Tory Burch (company)

Tory Burch

Industry	Fashion
Founded	2004 (2004)
Founders	Tory Burch
Headquarters	New York
Number of locations	190+
Area served	International
Website	toryburch.com torysport.com

Tory Burch LLC (formerly TRB by Tory Burch), known as Tory Burch, is an American fashion label owned, operated and founded by American designer Tory Burch.

Tory Burch began her fashion label – "TRB by Tory Burch", later known as "Tory Burch" – in February 2004, launching it with a retail store in Manhattan's Nolita district. Most of the inventory sold out on the first day. When Oprah Winfrey endorsed her line on The Oprah Winfrey Show in April 2005, calling Burch "the next big thing in fashion", Burch's website received eight million hits the following day.

Since launch, the company has grown to include more than 200 Tory Burch stores worldwide, including flagships in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo and Seoul, and ecommerce sites in seven languages. The company’s Shanghai flagship, which launched in 2014, is its largest. The fashion line, which encompasses ready-to-wear, shoes, handbags, accessories, watches, home decor, and a fragrance and beauty collection, is also carried at over 3,000 department and specialty stores worldwide, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman MarcusNordstrom and Bloomingdale's, as well as Harrods, Harvey Nichols,Galeries Lafayette,Lane Crawford and Isetan.

In 2009, Burch sold a minority stake in her company to a Mexican private equity firm, Tresalia Capital. Additional minority investors were added in December 2012 in conjunction with the settlement of a legal dispute between Burch and her ex-husband. This settlement is said to have removed a substantial obstacle to a forthcoming IPO, which has been the subject of considerable discussion in the financial and fashion industries.

In September 2011, Burch did her first runway fashion show, and has continued to show each season at New York Fashion Week.