All VF Corp articles – Page 5

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    Europe helps drive VF’s momentum

    2021-01-28T17:01:00Z

    After posting a loss for the first quarter of its financial year, ended June 30, VF Corp. bounced back in the second quarter, and the third fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31 confirmed this recovery, driven by Europe and China. The good progress, which was attributed to in part to investments ...

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    VF releases "product traceability maps"

    2021-01-18T09:16:00Z

    VF Corp. has made single files available for download to trace the supply chain for certain products through the last four of its five tiers. Each file goes from the finished product assembly stage (tier one) back through material production, raw material processing and raw material conversion (tier four), with ...

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    VF reorganizes APAC operations

    2021-01-11T17:06:00Z

    VF Corp. has decided to move the center of its brands’ operations in the Asia-Pacific region from Hong Kong to Shanghai, where it already has some 900 office and retail employees. Some of the operations will also be transferred to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. The transition ...

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    VF completes the acquisition of Supreme

    2020-12-29T17:35:00Z

    VF Corp. reports that it has completed its previously announced takeover of Supreme®, the iconic American streetwear brand, for an aggregate base purchase price of $2.1 billion. The final price will be subject to customary adjustments for cash, indebtedness, working capital and transaction expenses. VF expects the brand to ...

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    S&P downgrades VF on Supreme’s acquisition

    2020-12-16T17:55:00Z

    Standard & Poor’s has downgraded VF Corp., citing the high debt/Ebitda leverage of more than three times that will result from its planned $2.1 billion acquisition of Supreme. S&P thinks that a leverage of more than two times will persist at least until the fiscal year ending in March 2023, ...

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    VF signs the UN Global Compact, commits to women’s empowerment

    2020-12-11T16:50:00Z

    VF Corp. is a new signatory of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). The company has also endorsed the UN’s Women’s Empowerment Principles. The UNGC’s ten principles boil down to the upholding of “internationally proclaimed human rights,” freedom of association and collective bargaining for labor, the rejection of forced, compulsory ...

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    Schmidt-Eisenhart will be Calida’s new CEO

    2020-11-30T09:19:00Z

    The board of directors of the Swiss Calida Group, which is about to take full ownership of the Lafuma Group with its outdoor brands Millet and Lafuma, has appointed Timo Schmidt-Eisenhart, a veran of Nike and VF Corp. as its chief executive. He will succeed Reiner Pichler in the first ...

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    VF acquires Supreme

    2020-11-09T18:41:00Z

    VF Corp. has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Supreme, a young and cool American streetwear brand that has become an iconic symbol of a countercultural approach to fashion. Details have yet to be finalized, but the $2.1 billion transaction is expected to close before the end of 2020. Investors ...

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    VF wants to be more agile and digital

    2020-10-19T15:54:00Z

    After releasing VF Corporation’s figures for the second quarter ended on Sept. 30, the group’s management said it felt that the worst of the Covid-19 crisis is over by now, but pointed out that the crisis will be prolonged, that the situation is going to be “volatile,” and that the ...

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    VF goes back into the black

    2020-10-16T16:43:00Z

    After recording a loss and steep declines in revenues during its first fiscal quarter, VF Corp. bounced back in the second quarter, ended on Sept. 26, with a smaller decline in sales and a return to profits. The management said that year-to-date results have surpassed its expectations across all brands, ...

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    Reorganizing the top management, VF names Steve Murray president of TNF

    2020-10-14T16:43:00Z

    VF Corporation is changing its management structure to suit changes in the way it does business, notably by dividing its brand portfolio into Core Brands and Emerging Brands and by getting them to be managed differently to help them achieve their full potential. Until now, the operations of its three ...

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    Market Analysis: The global athletic shoe market

    2020-08-17T20:20:00Z

    The global market for athletic footwear enjoyed solid growth of 6.7 percent at the wholesale level last year, reaching a level of $70.9 billion, according to an annual analysis by Sporting Goods Intelligence of the major sports brands’ performance in this segment. It would have risen a little more without ...

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    VF expects some improvement in the second quarter

    2020-08-02T06:06:00Z

    Despite posting steep declines in revenues and earnings for its first quarter ended on June 30, the management of VF Corp. insisted that the company is in a strong position to get through the coronavirus pandemic because of its “financial and operational rigor” and the progress it has made in ...

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    WFSGI proposes task force for digitalization of product labels

    2020-07-31T07:14:00Z

    In a letter to its members, the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) has announced the creation of a “Digitization of Product Information” task force, co-chaired by Decathlon and VF Corporation and aiming to promote digital labelling and best practices within the sporting goods industry. On the basis ...

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    Facebook boycott gains ground in the sports sector

    2020-07-02T17:19:00Z

    Big sports brands like Adidas, Arc’teryx, Lululemon, Puma and Reebok have joined many others in the last few days in boycotting Facebook in response to a call by six civil rights group to stop advertising on the leading social network in order to prompt it to ban fake news and ...

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    VF creates a new role for Greater China

    2020-07-01T16:19:00Z

    VF Corp. has announced that it will soon appoint its first president for Greater China, responsible for Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The name of the executive appointed to this role will be unveiled later this summer. Other big sports companies like Adidas and Nike already make a distinction ...

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    More backing for “Black Lives Matter”

    2020-06-05T17:20:00Z

    Doubling up on its “For once, don’t do it” message one week ago on Twitter to protest the murder on May 25 of George Floyd, Nike announced that it will donate $40 million over the next four years to “organizations focused on social justice, education and addressing racial inequality in ...

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    VF Corp. looks at virtual reality

    2020-05-19T09:00:00Z

    VF Corp. is exploring virtual reality as part of its strong investments intending to become “hyperdigital.” Cemtrex has announced that it has received an order from VF to create a virtual reality (VR) application. The VR application, which is due to be delivered within the current quarter, aims to create ...

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    VF claims it can hike through the Covid storm easily

    2020-05-15T19:49:00Z

    In releasing its financial results for the fourth quarter ended on March 31, the management of VF Corp. insisted that the company is in a better position than some of its competitors to navigate through the “storm” caused by the coronavirus pandemic for several reasons, including good liquidity, a flexible ...