Company type | Former Subsidiary |
---|---|
Founded | November 1999 Portland, Oregon, U.S. | (as Lucy.com)
Successor | The North Face |
Headquarters |
Alameda,
California, U.S. |
Number of locations | 60 stores |
Area served | Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Washington D.C. |
Key people | [1] |
Products | Clothing |
Revenue | $57 million (2007) [2] |
Parent | VF Corporation |
Lucy Activewear (sometimes styled as "lucy" rather than "Lucy"), formerly known as Lucy.com, [3] was an American clothing retailer based in Alameda, California. Founded in November 1999 by former Nike executives, [4] it specialized in activewear for women including clothing intended for use during yoga. It designed, manufactured and sold its own product lines including jackets, bras, tops, and bottoms. [1] [2] [3]
Initially an online-only retailer, Lucy opened brick and mortar stores in 2002 after the bursting of the dot-com bubble; for several years, the company completely shut down its web store. It was at that time the company changed its name from "Lucy.com" to "Lucy Activewear". [3] Though based in Portland, it did not open a store there in 2002 and did not have a retail presence in Oregon until it opened stores in Portland's Pearl District and Bridgeport Village two years later. [5] Lucy did have 60 stores located across the United States, primarily in California. [1]
It was headquartered out of the KOIN Center in downtown Portland. [6]
Lucy Activewear, Inc. was acquired on August 24, 2007 for $110 million by North Carolina-based VF Corporation ( NYSE: VFC). [1] [2]
In 2017, Lucy closed a majority of its stores and was merged into The North Face by the VF Corporation. [7]