This definition had applied to about 90% of all apparel imports to the U.S. But last year, Washington said it was changing the rules.
Asia's biggest clothing retailer and owner of the Uniqlo casual clothing brand, which has been building a network of production sites in Bangladesh since 2008 to lower its dependence on manufacturing in China, where about 90% of all Uniqlo apparel is made.
Now, instead of routing all footwear and apparel that come in from factories in Southeast Asia through a distribution center in Memphis, Nike can have them sent directly to specific stores or the consumers who order them online.
Scott will wear Uniqlo apparel in all competitions and take part in promotional activities for the company.
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No surprise, Wal-mart, Target, Old Navy and Gap are all large retailers of baby apparel.
This means price increases, along with some shift in product mix to higher-priced garments, accounted for all of the growth in the apparel industry in 2011.
Could Ralph Lauren -- the brand atop the long, integrated supply chain that takes apparel ideas from conception all the way to the consumer -- have forgone use of the Chinese factories that do most of the brand's cutting and sewing operations and, instead, contracted with U.S. factories for the Olympic uniform project?
The gains are possible because Esquel owns a vertically integrated supply chain and manufacturing process which extends from cotton farming, spinning, knitting, weaving, and apparel production, and then all the way to retailing.
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The same can be said for apparel houses and retailers of all stripes, but one thing going for Guess? is its cheapness relative to what the market is willing to pay for similar companies.
Retail numbers from the Commerce Department Wednesday show that consumers have found more spending momentum to meet rising commodity and materials costs that are already being passed directly to consumers, with food prices, apparel, and most noticeably gasoline prices all rising in the first quarter of 2011.
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Looking at the sector breakdown, all the components showed strong readings except for clothing and apparel, which declined by 2.9% in July after rising 2.7% m-o-m in June.
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Also likely to be included in that group, he thinks, are Jones Apparel, Michaels Stores and Foot Locker, all publicly traded companies that appear to be on the brink of being taken private, getting spruced up, then going public again.
The largest category in terms of online sales on Black Friday was apparel and accessories, with more than a quarter of all sales.
Almost all Olympic uniforms we see today derive from religious or military forms of apparel.
I'm getting ready to leave when I pass through a section of spiffy athletic apparel from the company Under Armour, a brand which is all over the NFL Draft Combine.
And all this copying is completely legal, because copyright law doesn't cover apparel design.
If Melissa Adelman's hunch is right, this will be the last January apparel retailers will have to brace for the swarm of customers looking to return or exchange all the ill-fitting clothes they got for Christmas.
For example, if want to open an athletic store, you need to decide if you will cater to runners, swimmers, golfers, tennis players or all of the above as well as if you will focus just on one segment like footwear or broaden to include apparel, equipment and more.
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