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Ken Shiers has joined Robert K. Futterman & Associates, a real estate firm specializing in retail leasing and investment sales, as an associate. Most recently he was with the Hartmarx [...]

NEW YORK -- Averting a threatened strike, the manufacturing employees of Malden Mills Industries approved a three-year contract for a total 7 percent raise. The pact, which covers about 450 [...]

NEW YORK -- Cotton Incorporated wants to reach younger shoppers while they read. The Cary, N.C.-based fiber promotion organization is introducing a print ad campaign in the September issues of [...]

Carol Christopherson has been named to the newly created position of president of retail for Quiksilver. Previously an executive vice-president of merchandising for the company's Roxy juniors' line, she will [...]

TOKYO -- American-developed nanotechnology is finding its way into the Japanese textile and apparel industry. Unitika Fiber Ltd., a major Tokyo fiber producer, has concluded a licensing agreement with Emeryville, [...]

NEW YORK -- Sixteen months into its Chapter 11 proceedings, textile mill Galey & Lord Inc. has hired Alvarez & Marsal Inc. to help speed its exit from bankruptcy. The [...]

NEW YORK -- Nano-Tex LLC, a subsidiary of Burlington Industries, has licensed Alamac American Knits LLC to use its Nano-Tex fabric enhancements. Under the agreement, Alamac, a Lumberton, N.C.-based circular [...]

NEW YORK -- Unifi Inc. has entered into agreements with Tuntex (Thailand) Public Co. Ltd., a major Thai polyester fiber producer, that will give Unifi a foothold in Asia. Under [...]

WASHINGTON -- U.S. apparel and textile firms sourcing in the Mideast and South Asia are performing a delicate balancing act. They must finalize orders for 2002 while they simultaneously reevaluate [...]

SOLSTISS-BUCOL DEAL: The U.S. division of Solstiss, a Caudry, France-based couture lace house, has formed a joint venture with Hermes-owned Bucol, a French mill that produces silk novelties, taffetas, warp [...]

PARIS -- Christian Lacroix wants to be big in Japan. On Tuesday, the French house, part of luxury giant LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, announced a 10-year distribution pact with [...]

MILAN -- Should fashion rely on a high-profile designer or an in-house team? This knotty question has two Italian manufacturers -- Marzotto and Gilmar -- going in opposite directions in [...]

As new components that offer comfort through temperature and moisture management vie for the limelight, trying their best to become the next Gore-Tex, footwear manufacturers are looking to Primaloft for [...]

BURLINGTON TECH STUDY: Burlington Industries last week said it is considering outsourcing its day-to-day information-technology functions. 'We are developing new Web-based e-commerce capabilities, new systems to integrate our fabric manufacturing [...]

ATLANTA -- BASF Group, Bayer and Hoechst AG will combine their global textile dyes businesses in an effort to combat competitive pressures and improve cost efficiencies. The new company, which [...]

NEW YORK -- Cone Mills Corp. said it has entered into a strategic alliance for full-package apparel production with Koramsa, a Guatemalan apparel maker. This is the firm's second such [...]

ATLANTA -- Cone Mills announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to manufacture full-package apparel with Maquilas Y Confecciones Deborah/Starlite of Puebla, Mexico. As part of the alliance, Cone [...]

Quick Response and an industry-wide mandate to cut apparel production costs are making domestic textile suppliers more attractive to some of the apparel industry's most important retailers and manufacturers. That's [...]

Czarina will make 300,000 pairs of women's leather shoes that include the material Lycra in 1997. Most of the shoes will sell in Brazil, with the rest sold elsewhere in South America. Czarina has made a deal with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. to use du Pont's Lycra material, which is a brand of spandex. Lycra will make up less than 2% of the shoes' materials. Du Pont wants to enter similar arrangements with shoe manufacturers in six other countries in 1997., DuPont, in conjunction with Brazilian women's shoemaker Czarina, has recently launched the world's first natural leather/Lycra shoe, to be sold mostly in Brazil. Wilmington, Del.,-based DuPont is planning similar launchings [...]

