Hat World

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Overview Founded in 1995 and comprised of more than 600 mall-based stores, airport stores, street level stores and factory outlet stores nationwide, and in Puerto Rico and Canada under the Lids, Hat World, Hat Zone, Head Quarters and Cap Connection retail brands, Hat World is the specialty retail leader of officially licensed and branded athletic fashion headwear. Most stores offer a vast assortment of college, MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL teams, as well as other specialty fashion categories all in the latest styles and colors. Some stores also offer a strong complementary line of licensed apparel, and custom embroidery capability. Typically offering more than 1,000 different hats in each store, Lids and Hat World serves the core fan and fashion-conscious and trend-savvy mid-teen to mid-20s customer. Hat World also sells its products and promotes its stores through the Internet sites lids.com™, hatworld.com™, and lidscyo.com™. Hat World also sells its products and promotes its stores through a mobile 44-foot "Lids on the Road" souvenir trailer, which retails at major sporting events. In addition, licensed Lids stores operate from premier street locations and kiosks within major department stores in Korea, Hong Kong and China. Hat World is a subsidiary of Genesco Inc. Company Information "Everybody either went to college, or follows a college or professional sports team. Likewise, everybody has $20. A hat is clearly an impulse buy, but one that people can afford."That is how Glenn Campbell summarized his, and partner Scott Molander's, idea for HATWORLD in 1995. They were right. Today, Hat World, Corp. is the undisputed specialty retail leader in fashion athletic headwear.

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