At a glance
- Founded
- 25 September 1996, by a 24-year-old former special teams captain of the University of Maryland football team, working out of his grandmother's basement in Washington DC.1
- Founded by
- Kevin Plank, who got tired of changing out of the sweat-soaked cotton shirts worn under his jersey.1
- Home
- Baltimore, Maryland, with Amsterdam listed as the European headquarters and Panama City as the international one.1
- Owned by
- Public. It floated on the NASDAQ in November 2005 and raised $153 million, and now trades in New York as UAA and UA.15
- What it sells
- Performance apparel and footwear, with accessories alongside. Apparel took $3.4 billion of the year to March 2026 and footwear $1.1 billion.5
- Size
- Revenue of $5.0 billion in the year to 31 March 2026, down 4 per cent, with a net loss of $496 million that included a $247 million tax valuation allowance.5
How it got here
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