Apparel

Hanes Branded Printwear is encouraging decorators and promotional products distributors to get all of their customers involved with supporting K-8 schools through the Hanes4Education Adopt-a-School program. With Hanes4Education Adopt-a-School, all customers can designate their orders of Hanes T-shirts, sportshirts or fleece to benefit a K-8 school participating in the Box Tops for Education program.

The first day of spring is March 20. Get ready with the bright, decorated shirts shown at the Imprinted Sportswear Show in Atlantic City.

Stacey Shulman, chief technology officer for American Apparel, will deliver the closing keynote address, "Building an IT Innovation Team," at the upcoming Apparel Tech Conference West, to be held Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at LA Trade Tech College. The conference is produced by Apparel Magazine, and complimentary registration is available to qualified apparel retailers, brands and manufacturers at apparelmag.com.

Shulman is responsible for technology, web and asset protection for American Apparel globally. She has more than two decades of experience in retail-focused technology and is a specialist in international growth and localization.

This year's Imprinted Sportswear Show in Atlantic City, held annually at the Atlantic City Convention Center, opened on Friday, March 8 at 10 a.m. Despite snowy conditions affecting travel in much of the Northeast, the show floor was packed by 11 a.m.

SanMar Corporation announced the launch of more than 60 new products from six brands, and bright new color additions for popular existing styles. Included in the 2013 Spring Arrivals catalog and featured on sanmar.com, these new products are ideal for spring and summer selling campaigns.

Kenneth Hooten will not run for re-election for another term on the board of directors of Superior Uniform Group Inc.

Hooten, who has been a director of the company since 2010, has decided to focus his energy more closely on his responsibilities as a general partner of Concentric Equity Partners, a private equity firm founded in 2003.

Hooten's "extensive experience in overseeing and developing the businesses of acquired companies, as well as his role in reviewing acquisition targets for private equity firms," were listed in the company's proxy as reasons for his nomination for re-election to the board in 2012.

Today’s global value chains used by U.S. apparel companies offer job creation opportunities in the United States, according to Analyzing the Value Chain for Apparel Designed in the United States and Manufactured Overseas, a new report published today by Moongate Associates Inc.

The study, which examines where and how American workers contribute to the value of apparel products manufactured globally, found that U.S. workers account for more than two-thirds of the retail value of apparel products sold in the U.S. market even though the actual production of those products occurs outside the United States.

American Apparel Inc., the Los Angeles-based manufacturer, distributor and retailer of branded fashion-basic apparel, announced financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2012.

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Bodek and Rhodes took their tradition of award-winning trade show booths to a new level by introducing the UltraClub Confidence Center. This interactive display was created to take attendees inside the processes that enable UltraClub, the industry's first private-label apparel line, to exceed the quality and safety standards set by the Quality Certification Alliance (QCA).