Jones Apparel Group, Inc. engages in the design, marketing, and wholesale of apparel, footwear, and accessories primarily in the United States and Canada. Its products include skirts, blouses, pants, jackets, sweaters, jeanswear, suits, dresses, casual tops, vests, outerwear, and shorts for women and children. The company offers its products under various categories, including career and casual sportswear, lifestyle, dresses, suits, and a combination of various components. Jones Apparel Group also sells footwear, handbags, and small leather goods, as well as costume, semiprecious, sterling silver, and marcasite jewelry. The company markets its products under various brands, including Jones New York, Nine West, Anne Klein, Gloria Vanderbilt, Kasper, Bandolino, Easy Spirit, Evan-Picone, l.e.i., Energie, Enzo Angiolini, Joan & David, Mootsies Tootsies, Sam & Libby, Napier, Judith Jack and Le Suit. It also markets costume jewelry under the ‘Givenchy’ brand licensed from Givenchy Corporation, and footwear under the ‘Dockers Women’ brand licensed from Levi Strauss & Co. In addition, Jones Apparel Group licenses its brand names to manufacturers and distributors of women's and men's products. The company sells its products through specialty and department stores, and mass merchandisers, as well as through its network of retail and factory outlet stores. As of December 31, 2007, it operated 396 specialty retail stores, and 638 outlet stores. The company was founded in 1975 and is based in New York, New York.