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Textile Center Building is a 12-story Gothic Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival architectural styled brick building located in the Los Angeles Fashion District. Designed by William Douglas Lee in the Gothic Revival style, the building opened in 1926 as a center for garment manufacturing. [2] It has since been converted to condominiums.
This is a list of notable corporations headquartered in Los Angeles County, California. The table is arranged alphabetically by company. The table is arranged alphabetically by company. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The identification of a "garment district" is relatively new in Los Angeles' history as a large city. In 1972 the Los Angeles Times defined the L.A. Garment District as being along Los Angeles Street from 3rd to 11th Street, an area that today straddles the border of Skid Row and the very northwest end of the current Fashion District. At the ...
Jo-Ann Stores, LLC, (stylized JOANN) is an American specialty retail chain specializing in fabrics and arts and crafts supplies. The chain is based in Hudson, Ohio, and had operated 800 stores across 49 U.S. states until the beginning of 2025. By the end of February 2025, the company began the process of liquidating all of its stores after ...
Elevate Textiles owns textile brands including American & Efird, Burlington, Cone Denim, Gütermann and Safety Components. Its global headquarters are in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company was founded by Wilbur Ross and was sold to Platinum Equity in 2016. In 2019, the company changed its name from International Textile Group to Elevate ...
With the Gilded Age in full swing by 1893, Schumacher became a textile supplier and sold decorative fabrics to new American mansions and hotels, including the Waldorf-Astoria and the Vanderbilt. In 1895, the company purchased a domestic fabric manufacturing facility, the Waverly Mill in Paterson, New Jersey. The Waverly Mill produced woven ...
In 1961, fifteen independent suppliers of soft goods to Sears, Roebuck and Co were merged to form Kellwood Company. Taking its name from two former Sears' executives, Charles H. Kellstadt and Robert E. Wood, The first officers included Maurice Perlstein, president and treasurer; Fred W. Wenzel, vice president; Stanley M. Guthunz, vice president; Ovide de St. Aubin, Jr., vice president; and ...
A Burlington Sock (in the mid-1990s) On November 6, 1923 J. Spencer Love founded a textile corporation in Burlington, North Carolina. [1] [2] Love and his father brought to Burlington $50,000 worth of machinery from a factory they had sold in Gastonia, NC, and also invested $200,000 that they had earned from the sale of the Gastonia plant, as well as selling an additional $200,000 worth of ...