Gap Inc. vs Next plc

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Gap Inc. is the older of the two, founded in 1969 — 13 years before Next plc.

Founded: 1969; 1982
Status: Active; Active
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States; Leicester, United Kingdom
Industry: retail; retail
Founders: Donald Fisher, Doris F. Fisher; Joseph Hepworth
Employees: 152,000; Not recorded
Legal form: Delaware corporation; public limited company
Listed on: New York Stock Exchange; London Stock Exchange
Website: gapinc.com; next.co.uk

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Gap Inc. and Next plc.