Saturday Group is a marketing group that invests in and manages firms in the fields of fashion and entertainment marketing. The company is Based in London and has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Milan. In 2014 Saturday Group operates 12 separate businesses that specialize in fashion marketing, advertising, publicity, and intellectual property ownership.

History

Saturday Group's two Swedish founders, Jens Grede and Erik Torstensson met while working for Tyler Brûlé at The Wallpaper* Group in London in the early 2000s., The set up a creative fashion agency, Saturday London, in 2003, with the backing of Mother Holdings. Grede and Torstensson then founded and invested in a number of businesses related to the fashion industry. In 2008, they established Saturday Group as a holding company for their investments and activities. In 2010, Grede and Torstensson worked with

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to create Mr Porter, the online luxury menswear shopping website. The pair founded two magazines, ''Man About Town'' and ''INDUSTRIE'', acting as Editors-in-Chief for both titles, and consulted for

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and GQ magazines, the

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and

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. In 2010 they co-founded Fashion Networks International in New York, a next generation media company which published the blogs for fashion commentators, including Elin Kling and Derek Blasberg. The company was sold to

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in 2012. Torstensson and Grede's latest venture is clothing line

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, which in 2014 is being stocked by

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Lane Crawford Lane Crawford (HK) Limited () is a retail company founded in 1850 with speciality department stores selling luxury goods in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Its headquarters are in , Wong Chuk Hang. Lane Crawford is a part of The Lane Crawford J ...

Selfridges Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of high-end department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge ...

and

Nordstrom Nordstrom, Inc. () is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin in 1901. The original Wallin & Nordstrom store operated exclusively as a shoe store, and ...

. As of 2014, companies in the Saturday Group are active in creative, digital, e-commerce, publicity, licensing, sales and distribution, talent brokering and brand management. Among their holdings are; the creative agency Wednesday, INDUSTRIE Magazine, Tomorrow, the global distribution company and Frame, a clothing brand based in Los Angeles, California.

References

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External links

Official websiteWednesday agencyIndustrie magazineTomorrowFrameIndependent Talent BrandsRMOwww.style.com
Defunct companies based in London