Esprit Logo — Esprit Holdings is a manufacturer of clothing, but also jewelry, perfumes, accessories, shoes and linens under the brand Esprit. The headquarters of the company, Spirit OF Corp. is based in Ratingen, near Dusseldorf, Germany while the financial functions are based in Hong Kong.
In 1968, in San Francisco, Susie Russell and her husband Douglas Tompkins, founder of The North Face sell their first clothing line to their vehicle. In 1971, they met the businessman Michael Ying, the meeting is created Esprit Far East Group (Hong Kong). The same year, San Francisco, the company is based and register under the name of Spirit Corp. More