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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 ...
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 ...
Before being arrested on charges of sex trafficking, ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries faced criticism for how he ran his company.
In June 1998, Abercrombie & Fitch filed a lawsuit against rival clothing retailer American Eagle Outfitters in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, alleging that "AE impermissibly copied the designs of certain articles of clothing, in-store advertising displays, and a catalog [A&F Quarterly]."
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]
On the heels of an embarrassing lawsuit over how the company mistreated an employee with a prosthetic arm, Abercrombie & Fitch announced same-store sales dropped 30 percent compared to the same ...
The docu explores the rise in popularity of Abercrombie & Fitch during the late ’90s and examines how, under Jeffries’ leadership, the store became known for its sexualized advertising and its ...
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."