V is for VF Corporation

VF Corporation is an global apparel and footwear company headquartered in Greensboro. The original company was founded in 1899. VF has over thirty brands. Lee, Wrangler, The North Face, Timberland,  and Vans are some of the brands owned by VF. According to their website, they have a global workforce of more than 60,000 employees. Recently, VF published statement that they disagree with the response of the White House regarding climate change and VF expressed a commitment to limiting emissions and helping mitigate the impacts of climate change.*

Greensboro, with its robust textile industry in the 20th century, was known as the denim capital of the world. Many Greensboro residents associate VF with jeans. We are, after all,  a "jeans" town- even in our public artwork. Some communities have fiberglass pigs, bulls, horses, etc. Greensboro has fiberglass jeans, artfully painted, downtown.

If you are interested, here is a very thorough timeline of the history of VF, where you will learn facts like the fact that VF actually stands for Vanity Fair. Originally located in Pennsylvania, VF relocated to Greensboro in the late 1990's. Above is a photo of their corporate headquarters off of North Elm Street. Below is the sign at the entrance. Today is ABC Wednesday and "V" is for "VF." See our A-U Round 20 lineup, here.

* See the VF website for reference and more information (here). 

Comments

[a creative harbor]

Unique post for V ~ am a jeans person too ~ bet the glass one is intriguing ^_^

[Melody Steenkamp]

lovely choice and very informative to for brandnames i know but did not know the historie of

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[William Kendall]

Some of those brands make it up here, either in stores or as a store in and of its own right, like Vans. I think Lee jeans used to be sold here, but I can't recall seeing them in the last few years.

[Su-sieee! Mac]

Good for VF for their commitment to limit pollution from their facilities. That's the way to go.

[Roger Green]

good corporate neighbor
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