{"id":567312,"date":"2026-07-30T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/567312\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:21:11","slug":"reformation-ipo-ref-starts-trading-on-nyse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/567312\/","title":{"rendered":"Reformation IPO: (REF) starts trading on NYSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reformation Inc. signage as traders work during the company&#8217;s initial public offering (IPO) on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Thursday, July 30, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s clothing retailer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/REF\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reformation<\/a> began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, with the stock essentially unchanged after pricing its IPO at $15.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which is trading under the ticker symbol &#8220;REF,&#8221; is offering 14,062,500 shares, putting its IPO raise at $210.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reformation is ready, and that is really the driving reason we&#8217;ve spent a lot of time working to build a business that redefines retail, really innovates on what the role of a brand is in the fashion space, and we&#8217;ve done a great job at that,&#8221; CEO Hali Borenstein told CNBC on Thursday. &#8220;Today, we have a foundation that is ready to scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It joins just a handful of consumer and retail companies that have gone public this year amid a slump in IPOs since the 2021 boom. Reformation went public the same day as sandwich chain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/JMKE\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jersey Mike&#8217;s<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/30\/jersey-mikes-ipo-jmke-starts-trading-on-the-new-york-stock-exchange.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also listed on the NYSE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>According to its S-1 fact sheet, Reformation has seen 20 consecutive quarters of double-digit net revenue growth through the first quarter of 2026. Its net revenue for the full year 2025 came in at $507.1 million, and net income was $12.6 million, including the impact of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s tariffs. <\/p>\n<p>As of the first quarter of 2026, the company owns 70 stores across the U.S., UK, Canada and France. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe we will continue to benefit from operating within the highly fragmented fashion industry, and that we are well positioned to capitalize on growing global demand for sustainable fashion,&#8221; the company wrote in its S-1 filing.<\/p>\n<p>Borenstein said Reformation&#8217;s focus in its next phase of growth is to increase its distribution with more stores, accelerate its e-commerce business, invest in category diversification and expand overseas.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the retailer is seeing &#8220;really strong double-digit growth&#8221; across the U.S., with 70% of its revenue coming from outside of New York and California.<\/p>\n<p>Reformation also said it saw more than 1 million active customers across its direct-to-consumer channel in 2025. The majority of its customers, 70%, are aged between 25 and 50 years old. <\/p>\n<p>Borenstein told CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/morning-call\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Call<\/a>&#8221; that the company&#8217;s customer base is diverse, with 20% of new customers last year under the age of 25 and 20% over the age of 50.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the company&#8217;s average consumer makes over $100,000 in a year, making it more insulated from macroeconomic pressures hitting other retailers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/108342154-4ED3-REQ-HALI-BOORSTIN-072926.jpg\" alt=\"Reformation CEO says retailer is 'ready' for the public markets\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Despite tariff and trade uncertainty, Borenstein told CNBC the company has a &#8220;good track record&#8221; of navigating the macro backdrop, with 34% of its units last year coming from North America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are really focused on two things: our brand and our product. We think those are the winning recipes for consumers, so Reformation has a brand that cuts through,&#8221; Borenstein said.<\/p>\n<p>The IPO is backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/JPM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.P. Morgan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MS\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Stanley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/C\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Citigroup<\/a> and RBC Capital Markets.<\/p>\n<p>As the company embarks on its public journey, Borenstein said she&#8217;ll define success as the way that Reformation makes its customers feel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is the first day,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a long journey ahead, and at Reformation, we have very big goals. We&#8217;re ambitious, and so where we are really focused is on building a once-in-a-generation type brand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reformation Inc. signage as traders work during the company&#8217;s initial public offering (IPO) on the floor of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114220,6461,114,357,4773,6420,54,256711,85,23831,46,256710,1579,4106,1886,256709,6462,88650],"class_list":["post-567312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-apparel-retail","tag-breaking-news-business","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-citigroup-inc","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-fidelity-msci-consumer-discretionary-index-etf","tag-il","tag-ipo","tag-israel","tag-jersey-mikes-subs-inc","tag-jpmorgan-chase-co","tag-morgan-stanley","tag-new-york","tag-reformation-inc","tag-retail-industry","tag-spdr-sp-retail-etf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}