VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States that owns 7 consumer brands, and has 6 recorded transactions.[1][2]
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.
Read from VF Corporation's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
This operating segment has been aggregated with The North Face brand in the Outdoor reportable segment and the Vans , Kipling , Eastpak and JanSport brands have been aggregated in the Active reportable segment.
As such, the Supreme brand business ("Supreme") that was sold on October 1, 2024 has been excluded.
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.
We received opinions of tax advisors substantially to the effect that, for U.S. Federal income tax purposes, the May 22, 2019 spin-off of our Jeans business, Kontoor Brands, Inc. ("Kontoor Brands") and certain related transactions qualify for tax-free treatment under certain sections of the Internal Revenue Code.
Headline figures from VF Corporation's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2021–2026. Revenue moved from $9.24bn to $9.61bn, an average of 0.8% a year (calculated).
| Fiscal year ended | Revenue | Operating income | Operating margin | Net income | Total assets | Long-term debt | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $9.61bn | $576.6m | 6.0% | $254.9m | $9.29bn | $3.52bn | 10-K | |
| $9.5bn | $303.8m | 3.2% | $-189,716,000 | $9.38bn | $3.41bn | 10-K | |
| $9.92bn | $-143,935,000 | -1.5% | $-968,882,000 | $11.6bn | $4.69bn | 10-K | |
| $11.1bn | $998.7m | 9.0% | $118.6m | $14bn | $5.69bn | 10-K | |
| $11.8bn | $1.63bn | 13.8% | $1.39bn | $13.3bn | $4.57bn | 10-K | |
| $9.24bn | $607.6m | 6.6% | $407.9m | $13.8bn | $5.69bn | 10-K |
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.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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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.
VF Corporation acquired Timberland for about $2.3 billion, adding its yellow boot to an outdoor portfolio that already held The North Face and Vans. Timberland had published an environmental and labour footprint on its boxes since 2006, unusually for footwear at the time.
VF Corporation acquired Vans for about $396 million. Vans had been made in Anaheim since 1966 and adopted by skateboarders without any marketing from the company, whose waffle sole gripped a board better than anything else available.
VF Corporation acquired The North Face, which had been founded as a San Francisco climbing shop in 1966 and was in financial difficulty. It became one of the largest outdoor brands in the world under VF ownership.
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.
Authentic Brands acquired Nautica from VF Corporation, which was shedding brands to concentrate on outdoor and workwear. Authentic bought the trademark and licenses it to operators who design and sell the clothing, so the company that owns the name does not make the products.
VF Corporation controlled these 2 brands in the past. Each row shows when the ownership ended and who holds the brand now, so a page that once said VF Corporation owned it still shows why it no longer does.
| Brand | Owned until | Owner today |
|---|---|---|
| Lee | May 2019 | Kontoor Brands |
| Wrangler | May 2019 | Kontoor Brands |
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The documents behind the figures on this page, as listed in the SEC's EDGAR index. Each links to the filing itself.
| Filed | Form | What it declares |
|---|---|---|
| 8-K | Results of a shareholder vote | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition; Departure or appointment of directors or officers; Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition; Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition; Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition; Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure |
VF Corporation owns 7 consumer brands tracked here, including Dickies, Vans, Smartwool, Timberland, Napapijri and The North Face.
Yes. VF Corporation is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States and was founded in 1899.
VF Corporation is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as VFC on the NYSE.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Dickies on 2 October 2017.
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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