Kontoor Brands
Company Overview
Who We Are
Kontoor Brands, Inc. is a global lifestyle apparel company with a portfolio of some of the world’s most iconic denim brands: Wrangler, Lee and Rock & Republic. Kontoor designs manufactures and distributes high-quality products that look good and fit right, inspiring people around the world to live with passion and confidence. They grow their iconic brands through innovation, design, and sustainable performance to excite more and more consumers.
Kontoor Brands is strongly positioned as a leader in the global apparel industry. Their business is founded upon a strategic sourcing model and best in class supply chain, with industry leading sustainability standards. They are focused on leveraging their global platform to drive brand growth and deliver long-term value for all of their stakeholders including their consumers, customers, shareholders and suppliers.
With a clear set of investment priorities, they are committed to aggressively growing their direct-to-consumer distribution through their new e-commerce strategy. This will further expand their global footprint allowing them to engage with more customers in more places. They are driven to deliver consistent and reliable shareholder returns through great execution and an efficient operating model, underpinned by strong margins and cash flow.
Our Values
Kontoor Brands is built on a foundation of trust that ignites our entrepreneurial spirit and shapes our future. We are sharply focused on driving brand growth and delivering long-term value to our stakeholders while ensuring we make a positive impact on the world.
We are the common thread that inspires people to live with passion and confidence.
We grow our iconic brands through innovation, design and sustainable performance to excite more and more consumers.
Supply Chain
We've been designing, manufacturing, sourcing and distributing superior-high-quality products for more than 125 years. Our approach to and management of the complexities of a global supply chain provides us with a competitive advantage that enables us to deliver the right products, at the right time to consumers across the globe.
Our skills in sourcing are uniquely complemented by an engineering expertise that's reflected in our owned manufacturing facilities. We leverage this engineering expertise to help develop our sourcing partners in key regions around the world. This helps ensure we responsibly and efficiently source and manufacture the apparel that retailers and consumers expect from our iconic brands.
At Kontoor Brands, we own and operate world-class manufacturing sites and contract with more than 200 supplier factories to produce our products. Our commitment to industry-leading manufacturing and sourcing is powered through our Responsible Sourcing program and our steadfast focus on Compliance, Product Safety, Sourcing Strategy and Worker & Community Development.