Topman

TOPMAN

Type	Subsidiary of Arcadia Group
Genre	Retail
Founded	1978 [1]
Headquarters	London, England, UK,under Arcadia Group Ltd
Number of locations	Over 175 Stores
Area served	United Kingdom  Ireland  Malaysia  Russia  Australia  Sweden  Singapore  Thailand  Philippines  United States  Indonesia
Key people	Sir Philip Green (Chairman) David Shepherd (Brand Director)
Industry	Fashion Clothing Textiles
Products	Men's Fashion
Revenue	▲ GBP£ 1.8 billion
Net income	▼ GBP£ 357.5 million
Owner(s)	Sir Philip Green and Family
Parent	Arcadia Group
Website	TOPMAN.com

TOPMAN is the stand-alone fashion business counterpart of Topshop that caters exclusively to men’s clothing. A part of the Arcadia Group, which also owns Burton, Miss Selfridge, Wallis, Evans, British Home Stores and Dorothy Perkins, Topman has a chain of high-street men's clothing stores located throughout the United Kingdom and has a presence on just about every UK High Street, and in Ireland main street outlets in six cities & towns. Topman was created in the UK towards the end of the 1970s to provide a new approach to menswear retailing. Since its creation, Topman has also built an international presence, including concession outlets in boutique stores in both New York and Japan, and two entire floors at the ‘world’s largest fashion store’, in Oxford Circus, London.

Products

Topman's main product offerings are fashionable men's clothing, covering everything from men's formal suits to informal indie-rock-influenced casual-styling ranges, along with footwear and accessories. Topman also sells a specially-designed range of clothing at their flagship London store in an area named 'Lens'. Its current offerings included items by Dexter Wong Ltd, Fred Perry, Licentious, Siv Stoldal, Carolyn Massey, Material Boy, Mjolk and 'Topman Design'.

Over recent years, Topman has collaborated with young designers such as Kim Jones, Markus Lupfer and Peter Jensen as well as launching its own premium label ‘Topman Design’. After showing seasonally to the menswear press arena, Topman joined forces with Fashion East to produce 'MAN', a menswear event that takes place on schedule at the London Fashion Week, showcasing new menswear design as well as the Topman Design collection.

In 2008, Topman collaborated with new label The Look Presents, the creation of rock-fashion author Paul Gorman and Soho boutique owner, Max Karie, to launch 'the Look Presents'.

This comprised three collections:

• A range of T-shirts by the 70s label Wonder Workshop which was launched in June 2008.

• A T-shirt collection by Nigel Waymouth, founder of the King's Road store Granny Takes a Trip, which was launched in August 2008.

• Priceless, the ready-to-wear capsule collection by Antony Price, designer for Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry and Duran Duran which was launched in October 2008.

• Stella McCartney for Topman, the accessory and ready-to-wear collection will be launched in November 2009.

Awards

Topman was nominated for the ‘Menswear Design of the Year’ award by the British Fashion Council, winner of ‘Best Fashion Retailer’ at the Maxim Style Awards for 2005 and winner of ‘Best High Street Retailer’ at the 2007 FHM Fashion and Grooming awards. It also won the Louis Harris Award in 2009 after being voted 'Cool'.

Sponsorship

References

External links

• Official website
• Arcadia Group Ltd - History of TOPMAN
• Topman - Malaysia Official Website