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Coach

In 1941, Coach was founded as a family-owned business called the Gail Leather Products in New York City. In 1946, Lillian Cahn and her husband Miles joined the company. Miles noticed that with wear and tear, the leather used to make baseball gloves, became softer and more supple. Miles created a way of processing leather to make it stronger and more flexible.

In 1961, Bonnie Cashin joined Coach to design handbags from 1962 to 1974 and revolutionized the product’s design. Bonnie introduced brighter colors, coin purses and side pockets into the bags. Bonnie also added a silver toggle to her clothes and accessories, which became the Coach trademark.

In 1985, Miles and Lillian decided to sell Coach and dedicate more time into their goat farm and cheese production business. The company was sold to the Sara Lee Corporation for 30 million dollars. Lewis Frankfort took over the company as Cahn’s successor.

In 1996, Coach hired Reed Krakoff, who was responsible for Coach’s success. His design turned the small company that it was, into the worldwide known brand that it is today.

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Ray-Ban

In the 1920’s, many pilots in the US Army Air Service were complaining that the glare from the sun was giving them headaches. As a solution, Bausch & Lomb introduced a new kind of glasses that would protect their eyes from the bright colors of the sky. In 1936, a prototype was made and was known as ‘Anti-Glare’. This prototype had green lenses with plastic frames that cut out the glare without obscuring vision. In the following year, the sunglasses were remodeled with a metal frame and rebranded as the “Ray-Ban Aviator”. Bausch & Lomb patented the aviator on May 7, 1937.

A new version of the aviator called the ‘Outdoorsman’ was designed for enthusiasts that took an interest in hunting, shooting, and fishing. It featured a “sweat bar” at the top that would catch sweat from falling into the eyes. Gradient lenses were introduced in the 1940’s, which had a special coating on the top half of the lens for protection, but an uncoated clear lower lens.

The classic Ray-Ban Wayfarer was introduced in 1952. James Dean was wearing them in 1955’s Rebel Without A Cause.

In the 1980’s, the brand became even more popular showing up in movies such as, ‘The Blues Brothers’, ‘Risky Business’, and ‘Top Gun’.

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Oakley

In 1975, Jim Jannard started Oakley in his garage with an investment of $300. The name Oakley derived from Jannard’s dog, which was an English Setter. Jannard started selling “the Oakley Grip” out of the back of his car at motocross events. His grips used a patented material known as “Unobtanium”, which was unlike any other grips at the time.

In 1980, Jannard introduced a pair of goggles called the O-Frame. With the Oakley logo present, the brand became well known throughout the sports industry.

The company went public in 1995, raising $230 million.

During the rescue of the three miners that were trapped for 10 weeks in a Chilean mine in October 2010, a journalist contacted Oakley about donating sunglasses to the rescue effort,aware that the miners would need eye protection after having spent weeks in the dark. Oakley donated 35 pairs of its Radar sports glasses, fitted with specially selected tints.

In August 2013, Oakley sold its REVO brand to Sequential Brands for $20 million.

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BVLGARI

The company’s Greek founder, Sotirios Voulgaris created the trademark that is usually written BVLGARI which is in the classical Latin alphabet where V = English U.

Sotirios Voulgaris started his career as a jeweler in his home town Paramythia, where his first store can still be seen. In 1881 he moved to Rome, then started his company and opened his second shop in via Sistina. With the help of his two sons, Costantino and Giorgio, they replaced the second shop with the current flagship store in via dei Condotti in 1905.

During the second world war, costantino bulgari and his wife laura concealed three jewish women in their own home in rome. The bulgaris were ouraged due to the raid of the roman ghetto in October 1943. They were awarded the title of righteous among the nations at yad vashem Jerusalem.

Giorgio’s son Gianni took over the company as co-CEO with his cousin Marina. In the early 1970’s they began opening shops in Geneva, monte carlo, paris, and new york. Gianni established a new watch business and put more emphasis on designing the products. In 1987, Gianni sold his one-third stake in the company to his brothers paolo and Nicola.

Bvlgari watch production was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Neuchatel.

Bulgari donated 13 million Euros to Save The Children between 2009 and 2011.

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Tiffany & Co

Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young founded the company in New York City in 1837. Their store was called “Tiffany, Young and Ellis” and retailed an assortment of stationary products. In 1853, Charles took over the business and shortened the name to Tiffany & Company. In 1867, Tiffany & Co was the first US business to receive an award for the excellence in silverware. In 1878, Tiffany won the gold medal for jewelry and silverware at the Paris Exposition, which gave the company prestige.

In 2000, the Tiffany & Company Foundation was established to provide grants to nonprofit organizations working in the areas of the environment and the arts. In 2008, a collaboration between SoftBank, a Japanese mobile phone operator, was announced. They designed a mobile phone, which contains more than 400 diamonds, totaling more than 20 carats. The cost of each phone is more than 100,000,000 yen.

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