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Tapestry, Inc. is an American multinational luxury fashion holding company based in New York City and is the parent company of three major brands: Coach New York, Kate Spade New York, and Stuart Weitzman.

This business was originally named Coach but it is changing its name to Tapestry to be more suiting towards the fashion industry and customers. The company finally changed its ticker symbol in the New York Stock Exchange from COH to TPR. The company is growing more and more everyday which demands for a greater number of Executives within the company as well as more lower-level employees. Since the company wanted to include more than just Coach-brand handbags, the company switched its name from a very specific assortment of accessories to a wider range of fashion products that entail all of the companies products. Most of these products are accessories, such as, handbags for women or men, key-chains, shoes and other smaller fashion items. Most of these items are leather-goods and are produced by each company but still operates underneath the Tapestry parent company. Coach originally took over the other two brands in order to dominate the fashion industry for accessories before Tapestry Inc. came along.

Coach New York
In the early 1940's, everything got started for the Coach brand. It started out as just a workshop and then evolved into something much larger. This organization transformed into a very large company which contains over 17,000 employees. Since Coach wanted to be more widely-known, it took-over brands such as Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman. This broadened the appeal to consumers of all three brands by bringing them together. When the company switched its name over, stocks began to decline as some customers did not approve of this name change. The stocks since then have steadily increased back to its original standards because a year in time has passed.

Kate Spade New York
Kate Spade was originally founded by Kate Spade(the person) in the late 1970's. It was very similar to the Coach company when it was first starting out. Later, the Kate Spade company was recently bought-out by Coach in 2017 in a $2.4 billion dollar deal. Unfortunately, in 2018 Kate Spade took her own life and died at the age of 55. Even though Kate Spade no longer owned the company, the company was devastated as well as the customers of this fashion brand. It was a loss to not only the company, but also the fashion industry because she was a well-known icon in the business.

Stuart Weitzman
The brand started out in the late 1950's and was a shoe company named after one of the brothers who started it. It grew into a large brand of higher-quality shoes in Manhattan. Stuart Weitzman was taken over by Coach in 2015. The deal was $574 million dollars and was a big purchase to widen the scope of Coach's products and amount of customers they receive. This broadened the companies' products because selling shoes are not apart of the other two brands' product inventory. Since the Tapestry company is known as a luxury -goods company, it made sense to buy-out a luxury shoe brand.

Notable People
Chief Executive Officer is Victor Luis(CEO). He has worked his way through this company to be at the top. He started out as a CEO in the Japanese department of the company that runs the company in Japan. He worked his way through Japan an then into China and then the head of just International CEO for the company and now runs the whole operation of the company.

Chief Financial Officer is Kevin G Wills(CFO). He has had multiple jobs within the finance industry but only has recently come on board with the Tapestry company in 2017. Kevin G Wills has held Senior and Executive positions in 3-4 companies at this point. He deals with all of the finances and money within the company of Tapestry.

Chief Information Officer is Michael Braine(CIO). He seems to be fairly young because in his career history, this shows his first job for any company.

President/Chief Legal Officer(CLO)/Chief Analytics Officer(CAO)/Secretary is Todd Kahn. Todd has been within the company since before 2011 in some way. He has been through many different titles.

President and CEO of Coach Brand is Joshua G Schulman. He has worked for many other clothing companies such as Gap, Jimmy Choo, and Perry Ellis(which is also a shoe brand). He first started out in 2017 with exclusively the Coach Company and then worked his way into the parent company of Tapestry that overlooks the Coach part of the business.

President and CEO of Kate Spade is Anna Bakst. She was apart of a competing company known as Micheal Kors. Then integrated herself into the Kate spade division of the Tapestry company earlier this year in January of 2018.

President and CEO of Stuart Weitzman is Eraldo Poletto. He is fairly new to the brand, as he was deemed the President and CEO of the Stuart Weitzman division in April of 2018.

President of Global Business Divisions and Strategic Alliances is Ian M Bickley.

Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer is Brian Satenstein. He is one of the oldest within the company because he has had some sort of position within the Coach company since 1997. Brian has worked his way up through the company for the past 11 years. He first started out as a International Planning Officer for the company.

Global Human Resources Officer is Sarah Dunn. Her career began in the financial field in the early 2000's. She started out as an Executive member in Thomas Financial company in 2001. She was introduced into the Coach company in 2008 and then into Tapestry in 2017.

Global Head of Investor Relations(IR) and Corporate Communications is Andrea Shaw Resnick. She deals with the communication portion between the company's investors and the company itself. She makes sure that everyone is on the same page with each other.

Global Head of the Supply Chain is Peter Charles and he is the head of getting the goods from other countries to sell them within the United States.

Global Head of Inventory Management and Planning is Adrianne Kirszner. She is in charge of coordinating when the inventory will come out to the public.

Global Head of Strategic and Data Labs is Zeynep Schoenwaelder. He takes control of looking at the data of who buys which clothing and which items to discontinue.

2017:
Declined around 2-3% due to the name change. The company made a steady increase back to what it is today in 2018.

2018:
Stocks as of October 2018 are at 42.51 USD(United Sates Dollars) while the high is $43.53 and the low is at $43.39.