The New York company that designs, licenses, manufactures and distributes the products behind your store shelf - hosiery, footwear, handbags, wellness, pet and gourmet food.
In 1985, a 62-year-old man named Joseph Harary invested everything he had into a hosiery company. The premise was modest: tights, pantyhose and socks, sold at a price ordinary shoppers could afford. He was not chasing a trend or a valuation. He and his son, Edmond, were trying to build something durable in an industry not known for durability.
Forty years later, that company - Gina Group - operates from 10 West 33rd Street in Manhattan, runs roughly nine divisions, and manages twenty-five brands. It sells to nearly every kind of retailer that exists, from dollar stores to department stores. And it does so largely without a household name of its own. Most people who own a pair of its socks, lace up its Bearpaw boots or carry a Rampage bag have never heard of the company that put those products on the shelf.
That anonymity is not an accident. It is close to the whole business model. Gina Group makes its living as the partner behind the label - designing, licensing, manufacturing and distributing consumer goods so that retailers can simply sell them. It is the boring, essential middle of the supply chain, and it has spent four decades getting good at it.
"We deliver products that add relevant and tangible meaning to the lifestyles of the retail consumer - diversified brand and category selections with quality product at competitive prices."
Ask what Gina Group actually does and the honest answer is: nearly everything between an idea and a checkout counter. The company describes itself as an industry-leading fashion, lifestyle and branding house specializing in the design, manufacturing and distribution of products across hosiery, footwear, accessories, handbags, small leather goods, health and wellness, pet, and gourmet food.
Its customers are retailers, not shoppers. That is a crucial distinction. Gina Group is a business-to-business operation whose clientele spans the entire retail spectrum - dollar stores, mass merchants, specialty chains, department stores and e-commerce platforms, in the United States and abroad. The problem it solves for those retailers is deceptively simple: sourcing, designing and shipping quality product at the right price is hard, and most stores would rather sell than build a supply chain. Gina Group builds the supply chain so they don't have to.
The through-line across Gina Group's catalog is not a single product category - it is the ability to design and source almost any category. That flexibility is how a hosiery startup ended up selling gourmet food and pet products under the same roof.
The original division - tights, pantyhose and socks that launched the company and still anchor its private-label business.
Branded and private-label footwear, including the licensed Bearpaw sheepskin line distributed across 45+ countries.
Licensed young contemporary / junior label spanning ready-to-wear, accessories and handbags.
Fashion handbags and small leather goods designed and sourced for multiple retail tiers.
Personal wellness, fitness and recovery products extending the group into the lifestyle category.
A dedicated pet-market division applying the company's design and sourcing muscle to pet products.
Branded and licensed gourmet food products distributed through the same retail channels.
End-to-end private-label design, e-commerce logistics and dropshipping services for retail partners.
Plenty of wholesale houses can supply a discount chain. Plenty of others can supply a department store. Gina Group's distinguishing trick is doing both at once - designing product lines that stretch across price tiers so a single company can serve the dollar store and the department store from the same design and sourcing operation.
The other differentiator is continuity. Its CEO Edmond Harary, president Raymond Dayan and EVP/CMO Jack J. Gindi have each spent roughly three decades or more with the company. In an industry defined by turnover and trend-chasing, that longevity buys deep retailer relationships and institutional memory - the kind of thing that is difficult for a newer competitor to copy quickly.
"The breadth of our design, manufacturing and supply chain resources helps us stand apart and enables us to offer a full-service experience, custom-made for each individual partner."
Gina Group sits in the wholesale and brand-management layer of the consumer-goods economy. Revenue comes from three overlapping streams: wholesale product sales, licensed and private-label programs, and full-service supply-chain support that includes design, sourcing, logistics, e-commerce and dropshipping. Estimates of its annual revenue vary across data providers - roughly $7.6 million to $18 million - which is typical for a privately held company that does not publish figures.
In the market, it competes with other diversified wholesale and licensing houses and large private-label importers serving mass and department-store retail. Its edge is not a single hot brand but the combination of a wide category range, long retailer relationships and the operational ability to move product fast across tiers. For a retailer, the pitch is straightforward: Gina Group can take a category from concept to shelf, at a price point that works, without the retailer building the capability in-house.
Retailers of every tier - dollar stores, mass merchants, specialty chains, department stores and e-commerce platforms, US and international.
Design, licensing, manufacturing, distribution and fulfillment - a full-service partner rather than a single-product vendor.
Category breadth plus 30+ year leadership tenure and relationships that are hard for newcomers to replicate.
Joseph Harary, at 62, invests everything into a hosiery startup with his son Edmond.
The company moves beyond private label into branded lines of tights, pantyhose and socks.
Expansion into footwear, accessories and cold-weather gear broadens the catalog.
A portfolio of licensed fashion brands, including Rampage and Bearpaw, takes shape.
Moves into health, wellness, fitness/recovery and gourmet food categories.
A dedicated pet division brings the group to roughly nine divisions and twenty-five brands.