Don Fisher

Biography

 Doris and Don Fisher opened the first Gap store in Ocean Avenue, San Francisco in 1969. The locale, in order to make it "easier to find a pair of jeans," also sold records and tapes. Today Gap is one of world's largest specialty retailers, earning a reported $ 15.9 billion in fiscal year 2006. The headquarters of the apparel giant is still located in the Bay Area but its product design offices are scattered through New York City, San Francisco and London. Gap owns 3,191 shops around the world, even thoguh it distributes its products only in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland and Japan. In our comsumption-based world, in which it is the norm for a product to be made in one country with fabric from another country, and then shipped to a third for sale, the impact of the apparel trade industry is global.

Research Interest

 Bioinformatics and Systems Biology