36-537: Timberland LLC is an American manufacturer and retailer of outdoor footwear and apparel owned by VF Corporation . The company also sells accessories including watches, eyewear, and leather goods. Timberland's corporate headquarters are located in Stratham, New Hampshire . In 1918, Nathan Swartz , a Jewish-born shoemaker from the Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine ), started his shoe making career. Nearby,
72-533: A companion web site and online edition, amsterdamnews.com, in 2009. In October 1930, it became the second Black newspaper to be admitted to the Audit Bureau of Circulation . At its height in the 1940s, newspaper had a circulation of 100,000 and was one of the four largest African American newspapers in the United States. As of 2015, it circulates nearly 15,000 copies of the paper weekly. In 1979,
108-846: A deal that would close in September that year. On 21 December 2012, VF Imagewear was awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to provide uniforms and insignia for U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers. In February 2013, Imagewear was awarded a $ 50 million contract to manufacture uniforms for Transportation Security Administration officers. Effective January 1, 2017 Steve Rendle took over CEO and President responsibilities. In 2017, VF acquired Williamson-Dickie’s brands, including Dickies, Workrite, Kodiak, Terra, and Walls. The next year, VF would acquire Icebreaker , complementing its Smartwool brand, as both feature merino wool in its clothing and accessories. In 2020, VF acquired streetwear brand Supreme for US$ 2.1 billion. In 2021, VF announced
144-572: A definitive agreement to sell a portion of its Occupational Work segment to a subsidiary of Redwood Capital Investments, LLC. On June 28, 2021, the sale was finalized, and the 11 divested brands became part of a new standalone company, Workwear Outfitters. In September 2021, it was announced that the former president of emerging brands of VF Corporation, Travis Campbell, would acquire the Eagle Creek brand. In June 2023, former Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell became CEO. In July 2024, VF announced
180-451: A separate company in May 2019. The Amsterdam News The Amsterdam News (also known as New York Amsterdam News ) is a weekly Black-owned newspaper serving New York City . It is one of the oldest newspapers geared toward African Americans in the United States and has published columns by such figures as W. E. B. Du Bois , Roy Wilkins , and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. , and was
216-489: A separate company with the stock symbol KTB in May 2019. Kontoor includes Lee , Wrangler , Rock & Republic and VF Outlets. The company had 17,000 employees. Date of acquisition or merger in parentheses. In 1970, it was the suggestion of M.O. Lee, then President of VF Corporation, that established the VF Outlet business. Surplus products from VF sources including Berkshire International and Vanity Fair were sold to
252-557: The Amsterdam News becoming the first unionized black paper. The strike ended on December 24, 1935, when the paper's bankruptcy receiver Laurence H. Axman, Newspaper Guild president Carl Randau , and businessmen Dr. C. B. Powell and Dr. Phillip M. H. Savory reached an agreement that saw the locked-out employees receive a 10% wage increase, a five-day, 40-hour work week, two weeks of annual vacation time, three-month dismissal notices for employees with more than 10 years of service,
288-409: The Amsterdam News into one of New York's largest and most influential Black-owned-and-operated business institutions, and one of the nation's most prominent ethnic publications. It was later reported that James Henry Anderson published the first copy: "...with a dream in mind, $ 10 in his pocket, six sheets of paper and two pencils." The Amsterdam News was one of about 50 black-owned newspapers in
324-540: The Amsterdam News with inspiring a crackdown on vices and other ills in the village of Harlem: "The Amsterdam News has always had a great deal of persuasive power in Harlem and other black communities." From 1972 to 1979, the newspaper began an art review column written by Gylbert Coker to cover African American art exhibitions and the African American artists. In August 1982, Wilbert A. Tatum, chairman of