Apparel manufacturers are placing larger stretch fabrics orders due to increased demand for fashion products incorporating these materials. Textile and apparel industry experts predict that sales of stretch fabrics such as polyester and cotton combined with spandex will increase by up to 20% for 1996. Textile executives believe margins from stretch fabric sales will remain thin due to increasing price pressures from apparel makers., NEW YORK - Stretch fabrics are snapping up market share as the versatile construction expands beyond basic goods and into all manner of fashion and novelty products. That has helped [...]

NEW YORK - Forstmann & Co. has formed a new division in association with Tessuti Carpini, an Italian fashion fabric producer. The new division, Forstmann International, will permit Forstmann to [...]

PARIS -- Pierre Balmain SA said it had signed a distribution agreement with Hassan & Marwan al Kadri of Damascus to sell its men's, women's, children's and accessories lines in [...]

NEW YORK -- Nick Hahn is back in the textile business. Hahn, former CEO of Cotton Incorporated, and now head of his own consulting company, Hahn International, has a new [...]

NEW YORK -- A couple of thousand unionized garment workers used their lunch break Friday to go to Lafayette Street in Chinatown and participate in a UNITE protest against sweatshops. [...]

INCREASED U.S. SOURCING BY GAP AND OTHERS IS HELPING DOMESTIC WEAVERS The khaki fabric business is one of the bright lights of the textile industry at this time -- for [...]

NEW YORK -- A few buyers bought large yardages of textured-fill print cloths this week for forward deliveries with prices moving down. The big cuts in prices by Asian mills [...]

NEW YORK -- Trading in gray goods this week was again limited with mills saying few if any buyers were ready to cover third-period deliveries. For the past several weeks [...]

NEW YORK -- The Oscars go to the films, the stars and the directors -- but it's the grips, best boys and support staff that are overlooked. Take, for example, [...]

Foreign textile mills, having booked orders for very substantial amounts of textured-fill print cloth, have increased their prices for the commodity. Low prices, sparked by Asian nations' economic problems, triggered the ordering binge. American buyers have been very active, but some people are questioning whether Asian mills will be willing or able to fulfill orders made at low prices., Foreign mills upped their prices for textured-fill print cloths this week, having booked very substantial yardages in the past few weeks. As a result of the economic problems that have [...]

NEW YORK -- Russell Corp., in partnership with DuPont, is introducing a line of Coolmax woven fabrics that it hopes will join the performance of the moisture-transport fiber -- which [...]

The new China-U.S. textile agreement reached in February continues to draw fire from critics, who contend that a key provision -- permitting the U.S. to unilaterally impose quotas on 'disruptive' [...]

The 1997 American Textile Machinery Exhibition-International generated above-average attendance from textile mill representatives, with 9,847 attendees recorded at the exhibition's four-day mark compared to 10,672 in 1992. Representatives from major American textile mills such as Greenwood Mills, Burlington Industries, Milliken and Co. and Russell Corp. were present at the show, as well as from a large contingent of Latin American mills., GREENVILLE, S.C. -- The American Textile Machinery Exhibition-International here picked up steam after a slow start, and some sizable orders were placed by the time the show closed Friday. This [...]

WILMINGTON -- DuPont said it has assigned all its Taslan technology, patents, trademark, licenses and intellectual property rights to Herberlein Maschinenfabrik AG of Switzerland. Taslan is DuPont's trademark for its [...]

NEW YORK -- In a move to gain a foothold in the fast-growing Mexican market, Bayer Corp. has signed a distribution agreement with Crisol International SA, a Mexico City-based spinner [...]

NEW YORK -- It has been agreed, subject to closing, that North American Rayon Corp. will transfer its textile and industrial rayon filament yarn marketing and distribution business to ICF [...]

