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The Zieglers subsequently founded another apparel company, Zoza, [2] [3] [4] but this was shut down in the dot com crash of 2000. [5] Their eldest son, Zio Ziegler, is a notable large-scale metal sculptor, painter, and street artist. [6] The couple published a 2012 memoir titled Wild Company, The Untold Story of Banana Republic.
Gap Inc. The Gap, Inc., [ 6] commonly known as Gap Inc. or Gap (stylized as GAP ), is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer. Gap was founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris F. Fisher and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company operates four primary divisions: Gap (the namesake banner), Banana Republic ...
A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, whereby the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Such exploitation is enabled by collusion between the state and favoured economic monopolies, in which the profit, derived from the private exploitation of public ...
Gap Inc. has tapped New York-based creative Zac Posen as their new creative director. The fashion conglomerate, which owns Banana Republic, Old Navy, and Athleta, is focusing its efforts on the ...
They went on to purchase Banana Republic, a small, two-store mail-order catalogue business; and also founded Old Navy which reached $1 billion in sales in four years. [2] Fisher served as CEO until 1995, chairman of the board until 2004, and as company director and chairman emeritus until his death. [2]
Chiquita Brands International. Entrance façade of the old United Fruit Building at 321 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United ...
The company was founded in 1992 by Mel Ziegler, Patricia Ziegler, and Bill Rosenzweig. The Zieglers co-founded Banana Republic and ZoZa.com. [3] [4] In 1994, they sold the company to Ron Rubin. [5] Rubin's son Todd Rubin joined the company in 2007 [6] and succeeded his father as president in 2015.
Old Navy is an American clothing and accessories retailing company owned by multinational corporation Gap Inc. [ 3] It has corporate operations in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The largest of the Old Navy stores are its flagship stores, located in New York City, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Manila, and Mexico City .