Free People
Global apparel brand · 167+ locations · US, Canada
Free People is the bohemian banner of URBN, a $6 billion conglomerate that signed neither post-Rana Plaza garment safety agreement and publishes no factory or supplier list.
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Free People is a wholly owned banner of URBN, which is absent from the membership of both post-Rana Plaza factory safety programmes — the binding International Accord and the industry-run Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety — though no source records a decision to decline either. Good On You rates People 1/5, the lowest possible, finding no evidence that workers in the supply chain are paid a living wage. URBN publishes no factory or supplier list, and settled a class action covering Free People store staff in California for $5 million, with the case closing in April 2016.
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URBNConglomerate
Urban Outfitters, Inc. is a Philadelphia lifestyle retailer trading on Nasdaq, operating Anthropologie, Free People and Urban Outfitters alongside the Nuuly rental subscription, across 793 stores worldwide. Co-founder Richard A. Hayne, who opened the first Urban Outfitters near the University of Pennsylvania in 1970, is still chairman and chief executive and beneficially owns 20.0% of the stock; his spouse Margaret A. Hayne is co-president and chief creative officer and holds a further 6.5%, with all directors and executive officers together at 32.1%. There is a single class of common shares, so no family control block sits above the public float.
Annual revenue: $6.17B (FY2026)
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Company data last updated August 2026
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