Urban Outfitters information

Urban Outfitters, Inc. NASDAQ: URBN, owns and operates five retail brands: Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain and Leifsdottir, a newly introduced wholesale brand for Anthropologie.

Urban Outfitters originated as a store called ''The Free People's Store'', which opened in 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, focusing on ''funky'' fashion and household products. Later the owner, Richard Hayne, changed the name to Urban Outfitters. Today, the Urban Outfitters line has expanded from vintage, bohemian, retro, ironically humorous, kitschy, and oddly designed apparel and furniture to include many luxury brands such as Lacoste, Evisu, Diesel, True Religion and Seven for All Mankind.

Currently headquartered in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Urban operates more than 140 shops in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.

The company has sold a number of controversial products, some of which have drawn strong condemnation.

In 2003 the company released a Monopoly parody called ''Ghettopoly''. Philadelphian black leaders were outraged, with opponents calling for a boycott of the company.

In early 2004 the company advertised t-shirts bearing the slogan ''Voting is for Old People.'' During the media hubbub that followed, journalists revealed that the president of Urban Outfitters, Richard Hayne, had contributed $13,150 to Republican Senator Rick Santorum.

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