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Hayne's current wife, Margaret Hayne, joined Urban Outfitters in August 1982. [8] He and his wife have been criticized for donating about $13,000 to then-Senator Rick Santorum until 2006, when Santorum lost his seat to Bob Casey, Jr. [9] They also came under fire after Urban Outfitters hastily retracted a shirt advocating support for same-sex marriage in the wake of the passage of California's ...
The company was founded as the retail store Free People by Richard Hayne, Judy Wicks and Scott Belair in 1970 as a project for an entrepreneurship class at University of Pennsylvania. [5] It was renamed to Urban Outfitters and incorporated in 1976.
In the early 1970s, Richard Hayne opened a store in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with his first wife, Judy Wicks, and named it Free People. His store attracted the young people who lived and shopped in the area. When its popularity grew, he opened a second store, and he changed its name from Free People to Urban Outfitters. Urban Outfitters ...
Urban Outfitters Inc. just barely eked out a profit last year, but cofounder, chairman and chief executive officer Richard Hayne is seeing signs of a kind of reawakening. “We’re particularly ...
Yes, the clothes are overpriced. Yes, we're still in the midst of a recession. And, yes, the bohemian trend may not last forever. Yet, surprisingly, Urban Outfitters (NAS: URBN) has navigated an ...
At my last check, retailer Urban Outfitters' (NAS: URBN) shares had plunged about 18% today. Why? Because CEO Glen Senk has abruptly resigned, and several Wall Street analysts have broadcast ...
In 1970, former Lehigh University roommates and later University of Pennsylvania Wharton Business School classmates Richard Hayne and Scott Belair needed a project for an entrepreneurial class. They decided to open a retail store called Free People. [4] According to some sources, Hayne's ex-wife Judy Wicks co-founded the company with him. [5]
Richard Hayne (BA Anthropology 1969), Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People co-founder Marc Holtzman (1982), Barclays Capital vice chairman and Kazkommertsbank chairman Lee Iacocca ( Industrial Eng. 1945, Hon D.Eng. 1965), former Chrysler chairman