Lipsy is owned by Next (the United Kingdom, LSE: NXT), which acquired the brand in 2008.[1][2] Lipsy was founded in 2000 in the United Kingdom and was independent until 2008.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Annual Report and Accounts Jan 2026, NEXT plc, 15 April 2026. Last checked .
Lipsy sells occasionwear and party dresses and was acquired by Next in 2008. It also designs collections sold under other retailers' names, so its clothes appear in shops that compete with its owner. Designing collections sold under other retailers' names is a substantial part of its business, so Next earns from clothes hanging in competitors' shops.
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Next controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in apparel, footwear & accessories.
The 133 brands in casual & denim on Brandtree belong to 59 owners. The largest is Azzas 2154, with 8; Next has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Fábula | Azzas 2154 | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Carter's | Carter's | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Duck Head | Oxford Industries | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Cortefiel | Tendam | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| & Other Stories | H&M Group | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Bershka | Inditex | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| GU | Fast Retailing | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| BSX | Giordano | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
Next is a publicly listed company headquartered in Leicester, United Kingdom, founded in 1864. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: NXT.
Next is one of the largest clothing retailers in Britain and has increasingly become a platform, selling hundreds of other brands through its website and running their operations for them. That Total Platform business now generates a substantial share of profit from competitors' sales.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Lipsy is not one of them.
NEXT acquired Lipsy, a younger women's fashion brand, in 2008. It was the first brand NEXT bought outright rather than built, and it later became the template for the Total Platform arrangements through which NEXT now runs other companies' retail operations. Only the year is recorded here.
The parent company of Lipsy is Next, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Yes. Lipsy originated in the United Kingdom in 2000 and its owner, Next, is also headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Next completed its acquisition of Lipsy in 2008. The price was not disclosed.
Lipsy was an independent company from its founding in 2000 until Next acquired it in 2008.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Lipsy is still owned by Next. 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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