Hollingsworth & Vose Co., Floyd, Va., named Fisher Textile Inc., Indian Trail, N.C., its apparel interlinings distributor in Kentucky and Missouri. Mort Cooper will have responsibility in promoting H&V products [...]

AMTEX -- the collaboration of government laboratories and the textile/apparel complex -- has changed partners on the Computer-Aided Fabric Evaluation (CAFE) system. Alexander Machinery Co., Mauldin, S.C., which had been [...]

Textile and apparel manufacturers are forming strategic alliances to address technological challenges. The 1996 Bobbin Show International/American Apparel Manufacturer Association Convention in Atlanta, GA, attracted apparel manufacturers searching for solutions to production problems. Alliances between apparel and textile manufacturers include cross marketing and distribution agreements and exclusive agreements to license technology., ATLANTA -- Strategic alliances to deal with adapting to new technology are the 'common threads' weaving companies from all areas of the supply-chain together at this week's Bobbin Show International/ [...]

Burlington Denim and American Hoechst Corp. Hoechst Fibers Industries Div. have signed a contract with Lynn Swann to promote denim garments made from extra stretch performance (ESP) polyester yarn. Swann will appear at department stores throughout the U.S. and Canada to promote the material through the second half of 1996 and in 1997. ESP polyester yarn is constituted of high performance fibers featuring exceptional stretch and recoverability capacities., NEW YORK - Burlington Denim and Hoechst Fibers have signed Lynn Swann, the ABC-TV broadcaster and former Pittsburgh Steeler, to make promotional appearances for denim garments made with ESP (extra [...]

NEW YORK - Crown Textile Co., which has operated in Chapter 11 since Jan. 2, has confirmed it received an offer from Collins & Aikman for its neckwear interlinings business. [...]

Parkdale Mills, the world's leading yarn seller, is in reportedly close to completing a distribution deal with Hermann Buehler AG, a Swiss producer of premium yarns. Werner Bieri, who heads Buhler Quality Yarns, Hermann Buehler's US unit, acknowledged that talks with several companies were ongoing and suggested that a deal is forthcoming. Hermann Buehler bought Jefferson, GA's SCT Yarns facility in Oct 1995 and has since been looking for a US distributor., NEW YORK--In an agreement that would link the world's largest yarn seller with a prominent producer of premium high-count yarns, Parkdale Mills Inc. is in talks to become the exclusive [...]

NEW YORK -- Dominion Textile Inc. said Thursday that it had signed a letter of intent with Parkdale Mills Inc., to sell certain assets of its U.S. subsidiary, Dominion Yarn [...]

NEW YORK -- Avondale Mills has completed its purchase of the Graniteville textile division of Triarc Cos. Inc. for $255 million in cash. With the acquisition, Avondale will now have [...]

GREEENSBORO, N.C. (FNS) -- Unifi Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to purchase nylon texturing machinery from Glen Raven Mills of Glen Raven, N.C. Until will purchase machinery associated equipment [...]

NEW YORK - Graniteville Co. has engaged a sales organization in Mexico to handle sales of its apparel fabrics. The company has entered into an agreement with Benotex SA/de,/CV of [...]

NEW YORK -- Roger LaViale Ltd. has entered into a sales agreement with Winston Natural Wool in which LaViale will be the exclusive sales representative for Winston's line of 100 [...]

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Burlington Industries said Tuesday it has signed an agreement to purchase additional cotton and polyester and cotton blended yarns for its Knitted Fabrics division from Parkdale Mills. [...]

Pivot Rules has signed an agreement for Robert Stewart Inc. to produce and market ties under the Pivot Rules label for holiday 1995. Pivot plans to introduce new fabrics and [...]

WESTPOINT, Ga. -- Alamac Knit Fabrics, a subsidiary of Westpoint Stevens, announced Wednesday a cooperative agreement with Arvind Mills Ltd. of India for production in India of cotton knit fabrics [...]

A large American sewing thread maker is helping a company in India improve its technology and market its products globally. Threads USA, Gastonia, N.C., a $100 million manufacturer, has signed [...]