360-562: The Abington Shoe Company was founded in 1933 in South Boston . Swartz bought half-interest in the company in 1952, and he and his sons eventually acquired the remaining shares. Through the 1960s the company specialized in making private-label boots and shoes for other brands. In 1969, Abington moved to Newmarket, New Hampshire and focused on producing waterproof boots made with injection molding , capable of withstanding
396-490: The AmNews Corporation's board of directors and the paper's editor-in-chief, became publisher and chief executive officer. Under Tatum's leadership, the Amsterdam News broadened its editorial perspective, particularly in international affairs. This expanded thrust has produced considerable interest and readership from all sectors of the local, national and international communities. In July 1996, Tatum bought out
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#1732791794750432-592: The Loom for US$ 350 million in cash on January 23, 2007. Later that month, VF acquired Eagle Creek . Also in 2007, VF acquired Majestic Athletic on February 28, followed by a $ 885-million purchase of 7 for all Mankind and Lucy Activewear on July 26. Eric C. Wiseman became president, CEO, and chairman in 2008, the same year that VF would acquire Mo Industries Holdings, parent company of sportswear brands Splendid and Ella Moss . In 2011, VF Corporation announced its intention to purchase Timberland for $ 2.2 billion,
468-630: The MLB team New York Yankees to produce a Yankees-logoed boot. Despite Timberland building its image around a rugged " New Englander " lifestyle and rural blue collar work , Timberland boots came to have significant value in urban inner cities and Black neighborhoods in the 1980s and 1990s. The boots were taken up by rappers associated with hip hop , starting in the New York hip hop scene, and they soon became an enduring staple of Black, streetwear, and hip hop fashions. The New York Times reported on
504-622: The Timberloop Trekker, a boot designed to be fully disassembled and recycled at the end of its life. In 2023, Timberland will continue to increase the use of regenerative natural materials. VF Corporation VF Corporation (formerly Vanity Fair Mills until 1969) is an American global apparel and footwear company founded in 1899 by John Barbey and headquartered in Denver, Colorado . The company's 11 brands are organized into three categories: Outdoor, Active and Work. In 2015,
540-527: The United States at the time it was founded. It was sold for 2 cents a copy (equivalent to $ 1 in 2023) from Anderson's home at 132 West 65th Street, in the San Juan Hill section of Manhattan's Upper West Side. With the spread of Blacks to Harlem and the growing success of the paper, Anderson moved the Amsterdam News uptown to 17 West 135th Street in 1910. In 1916, it moved to 2293 Seventh Avenue, and in 1938, it moved again, to 2271 Seventh Avenue. In
576-523: The advancement and realization of Black aspirations. As a consequence, the paper is one of the most frequently quoted black newspapers in the world. The Amsterdam News has had many significant innovations. It was the second black newspaper, after the Chicago Defender , to be admitted to the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) in October 1930, of which it is still a member. In 1936, it became
612-710: The brand. In an editorial in The Amsterdam News , Swartz denied the charges of racism and met with Black cultural leaders to explain Timberland's position. The company began more publicly to embrace the urban youth market. In the end, the controversy had little effect on sales. The company's Path of Service program, first established in 1992, allows employees to take up to a week per year of paid leave to engage in local volunteer projects. In 2001, Timberland began partnering with international NGOs to plant trees to reverse desertification of farmland and promote
648-548: The company controlled 55% of the U.S. backpack market with the JanSport , Eastpak , Timberland , and The North Face brands. In October 1899, John Barbey and a group of investors established the company as Reading Glove and Mitten Manufacturing Company (or simply The Reading Glove ) in Reading, Pennsylvania . Incorporated on December 4 later that year, they began with $ 11,000 in a 320-square-foot (30 m ) factory that
