G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. (GIII)
Apparel brands sourced abroad, some own stores. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending January 31, 2026, filed March 24, 2026. Ranked 14 of the 240 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
37%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
42%
Employees, annual report
4,500
Leading staffing pattern
Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now37%
- End of 202741%
- End of 202842%
- End of 203042%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 58%
- Becomes checking a model's work 27%
- Handed over with lighter checks 14%
An apparel company with 4,500 associates whose products are made by suppliers abroad and sold mostly wholesale, with stores that hold most of its part-time staff.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 37% now, 41% at the end of 2027, 42% at the end of 2028, 42% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 42% desk work, 24% people work and 34% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 58% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 27% becomes checking a model's work and 14% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
4,500 employees as of January 31, 2026 (sum of stated parts). Not stated; 77% of revenue is in the United States, with products imported from suppliers abroad.
The filing: “As of January 31, 2026, we employed approximately 3,400 full-time and 1,100 part-time associates.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers | 65% | By description (c): wholesale operations are 97% of revenue and the products are made by textile manufacturers and suppliers abroad and imported, so the design, sourcing and wholesale staff are read at apparel wholesaling, as a brand company without plants is read at wholesaling (Fossil). |
| Clothing and Clothing Accessories Retailers | 35% | By description (c): the retail segment's stores, where most of the 1,100 part-time associates work, take a share well above the segment's 6% of revenue because stores carry far more people per dollar than wholesale. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 3,400 full-time and 1,100 part-time associates; union and non-union employees without a share stated; 71% of the workforce women; 87 associates recognized for 10 to 40 years of service.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Deckers Outdoor Corporation (DECK, 6,000 employees)36% now, 41% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
9 sentences in the filing name AI. Nine sentences, risk factors: competing in apparel on investments in technology including data analytics and artificial intelligence, and cyber criminals' sophisticated schemes.
- “You should review and consider carefully the risks and uncertainties described in more detail under "Risk Factors," which includes a more complete discussion of the risks summarized below as well as a discussion of other risks related to our business and an investment in our common stock. ● the failure to maintain or renew our material license agreements could cause us to lose significant rev...”
- “In addition, we compete with other companies in the apparel industry on the basis of investments in technology and adapting to changes in technology, including the successful use of data analytics and artificial intelligence. If major department, mass merchant and specialty store chains consolidate, continue to close stores or cease to do business, our business could be negatively affected. ...”
- “In addition, our ability to continue to operate our business without significant interruption in the event of a disaster or other disruption depends in part on the ability of our information systems to operate in accordance with our disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Cyber criminals are constantly devising new, sophisticated schemes to circumvent information technology security...”
- “We cannot provide any assurances that such events will not occur and impacts therefrom will not be material in the future. Artificial intelligence presents risks and challenges that can impact our business including by posing security risks to our confidential information, proprietary information, and personal data. Issues in the development and use of artificial intelligence, combined with...”
- “As with many technological innovations, artificial intelligence presents risks and challenges that could impact our business.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20236median 1
- Fiscal 20247median 4
- Fiscal 20259median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-31 | 3,400 | 2026-03-24 | 10-K |
| 2025-01-31 | 3,500 | 2025-03-24 | 10-K |
| 2024-01-31 | 3,500 | 2024-03-25 | 10-K |
| 2023-01-31 | 3,600 | 2023-03-27 | 10-K |
| 2022-01-31 | 2,900 | 2022-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-01-31 | 2,800 | 2021-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2020-01-31 | 4,000 | 2020-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2019-01-31 | 4,100 | 2019-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2018-01-31 | 9,071 | 2018-04-02 | 10-K |
| 2017-01-31 | 8,734 | 2017-04-03 | 10-K |
| 2016-01-31 | 7,693 | 2016-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2015-01-31 | 6,641 | 2015-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2014-01-31 | 6,631 | 2014-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2013-01-31 | 3,109 | 2013-04-12 | 10-K |
| 2012-01-31 | 2,592 | 2012-04-11 | 10-K |
| 2011-01-31 | 2,154 | 2011-04-14 | 10-K |
| 2010-01-31 | 1,880 | 2010-04-15 | 10-K |
| 2009-01-31 | 1,245 | 2009-04-16 | 10-K |
| 2008-01-31 | 573 | 2008-04-15 | 10-K |
| 2007-01-31 | 510 | 2007-04-27 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 510 | 2006-05-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-01-31 | 384 | 2005-04-27 | 10-K |
| 2004-01-31 | 368 | 2004-04-29 | 10-K |
| 2003-01-31 | 302 | 2003-04-30 | 10-K |
| 2002-01-31 | 344 | 2002-04-30 | 10-K |
| 2001-01-31 | 338 | 2001-04-27 | 10-K |
| 2000-01-31 | 279 | 2000-04-28 | 10-K |
| 1999-01-31 | 266 | 1999-04-29 | 10-K |
| 1998-01-31 | 243 | 1998-04-30 | 10-K |
| 1997-01-31 | 239 | 1997-04-30 | 10-K |
| 1996-01-31 | 275 | 1996-04-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector's 3,400 is the full-time count alone; the headcount sums the stated full-time and part-time parts (rule 2).
- The wholesale and retail split is by description; the filing counts no associates by segment.
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001104659-26-033891, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of G-III Apparel Group, Ltd.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 37% now and 42% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce G-III Apparel Group, Ltd.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. employ?
- 4,500 as of January 31, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending January 31, 2026 states as the sum of the parts it gives.
- What kinds of work make up G-III Apparel Group, Ltd.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers; by those patterns the work is about 42% desk work, 24% people work and 34% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does G-III Apparel Group, Ltd.'s annual report say about AI?
- 9 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 6, 7 and 9 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 8, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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