Arts & Entertainment Gap Inc. Hires Star Designer Zac Posen to Chief Creative Role to Revamp Old Navy, Other Brands High-profile fashion designer Zac Posen, known for designing red carpet looks and showing at New York Fashion Week, is taking on a new corporate role as executive vice president and creative director at Gap Inc., and CCO (Chief Creative Officer) of Old Navy.
SF News Old Navy Flagship Store on Market Street Joins SF Retail Exodus The Old Navy flagship store on Market Street at Fourth, which has been in that location since the 1990s, will close on July 1, adding to the deepening retail exodus crisis on mid-Market and in Union Square.
SF News Gap Inc. Cutting 1,800 More Jobs, Mostly at SF Headquarters One of San Francisco's highest-profile, signature employers, Gap Inc., is once again shrinking its employee rolls, with many jobs getting cut at their Embarcadero headquarters.
Business & Tech Gap Inc. Lays Off 500 Employees at Corporate Offices In SF and NY The layoff announcements continue this week with San Francisco-based Gap Inc., which managed to have a stellar year amid high consumer spending in 2021, followed by a serious slump so far this year.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Gap Closes Flagship Store At Powell and Market Hundreds of San Jose residents are livid at PG&E for a 44-hour power outage, a case of bubonic plague has popped up at South Lake Tahoe, and Gap Inc. is shutting down three of its of four SF stores.
SF News Gap To Replace 200 Underperforming Stores With Old Navy And Athleta Locations Gap Inc. is making bold moves to address declining retail sales in their longstanding stalwart brands, Gap and Banana Republic, announcing Wednesday that they're closing 200 underperforming stores and will then open 270
SF News Gap Continues To Struggle As Shoppers Reject Their Conformist Message As you've likely heard, Gap is in trouble. The San Francisco-based clothing company faces declining sales and is on the verge of closing dozens of stores as shoppers look elsewhere for their sartorial
SF News Could Gap Be Declaring Bankruptcy Soon? One of San Francisco's bigger employers, Gap Inc., could potentially be seeking bankruptcy protection according to the Chronicle in a speculative piece that came out just before the holiday weekend. Though the official
Arts & Entertainment Google And Gap Employees Send Messages Between Folsom Street Offices Via Post-Its Gap Inc. is headquartered on the Embarcadero, with some offices in the building facing Folsom Street. Google also has offices directly across Folsom Street. Employees at the two companies have started posting messages
SF News Gap Lays Off 250 Employees, Announces Closure Of 175 Stores Major news for a major Bay Area employer today as Gap, Inc. announced that it would be shuttering a swath of its stores across the U.S., and laying off a segment of
SF News Day Around the Bay -- 177 Townsend's promise of public art delivered, raised. [Curbed SF] -- Grace Cathedral almost burned down last night via an infamous Burner. [CBS5] -- Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner: thin, pretty. [BeyondChron] --
SF News Gap Kids: Made for Kids, by Kids As if Don Fisher doesn't have enough on his hands, now this: in addition to environmental carelessness and No-on-A-isms, the Gap founder can now add human right violations and child labor abuse to
SF News Yes on A, No on H: Kicky Gap/Don Fisher Protesters Alwaysupndown has loads of choice images from last Wednesday's Yes-on-A, No-on-H protest at the Market Street Gap store. At first we thought it was over Gap's continuing efforts to shove horizontal pastels down
SF News Day Around the Bay -- 8.8-foot-long Smart Fortwo cars in SF. Squash. [Chron] -- No surprise: Gap Inc. sales suck. (Hint: Burn all billboards promoting horizontal pastels.) [Examiner] -- Hayward murder-suicide.[Chron] -- Barry Bonds bash.
