New Yorker (clothing)

It all began in 1971, when Tilmar Hansen and Michael Simson opened the first New Yorker branch in downtown Flensburg, which at the time was just a simple jeans shop. A little later, Friedrich Knapp who later became managing director and also managed a denim store in Braunschweig at the time, joined the company. The three eventually founded SHK-Jeans GmbH and opened their first branches throughout Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1990, Simson left the company and was only associated as the owner of a few properties in which New Yorker branches were located. In 1994, the first step across the German border was made. At that time, the two entrepreneurs opened the first foreign branch in Linz, Austria. Once abroad, the company continued to expand rapidly. Beginning in 1998 with the addition of stores in Czech Republic and Poland, as of 2022 the chain spans almost 50 countries and 3 continents. == Criticism ==

In February 2015, the company was accused of attempting to prevent the establishment of works councils. Frankfurter Rundschau reported that after a works council was established at a store in Offenbach am Main, the company spun off that location into a separate subsidiary, which was subsequently liquidated. In November 2017, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that Friedrich Knapp, the sole owner of New Yorker, was mentioned in the Paradise Papers. The newspaper described email correspondence regarding the establishment of a Cayman Islands-based aircraft leasing company, which, "for German tax reasons", would hold and lease the company's jets. ==Stores==

File:2020-03-09-bonn-remigiusstrasse-7-01.jpg|A New Yorker store in Bonn, Germany. File:Metropolbygningen.jpg|A New Yorker store in Copenhagen, Denmark. File:Vitoria - New Yorker (Calle General Álava).jpg|A New Yorker store in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. File:OC Forum Usti nad Labem New Yorker.jpg|A New Yorker store in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. File:Riga Livenplatz 2.JPG|A New Yorker store in Riga, Latvia. File:A New Yorker store in Olsztyn, Poland.jpg|A New Yorker store in Olsztyn, Poland. ==External links==