Esprit Holdings Limited is a renowned company of Hong Kong, which was founded in the year 1960. This publicly owned company is chiefly the manufacturer of footwear, apparel, jewelry, accessories and house wares. The headquarters of the Esprit Holdings are located in Kowloon, Hong Kong, Germany and Ratigen. The company manufactures its goods under the label of ESPRIT. The band Esprit was founded in 1968. Some of the other manufacturers also work under the label of Esprit. The Esprit Holdings, Hong Kong also has the ownership of the Red Earth. The popularity of the Esprit Holdings in Hong Kong was at its peak in the 1980s, especially in the suburban regions.
The largest market of Esprit Holdings is in Germany, where the brand is the most popular among the middle class people due to its classy image yet affordable price. At present, the President of the Esprit Holdings is Heinz Jurgen Krogner-Kornalik. The Esprit Holdings was started in the year 1960, in the city of San Francisco, by the much famed Susie Russel and Douglas Tompkins. The latter is the founder of the North Face. The couple broke up in the year 1989, which was followed by the selling of Mr. Tompkins shares in 1990. After that, the Esprit Far East Group bought the other divisions of the company and the present Esprit Holdings Limited was formed.
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The Esprit Far East Group got transformed into the Esprit Holdings Limited in Hong Kong and took over the Red Earth in the year 2001. The company is listed among other companies the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, since 1993. The Esprit Holdings is listed under the Hang Seng Index. The company has also received a secondary category in the London Stock Exchange in 1998 December.
The various companies under which the shares of the Esprit Holdings are listed include the following:
- Hang Seng Index
- S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index
- FTSE All World Index for Hong Kong
- Morgan Stanley's MSCI Hong Kong
- S&P Asia 50
The address of the Hong Kong office of the Esprit Holdings Limited is mentioned below:
Esprit Asia (Distribution) Limited
43/f Enterprise Square Three
39 Wang Chiu Road
Kowloon Bay
Kowloon,
Hong Kong
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