- Full Time Employees
- 19
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Apparel - Manufacturers
- Address
- 1407 Broadway New York City NY United States of America 10018
- IPO Date
- Oct 29, 2002
- Business
- Sequential Brands Group, Inc. (SQBGQ) owns, promotes, markets, and licenses a portfolio of consumer brands in the fashion, home, athletic, and lifestyle categories; its core brands include Jessica Simpson, AND1, Avia, Joe's Jeans, Heelys, GAIAM, Martha Stewart, William Rast, Ellen Tracy, Caribbean Joe, DVS, SPRI, REVO, The Franklin Mint, Nevados, and Linens 'n Things, which are licensed across apparel, footwear, fashion accessories, eyewear, home goods, and activewear to retailers, wholesalers, and distributors primarily in the United States and select international markets. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in New York, New York, the company focuses on maximizing brand value through strategic licensing agreements and distribution channels. Sequential Brands Group filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on August 31, 2021, leading to Nasdaq suspension of its common stock trading on September 9, 2021, and a subsequent liquidation filing on March 3, 2022, which resulted in the divestiture of key assets including the sale of Heelys to BBC International for $11 million in 2021 and the Active Brands portfolio—AND1, Avia, GAIAM, and SPRI—to Galaxy Universal for approximately $330 million in November 2021; in November 2024, the company agreed to a $9.75 million settlement with investors over allegations of financial misrepresentations from 2016-2017.