WE has approximately 240 shops and 3,000 employees in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Austria and Switzerland.

WE is part of the European fashion conglomerate Logo International, which also owns the brands O'Neill and Van Gils.

Customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France also have the option of purchasing products online since the end of 2009.

The WE European head office is located in Utrecht in the industrial estate Lage Weide.

On 1 February 1917, Engelbertus Hendricus de Waal established a wholesale business selling men's clothing in Amsterdam under the name 'E.

[citation needed] The company on the Keizersgracht grew to become the largest wholesale business of men's fashion in the Netherlands at the time.

In Switzerland Hij Mannenmode took over ten menswear businesses, rapidly adding another 30 shops under the name 'Hey' over the years that followed.

Son Ronald continued the expansion begun by his father, taking over women's fashion company 'Witteveen' in 1986.