- CEO
- Daniel Erver
- Full Time Employees
- 140,000
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Apparel - Manufacturers
- Address
- MAester Samuelsgatan 46A Stockholm Sweden 106 38
- IPO Date
- Feb 13, 2009
- Business
- H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (publ) is a Swedish multinational fast-fashion retailer that designs, manufactures, markets, and sells clothing, accessories, footwear, cosmetics, home textiles, and homeware for women, men, teenagers, children, and infants; it operates through a portfolio of brands including H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday (incorporating relaunched Cheap Monday), & Other Stories, ARKET, H&M HOME, and Sellpy, with sales channels encompassing over 4,000 physical stores in more than 79 markets and online platforms in 60 markets worldwide. Founded in 1947 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, the company serves mass-market consumers seeking affordable, trend-driven fashion and sustainable design options across Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Australia. It emphasizes supply chain improvements, nearshoring, RFID technology adoption, and sustainability initiatives, including a target to reduce scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 56 percent by 2030.
In recent developments, H&M Group issued an inaugural EUR 500 million green bond in 2023 to finance circularity and climate efforts, followed by a new SEK 500 million eight-year bond in 2025 demonstrating strong investor confidence; it raised stakes in second-hand platform Sellpy, formed joint venture Looper Textile Co. with Remondis in 2023 for textile recycling, and launched H&M Move sports brand in 2022 alongside All in Equestrian in 2023. During 2024, Daniel Ervér succeeded Helena Helmersson as CEO while retaining leadership of the H&M brand, the company discontinued Afound and plans to integrate Monki into Weekday in 2025, relaunched Cheap Monday under Weekday, celebrated 20 years of designer collaborations, and announced its first store opening in Brazil by late 2025; these changes support enhanced product relevance, particularly in womenswear, improved gross margins to 53.4 percent for fiscal 2024, and operating profit growth to SEK 17.3 billion. The group continues share buybacks, maintains CapEx at SEK 11-12 billion for 2025 focused on stores and supply chain, and reports preliminary 23 percent scope 3 emissions reductions versus 2019 baseline.