Who owns Urban Outfitters?
Urban Outfitters is owned by URBN (the United States, NASDAQ: URBN).[1]
Evidence: Urban Outfitters, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-04-01, SEC EDGAR, 1 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Urban Outfitters, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Founded
- 1970
- Category
- Apparel, footwear & accessories › Fashion apparel › Casual & denim
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: URBN
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Urban Outfitters
Urban Outfitters sells clothing, records and homeware to a student and young adult market, and its shops are deliberately styled as cluttered warehouses. It has drawn repeated criticism for selling designs closely resembling independent makers' work. It also sells vinyl records in sufficient volume to be among the largest physical music retailers in the United States, which few of its customers realise.
What URBN's annual report says about Urban Outfitters
Sentences about Urban Outfitters from URBN's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
The Wholesale segment primarily designs, develops and markets women's contemporary apparel, intimates, FP Movement activewear and shoes under the Free People and FP Movement brands and the BDG and "iets frans" apparel collections under the Urban Outfitters brand.
Urban Outfitters targets young adults aged 18 to 28 through a unique merchandise mix, compelling store environment, social media and third-party digital platforms, websites and mobile applications.
How often URBN names Urban Outfitters in its annual report
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.
Ownership timeline of Urban Outfitters
Where Urban Outfitters sits in URBN
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by URBN
URBN controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in apparel, footwear & accessories.
Also in apparel, footwear & accessories
- Anthropologie (1992)
- Free People (1984)
- Nuuly (2019)
Other brands in casual & denim, and who owns them
The 133 brands in casual & denim on Brandtree belong to 59 owners. The largest is Azzas 2154, with 8; URBN has 4.
| 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 |
About the owner: URBN
URBN is a publicly listed company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, founded in 1970. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: URBN.
URBN began as a single Philadelphia shop in 1970 selling secondhand clothes and household oddities to students. It now runs several chains aimed at distinctly different customers, which is unusual for a company of its size and is what has kept it growing as tastes moved.
🇺🇸 Urban Outfitters and other American brands
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; Urban Outfitters is not one of them.
- 7 For All Mankind — Delta Galil 🇮🇱
- AKHG — Duluth Holdings 🇺🇸
- Adore Me — Victoria's Secret 🇺🇸
- Aerie — American Eagle Outfitters 🇺🇸
- All in Motion — Target 🇺🇸
- Allen Edmonds — Caleres 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Urban Outfitters?
The parent company of Urban Outfitters is URBN, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Urban Outfitters American?
Yes. Urban Outfitters originated in the United States in 1970 and its owner, URBN, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Urban Outfitters still owned by URBN?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Urban Outfitters is still owned by URBN. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Urban Outfitters, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-04-01 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 1 April 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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