What is "reiss"

Reiss may refer to:

• Reiss (surname)
• Reiss (brand), fashion brand
• Reiss, Scotland
• Reiss relation in mathematics
• Reiss (ship), an historic steam tug -- see Northeastern Maritime Historical Foundation

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Reiss is a UK-based fashion brand and retail store chain owned and run by the founder, David Reiss. The brand produces men's and women's clothing. It has 160 stores in 15 countries.

Reiss was founded in 1971, and its first store in London's Bishopsgate sold men's suits. It did not move into women's clothes until 2000.

The Reiss flagship store and headquarters in London, designed by Squire and Partners, has won several awards including the RIBA Award, the BCO Award and the Civic Trust Award. The brand was named Fashion Retailer of the Year in 2003 at the British Style Awards.

Reiss has seen a significant increase in the number of its stores, including key stores in Heathrow Terminal 5 and Westfield London, to almost 100 outlets worldwide, and Reiss intends to eventually grow to 250 stores worldwide. The brand has been one of the few British retailers to crack the American market after opening in New York's Greenwich Village.

In April 2016, a majority stake was sold to the American private equity firm Warburg Pincus for £230 million.

Reiss is a surname of Old German origin, and was most commonly used by Ashkenazic Jewish people as a metonymic occupational name for a dealer in rice ( Yiddish רײַז), or as an ornamental name from the Old High German word Reis ‘twig,’ ‘branch.’

Reiss (often written with the German letter ß ( Typographic ligature#German .C3.9F, or sharp-s)) is mostly originated in Austria and South Germany. The south German or Austrian Reiss is a leftover of a profession name Reußhäusler which could best be translated to maker of charcoal from wood in English. Members of this profession usually have been free residents (in the meaning of not enslaved and not belonging to a Duke or King) and got very early the right to carry a weapon (axe) and a uniform like dress, comparable to miners.

Another source for the name Reiss - originated mostly from the County of Hessen (Frankfurth/Main) area is a Jewish name. Some Ancestral historians write it could come from a dealer in rice or from the profession of a water gate operator, or a fish basket fisherman. At the Museum of the Judengasse (Jewish ghetto) in Frankfurt there is definitive evidence that a 'Reuse' (fish basket or creel) was one of the signs attached to Jewish homes in the streets; other signs included shields leading to names such as Rothschild. According to Dr M. Lenarz at the museum Jewish residents of the ghetto derived their legal names from the names of the house in which they were resident.

A next source is reported to be located in the former very North-Northeast Germany. It shall be originated in the Scandinavian languages (Norway/Sweden). There, the ancient Rus is the land around a river from the Baltic Sea to the heart of Russia. So the Reuss Men or Reussians are early Dark Ages Russians. A very final and believable source is from armoured horsemen (without noble title). They are still called Reisige in German. This may come from Ross reitende, German for Horse riding Men).

The surname Reisman is a variant.