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Kasper company history timeline

1972

Arthur S. Levine, president of the Kelly Arden dress and suit lines of Bobbie Brooks, bought this division in 1972 and made it an independent company.

1987

Sassco added Nolan Miller special occasion suits&mdashmed at older consumers--in 1987 and recorded sales of almost $130 million that year.

1988

By 1988 Sassco was the largest suit manufacturer based in Manhattan's Seventh Avenue garment district.

1992

Leslie Fay, it was discovered soon after, had submitted false numbers for its 1992 results, and the following year the company fell into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

1993

Sassco was the company's strongest and most profitable division, with its fiscal 1993 sales of $300-$350 million accounting for roughly half of Leslie Fay's $661 million in sales that year.

With business on the decline, Dell'Olio was replaced in 1993, first by Richard Tyler and then by Patrick Robinson.

1997

Leslie Fay finally conceded defeat in 1997 in its effort to retain Sassco.

1999

Kasper purchased Anne Klein Co. in early 1999 for an estimated $75 million.

2001

Kasper's principal shareholders in March 2001 were Whippoorwill Associates, Inc., 18.1 percent; Bay Harbor Management, L.C., 15.9 percent; and ING Equity Partners, L.P. I, 9.5 percent.

In early 2001 the company was selling its products in about 2,000 department and specialty stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

The Kasper collections in 2001 were Kasper A.S.L., Kasper Dress, Kasper & Company Sportswear, Kasper & Company Woman, Kasper Woman, Le Suit, and Le Suit Woman.

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