Burberry
Luxury goods · United Kingdom
Burberry designs and sells British luxury outerwear, scarves and accessories through its own stores, wholesale partners and burberry.com, and licenses beauty and eyewear to others.
What makes it different
Other companies make its beauty and eyewear.
£61MLicensing revenueFY2026
Licensing partners pay royalties, so these categories add profit without Burberry running the factories or stores.
How big it is
How big is Burberry?
£2.42BRevenueFY2026
410StoresFY2026
7,299EmployeesFY2026
How it makes money FY2026
Almost all revenue comes from its own retail.
- Retail85%£2,056M
- Wholesale13%£303M
- Licensing3%£61M
How the business works
Design in London. Make heritage. Sell direct.
- 1London brand codes
- 2Trench coats in Britain
- 3Mostly own stores
Burberry weaves its own gabardine in Yorkshire, keeping control of its signature outerwear fabric.
Who owns it
- Massachusetts Financial Services Company5.1%
- Norges Bank3.92%
CEO: Joshua Schulman
Who it competes with
Key moments
- 1856Thomas Burberry founds the company
- 1879Gabardine invented
- 2002Listed on the London Stock Exchange
- 2005Demerger from GUS completed
- 2011Burberry.com expands to 44 countries
Sources
Every number on this page comes from Burberry's own reports.
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What Burberry tracks23 metrics
Directly operated stores
Franchise stores
Full-price retail stores
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
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Profit
Margin
Where the money comes from4 regions
EMEIA
Greater China
Americas
The full timeline19 moments
2018
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2026
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