Esprit Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, engages in wholesale and retail distribution and licensing of fashion and lifestyle products designed under its own Esprit brand name. The company offers its products in Europe, the Asia Pacific, and North America. As of June 30, 2009, the company had approximately 800 directly managed retail stores and approximately 14,000 controlled-space wholesale point-of-sales internationally. Products The company operates with 12 product lines offering women’s wear, men’s wear, kid’s wear, and edc youth, as well as shoes and accessories. It licenses its trademark to third party licensees that offer non-apparel products. Its products consist of lifestyle accessories, such as costume jewelry, eyewear, fragrance, jewelry, outerwear, shoes, sleepwear/daywear, socks and tights, stationery, swimwear, timewear, and umbrellas; home related products, such as bathroom items, beddings, carpets, down, furniture, glassware, home accessories, wallpaper, lighting, towels, home accessories & table-top, bed-linen, and home textiles; and babies’ & kids’ products, such as baby carriages, baby furniture, bed linen, bedding, baby sleeping bags, and other baby home textiles, socks, carpets, and wallpaper, kids’ apparel, kids’ bedding, kids’ shoes, kid’s jewellery and watches, optical glasses and sun glasses, umbrellas, maternity products, school products, and soft toys. Discontinued Operations Subsequent to period ended June 30, 2009, the company divested the non-core red earth brand related operations. History Esprit Holdings Limited was founded in 1968.