Cotton On Group is a privately owned Australian fashion and lifestyle retailer founded by Nigel Austin, who opened the first Cotton On store in Geelong in 1991. Its brands include Cotton On, Cotton On Body, Cotton On Kids, Factorie, Typo, Rubi, Supre and Ceres Life, sold through about 1,300 stores and online. The group operates in around 20 countries with about 20,000 employees and is run from its Global Support Centre in Geelong.