Level 3, 678 Victoria Street Richmond, Victoria 3121 Australia Company Perspectives: Ansell's vision is to be a global leader in broad-based healthcare protection, providing exceptional solutions, products, and values to our customers. Ansell Ltd. operates as a multinational company that manufactures, distributes, and markets protective products and services related to professional, occupational,…
2500 Columbia Avenue Lancaster Pennsylvania 17603-4117 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Our business strategy focuses on product innovation, product quality and customer service. In our businesses, these factors are the primary determinants of market share gain or loss. Our objective is to ensure that anyone buying a floor or ceiling can find an Armstrong product that meets his or her needs. Our cabin…
27969 Jefferson Avenue Temecula, California 92590-2609 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We have always been a company dedicated to backpackers, mountaineers, and rock climbers, but we have recently used our vast amount of expe rience to introduce new products that address the growing adventure r ace and multi-sport market. You can bet that we will continue to push the envelope, always keeping in mind…
191 Sterling Street N.W. Valdese, North Carolina 28690 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We at Burke Mills have committed ourselves to the future with major, ongoing capital investments in the latest and most advanced technologies, to satisfy the ever more varied and sophisticated demands of our customers. Our yarns are used in many applications from automotive fabrics, office furnishings and wall cov…
3330 West Friendly Avenue Greensboro, North Carolina 27420 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are an organization of people with many special talents and skills, united in our commitment to build a growing, competitive and highly profitable textile company with which our customers prefer to do business, in which our investors prefer to invest and for which we all prefer to work. Burlington Industrie…
P.O. Box 826 831 North Main Street Troy, North Carolina 27371 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Capel provides a unique range of quality floor coverings and complementary products at the best possible value. Capel utilizes domestic and foreign manufacturing, innovation, marketing and research and development to maintain leadership. The company strives for excellence on a personal and corporate level t…
2 Fouberts' Place London W1V 1HH United Kingdom Company Perspectives: We are proud of our tradition of landmark innovations in thread products, color technology, and manufacturing processes, many of which have become global industry standards. Our ability to continuously take customer service to higher levels remains unrivaled to this day. We recognize that the continued high quality and commitme…
5755 New King Court Troy, Michigan 48098-2396 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to be recognized as a leading-edge automotive interior systems supplier and an innovator of world-class NVH and acoustic technologies. Our goal is to continually find ways to integrate our unparalleled styling and innovative acoustics technologies into all of our interior products. Founded as a supplier of w…
1359 Broadway New York, New York 10018 U.S.A. Concord Fabrics, Inc. designs and produces knit fabrics and designs woven fabrics from both natural and synthetic fibers, in a wide variety of colors and patterns. Most of its output is sold to manufacturers, chiefly of women's apparel. The company also sells its products to chain, department, and fabric stores for retail sale to customers who sew at …
1201 Maple Street Greensboro, North Carolina 27405 U.S.A. The Cone Mills Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of denim fabric, and the United States' largest printer of home furnishings fabrics. With a broad range of offerings, the company operates 12 plants, most of which are located in North Carolina. Started by two brothers with a background in wholesale groceries, Cone grew steadil…
804 Green Valley Road, Ste. 300 Greensboro, North Carolina 27408 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Cone Mills continues to be one of America's leading textile manufacturers. We are the world's largest and most diversified producer of denim fabrics and the largest commission printer of home furnishings fabrics in the United States. Cone Mills sells to markets around the globe, in over 35 countries. Con…
1600 Riveredge Parkway, Suite 200 Atlanta, Georgia 30328 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are a leading supplier of comforters and accessories and the major force in the luxury segment of this important home textile category. Since introducing the cotton throw to the American public ... we have also maintained our status as the leading company in this category. Crown Crafts, Inc. designs, manufact…
2291 Memorial Drive Danville, Virginia 24541 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Let's not mince words. Dan River is a great company because it has great people who make great products for the people of America and a good part of the rest of the world. It has been a great company for 100 years. It had to be or it could not have survived floods, fires, strikes, depressions, financial panics, import crise…
233 N. Main Street, Suite 200 Greenville, South Carolina 29601 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For over 90 years Delta products have been known for quality and value. Delta offers a wide variety of styles to meet the needs of its customers. From the initial design until the product is finally shipped, Delta controls the manufacturing processes to insure that each shirt meets the high quality standar…
