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• The Barbey family owns 17% of publicly traded VF Corp, an apparel retailer with brands including Vans, The North Face, Timberland and Dickies.
• VF Corp, which had 10.5billionrevenuesintheyearthroughMarch,saidinNov.2020thatitwouldbuystreetwearbrandSupremefor10.5 billion revenues in the year through March, said in Nov. 2020 that it would buy streetwear brand Supreme for 10.5billionrevenuesintheyearthroughMarch,saidinNov.2020thatitwouldbuystreetwearbrandSupremefor2.1 billion.
• VF Corp. was founded by John Barbey in Pennsylvania in 1899 as the Reading Glove and Mitten Manufacturing Co.
• In 1939, his son John Edward "J.E." Barbey became vice president of the company, then known as Vanity Fair Silk Mills.
• After J.E. took it public in 1951, the family was no longer involved in operations; it was renamed VF Corp. in 1969.

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1899

Source of Wealth

textiles, apparel

Company Headquarters

Denver, Colorado

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