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Kevin Audette Plank (born August 13, 1972 [1]) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Plank is the founder and executive chairman of Under Armour, a manufacturer of sportswear, footwear and accessories, based in Baltimore, Maryland.
Under Armour was founded on September 25, 1996, by Kevin Plank, a then-24 year old former special teams captain of the University of Maryland football team. Plank initially began the business from his grandmother's basement in Washington, D.C. [ 4 ] He spent his time traveling along the East Coast with nothing but apparel in the trunk of his car.
Unless you're Kevin Plank, that is, the founder and chief executive officer of athletic-apparel company Under Armour. Plank's inspiration for the business came to him during a football practice at ...
Plank deserves full credit for working hard to bring Under Armour to life — the guy was selling T-shirts out of his car in the late 1990s. He is unquestionably an American success story, and to ...
Kevin Plank has launched an ambitious project aimed at revitalizing Baltimore by empowering entrepreneurs to create and build new products there. The founder of Under Armour has big plans for ...
Patrik Frisk (born 1962/1963) is a Swedish/American businessman in the apparel industry. [3] From 2020 to 2022, he was the president and CEO of Under Armour, when he succeeded the company's founder, Kevin Plank. [2]
By 2010, the business had crossed $1 billion in sales. Five years later, sales surpassed $4 billion. But then the momentum started to wane. ... Kevin Plank, founder and CEO of Under Armour, looks ...
Founder Kevin Plank remains Under Armour’s controlling shareholder. The visible ongoing presence of a charismatic founder can be a problem for a new CEO, says Neil Saunders, a GlobalData Retail ...