1950 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, Quebec, H3H 1E7 Canada Dominion Textile Inc. is one of Canada's largest textile companies and the world's largest manufacturers of denim. Dominion grew slowly throughout the twentieth century, first strengthening its role as a Canadian manufacturer before acquiring a number of companies in the United States, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s. By 1994 Dominion posted…
200 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10016 U.S.A. Fab Industries, Inc. is a major manufacturer of textile fabrics sold to a wide variety of manufacturers of ready-to-wear and intimate apparel for men, women, and children. Other uses of Fab products are found in the home furnishing, industrial, and specialty markets. The company also manufacturers comforters, sheets, blankets, and other bedding p…
210 Baronne Street P.O. Box 60279 New Orleans, Louisiana 70160-0279 U.S.A. With $6.7 billion in assets in 1993, First Commerce Corporation was the largest multibank holding company in Louisiana. First Commerce offers complete banking and related financial services to commercial clients and individuals in Louisiana and southern Mississippi. It operates through five banks and several service subsid…
D-69465 Weinheim Germany Company Perspectives: 1. The Freudenberg Group must remain broadly diversified; it is this structure which lends it its valuable stability. In belonging to the group as a whole, the various business operations gain a special, shared identity and a support permitting them to gear their strategy to long-term planning. 2. The Freudenberg Group must remain a 100 percent famil…
5000 Sears Tower 233 South Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606 U.S.A. Fruit of the Loom, Inc., a global manufacturer and marketer of family apparel, is America's biggest seller of men's briefs. The company's products also include underwear for men, women, and children, as well as T-shirts, activewear, casualwear, and clothing for children. As of the late 1990s, the company's brands, which includ…
P.O. Box 1017 Greenwood, South Carolina 29648 U.S.A. Greenwood Mills, Inc. is one of the oldest, most successful textile businesses in the United States. Part of the company's success, and what distinguishes Greenwood Mills from many other companies within the United States, is that the firm's management has cultivated a work force of uncommon stability. Hundreds of employees come from the third …
4925 W. Market St. Greensboro, North Carolina 27407 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Guilford Mills is an integrated designer and producer of value-added fabrics using a broad range of technologies. The company is the largest warp knitter in the world and is a leader in technological advances in textiles, including microdenier warp knits and wide width circular knits of cotton blended with LYCRA. Gui…
1500 Harbor Boulevard Weehawken, New Jersey 07087 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Hanover Direct, Inc. and its business units, provide quality, branded merchandise through a portfolio of catalogs and e-commerce platforms to consumers, as well as a comprehensive range of Internet, e-commerce, and fulfillment services to businesses. Hanover Direct, Inc. is a leading catalog and online retailer. It ope…
105 13th Street Columbus, Georgia 31901 U.S.A. Although it got its start selling auto replacement parts, Johnston Industries, Inc. is a diversified manufacturer of textile fabrics for home furnishings, basic apparel, industrial use, and the automotive industry. The company became a favorite on Wall Street and received honors in the 1990s for innovation and management. More than half of its output…
Water Street East Greenville, Pennsylvania 18041 U.S.A. Knoll Group Inc. is a leading U.S. manufacturer of office furniture. Its products include chairs, wood casegoods, files and storage mechanisms, and full office systems. Knoll also produces textiles on contract and markets computer support accessories. The company was selling its products through showrooms, sales offices, and dealerships in a…
46 Stafford Street Lawrence, Massachusetts 01841 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Malden Mills has spent the past quarter-century building one of the top textile research and development teams in the world. On the premise that customer interests are best served by continual innovation in both manufacturing and product design, the firm's skilled chemists, engineers, and textile designers constantly ex…
920 Milliken Road Spartanburg South Carolina 29308 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Our company strategy is focused on combining textiles and chemical technologies in unique ways to serve a vast array of markets. Milliken & Co. is one of the largest privately owned textile and chemical manufacturing companies in the world. For decades Milliken & Co. has been the clear industry leader in technology and…
P.O. Box 12069 160 South Industrial Boulevard Calhoun, Georgia 30703 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The key to growth is not only to establish effective strategies, but also to follow through on them. By taking sound strategic action, we have created opportunity--opportunity to grow. With three of the industry's most recognized brands--Karastan, Mohawk, and Bigelow--Mohawk Industries, Inc. ranks se…
1964 4th Avenue South Seattle, Washington 98134 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Pacific Coast we've learned that satisfying our customers comes only from hard work, good service and providing the highest quality products available. Privately owned, Seattle-based Pacific Coast Feather Company (PCF) is the market leader in the pillow and down comforter industry, selling products under its own name …
