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Michael Stanton Jeffries (born 1943 or 1944) [1] is an American businessman who was chairman and CEO of clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch from 1992 to 2014. During Jeffries' tenure, he engineered a turnaround of Abercrombie & Fitch from a "fashion backwater" losing $25 million yearly to a lifestyle brand grossing $2 billion yearly by 2006, though this approach courted controversy with the ...
The renewed focus on Abercrombie's business model also has a lot of people talking about Jeffries' own appearance, which many attribute to the 68-year-old CEO using plastic surgery to fight the ...
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries was charged with sex trafficking on Tuesday. The federal indictment follows a history of controversy for Jeffries.
Jeffries' tenure at Abercrombie & Fitch was filled with controversy. Mike Jeffries became president and CEO of Abercrombie in 1992 and soon morphed the small, struggling retailer into a must-have ...
White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch details the store's success and controversies, including its racist and exclusionary practices. The documentary focuses on the rise in popularity of the brand after the arrival of CEO Mike Jeffries in 1992, and his practices which led to a 2003 class-action suit which alleged racial discrimination in the stores’ hiring policies. [7]
There were plenty of people who thought [Abercrombie] was ridiculous from the beginning, but it was the dominant culture and they weren’t going to drown that out,” said Klayman, who has spent ...
The lawsuit González v.Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc., No. 3:03-cv-02817, filed in June 2003, alleged that the nationwide retailer Abercrombie & Fitch "violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by maintaining recruiting and hiring practice that excluded minorities and women and adopting a restrictive marketing image, and other policies, which limited minority and female employment."
Mike Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, was arrested on Tuesday in Florida, accused of sex trafficking and using his perch atop the fashion clothier to coerce men into sex for a ...