As you all know, our organic portfolio had strong momentum heading into this crisis, delivering 9% revenue and 19% earnings growth through the first nine months of fiscal '20.
The Project Enable will help us accelerate our business model transformation and reduce our global cost structure by about $125 million over three years.
Despite unprecedented challenges from rolling virus surges and lockdowns globally, we were able to deliver global revenues of $9.2 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $1.31, in line with our outlook shared in January.
Our D2C digital business delivered 55% organic growth.
And when combined with pure play digital wholesale, our total Digital business grew over 40% and accounted for nearly 30% of total revenue.
These new offerings further simplify the shopping experience for our consumers and enabled us to utilize retail inventory through our digital channels when stores were closed, all of which helped to generate around $50 million of incremental revenue this year.
Our China business also remained consistently strong throughout fiscal '21 growing 20% and surpassing $1 billion in revenue and exceeding our long-term plan targets.
We have generated approximately $1 billion in free cash flow in fiscal '21, a testament to the resiliency of our portfolio and strong execution from our global teams.
While many of our peers were forced to pause their dividend commitments, our strong balance sheet and command over free cash flow supported our ability to modestly raise our dividend this year, returning $760 million to shareholders.
I'm pleased to say that we ended this year with owned inventories down 18% and our disciplined brand and marketplace management approach globally has resulted in clean inventory positions across channels.
We started Q4 with about 15% of our doors closed in the region, mostly in California.
Each of our largest brands returned to double-digit growth in the Americas, and our total D2C business increased 16% led by 57% growth from digital.
We started the quarter with about half of our doors closed and finished the quarter with about 60% of doors closed.
Despite this choppier brick-and-mortar recovery, our teams have continued to leverage digital, driving 99% growth in that channel during the period, with broad based strength across the portfolio.
Vans digital increased 92%; The North Face, 118%; and Timberland, 122%.
Our Greater China business surpassed the $1 billion milestone in fiscal '21 growing 20%, capped off by 70% growth in Q4.
This represents nearly 25% growth over our fiscal 2019 Q4 revenue, the prior peak before the impact of COVID.
All VF brands achieved growth in the region, led by 93% growth at The North Face and 107% growth at Dickies.
VF delivered 19% growth in Q4 or 12% organic growth despite headwinds from supply chain disruptions and more extended lockdowns throughout Europe.
The strength of our business was broad based with 16% growth from the Big Four brands, an acceleration for many of our emerging brands, highlighted by a 53% growth from Altra.
In its first quarter with VF, the Supreme brand contributed over $140 million of revenue, exceeding our expectations.
As expected, Vans inflected positively, delivering 10% global growth as strength in the Americas and APAC regions more than offset larger than expected headwinds from store closures in Europe.
During Q4, skate high, authentic and old-school heritage styles each grew double digit, while the proskate and MTE progression lines each grew more than 30%.
Van's digital growth accelerated to 52% including a growing contribution from omnichannel sales which represented over 10% of digital revenue in the Americas.
The Vans family loyalty program added 1.2 million members in the U.S. in the last four months and now has nearly 15 million enrolled globally.
The North Face delivered 23% growth led by 56% growth in digital.
Momentum at The North Face also extent to the brand's off mountain product portfolio, with strength from logowear and Iconic franchises such as the Nuptse, which increased more than 75%.
The brand also wrapped up the Gucci collab, with the largest earned media campaign in The North Face's history with more than 17 billion impressions, yielding worldwide 100% sell-through of all collaboration outerwear.
And lastly, due partially to an exceptionally strong first responder program throughout fiscal 2021, The North Face's digital business increased 63% including 49% growth in new paid customers via adding 1.6 million in new loyalty members in the Americas.
Timberland increased 19% with continued momentum behind outdoor footwear, apparel, Timberland PRO, and an accelerating classics business.
Digital increased 96% with additional strength from key digital retail partners.
Timberland delivered 54% global digital growth in fiscal 2021 and is entering this year with broad-based momentum across the product portfolio.
Finally, Dickies increased 19% with continued strength across regions channels and categories.
The brand continued its strong performance in APAC, highlighted by more than 120% growth in Greater China.
Work inspired lifestyle product increased at a double-digit rate across all regions and represented 40% of total revenue.
Despite headwinds from the pandemic, the brand delivered 7% growth in fiscal 2021 through strong execution against the strategic pillars of digital, China and work-inspired product categories.
Fourth quarter adjusted earnings per share was $0.27, including a $0.06 contribution from Supreme, representing 89% organic growth and a strong start to our earnings recovery.
Our liquidity remained strong as we ended the year with approximately $1.45 billion in cash and short-term investments and approximately $2.2 billion remaining undrawn on our revolver.
We expect total VF revenue to approximate $11.8 billion, representing about 28% growth from fiscal '21 and a low double-digit increase relative to our prior peak revenue in fiscal 2020.
This includes approximately $600 million of Supreme revenue.
Excluding the Supreme business, our fiscal 2022 outlook implies growth of about 23%, representing high-single-digit growth relative to fiscal 2020.
By brand, we expect Vans to generate between 26% and 28% growth, representing a 7% to 9% increase relative to prior peak revenue.
The North Face is expected to increase between 25% and 27%, representing 14% to 16% growth relative to fiscal 2020 and surpassing $3 billion in global brand revenue.
We expect Timberland to increase between 16% and 18%, which implies revenue in line with prior peak levels.
Lastly, we expect continued strength from Dickies with growth accelerating to between 10% and 12% which implies revenue up about 20% from fiscal 2020.
By region, excluding Supreme, we expect Europe to increase about 30%, representing about 15% growth relative to prior peak revenue.
We expect continued momentum in APAC with close to 20% organic growth led by ongoing strength in China, where we expect growth to exceed 20%.
In the Americas, we expect organic revenue growth of greater than 20%.
By channel, again excluding Supreme, we expect our D2C business to increase between 28% and 30%, including about 15% growth in digital.
And including pure play digital wholesale, we expect our total digital penetration in fiscal 2022 to exceed 30%.
Moving down the P&L, we expect gross margin in excess of 56%, representing organic margins above prior peak levels.
We expect an operating margin of about 12.8%, which implies high single-digit organic growth in our SG&A spend relative to fiscal 2020 levels.
Relative to fiscal '20, our fiscal '22 plan assumes over $150 million of incremental investments in demand creation and our business model transformation to be more consumer-minded, retail-centric and hyper-digital, which supports the strong growth commitments cover today.
Foreign currency translation represents about 20% of the expected dollar growth in SG&A.
To wrap up our fiscal 2022 P&L outlook, we expect our tax rate to approximate 15%, which brings us to earnings per share of about $3.05, including an expected $0.25 per share contribution from the Supreme brand.
Finally, we expect to generate over $1 billion in operating cash flow.
Capital expenditures are planned to approximate $350 million.
Our strong balance sheet will continue to be a focus and we expect to end fiscal 2022 with net leverage between 2.5 times and 3 times.

Summary:
The North Face delivered 23% growth led by 56% growth in digital.
Fourth quarter adjusted earnings per share was $0.27, including a $0.06 contribution from Supreme, representing 89% organic growth and a strong start to our earnings recovery.
We expect total VF revenue to approximate $11.8 billion, representing about 28% growth from fiscal '21 and a low double-digit increase relative to our prior peak revenue in fiscal 2020.
To wrap up our fiscal 2022 P&L outlook, we expect our tax rate to approximate 15%, which brings us to earnings per share of about $3.05, including an expected $0.25 per share contribution from the Supreme brand.