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Top 25 Specialty apparel retailers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,416 specialty apparel retailers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 84,881 professional contacts across them, including 7,624 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers specialty apparel retailers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026. Country and city lists for specialty apparel retailers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest specialty apparel retailers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15,735 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Gap Inc, a house of iconic brands, is the largest specialty apparel company in America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 9,398 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EXPRESS is a multichannel fashion brand dedicated to creating confidence and inspiring self-expression.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 5,117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At rue21, we believe fashion should be fun and accessible to all.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 4,575 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Massimo Dutti (Inditex Group) was founded in 1985 and was acquired by Inditex in 1991.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 4,223 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Zumiez is a leading specialty retailer of apparel, footwear, accessories, and hardgoods for young people who want to express their individuality” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 3,346 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tillys is a leading specialty retailer of casual apparel, footwear and accessories for young men, young women, boys and girls with an extensive assortment of iconic global…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,582 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TENDAM is one of Europe’s leading fashion retailers operating in the specialized chain segment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,437 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From a single athletic-focused retailer to one of the most recognized names in streetwear culture, DTLR has built its brand by staying connected to the communities that drive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,431 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Born in late 2005, and now trading 65 high street stores, Footasylum is one of today’s leading retailers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,230 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A TNG não é simplesmente um varejo de moda.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MADE FOR LIFE.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 961 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “I.T rides on a unique multi-brand, multi-layer business model that only proves to success: a multi-channel approach that caters specifically to well-defined groups of fashion…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 792 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “White Stuff is a lifestyle brand for independent spirits with individual style.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 651 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gloria Jeans is a dynamically evolving apparel, footwear and accessories brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 610 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in Cantabil Retail India Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 521 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stage Stores/Goodys ceased operations in late 2020 and the brand was subsequently acquired by Bealls Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 426 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ben jij klaar voor een uitdaging in een modebedrijf waar prachtige collecties en service naar de klant centraal staan?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 415 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Created in 2011 by Founder Chris Riccobono and CEO Aaron Sanandres on the premise that you can dress casually and still look sharp, UNTUCKit was the first to make Shirts Designed…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 373 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1985, Northern Reflections has become a trusted brand known for our fashionable, unique clothing designed to comfortably fit and flatter a woman’s body.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 320 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SHEIKE has always believed that style is the way you show who you are without saying a word.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 301 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lipsy is now part of NEXT Wholly Owned Brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em 1986, a Top Brands Fashion Group é uma empresa líder no comércio varejista de vestuário, iniciando sua jornada com a loja Hot Point em Jundiaí, São Paulo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “En el año 1985 XL EXTRA LARGE inaugura el primer local en el barrio de Belgrano.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 229 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The company is engaged in design, manufacture and retail of ready-made garments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Grupo Newsport te ofrece las oportunidades y los medios para crear estilos de vida según tus preferencias, a través de sus diversificados negocios minoristas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: specialty apparel retailers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names specialty apparel retailers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of specialty apparel retailers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name specialty apparel retailers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Specialty apparel retailers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among specialty apparel retailers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for specialty apparel retailers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “specialty apparel retailers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names specialty apparel retailers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among specialty apparel retailers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 7,624 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Specialty apparel retailers by location
7 lists · largest firstEvery Specialty apparel retailers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Specialty apparel retailers based in the United States501
- Specialty apparel retailers based in Italy265
- Specialty apparel retailers based in India155
- Specialty apparel retailers based in Germany88
- Specialty apparel retailers based in the United Kingdom86
- Specialty apparel retailers based in Canada78
- Specialty apparel retailers based in the Netherlands77
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names specialty apparel retailers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many specialty apparel retailers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,416 specialty apparel retailers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
GAP INC, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most specialty apparel retailers?
The United States leads with 501 companies, followed by Italy (265) and India (155). Every specialty apparel retailers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most specialty apparel retailers?
New York leads with 32 headquartered companies, followed by London (26) and Los Angeles (24).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 7,624 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,416 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.