Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) is a Sweden based Multinational Corporation known for its fashion clothing for kids, men, women and teens. The designing, merchandise planning, establishing specification is controlled by the design team in the Sweden office and the production is outsourced to Europe and Asia to approximately 800 factories. H&M operates in 43 countries and employs more than 90,000 people. The first store of H&M was opened in Västerås, Sweden in 1947 and currently it has approximately 2600 stores all over the world. It is one of the leading global clothing brands and leads over United States based GAP Inc., the third largest global clothing retailer. The face of H&M in summer 2013 is Beyoncé.