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) · 2 companies on Ferret
Anthropologie
Clothing · 256+ locations — Anthropologie's stores read like one-off emporiums, but the brand is one of three banners inside Nasdaq-listed Urban Outfitters, Inc. Richard Hayne created it in 1992, still runs the parent as chairman and CEO, and holds 20% of the stock.
Free People
Clothing · 167+ locations — Free People is the bohemian banner of URBN, a $6 billion conglomerate that signed neither post-Rana Plaza garment safety agreement, and the brand has a documented pattern of copying independent designers' work.
Firm data last updated August 2026