PVH has evolved from its 1881 roots to become
a diversified global apparel company with $9.9 billion
in 2019 revenues.
2017
PVH acquired True & Co., a Silicon Valley direct-to-consumer intimate apparel e-commerce retailer.
2016
PVH completed its acquisition of the 55% stake in the Tommy Hilfiger joint venture in China that it did not already own.
2015
PVH expanded its joint venture with Gazal Corporation Limited with licenses to market and distribute TOMMY HILFIGER, Van Heusen and certain branded menswear and shapewear products in Australia and New Zealand.
2014
Calvin Klein licensed to a joint venture between PVH and Gazal Corporation Limited the rights to market and distribute certain Calvin Klein products in Australia, New Zealand and other island nations in the South Pacific.
2013
PVH sold its G.H. Bass & Co. business, in an effort to narrow its focus on its lifestyle apparel businesses and the growth of the Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER global designer brands.
2013
Tommy Hilfiger entered into a joint venture to operate, manage and distribute certain TOMMY HILFIGER products in Brazil.
2013
Completed acquisition of The Warnaco Group, Inc., reuniting "The House of Calvin Klein" and providing the groundwork for one vision for the global Calvin Klein Jeans and Calvin Klein Underwear businesses.
2011
Strategic investment in product, marketing and infrastructure – including establishment of joint ventures in India and China for TOMMY HILFIGER.
2010
PVH acquires TOMMY HILFIGER, one of the world's leading premium lifestyle brands.
2007
PVH acquires the business of Superba, Inc., the world's largest provider of men's neckwear.
2004
PVH purchases the worldwide rights to ARROW.
2004
PVH Dress Shirt Group expands its license agreements to include MICHAEL Michael Kors and Sean John.
2003
PVH acquires Calvin Klein, greatly expanding its growth potential both domestically and internationally.
2000
PVH acquires worldwide rights to the Van Heusen brand, previously owned by us only in North and South America.
1995
PVH acquires the IZOD brand, one of America's top names in knit shirts.
1991
Van Heusen becomes the top selling dress shirt brand in United States department stores.
1987
PVH acquires G.H. Bass & Co., one of America's top selling shoe brands.(1)
1982
PVH launches Geoffrey Beene shirts, which becomes and continues to be one of America's top selling designer dress shirts.
1950s
Long an innovator in apparel advertising, PVH employs celebrities including Ronald Reagan, Charlton Heston and Mickey Rooney to promote Van Heusen shirts and place ads on the outfield fences of Ebbets Field and Yankee Stadium.
1920
PVH became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange.
1919
A patent is granted for the Van Heusen "soft-folding collar." Two years later, this revolutionary new collar is introduced to the public and, thereafter, gained great success.
1885
The ARROW trademark is first used for detachable collars for men's dress shirts.
1881
Moses Phillips and his wife Endel begin hand sewing shirts and selling them to local Pottsville, PA coal miners. The small pushcart operation would turn into today's PVH.
- (1) PVH sold the G.H. Bass & Co. business on the first day of the fourth quarter of 2013.