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Levi Strauss & Co. (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ ˈ s t r aʊ s / LEE-vy STROWSS) is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ z / LEE-vyze) brand of denim jeans.It was founded in May 1853 [9] when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California, to open a West Coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business.
Levi's Plaza. Levi Strauss Plaza, also known as Levi Plaza or Levi's Plaza, is an office complex located in North Beach/Telegraph Hill along The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California. [1] It houses the headquarters of Levi Strauss & Co. As of 1998 the company Blue Jeans Equity West is the landlord of the complex.
The Levi Strauss museum in Buttenheim, Germany is located in the 1687 house where Strauss was born. [24] There is also a visitors center at Levi Strauss & Co. headquarters in San Francisco, which features historical exhibits. In 1994, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. [25]
This list contains both extant companies which have moved their headquarters out of the Bay Area (often during a corporate buyout), and defunct companies. Bank of America (9) – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina; Bare Escentuals – purchased by Shiseido, now headquarters in Rutherford, New Jersey; Bechtel – relocated to Reston, Virginia
Critics accuse Levi’s of ignoring its own labor standards after it continued working with a factory in Turkey that fired around 400 people last year after they joined a union and went on strike.
The shop, staffed with "Levi's fit specialists," boasts jeans in 88 finishes and 11 cuts, and is designed to "reinvent how men shop for jeans," said Ben Fay, executive vice president of real ...
Former Levi’s Brand president Jennifer Sey’s departure from the company Sunday — after nearly two years of publicly airing her personal views about mandatory school closures — sparked ...
Dockers is an American brand of garments and other accessories from Levi Strauss & Co. Levi Strauss & Co., then specializing in denim, introduced the Dockers brand in 1986. Dockers became a leading brand of business casual clothing for men under the leadership of Bob Siegel. [1]