Perry Ellis International: 29 marks. Two thousand employees. Offices Portland, OR, to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Last year an estimated 760 million more in revenues. And the buck stops here in Miami, where the Cuba-born businessman George Feldenkreis decides to hang your hat.
He got his start traffic Feldenkreis glass window in his early days in Miami, after seeing more success selling auto parts. She ventured into clothing with his brother in Puerto Rico, a business that expanded into the U.S. that exploded in the 80s after his son joined the company, then known as Supreme International.
Since Mr. Feldenkrais and his team have grown the company’s designer, distributor and licensor now known as Perry Ellis International after an acquisition for $ 74.6 million in 1999.
The company has taken a beating in today’s economy, but remains ahead, following the trends and drop under-performing companies.
Mr. Feldenkreis said the company would be better based in New York, a center of fashion and choice of place of international business. But he is a Cuban and Miami from beginning to end, he says, and the values of quality of life. “Not everything is money.”
He talked about business, fashion and family with Risa Polansky Miami Today reporter at the local headquarters of Perry Ellis.
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