220 NW Broadway P.O. Box 3030 Portland, Oregon 97208-3030 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Pendleton continually strives to maintain its well-deserved reputation by using the best, newest and most innovative state-of-the-art techniques and resources to create a year-round selection of wool and non-wool products that others strive to imitate. By balancing the offering with other non-wool garments that…
205 East Sixth Street Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57117 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to become a dominant factor in the niche markets we serve by meeting world class standards of quality, cost and service. In doing so, we will produce above-average profits for our shareholders, which will be shared by our employees. We will attract and retain quality employees and give them the motiv…
Plot 156/H No. 2 Zadgaon Ratnagiri 415 612 India Company Perspectives Excellence is a way of life at Raymond that has been manifested in all our endeavours over our entire history. These endeavours have been translated into designing and developing products of international standards, delivering enhanced values through brand building, distribution and customer relationship. Raymond today, is a cu…
3330 Cumberland Boulevard Suite 800 Atlanta Georgia 30339 U.S.A. Company Perspectives From its beginnings in 1902, Russell Corporation has prided itself on the quality and value of its products--and on its commitment to its employees and the communities where it operates. Russell has long been a company that is able to take advantage of changes in the marketplace, changes in technology and change…
41 Stevens Street Greenville, South Carolina 29605 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Safety Components International, Inc. is a leading, low-cost supplier of automotive airbag fabric and cushions with operations in North America and Europe. The Company is also a leading manufacturer of value-added synthetic fabrics used in a variety of niche industrial and commercial applications. In addition, Safety …
Rua Urussui 300 Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 04542-903 Brazil Company Perspectives: What we want to be: Be a world class company with desired brands of s port products, shoes, and industrial textiles. Sao Paulo Alpargatas S.A., one of the largest apparel and textile fir ms in Brazil, is best known for its Havaiana thong sandal. This humbl e flip-flop, after long serving as simple light footwear in tropic…
P.O. Drawer 2128 Dalton, Georgia 30722 U.S.A. Since 1987, Shaw Industries--based in Dalton, Georgia, which is also known as "The Carpet Capital of the World"--has been the world's largest carpet manufacturer. The company designs and manufactures about 800 styles of tufted carpet for residential and commercial use. Among the name brands produced by Shaw Industries are Philadelphia, Cabin Crafts, S…
616 East Walnut Drive Dalton, Georgia 30722 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Shaw Industries is noted in the carpet industry for innovation, leadership, product performance, quality, service, and value. In order to maintain its leadership position in the industry, Shaw has invested 10 times the industry average in capital dollars for yarn processing, dye techniques, and advanced manufacturing equipme…
Riverside Mill Barbadoes Road Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire KA1 1SX United Kingdom Company Perspectives: In the carpet world, the name Stoddard reigns supreme. With a history and experience stretching back over 160 years, we are now Scotland's oldest and largest carpet company. Perhaps more than any other company, Stoddard International plc represents the glory as well as the devastation of the Unite…
One Elm Street Windsor Locks, Connecticut 06096-2234 U.S.A. With a history that stretches back over two centuries, The Dexter Corporation is the oldest company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Founded in 1767, the firm was owned and operated by members of the same family until 1988. Dexter originally comprised a saw and grist mill, then expanded into the manufacture of specialty papers. Hav…
345 Nowlin Lane, Suite B 1100 South Watkins Street Chattanooga Tennessee 37421-7805 U.S.A. Company Perspectives The Dixie Group is one of America's fastest growing floorcovering companies. We are focused on our core competencies, committed to our brands and the upper-end of the soft floorcovering market. Through a variety of channels, our products are marketed to domestic and international custom…
15 Pietermaai Willemstad, Curaçao Netherlands Antilles Company Perspectives: Velcro Industries N.V. is a technically-driven, global organization and the industry leader. The company, through its worldwide subsidiaries, offers hundreds of different hook and loop products and fastening systems. Offerings range from standard fastening tapes of woven and knit construction, through custom-designed sp…
105 Corporate Center Boulevard Greensboro, North Carolina 27408-3194 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: VF is the global leader in creating powerful brands of apparel. The consumer is the focus of everything we do. We are the best at bringing people comfort and quality in our brands. We know our consumers, where they are and where they're headed. We are dedicated to our retail partners. We believe in t…
P.O. Box 1046 Monroe, Georgia 30655 U.S.A. Walton Monroe Mills, Inc., a manufacturer of yarn and undyed fabric, has been managed by the same family since its 1895 origins. Like other venerable mills, Walton Monroe was forced to adapt to an era of foreign competition, new technologies, and industry consolidation ushered in by the 1960s. Unlike many of other smaller mills, Walton Monroe survived th…