Dickies is owned by VF Corporation (the United States, NYSE: VFC), which acquired the brand on 2 October 2017 for $820 million.[1][2] Dickies was founded in 1922 in Fort Worth, Texas and was independent until 2017.
Evidence: V.F. Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-05-20, SEC EDGAR, 20 May 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Dickies was founded in Texas in 1922 making bib overalls for farm and factory work, and its 874 work trouser has been sold essentially unchanged since 1967. Adopted by skaters and by Mexican-American communities in California, it crossed into streetwear. VF acquired it in 2017.
Sentences about Dickies from VF Corporation's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
The sale of the Dickies brand business ("Dickies") on November 12, 2025, did not qualify for presentation as a discontinued operation and is therefore included within VF's continuing operations, through the date of sale.
Through tight cost discipline, working capital improvements and divestiture proceeds from the sales of Supreme in Fiscal 2025 and Dickies in Fiscal 2026, VF reduced long-term debt by $2.2 billion over a period of two fiscal years.
Any acquisitions, divestitures or mergers by VF, including our completed sale of the Dickies brand to Bluestar Alliance LLC, will be accompanied by the risks commonly encountered in acquisitions or divestitures of companies, businesses or brands.
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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VF Corporation controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in apparel, footwear & accessories.
The 52 brands in outdoor & workwear on Brandtree belong to 28 owners. The largest is Clarus, with 5; VF Corporation has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| PG Golf | Acushnet | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Black Diamond | Clarus | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Arc'teryx | Amer Sports | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Cannon | Johnson Outdoors | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Kathmandu | KMD Brands | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| Callaway Golf | Callaway Golf | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Columbia | Columbia Sportswear | 🇺🇸 United States |
| B'Twin | Decathlon | 🇫🇷 France |
VF Corporation is a publicly listed company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States, founded in 1899. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: VFC.
VF Corporation began in 1899 as a Pennsylvania glove maker and became one of the largest apparel groups in the world by acquiring outdoor, workwear and denim brands. It spun off its jeans business as Kontoor Brands in 2019, taking Lee and Wrangler out of the portfolio.
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Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Dickies is not one of them.
VF Corporation acquired Williamson-Dickie for about $820 million, buying the workwear brand founded in Texas in 1922. Dickies had become streetwear well beyond the trades it was made for, a shift the company had not engineered.
The parent company of Dickies is VF Corporation, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Dickies originated in the United States in 1922 and its owner, VF Corporation, is also headquartered in the United States.
VF Corporation completed its acquisition of Dickies on 2 October 2017, after announcing the deal on 15 August 2017. The deal was valued at $820 million (enterprise value).
Dickies was an independent company from its founding in 1922 in Fort Worth, Texas until VF Corporation acquired it in 2017.
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Dickies is still owned by VF Corporation. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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