VF Corporation has completed 4 recorded acquisitions and 2 divestitures or spin-offs, spanning 2000 to 2019.
| Date | Type | Assets | Counterparty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Spin-off | Wrangler and Lee | Kontoor Brands | — |
| Apr 2018 | Acquisition (sold) | Nautica | Authentic Brands | undisclosed |
| Oct 2017 | Acquisition | Dickies | — | $820m |
| Sep 2011 | Acquisition | Timberland | — | $2.3bn |
| Jun 2004 | Acquisition | Vans | — | $396m |
| May 2000 | Acquisition | The North Face | — | undisclosed |
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 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.
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Ownership recorded here as having ended, whether or not a deal record with a filing behind it exists for the transfer.
| Brand | Owned from | Until | Owner today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lee | Jan 1969 | May 2019 | Kontoor Brands |
| Wrangler | Jan 1986 | May 2019 | Kontoor Brands |