WASHINGTON, D.C. -- What do you know about your jeans? Do you know the name most commonly associated with jeans, Levi Strauss, didn’t invent them? This week in history we find out how jeans were made ...

Levi Strauss was born on February 26, 1829 as the youngest of seven children of a Jewish peddler in Buttenheim, Franconia. At ...

With lyrics placing the company’s core offering at the center of seduction—“Oh, you wish you were my Levi’s jeans”—it’s the business equivalent of Beyoncé granting saddle space on the white horse from ...

Levi Strauss (LEVI) is offering some jeans at a $300 price point at retailers as part of limited-edition or premium lines. Core denim jean sales are up double digits this year and are forecast to see ...

Levi Strauss plans to hit the public market for the first time in 34 years, a promising sign for a troubled retail sector. The 165-year-old company, which invented the blue jean, filed for an IPO on ...

If it seems like blue jeans have been around for a long time, that's because they have. The popular pants were first patented 143 years ago on May 20, 1873. A year earlier, in 1872, Jacob Davis first ...

In the late 1800s, San Francisco merchant Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis began manufacturing worker’s trousers reinforced by copper rivets—the world’s first jeans. The jeans in this photo are one ...

Levi Strauss & Co., one of the most storied brands in the U.S.--long-controlled by the Haas family, descendants of company founder Levi Strauss--filed paperwork to go public on the New York Stock ...

NEW YORK — Levi Strauss & Co., which gave America its first pair of blue jeans, is going public for the second time. The 166-year-old company, which owns the Dockers and Denizen brands, previously ...