New Yorker (clothing)

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New Yorker
Company typePrivate company
IndustryClothing
Retail
Founded1971;53 years ago (1971)
Headquarters Braunschweig, Germany
Key people
Friedrich Knapp, Chairman & CEO
Products Wear
Accessories
Website newyorker.de

New Yorker, legally New Yorker Group Services International GmbH & Co.KG, is a multinational clothing retailer headquartered in Braunschweig.

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New Yorker's flagship store in Braunschweig. Store bs.jpg
New Yorker's flagship store in Braunschweig.

In 1971 the first New Yorker store was opened in Flensburg. [1] In December 2006, the company won the first billion in sales. By November 2022, the company owned 1,150 branches in 47 countries: [2] Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and the United States.

In March 2012 Olly Murs became the face for New Yorker's men spring/summer range [3] and customers were able to get their photos taken with a cardboard cut-out of Murs.

The company has over 23,000 employees. [2] New Yorker is naming sponsor of the Braunschweig-based German Football League team New Yorker Lions and formerly also the Basketball Bundesliga team New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig (now Basketball Löwen Braunschweig). The company also sponsors the international b-boy competition Battle of the Year.

History

It all began in 1971, when Tilmar Hansen and Michael Simson opened the first New Yorker branch in downtown Flensburg, which at the time was just a simple jeans shop. A little later, Friedrich Knapp who later became managing director and also managed a denim store in Braunschweig at the time, joined the company. The three eventually founded SHK-Jeans GmbH and opened their first branches throughout Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1990, Simson left the company and was only associated as the owner of a few properties in which New Yorker branches were located. In 1994, the first step across the German border was made. At that time, the two entrepreneurs opened the first foreign branch in Linz, Austria. Once abroad, the company continued to expand rapidly. Beginning in 1998 with the addition of stores in Czech Republic and Poland, as of 2022 the chain spans almost 50 countries and 3 continents. [4]

Criticism

In February 2015, the company was accused of attempting to prevent the establishment of works councils. Frankfurter Rundschau reported that after a works council was established at a store in Offenbach am Main, the company spun off that location into a separate subsidiary, which was subsequently liquidated. [5]

In November 2017, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that Friedrich Knapp, the sole owner of New Yorker, was mentioned in the Paradise Papers. The newspaper described email correspondence regarding the establishment of a Cayman Islands-based aircraft leasing company, which, "for German tax reasons", would hold and lease the company's jets. [6] [7]

Stores

CountryNumber of stores
Germany290 [8]
Austria91
Poland89
Russia74
Czech Republic71
France51
Romania45
Hungary37
Switzerland34
Slovakia34
Spain29
Netherlands28
Sweden26
Croatia24
Finland21
Serbia20
Saudi Arabia19
Slovenia18
Ukraine15
Bulgaria14
Bosnia and Herzegovina13
Estonia11
Norway11
Italy10
Latvia9 [9]
Portugal8
Belgium7
Kazakhstan7
Lithuania7
Azerbaijan6
Denmark5
Georgia6
Montenegro5
Armenia4
Belarus3
Egypt3
Kosovo3
Luxembourg3
Macedonia5
Morocco3
Qatar4
United Arab Emirates4
Iceland2
Albania1
Moldova1
Oman1
United States1
Bahrain2

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References

  1. 1 2 "New Yorker has opened its 900th shop". sportswear-international. 15 November 2011.
  2. 1 2 "NewYorker: Company". 1 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Olly Murs In The "Right Place, Right Time" For US Album Debut". stereotude.com. 18 September 2012.
  4. ↑ Michalsky, Martina (26 January 2015). "New Yorker: Modegigant mit Geheimnissen". FashionUnited (in German). Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  5. ↑ Bielert, Silvia (25 February 2015). "New-Yorker: Betriebsrat unerwünscht?" [New-Yorker: Works Council Unwelcome?]. Frankfurter Rundschau . Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Die deutschen Fälle in den Paradise Papers". sueddeutsche.de (in German). 7 November 2017. ISSN   0174-4917 . Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Gamperl, Elisabeth; Obermayer, Bastian. "Mayday". Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Anzahl der Filialen von New Yorker in Deutschland | Zeitreihe". Handelsdaten.de | Statistik-Portal zum Handel (in German). 8 December 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  9. ↑ "Fashion". 19 July 2018.


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