River Island
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River Island Clothing Co. Ltd.
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Chelsea House, Westgate London W5 1DR, United Kingdom Tel. +44-20-8991-4500 Fax +44-20-8991-8968 |
Type: Subsidiary
On the web:
http://www.riverisland.com
River Island Clothing has designs on more than just the UK. Designing most of the clothing and accessories it sells, the youth-oriented firm operates more than 300 clothing, accessory, jewelry, and footwear shops (including about two dozen superstores) and is among the best known UK brands. The company makes and markets such products as shirts, tops, knitwear, jeans, trousers, jackets, footwear, and other related accessories for men, women, and kids. Skirts, dresses, and jewelry also are available for women. Customers can also shop online. The company is owned by investment firm Lewis Trust and sells its products mainly in the UK, Ireland, Turkey, Poland, Singapore, and the Middle East.
Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2010:
Sales: $1,240.5M
Net income: $179.4M
Officers:
Deputy Chairman: Clive R. Lewis
Managing Director: Ben Lewis
Finance Director: Colin Bailey
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River Island
For the location in the Falkland Islands, see River Island, Falkland Islands. For the topographical formation within a river, see river island.
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| Industry | Fashion Clothing Textiles |
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| Genre | Retail |
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1948 as Lewis Separates 1989 as River Island |
| Headquarters | London, England |
| Area served | United Kingdom Canada Ireland Netherlands Poland Russia Singapore Spain Turkey |
| Products | Women's, Men's and Children's Clothing, Footwear, Accessories and Maternity Wear |
| Website | http://riverisland.com |
River Island is a British high street fashion brand. The company also has stores in Singapore, Turkey, Georgia, Poland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the Middle East.
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History
The company was set up in 1948 by brothers Andrew Hunt and Bernard Lewis, operating from a small shop in London trading as Lewis Separates. However, it has since gone through several name changes (Chelsea Girl, Concept Man) before becoming River Island in 1988. The group is a family concern, led by entrepreneur and chairman Bernard Lewis. River Island's collections are designed by a team of in-house designers.
In 2009 River Island introduced Maternity wear online and into selected stores, this was then shortly followed by childrenswear in 2010. Childrenswear known as "Boys & Girls" has proved very popular and is now being rolled out across most UK stores.
Stores
| Country | Stores | Superstores |
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| United Kingdom | 244 | 24 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1 |
| Ireland | 22 | 2 |
| Poland | 9 | - |
| International | 30 | - |
| TOTAL | 306 | 27 |
The company has four flagship stores, located in Oxford Street London, Manchester City Centre, Dublin City Centre and more recently Cork City.
Graduate Fashion Week
River Island has been the main-named sponsor of Graduate Fashion Week and Island Gold Award. This is given to students with the most outstanding collection and provides £20,000 for them and £2000 for their university, with items from the winning collection put into limited production and window space designated in their flagship store in London to display key looks from the collection.
In 2010, River Island announced it would end its sponsorship deal with Graduate Fashion Week, this being the website[1] The store has sponsored the event for the past six years, but now Graduate Fashion Week is looking for a new sponsor.
References
- The Times Business 26 February 2006 [1].
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