoes and luxury styles but interested in more general products.