Sentences with phrase «large apparel companies»

My grandfather founded what was, at its height from the 60's through the 80's, one of the largest apparel companies in Canada.

In 2003, we were acquired by PVH Corp., one of the largest apparel companies in the world.

(Racked) «As the world's second - largest apparel company — after Inditex, which owns Zara — H&M said it felt a sense of «shared responsibility» when it came to persistently low wages, an issue as endemic to the global garment industry as unrelenting hours and unsafe environments.»

Tadashi Yanai is the most successful businessman in Japan and the founder and chief executive of Fast Retailing, now the world's fourth - largest apparel company, with over 2,000 retail stores and a portfolio of brands, including Uniqlo, Helmut Lang, Theory, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam, J Brand and g.u. Uniqlo alone aims to increase sales to $ 50 billion by 2020, based largely on expansion in US, China and online.

It's a fairly large apparel company growing at almost 8 %.

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Among the investors that contributed to Wiivv's $ 3.5 million seed round in December was MAS Holdings, a Sri Lankan company that is one of the largest manufacturers of apparel and footwear for brands like Nike, Victoria Secret and Lululemon.

The second largest U.S. sports brand on Monday debuted an initial line of apparel that was manufactured at the company's new innovation center in Baltimore.

That deal followed a coup for Under Armour (which is big supporter of CEO Kevin Plank's alma mater, the University of Maryland) when the company last year reached an apparel agreement with the University of Notre Dame — a deal that school said was the largest ever in college sports at the time.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

The news may also concern some of the larger e-commerce apparel companies like Rent the Runway.

Under Armour, founded by Kevin Plank in 1996, recently overtook Adidas to become the second largest sportswear company in the U.S. Plank told Inc. last year that he wanted to revolutionize the sports apparel industry by creating clothing with health monitoring apps built right in.

«I'm proud of what I created at American Apparel and am confident that, as its largest shareholder, I will have a strong relationship with the company in the years ahead,» he said in a statement.

Their findings set off an upheaval in the executive ranks of the world's largest sports footwear and apparel company.

In October, Lion Capital, American Apparel's largest outside investor, agreed to amend its credit agreement with the company and acknowledged it was seeking management changes.

Our company stand tall as flagship enterprise of $ 1.5 Lal Bhai group, one of the largest textile and apparel conglomerate in India with significant global presence.

The company works mainly with wineries, but has also designed apparel for school districts, small and large companies, hospitals, fire departments, sports teams and municipalities.

As the largest embroidery and screen - printing company in the North Bay, Sonoma Design, Apparel and Promotions offers multiple specialty services.

While this hasn't been confirmed by reps at Amazon, research from the Cowen Group predicts that Amazon will be the largest apparel retailer by 2020, so an athleisure line would likely be a good move for the company.

The company is often viewed as a sort of apparel - industry savior, not only because it's supplanting the decrease in retail jobs by hiring more than 3,000 «stylists» as W - 2 employees — meaning that Stitch Fix deducts payroll taxes from each pay check and offers benefits like 401K and health insurance to those who work a certain number of hours a week — but also by emerging as one of the largest wholesale partners in the US.

As head of the apparel arm of one of Japan's largest trading companies, he oversees licenses for brands like Converse and Paul Smith.

Donna Montaldo worked in the retail industry for several years as a regional store manager for a large junior apparel company, a buyer and sales representative of designer apparel and in a management position with the outlet division of the popular Liz Claiborne line before pursuing her current career of 12 years as a columnist focused on writing about coupons and bargain hunting.

As the largest off - price apparel and home fashion retailer in the United States, TJX Companies has achieved a level of scale and brand recognition that bolsters its unique position in the US retail space.

The city is home to a panoply of the nation's largest companies including Hanes Apparel, Krispy Kreme Donuts, Lowes Food Stores and the holding company for the premier cigarette brands in the untied States, Reynolds American.