Company context
The public record describes Urban Outfitters as Publicly traded American company. Its recorded founding year is 1970.
- Public business description
- Publicly traded American company
- Country in source record
- United States
- Founding year in source record
- 1970
Recorded founders
- Richard Hayne · American businessman
The linked people are recorded under the company’s founder property in the cited dataset. This is a founding association, rather than a verification of current equity or management responsibility.
Understanding Urban Outfitters in context
Urban Outfitters is included because its public company record connects a named business to an identifiable founding team. The business description, “Publicly traded American company,” supplies the context for that relationship, with a recorded starting year of 1970. The founding association shown here is with Richard Hayne. A single association in this library should not be read as a complete list of everyone who helped establish the business.
The company website listed in the source is the next place to research its current offering. Compare the company’s own description, its leadership information, and dated announcements with this reference record before drawing conclusions about today’s business. A founding year describes a historical event; it does not measure business scale, growth, or the length of a founder’s continuing involvement.
This reference library documents public founding associations. It is separate from our revenue-qualified growth profiles. Founding does not establish current ownership, employment, company revenue, or an AE client relationship.
Research trail
- Wikidata public record Q3552193: company description, country, founding year where present, and founder associations.
- Urban Outfitters website as listed in the public record
Following up with the business
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