Unopened Coach Poker Set With Original Leather Box. Plastic wrapping is still around the chips, cards, and a set of five dice. Elegant green box cover, with a black interior that slides in and out. The Coach logo is imprinted on the top, as well as on the chips and cards.
Box Size: 2 x 8 x 6 in.
Coach was founded in 1941 as a family-run workshop in a loft on 34th Street in Manhattan, with six leather-workers who made wallets and billfolds by hand. In 1946 Miles Cahn and his wife Lillian joined the company, and by 1950 Cahn had taken charge of production completely. Attempting to mimic the process of making baseball gloves, Cahn developed a revolutionary leather cure and dye to make it stronger, softer, and more flexible, while also imparting a richer, deeper color. Lillian suggested that the company supplement the factory’s men’s accessories business by adding women’s leather handbags, which quickly became their bestselling item. In 1961 the Cahns hired Bonnie Cashin, a sportswear pioneer, to design their handbags. Working as the creative head for Coach from 1962 through 1974, she instituted the inclusion of side pockets, coin purses, and brighter colors (as opposed to the usual hues of browns and tans) in the products. She also designed matching shoes, pens, key fobs, and eyewear, and added hardware to both her clothes and accessories, including the silver toggle that became the Coach hallmark. In 1979 Lewis Frankfort joined the company as vice-president of business development, by which time Coach was making $6 million in sales annually, and products were being distributed through the domestic wholesale channel, primarily in the northeastern United States. In 1981 the company opened its first directly operated retail location on Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. In 1985 the Cahns sold Coach Leatherware to Sara Lee Corporation for a reported $30 million, and Frankfort succeeded Cahn as president. Sara Lee structured Coach under its Hanes Group branch of subsidiaries of brands, and by early 1986 the company had opened new boutiques in Macy’s stores in New York City and San Francisco. By the end of that year the company was operating 12 stores nationwide, along with nearly 50 boutiques within larger department stores. In 2000 Sara Lee divested itself of Coach, by which time Reed Krafoff had taken over as the creative head of product design, and in 2001 the company changed its name to Coach, Inc. In 2013 Coach named Victor Luis president and chief commercial officer, by which time the company generated $5 billion annually with stores in North America, Japan, China, and Europe. Today Coach’s corporate headquarters remain in New York City, in the location of their former factory lofts, but since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic they have focused more and more on the online side of their business, with many brick-and-mortar stores closing worldwide.
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