The Echo Design Group, Inc. - Introduction

Introduction

10 E. 40th Street
New York, New York 10016-0200
U.S.A.
Telephone: (212) 686-8771
Toll Free: (800) 331-3246
Fax: (212) 686-5017
Web site: http://www.echodesign.com

Private Company
Incorporated: 1923 as Echo Scarfs, Inc.
Employees: 200 (est.)
Sales: $75 million (2002 est.)
NAIC: 315999 Other Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing



Long known as a print scarf maker, New York City-based The Echo Design Group, Inc., is an emerging lifestyle brand, involved in a range of fashion accessories as well as paper goods and homewares. Drawing inspiration from its extensive archives of patterns, some of which date to the 1800s, Echo continues to produce women's scarves under the Echo name and through licensing agreements with Ralph Lauren, Laura Ashley, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Adrienne Vittadini. Echo also makes private-label scarves for Ann Taylor, Ann Taylor Loft, Coach, Talbots, and several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. In addition, Echo offers women's wraps, gloves, hats, and raincoats, and men's ties. Home products manufactured under license include wallpaper, decorative fabrics and trim, bedding, bath coordinate ensembles, decorative pillows, and area rugs and throws. Echo also has taken steps to enter retailing. The company has operated a freestanding store in Hong Kong since 1999 and more recently opened an in-store location in Marshall Field's State Street store in Chicago. Sales offices are maintained in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, London, and Como, Italy. Echo is privately owned and operated by the family of its founders, Edgar C. and Theresa Hyman.