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ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000315066-14-001794
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: SC 13G
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1
FILED AS OF DATE: 20140210
DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20140210
SUBJECT COMPANY:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: JONES GROUP INC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000874016
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: WOMEN'S, MISSES', AND JUNIORS OUTERWEAR [2330]
IRS NUMBER: 060935166
STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: SC 13G
SEC ACT: 1934 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 005-41904
FILM NUMBER: 14586314
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 1411 BROADWAY
CITY: NEW YORK
STATE: NY
ZIP: 10018
BUSINESS PHONE: 2126423860
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 1411 BROADWAY
CITY: NEW YORK
STATE: NY
ZIP: 10018
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: JONES APPAREL GROUP INC
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19930328
FILED BY:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FMR LLC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000315066
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: UNKNOWN SIC - 0000 [0000]
IRS NUMBER: 061209781
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: SC 13G
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 245 SUMMER STREET
CITY: BOSTON
STATE: MA
ZIP: 02210
BUSINESS PHONE: 6175706339
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 245 SUMMER STREET
CITY: BOSTON
STATE: MA
ZIP: 02210
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FMR CORP
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920717
SC 13G
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filing.txt
SCHEDULE 13G
Amendment No. 0
JONES GROUP INC
Common Stock
Cusip #48020T101
Cusip #48020T101
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR LLC
Item 4: Delaware
Item 5: 8,256,350
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 8,256,350
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 8,256,350
Item 11: 10.357%
Item 12: HC
Cusip #48020T101
Item 1: Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: 0
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 8,256,350
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 8,256,350
Item 11: 10.357%
Item 12: IN
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Item 1(a). Name of Issuer:
JONES GROUP INC
Item 1(b). Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
1411 Broadway
New York, NY 10018
USA
Item 2(a). Name of Person Filing:
FMR LLC
Item 2(b). Address or Principal Business Office or, if None,
Residence:
245 Summer Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02210
Item 2(c). Citizenship:
Not applicable
Item 2(d). Title of Class of Securities:
Common Stock
Item 2(e). CUSIP Number:
48020T101
Item 3. This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
and the person filing, FMR LLC, is a parent holding company
in accordance with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G). (Note: See
Item 7).
Item 4. Ownership
(a) Amount Beneficially Owned: 8,256,350
(b) Percent of Class: 10.357%
(c) Number of shares as to which such
person has:
(i) sole power to vote or to direct
the vote: 8,256,350
(ii) shared power to vote or to
direct the vote: 0
(iii) sole power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of: 8,256,350
(iv) shared power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of: 0
Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another
Person.
Various persons have the right to receive or the power to
direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the
sale of, the Common Stock of JONES GROUP INC. No one
person's interest in the Common Stock of JONES GROUP
INC is more than five percent of the total outstanding
Common Stock.
Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which
Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the Parent
Holding Company.
See attached Exhibit A.
Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of
the Group.
Not applicable. See attached Exhibit A.
Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Certification.
By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, the securities referred to above were acquired in the
ordinary course of business and were not acquired for the
purpose of and do not have the effect of changing or
influencing the control of the issuer of such securities and
were not acquired in connection with or as a participant in any
transaction having such purpose or effect.
Signature
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement
is true, complete and correct.
February 07, 2014
Date
/s/ Scott C. Goebel
Signature
Scott C. Goebel
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
effective as of June 1, 2008 by and on behalf of FMR LLC
and its direct and indirect subsidiaries
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC ("PGALLC"), 900
Salem Street, Smithfield, Rhode Island, 02917, an indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR LLC and an investment
adviser registered under Section 203 of the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, is the beneficial owner of 8,256,350
shares or 10.357% of the outstanding Common Stock of
JONES GROUP INC as a result of its serving as investment
adviser to institutional accounts, non-U.S. mutual funds, or
investment companies registered under Section 8 of the
Investment Company Act of 1940 owning such shares.
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR LLC, through its
control of PGALLC, each has sole dispositive power over
8,256,350 shares and sole power to vote or to direct the voting
of 8,256,350 shares of Common Stock owned by the
institutional accounts or funds advised by PGALLC as
reported above.
Members of the family of Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR LLC, are the predominant owners, directly
or through trusts, of Series B voting common shares of FMR
LLC, representing 49% of the voting power of FMR LLC.
The Johnson family group and all other Series B shareholders
have entered into a shareholders' voting agreement under
which all Series B voting common shares will be voted in
accordance with the majority vote of Series B voting common
shares. Accordingly, through their ownership of voting
common shares and the execution of the shareholders' voting
agreement, members of the Johnson family may be deemed,
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to form a
controlling group with respect to FMR LLC.
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
RULE 13d-1(f)(1) AGREEMENT
The undersigned persons, on February 07, 2014, agree
and consent to the joint filing on their behalf of this Schedule
13G in connection with their beneficial ownership of the
Common Stock of JONES GROUP INC at January 31, 2014.
FMR LLC
By /s/ Scott C. Goebel
Scott C. Goebel
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney effective as
of June 1, 2008, by and on behalf of FMR LLC and its direct
and indirect subsidiaries
Edward C. Johnson 3d
By /s/ Scott C. Goebel
Scott C. Goebel
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney effective as
of June 1, 2008, by and on behalf of Edward C. Johnson 3d
Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC
By /s/ Jennifer A. Jaslowich
Jennifer A. Jaslowich
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated March 28, 2013, by Douglas R. Moore
Chief Financial Officer