Hugo Boss

Hugo Boss currently has at least 6,102 points of sale in 124 countries. Hugo Boss AG directly owns over 364 stores with more than 1,000 shops and stores are franchised heard.
Morrovalle, Italy, Cleveland, USA, the products are manufactured in a variety of places, including sites of his own production company in Izmir, Turkey, Radom, Poland. And Metzingen, Germany [3]
There are two core brands BOSS and HUGO:

    Blackhead. Caballero (1970) Women's Clothing (2000). Modern classic clothing which is more widely distributed than other lines, and has the widest range of products.
    Boss Orange. Caballero (1999) Women's Clothing (2005). Originally distinctive style, with bohemian influences, this line was relaunched in 2010 as denim based casual wear.
    Boss Selection. Men (2003). Higher priced clothing aimed at a more mature market, with emphasis on English tailoring styles.
    Chief Green. Men's Clothing (2003) Women's Clothing (2010). Formerly known as Boss Sport is known, in 2003, was a collection of golf-style active wear relaunch.
    Hugo. Caballero (1993) Women's Clothing (1998). Fashion forward styling, with a more European look, and sometimes androgynous models.
Hugo Boss has licensing agreements with various produce company Hugo Boss brand products. These include agreements with Samsung and HTC phones produce, produce CWF Children Worldwide Fashion SAS to children's clothing, Procter & Gamble Prestige to produce fragrances and skin care products, [4] produce Movado watches. [5] and on Safilo sunglasses and glasses [6] to produce
In 1985 the company on the stock exchange. In 1991, acquired the Marzotto textile group has a 77.5% to U.S. $ 165 million. [7] Marzotto spun off its fashion brands into the newly created Valentino Fashion Group in 2005.
In 2009, BOSS Black was by far the largest segment, consisting 68% of all sales, the rest consisting of BOSS Orange (17%), BOSS Selection (3%), BOSS Green (3%) and Hugo (9%). The sales were made in company-owned stores 19% of total global sales. [8]History1933 Director of Advertising for Nazi uniforms
Hugo Boss started his clothing company in 1924 in Metzingen, a small town south of Stuttgart, which is still based. However, it was due to the economic situation in Germany at the time Boss driven into bankruptcy. In 1931, he reached an agreement with its creditors, leaving him with six sewing machines to start again. In the same year he became a member of the Nazi party and a sponsoring member ("Supporting Member") of the Schutzstaffel (SS). [9] He later said he had. The party because of their promise to end unemployment and occurred because he was "temporarily" withdrawn from the Lutheran church [9] of the German Labor Front, came in 1936, the Empire Air Protection Association in 1939, and the welfare of the Socialist People's National Congress in 1941. [9] Its sales increased from 38,260 RM in 1932 to over 3,300,000 RM in 1941, while the income for the same period in 5000 to 241,000 RM RM. [9] Although the ad said in a 1934/1935 was a "supplier of Nazi uniforms since 1924", this surgery probably in 1928/1929 and some from 1934, are, if he is a licensed Reichszeugmeisterei (official) was supplier of uniforms the Sturmabteilung, Schutzstaffel, Hitler Youth, National Socialist Motor Corps and other party organizations. [9] To meet the demand in the last years of the war, Boss used from 30 to 40 prisoners of war and about 150 forced laborers, from the Baltic States, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and to make the Soviet Union. [9] According to the German historian Henning Kober, were the corporate ladder "avowed nazis", "the head were great admirers of Adolf Hitler" and Hugo Boss had taken in 1945 in his apartment a photograph of himself with Hitler in his Obersalzberg retreat. [10]
In a 1946 denazification judgment, based on his early party membership, with the financial support of the SS and the uniforms delivered to the Nazi party even before 1933, Boss both an "activist" and was "supporter and beneficiary of National Socialism." He its voting was stripped, punished his ability to run a business and "a very heavy penalty" of 100,000 marks. [9] He died in 1948 but his business survived.
In 1997, the company appeared in a list of Swiss dormant accounts, which stirred the publication of articles highlighting the involvement of Hugo Boss with the Nazis. [11] [12] [13] In 1999, American lawyers lawsuits in New Jersey, on behalf of the survivors and their families. By the use of forced labor during the war [14] [15] The company did not comment on these allegations, but reiterated an earlier statement that he did not "turn a blind eye to the past, but with the issues in an open and honest." [14] It is sponsored by the German Research Foundation historian Elisabeth Timm. [9] However, after Timm told the press on the results, the company refused to publish. [16] December 1999 agreement between the federal government and a group of American class action lawyers, Jewish groups and the U.S. government was reached to establish a fund of $ 5.1 billion, financed equally by German industry and the German government, the forced laborers compensate used by the Germans during World War II. [17] Hugo Boss agreed to participate in this fund, [18] for an amount that was by some sources as "around € 752,000", [19] estimated, while others believe that the company is "finally an absolute minimum to pay into the compensation fund. "[20]