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1.HISTORY 3

2.EXPANSION AND GROWTH 4

3.CORPORATE VISION 7

4.VAN HEUSEN IN INDIA 8

4.1 Location of stores 8

5.PRODUCT CATEGORIES: 11

5.1 Van Heusen 12

5.2 Van Heusen women 13

5.3 V DOT 14

5.4 VH Sport 15

6.CURRENT RETAIL PRESENCE 16

6.1 Retail Format: 17

7. EVOLUTION THEORY AND LIFE CYCLE 18

7.1 Retail Life cycle of Van Heusen 20

8. MERCHANDISE HIERARCHY 21

9. PRODUCT ANALYSIS 22

9.1 DESIGN PHILOSOPHY 24

9.2 Customer Profile: (for men and women) 27

10. MARKETING MIX 28

10.1 Products 29

10.2 Price: 29

10.3 Place 29

10.4 Promotions 30

11. SWOT ANALYSIS 34

12. ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS 36

13. COMPETITOR ANALYSIS 37

14. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE 39

15. FINANCIAL DATA 40

15.1 CURRENT RATIO 41

15.2 DEBT-EQUITY RATIO 42

15.3 NET PROFIT RATIO 43

15.4 QUICK RATIO 45

15.5 GROSS PROFIT RATIO 46

16. HR POLICIES 47

16.1RECRUITMENT 47

16.2 TRAINING 48

16.3 WORK CULTURE 49

16.4 PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL 49

16.5 RETENTION LEVEL 50

17. STASTISTICS AND RESEARCH STUDIES 51

17.1 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 52

17.2 TOOLS USED 53

17.3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 54

18. BIBLIOGRAPHY 60

19. REFLECTIONS 61

1.HISTORY

The history of PVH can be traced back to 1876, when G. H. Bass began his shoe manufacturing company in Maine. Separately, John M. Van Heusen and Isaac Phillips met and formed the Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, and Vin Draddy acquired the rights to the Izod name in the early 1900s. In 1881, Moses Phillips and his wife Endel began sewing shirts by hand and selling them from pushcarts to local Pottsville, Pennsylvania, anthracite coal miners. This grew into a shirt business in New York City that placed one of the first ever shirt advertisements in the Saturday Evening Post.
Launched in India in 1990, Van Heusen is yet another success story from the Madura Fashion & Lifestyle stable. The brand operates under license to Madura Fashion & Lifestyle in India and South East Asia. At

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