684-662: The company public. Herman Swartz led the company until he retired in 1986. He was succeeded as CEO by his brother Sidney, who retired in 1998. Jeffrey Swartz succeeded him to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. In June 2011, Timberland signed a definitive takeover agreement with VF Corporation at $ 43 per share or approximately $ 2 billion. The company is primarily known for its footwear. Notable examples: Timberland has worked with numerous footwear and fashion brands to create one-off models; brands include Supreme , Tommy Hilfiger , Jimmy Choo , Off-White , Bee Line , and OVO . In late 2021, Supreme and Timberland collaborated with
720-491: The cultivation of vegetables. Its partnership with Japanese NGO Green Network has focused on planting trees in the Horqin Desert of western China. As of 2019, the ongoing partnership had planted 2 million trees. Beginning in 2010, Timberland entered into an agroforestry partnership with Haiti's Smallholder Farmers Alliance to increase farm acreage and crop yields through reforestation and improved farm methods. By 2015
756-415: The early 1940s, the paper relocated to its present headquarters at 2340 Eighth Avenue (also known in Harlem as Frederick Douglass Boulevard). Not soon after the death of Edward Warren, one of the early publishers, Anderson sold his stock in the paper. On October 9, 1935, the paper's editorial employees went on strike. It was the first time the staff of a black-owned newspaper had gone on strike and led to
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#1732791794750792-401: The establishment of a guild shop, and the removal of strike-breaking staff. The paper was taken over by Powell and Savory following bankruptcy proceedings by the paper's three largest creditors. Dr. Powell assumed the role of publisher. During Powell's stewardship, the Amsterdam News not only took on local news, but national news as well. Much of the paper's strength was based on its shaping
828-499: The fashion phenomenon in 1993, stating, "Seemingly overnight, Timberland and companies like Carhartt Inc. and North Face, which have made their reputations on manufacturing authentic outdoor and work apparel, have, in the parlance of the street , become ‘ dope ’ and ‘ phat ’." Timberland boots, referred to by consumers as "Timbs" or "Butters", thus gained the nickname "the Air Jordans of boots" and became "the required footwear of
864-590: The first and, to this day, the only—black newspaper that was unionized in all departments by the Newspaper Guild of New York, Local 3. By 1961, the New York Amsterdam News had become the largest weekly community newspaper in the nation. On May 1, 1971, Dr. C. B. Powell announced his retirement and sold the Amsterdam News to the AmNews Corporation, its present owner. Over the years, many important figures in journalism have been editors of
900-655: The first to recognize and publish Malcolm X . It operated from the New York Amsterdam News Building on Seventh Avenue in Harlem from 1916-1938. The building is a National Landmark. The Amsterdam News was founded on December 4, 1909, and is headquartered in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan . The newspaper takes its name from its original location one block east of Amsterdam Avenue , at West 65th Street and Broadway . An investment of US$ 10 in 1909 (equivalent to $ 339 in 2023) turned
936-416: The inner-urban set". Prominent artists who featured them in songs or music videos included Wu-Tang Clan , Mobb Deep , Nas , Tupac Shakur , The Notorious B.I.G. , Busta Rhymes , Dipset , Rihanna , Drake , Kanye West , and Jay-Z . In a 1993 The New York Times article about "outdoor" clothing brands' cross-over appeal to Black and Hispanic inner-city youth, Jeffrey Swartz downplayed the importance of
972-639: The largest publicly-held clothing company. VF would also become one of the two largest jeans makers in the world, making up 25% of the market. In 1998, VF moved its headquarters from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania , to Greensboro, North Carolina , to be closer to more of its operations. Also in the 1990s, VF would acquire the Bulwark Apparel brand. In the early 2000s , VF's acquisitions included The North Face and Eastpak in 2000; and Kipling , Napapijri , and Vans in 2004. The company sold its 'Vanity Fair Intimates' lingerie business to Fruit of
1008-488: The last remaining investor, putting the future of the paper firmly in the hands of the Tatum family. In December 1997, Tatum stepped down as publisher and editor-in-chief and passed the torch to his daughter, Elinor Ruth Tatum, who at the age of 26 became one of the youngest newspaper publishers in the United States. Tatum died in 2009. Elinor Tatum currently serves as publisher, editor-in-chief, and CEO. The newspaper launched
