Website: www.burberry.com
Founded: 1856
Country of origin: UK
Brand fact 1: The 1960s saw the Burberry check being used on umbrellas, luggage and scarves. Before then it had been mainly used as a coat lining.
Brand fact 2: Burberry operates 60 stores and 10 concessions.
Brand fact 3: Humphrey Bogart wore a Burberry mac in Casablanca (1942).