Alpine Graphic Apparel, Inc., has been chosen to be the sole supplier of logo apparel and accessories for the Sunbelt Senior Professional Golf Tour. As the supplier, Alpine provides players, management and staff with golf clothing including golf shirts, caps and other headwear, outerwear and accessories through an online company store. The well-established Sunbelt Senior […]
Wallace is lending his name to the Starbury Movement, endorsing an affordable line of sneakers and apparel started by the New York Knicks’ star. Wallace will begin wearing the Starbury II basketball shoe Thursday when the Chicago Bulls play his former team, the Detroit Pistons. And his own sneaker — Big Ben — is expected […]
In an Iraq jobs program, the Pentagon has helped reopen three factories shuttered after the 2003 invasion, seeding the ground by buying uniforms and armored vehicles from two of them.
Reopening state-owned factories that produced everything from cement to buses for Saddam Hussein’s regime is among efforts President Bush hopes will boost the economy and help […]
Michael Bianco Inc. was a success story, a small leather factory in a struggling city that landed military contracts at such a rate that its work force more than quadrupled in the span of a few years.
Federal officials said that growth was on the backs of illegal immigrants. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rounded […]
Gildan Activewear Inc., North America’s biggest T-shirt maker, will close five plants in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico and cut 1,830 jobs to move production to lower-cost factories in Central America and the Caribbean.
The company will shut two facilities in Montreal, two in Mexico and one in Bombay, New York, it said today in a […]
Gildan Activewear, one of the largest makers of T-shirts in North America, said it would close five plants in Canada, the United States and Mexico and eliminate 1,830 jobs to move production to lower-cost operations in Central America. The company will shut two textile plants in Montreal, two sewing plants in Mexico and a cutting […]
Two more major garment factories say they will close within the next two weeks as manufacturers here continue to struggle against competition from factories in countries where labor is cheaper.
Michigan Inc. has filed a notice with the U.S. Department of Labor announcing it will shut down its operations by March 30. The decision would leave […]
Taiwan shares rose on Monday, amid strong gains in the textile sector.
The Weighted Price Index of the Taiwan Stock Exchange gained 18.50 points, or 0.2 percent, to close at 7,877.82.
Analyst Alex Huang of Taipei’s Mega Securities said the market’s potential gains were being constrained by moderate performances on foreign markets.
“Most … foreign markets are consolidating,” […]
Despite a cutthroat global market, the local textile industry is not dead.
Valdese Weavers LLC offered proof of that Tuesday, announcing it has acquired a 198,000-square-foot production facility in Valdese. The expansion will bring 61 additional jobs to Burke County.
“After a very deliberate evaluation of opportunities to either expand globally or to other areas domestically, we […]
Valdese Weavers, a subsidiary of Hickory textile maker CV Industries, has landed more than $130,000 in incentives to expand its manufacturing operations in Burke County.
Valdese plans to spend $19.3 million over the next three years to expand its existing operations in Valdese, which is just west of Morganton. The expansion will add 61 new jobs […]
Sri Lanka’s exports rose 11.2 percent in January from a year earlier as the South Asian island nation shipped more clothes and textiles.
Overseas shipments rose to $489 million, from $440 million a year earlier, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka said in an e- mailed statement today. Imports increased 15.8 percent to $788 million.
The value […]
Mr Vijay Agarwal, Chairman, Apparel Export Promotion Council announced Wednesday that there may be an approximate 10% increase in the country’s garment exports during 2006-07 over last year’s performance of $8.2 billion.
Addressing the inaugural function of the second Apparel Training and Design Centre in the Chennai, he said that despite the targeted growth of 30%, […]