1044-494: The paper, including T. Thomas Fortune , George W. Harris, Obie McCollum, John Lewis Clarke, Earl Brown, Dan Burley , Julius J. Adams, Thomas Watkins, S. W. Garlington, Stanley Ross, T. J. Sellers , Dr. G. James Fleming, James L. Hicks , Jesse H. Walker, and Bryant Rollins. While the Amsterdam News is black-oriented, it has always been aware of the fact that it serves a multiracial community and recognized other ethnic groups. On November 26, 1963, The New York Times credited
1080-583: The program had assisted some 3,200 farmers. In 2016, Timberland extended the partnership in Haiti with a goal of creating a new supply chain for sustainable cotton. The first products with Haiti-sourced cotton came on the market in May 2021. In 2022, Timberland introduced the Timberloop product take back program, which gives customers the opportunity to return used footwear or clothing to be recycled or refurbished for resale. On Earth Day 2022, Timberland launched
1116-538: The public from a 5,000 square foot factory store, with only a drop cloth separating it from the company's manufacturing facility. In doing so, VF Corporation created a brand-new retail industry, the outlet mall . The first VF Outlet factory store opened in Reading, Pennsylvania . The outlet mall, located in Vanity Fair's old manufacturing mills, was dubbed the official "Outlet Capital of the World." The corporate name
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1152-701: The sale of the streetwear brand Supreme to EssilorLuxottica for US$ 1.5 billion. In August 2018, it was announced that VF would be splitting into two separate companies. The jeans and outlet stores would be spun off as Kontoor Brands . VF kept the sports apparel and footwear businesses, and moved its corporate headquarters (and around 800 employees) to Denver, Colorado. An 11-story office building at 1551 Wewatta Street near Denver Union Station would become VF's new corporate headquarters. All brands which until 2018 had maintained separate divisional headquarters (e.g., Jansport) were also consolidated into VF's new Denver headquarters at that point. Kontoor Brands Inc. became
1188-401: The urban youth market in Timberland's success, saying that the company concentrated its advertising on its core customers, "honest working people", adding that the urban market was not "sustainable". Though Swartz denied any plan to distance his company's name from young Black and Hispanic consumers to maintain its image, his comments led to a backlash among some Black artists who publicly dropped
1224-467: The winters of the region. The Timberland boot was introduced in 1973. Its popularity grew, prompting the Swartzes to discontinue manufacturing for others and concentrate on expanding their own brand. The Abington Shoe Company was renamed The Timberland Company and incorporated in 1978. Jeffrey Swartz , grandson of founder Nathan Swartz, joined the company in 1986. The following year the family took
1260-762: Was changed from VF Outlet Village to VF Outlet Center in 2008. Today, the VF Outlet Center is owned and operated by VF Outlet, Inc. with over 1,000,000 square feet of retail space and more than 20 stores. The VF Outlet location in Reading, Pennsylvania, closed on December 24, 2020. VF Outlet stores offer everyday apparel including brand name jeans , intimate apparel , activewear , swimwear , and more for women, men and children. The company currently operates 79 stores in 31 states nationwide. In October 2013, VF Outlet launched their e-commerce store. The VF Outlet business moved to Kontoor Brands Inc, established as
1296-657: Was leased for $ 60/month. Expanding into silk lingerie in 1913, The Reading Glove was renamed Schuylkill Silk Manufacturing , branding its lingerie line as Vanity Fair . Soon thereafter, the company name changed in turn to Vanity Fair Mills , eventually going public in 1951. In 1969, the H.D. Lee Company (now Lee ) was acquired, accompanied by Vanity Fair Mills changing to VF Corporation. By 1982 VF posted profits of $ 15.5 million on sales of $ 184 million. Acquiring Blue Bell Inc. for US$ 762 million in 1986, VF added Wrangler , JanSport , Rustler, Jantzen , and Red Kap to its portfolio, effectively doubling its size and making it
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