Urban Outfitters, Inc. · Philadelphia, PA United States ·(NASDAQ (GS): URBN)

If you're a metropolitan hipster, Urban Outfitters has your outfit. The firm's 140-plus namesake stores -- mainly in the US, but also in Canada and Europe -- sell casual clothes, accessories, gifts, housewares, and shoes. The retailer also courts older women (30- to 45-year-olds) at about 120 Anthropologie shops. Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie also distribute catalogs and operate e-commerce sites. Its wholesale division makes and distributes clothing under the Free People label to its own and about 1,800 department and specialty stores worldwide. Chairman and president Richard Hayne, who founded Urban Outfitters as The Free People's Store in 1970, owns about 30% of the company. To read the full description, subscribe now.