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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, Old Navy, and ...
The Gap was a resounding success and filed for an IPO in 1973. [2] 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 ]
Doris Lee Feigenbaum Fisher (born August 23, 1931) is an American billionaire businesswoman who co-founded The Gap clothing stores with her late husband, Donald Fisher in 1969. [ 1 ] Early life
The San Francisco-based company was founded in 1969 by Donald and Doris Fisher as a denim and record store. Under the stewardship of merchandising maestro Mickey Drexler, Gap hit its cultural peak ...
On Sunday, Donald Fisher, co-founder of the Gap (GPS), died at his home in San Francisco. He was 81. In 1969, Fisher and his wife, Doris, opened the first Gap store on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco.
An Old Navy store in Bayers Lake Business Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia An Old Navy store in Richmond Hill, Ontario. In the early 1990s, Dayton-Hudson Corporation (then the parent company of Target, Mervyn's, Dayton's, Hudson's, and Marshall Field's) looked to establish a new division branded as a less expensive version of Gap called Everyday Hero; [4] Gap's then-CEO Millard Drexler responded by ...
Next month, Gap Inc. will issue a new kind of report — one that assesses the retailer’s efforts at inclusivity. That’s according to Gap Inc. president and chief executive officer Sonia ...
Paul Fireman (born 1944), founder of Fireman Capital Partners; former owner of the North American sales rights to Reebok brand and chairman of Reebok International, Ltd. [16] Donald (1928–2009) and Doris F. Fisher (born 1931), founders of the Gap, Inc. [17] Robert J. Fisher (born 1954), chairman of the Gap, Inc. [17]