founded 1952 headquarters hong kong hong kong products clothes website official website crocodile garments sehk 0122 is a textile and garments company based in hong kong . crocodile garments was founded by the late dr. chan shun 1917 1997 in 1952 . contents 1 history 2 legal dispute with lacoste 3 references 4 external links history edit chan sold the business in 1987 to lai sun garment controlled by the late billionnaire lim por yen . 1 crocodile garments originally sold dress shirts before expanding to become the largest chain garment store in hong kong . they exported to japan singapore and other asian countries . a second line called cal thomas was started in ca usa . crocodile emerged as the leading fashion label citation needed with the expansion of a woman s line and children s line called crocokids . at its peak crocodile garments was the largest garment chain before the conception of g2000 giordano u2 and bossini in the 1990s . citation needed legal dispute with lacoste edit crocodile had a long standing dispute over the logo and clothing lines with lacoste . crocodile uses a crocodile logo that faces left while lacoste uses one that faces right . the two fought for the logo rights in china but eventually reached a compromise . crocodile agreed to change its logo to have a more vertical tail and more scales for its logo . 2 references edit 13 the lim por yen story www.cctv.com 17 october 2005 chinese cnn.com business crocodile tears end logo fight oct. 31 2003 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title crocodile garments & oldid 742785126 categories companies listed on the hong kong stock exchangeclothing brands of hong kongclothing companies of hong konglai sun groupretail companies of hong konghidden categories articles with chinese language external linksall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from november 2014 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages edit links this page was last modified on 5 october 2016 at 19 37 . 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