founded chapel st prahran melbourne 1970 headquarters melbourne australia key people solomon lew chairman mark mcinnes ceo colette garnsey executive director products clothing accessories revenue a 945.7 million operating income a 100.9 million number of employees 6000 worldwide parent premier investments website http www.justgroup.com.au just jeans logo just group is an australian clothing company owned by premier investments . the company operates seven individual brands divisions just jeans jay jays jacqui e portmans dotti peter alexander and smiggle . the group currently has nearly 1000 stores throughout australia new zealand singapore and the united kingdom . its main rival is jeanswest because they produce a similar style of denim outfits and both are based and operate mainly in australia . just group is a subsidary of premier investments . premier investments & just group s executives include solomon lew chairman & mark mcinnes ceo . the company is one of the best performing and growing fashion retailers in the world . premier investments is an asx listed comoany . its head office is located at level 3 101 collins st melbourne cbd australia . profile edit just jeans was founded in 1970 by the kimberly family . the first store was opened on chapel street prahran . the idea of selling jeans stacked on shelves was new to the market but proved to be popular . the company acquired jay jays in 1993 . at that time there were 200 just jeans stores . subsequent acquisitions were jacqui e in 1994 peter alexander in 2000 portmans in 2001 dotti in 2004 and smiggle in 2007 . the just group was owned and operated by kimberly investments ltd. on 8 august 2008 premier investments obtained a controlling interest in the shares of just group limited following an off market takeover offer for all of the group shares that commenced on 31 march 2008 . just group limited was removed from the official asx list on 22 september 2008 and became a non listed public company . references edit external links edit just jeans website just group history retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title just jeans & oldid 726939951 categories clothing retailers of australiaretail companies established in 19701970 establishments in australiahidden categories use dmy dates from february 2014use australian english from february 2014all wikipedia articles written in australian english navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 25 june 2016 at 13 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view