Invista & OSHA

Fiber maker Invista inked a deal with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration at Invista’s Victoria, Texas, manufacturing site to “collaborate, share knowledge and further strengthen the safety and he...

Palmer in at Kellwood

St. Louis–based Kellwood Co. named Brenda Palmer vice president of licensing. Her first duty will be to assist Kellwood’s Vince brand launch its licensing platform. The longtime apparel and consumer-goods execu...

CMC's L.A. Textile Show Partners With Turkish Group, WGSN

The California Market Center has announced several new partnerships planned for the upcoming Los Angeles International Textile Show, set for Oct. 27–29 at the CMC....

Krantz Promoted at MAGIC

Advanstar Communications—producer of the MAGIC Marketplace, Project Global Trade Show and Pooltradeshow—has promoted Sherrie Krantz to vice president of mar...

Hot Tuna's New Surf Spot: Downtown L.A.

To make a splash in the surf industry, Niels Juul gambled that his company, Hot Tuna International Inc., would have to play the outsider. So he recently moved Hot Tuna away from Orange County, Calif.—home to ...

GlobalTex Names First Members of West Coast Team

The organizers of GlobalTex, the biannual textile show that debuts in Los Angeles next year, have two new people on their West Coast team to help put together the event....

Made in California, Part III: A Special Report

Third in a continuing series of apparel and accessory brands that are “making it” in California ...

Pink Mascara: Leaving Its Own Mark

As the name suggests, Pink Mascara (

Goody's Closes 69 Stores

Northbook, Ill.–based retail chain Goody’s Family Clothing Stores is shuttering 69 stores in a strategic-initiatives program managed by Hilco Merchant Resources LLC, a division of The Hilco Organization...

ENK Adds Vegas Show to Lineup

New York–based trade-show producer ENK International is returning to Las Vegas Aug. 25–27 with ENK Vegas, a show highlighting contemporary apparel and accessories....

Alp-n-Rock: Taking Tees to New Heights

The luxe T-shirt is taken to new places with the introduction of Alp-n-Rock, a tops line due out this fall from Escondido, Calif., designer and former Swiss resident Susanne Reich...

Health Benefit Deal at Port

Contract negotiations between longshore workers and shippers took a positive turn when the two sides announced they had reached an agreement on health-care benefits....

Pattern Service Owner Martin Wicksman, 74

Martin Wicksman of Wicksman Pattern Service died on June 8 after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 74. Wicksman, who immigrated to the United States in 1959 fr...

Quiksilver Launches Hang Ten With Kohl's

Huntington Beach, Calif.–based surf giant Quiksilver has signed a licensing agreement with Menomonee Falls, Wis.–based big-box retailer Kohl’s Corp. for Hang Ten. Originally a ...

Metropark Prepares to Go Public

Orv Madden’s latest project is ready to go public....