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Gantos was a women's specialty clothing retailer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. The company was founded in 1932 and specialized in private label and name brand apparel. The company was founded in 1932 and specialized in private label and name brand apparel.
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Carhartt offers a "Union-Made in USA" line of workwear through its retailers. The company has four factories in the United States. The firm also makes an effort to use domestic suppliers: in 2015, Carhartt purchased 19.5 million pounds of cotton from Georgia, as well as 32 million buttons and 1 million drawcords, both made in Kentucky. [6]
The company made its first acquisition with the purchase of Cloth World, a 342-store southern company, in 1994. At the time of the acquisition, Fabri-Centers operated 655 stores. [4] In 1997, Fabri-Centers settled for $3.3 million on federal charges that it had misled investors in 1992 by overstating its earnings before it sold securities.
Jockey was originally named Coopers, Inc., and was founded by Samuel T. Cooper in St. Joseph, Michigan in 1876 as a hosiery business. [9] [10] [11] Cooper began the business after hearing that lumberjacks suffered from poorly constructed wool socks. In 1900, Cooper began making undergarments. By 1902 the business was expanding.
The company was founded in 2015 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by University of Michigan friends Steven Fisher and Lee Moffie, the current joint CEOs of the company. Moffie and Fisher both graduated from the university, where they met through Order of Angell, a senior honor society at the university. The two decided to name the company after an ...
In tandem, Bonobos partnered with Nordstrom [14] to sell the brand’s clothing in their full-line stores and website. Bonobos furthered its offline reach in May 2012, opening its first standalone Guideshop location in Boston. [15] By January 2013, Bonobos had opened additional Guideshop locations in Chicago, [16] Georgetown, [17] and San ...
In 1905, Moses Hartz established a men’s clothing manufacturing company, which was taken over by his widow Lena Hartz in 1921. Their daughter, Anna Hartz, was a traveling salesperson for the firm. Although they were rivals in the business, Anna married Joseph Bank and in 1922, Joseph joined forces with his new mother-in-law and formed L ...