Company type | Private company |
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Industry | Clothing Retail |
Founded | 1971 |
Headquarters | Braunschweig, Germany |
Key people | Friedrich Knapp, Chairman & CEO |
Products | Wear Accessories |
Website | newyorker.de |
New Yorker, legally New Yorker Group Services International GmbH & Co.KG, is a multinational clothing retailer headquartered in Braunschweig.
In 1971 the first New Yorker store was opened in Flensburg.[1] In December 2006, the company won the first billion in sales. By November 2022, the company owned 1,150 branches in 47 countries:[2] Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates.
In March 2012 Olly Murs became the face for New Yorker's men spring/summer range[3] and customers were able to get their photos taken with a cardboard cut-out of Murs.
The company has over 23,000 employees.[2] New Yorker is naming sponsor of the Braunschweig-based German Football League team New Yorker Lions and formerly also the Basketball Bundesliga team New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig (now Basketball Löwen Braunschweig). The company also sponsors the international b-boy competition Battle of the Year.