Key Facts

Doris and Don Fisher

Founded: 1969, with a single store in San Francisco

We are: A specialty retailer offering clothing, accessories and personal care products for men, women, children and babies. With more than 134,000 employees and about 3,100 company-operated stores and about 200 franchise stores, our presence is felt around the world.

Gap Store

Brands: Gap (including Gap, GapKids, babyGap and GapBody), Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime and Athleta.

Outlet stores: Gap Outlet, Gap Generation and Banana Republic Factory Stores

Headquarters

World HQ: San Francisco Bay Area

Product Design: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London

Store Management, distribution and product manufacturing: Worldwide.

Stores
Total: Over 3,200 stores worldwide

Financial Information
See Financials for detailed information, including Gap Inc.'s Annual Report, Quarterly Financial Summary and historical sales by division.

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Company-operated locations: About 3,100 stores across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China, France, Ireland, Japan and Italy

*Fun fact! The first Gap store outside the United States opened in the UK in 1987

Franchise: About 200 stores in locations across Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa

Square footage: See our Real Estate section or detailed store count information.

Fun Facts

  • The average cost of a pair of jeans at Gap in 1969? About $7!
  • Gap's 1988 Individuals of Style campaign was the first time the company specifically hired celebrities as models.
  • In 2004, Banana Republic was among the first sponsors of the Emmy-nominated sleeper hit "Project Runway."
  • Gap has about 10 miles of storefront windows around the world.

  • Old Navy was named after a bar in Paris!
  • Retired New York Times fashion editor Carrie Donovan was tapped to be the "Old Navy Lady" in 1997 after joking in one of her columns that she'd be great for TV spots for the brand.
  • After a wildly successful pilot, Gap Factory Outlet was founded and opened its first store in August 1994.
  • Glenn Murphy is our fourth CEO since our founding in 1969. (Bob Fisher served as interim CEO in 2007 before Glenn was hired.)
  • Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe can be found on Piperlime.com, where she shares her picks on her favorite fashions from the site.
  • Athleta, which has served women athletes since 1998, opened its first full-sized store in 2011.

Distribution Centers
Total: 12
United States: 9
Canada: 1
United Kingdom: 1
Japan: 1

Online
Customers in more than 90 countries can order from our brands’ U.S.-based websites, and those in China, Canada and the UK are served by dedicated websites.

Employees
More than 134,000 employees around the world support Gap Inc. and its five brands.

Leadership
Learn more about our Executive Management Team and Board of Directors.

Culture
How we do business is as important as what we do.

Social Responsibility

To us, it means everything from ensuring that workers are treated fairly to addressing our environmental impact. Find out more.

*Our Social Responsibility Specialists monitor factories in about 50 countries each year.

*We established our Clean Water Program in 2004 to monitor our denim laundries' wastewater discharge and to meet our guidelines.

*Our P.A.C.E. program, or Personal Advancement, Career Enhancement, empowers the mostly female garment workers who make our clothes in places like India and Sri Lanka.

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