Urban Outfitters, Inc. provides lifestyle-oriented general merchandise and consumer products and services. Urban Outfitters brand targets young adults with a merchandise mix of women's and...
Urban Outfitters, Inc. provides lifestyle-oriented general merchandise and consumer products and services. Urban Outfitters brand targets young adults with a merchandise mix of women's and men's fashion apparel, footwear, beauty and wellness products, accessories, activewear and gear, and housewares, as well as music, primarily vinyl records, and cassettes. Urban Outfitters is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: URBN) The company was founded as the retail store Free People by Richard Hayne, Judy Wicks, and Scott Belair in 1970 as a project for an entrepreneurship class at the University of Pennsylvania. It was renamed to Urban Outfitters and incorporated in 1976. Urban Inc. is the parent company of Urban Outfitters, Inc. The company carries multiple stores within the URBN portfolio of brands, which also includes Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain, BHLDN, and the Vetri Family restaurant group for a total of 30+ subsidiaries globally. The company operates over 700 locations across its portfolio throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe and employs 26,000 people. As of 2023, Urban Outfitters has a market cap of $2.94B and revenue of $4.94B. The corporation is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.