Kontoor Brands: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Kontoor Brands (NYSE: KTB) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States that owns 3 consumer brands, and has 2 recorded transactions.[1][2]
Kontoor Brands is the denim business VF Corporation spun off in 2019, taking Wrangler and Lee out of a portfolio that had shifted towards outdoor and activewear. It is one of the largest jeanswear companies in the world by units sold.
What Kontoor Brands's annual report says about its business
Read from Kontoor Brands's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
Segments the filing names
Wrangler, Lee, Helly Hansen: Our three reportable segments are Wrangler , Lee and Helly Hansen, which primarily include sales and licensing of branded products, along with various sub-brands and collections.
Acquisitions and disposals named in the filing
Acquired: Helly Hansen (May 31, 2025). On May 31, 2025, as part of the Helly Hansen acquisition, the Company acquired a 50% noncontrolling financial interest in a joint venture that distributes Helly Hansen products in China.
Kontoor Brands in numbers
Kontoor Brands owns 3 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is apparel, footwear & accessories with 3 brands.[1]
1 recorded acquisitions, 1 of them completed since 2015.
1 of its brands originated outside United States.
Kontoor Brands financial history
Headline figures from Kontoor Brands's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2021–2026.
Revenue moved from $2.1bn to $3.15bn, an average of 8.5% a year (calculated).
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Who owns the shares of Kontoor Brands
Holders of more than 5% of the voting shares, as listed in Kontoor Brands's proxy statement filed 9 March 2026. Shareholdings change daily; this is the position the filing reports.
Holder
Shares
Share of class
BlackRock, Inc.
7,546,884
13.7%
The Vanguard Group
6,400,408
11.6%
PNC Bank N.A. and affiliates
3,513,967
6.4%
JPMorgan Case & Co.
3,019,149
5.5%
Everything Kontoor Brands owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Kontoor Brands agreed to sell the Lee jeans brand to an affiliate of Authentic Brands Group for up to $1 billion: $750 million in cash at closing and up to $250 million more in an earnout. It would leave Kontoor with Wrangler and Helly Hansen, and put Lee with the brand-licensing group that already owns Nautica and Brooks Brothers and licenses its names to operators rather than making the clothes itself.
VF Corporation spun off its jeanswear business as Kontoor Brands, distributing shares to VF shareholders. The separation let VF concentrate on outdoor and activewear brands growing faster than denim, and gave Wrangler and Lee a management team focused on that category alone.
Kontoor Brands in the global legal-entity registry
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
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