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William M. Wood
After successfully managing a mill for his father in-law, Frederick Ayer, Wood organized the American Woolen Mills Company in 1899, combining the enterprises of Ayer and several other businessmen. Capitalized at $60 million, American Woolen owned some 40 mills across...
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Sidney W. Winslow, Jr.
Following the death of his father, Sidney Winslow Jr. took an increasingly important role in the family company, which had been consolidated into the holding company, United Shoe Machinery Corporation. Winslow went on to expand the company internationally and also to...
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James S. Love
Beginning as a rayon producer, Love built the world’s largest textile mill by the mid-1950s. Love, the architect of the company’s growth, expanded the company to 22 plants by 1936 and bought six hosiery mills. After World War II, he increased the company’s annual sales...
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Millard S. Drexler
Drexler helped to transform The Gap from a “me-too” retailer of Levi’s and private label jeans into a fashion icon. He simplified the brand’s product line and invested heavily in provocative advertising which made The Gap a recognizable worldwide brand. During the...
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James W. Cannon
In 1898, Cannon’s mill produced the first cotton towel ever finished in the South. About 1906, Cannon built Kannapolis, the largest unincorporated town in the world, as a mill town that included schools, churches, and parks. Upon his death in 1921, Cannon had grown...
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- 14 Nov 2014
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This Mother-Daughter Duo Wants to Save China's Environment
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
After combining two names, one from each side of his family, Stanley Marcus (MBA '27) went on to make "Neiman Marcus" a household name. It was a pairing that would prove as successful as the company's "his-and-hers" holiday gift offerings - such as matching camels, or...
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Robert T. B. Stevens
In response to the changing nature of the textile industry and to the growing inefficiencies in the company, Stevens merged the manufacturing and selling sides of the business and took the new entity public to raise much needed funds. The new structural change was...
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William Rosenthal
After discovering a need for the product in their dress making business, William and Ida Rosenthal created the “first modern uplift brassiere” in 1923. After the success of that item, business was expanded into lingerie, swimwear and other products, growing Maidenform...
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Walter A. Haas, Jr.
Walter A. Haas Jr. was responsible for Levi’s concentration on blue jeans production. He targeted the marketing strategy to teenagers and as blue jeans became the symbol of nonconformity, Levi’s rapidly multiplied its sales and net profit. In 1970, Haas took the...
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Paul Fireman
By successfully tapping the market for women’s “fashionable” athletic shoes during the nation’s aerobics craze, Fireman took Reebok from $13 million in sales in 1983 to $1.4 billion in sales just five years later. In 1986, Reebok overtook Nike as the top-selling maker...
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Elisabeth Claiborne
Founded in 1976, Liz Claiborne joined the Fortune 500 list of the largest industrial companies only a decade later, one of the youngest companies ever to achieve this mark. In 1987, Liz Claiborne had sales in excess of $1 billion. All this success was a result of...
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Charles A. Cannon
Cannon pioneered a number of industry advances in cloth towel manufacturing including national consumer advertising, the Cannon trademark sewn into each towel, pastel colors, the wrapping of products in clear plastic, style shows, and matching towel ensembles. Cannon...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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A Smooth Stretch
HANNA: A yoga business and foundation. Photo courtesy Zobha A dedicated runner until motherhood stood everything on its head, Jamie Hanna (MBA ’98) told Chicago’s examiner.com (September 20, 2010) that by the time she had her second child, “Running didn’t feel good to...
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- 12 Feb 2016
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Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
catch up,” she says. Questioning the status quo has also inspired Mendhro to launch VIDA, a venture-based ecommerce platform based in San Francisco that connects designers across the globe with producers, to manufacture original apparel...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
doubling down in China, where over half of its workers are based. Yang aspires to introduce new competitive strategies to the entire textile and apparel industry, and to be a leader in positive economic development in China. Esquel is...
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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
fulfillment of basic needs, such as Consumer Product Goods and apparel basics, is growing. With customers increasingly ordering these and other products online, potential shoppers have fewer reasons to leave their homes, and the clothing...
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- 17 Apr 2023
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Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
consumers. The Deckers Brand – producer of UGG®, KOOLABURRA®, HOKA®, Teva®, and Sanuk® shoes and apparel – is an example. Despite inflation, ongoing Covid workplace worries, and supply chain limitations, the company just reported $1.346...
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- December 1990
- Teaching Note
Beauregard Textile Co., Teaching Note
By: Francis Aguilar
Teaching Note for (9-191-058).
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- 2009
- Case
Mercury Athletic Footwear, Inc.: Valuing the Opportunity: Brief Case No. 4050.
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
In January 2007, West Coast Fashions, Inc., a large designer and marketer of branded apparel, announced a strategic reorganization that would result in the divestiture of their wholly owned footwear subsidiary, Mercury Athletic. John Liedtke, the head of business...
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