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This paper provides an overview of the women's apparel industry, highlighting RFID as a popular technology in the industry and addressing cheap imports and the economic downturn.

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"The women's apparel industry is a market defined by its target markets ranging from teens to the mature woman. The industry's supply chain includes clothing jobbers who perform entrepreneurial functions involved in apparel manufacture including buying raw materials, designing and preparing samples, arranging for apparel to be made from their raw materials and marketing finished apparel. Overall, the industry is experiencing major contractions as most major manufacturers move production offshore to countries with cheaper labour costs which leads to an international industry with..."

Tags:women's apparel, garment industry, clothes, clothing, overview, RFID

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American Apparel is a clothing company that wants its customers to be comfortable inside and out. The company designs and manufactures T-shirts, yoga pants, tank tops, and other apparel for women, men, and children that are logo-free (Hoover's, 2008). Founded in 1998, American Apparel does all of its manufacturing from its Los Angeles-based factory, rather than exporting labor overseas. The company possesses 140 stores worldwide, including 20 stores in the United States, as well as 12 additional stores in Mexico, Canada, and Europe. American Apparel is also known for its fair treatment of its workers and its no-sweat factory, along with a high hourly wage per hour for factory employees (Hoover's, 2008).

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Company Profile TABLE OF CONTENTS REFERENCES 28 COMPANY OVERVIEW American Apparel is a clothing company that wants its customers to be comfortable inside and out. The company designs and manufactures T-shirts, yoga pants, tank tops, and other apparel for women, men, and children that are logo-free (Hoover's, 2008). Founded in 1998, American Apparel does all of its manufacturing from its Los Angeles-based factory, rather than exporting labor overseas. The company possesses 140 stores worldwide,

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This research paper looks into the business of fashion?s industry?s most important segment, the Apparel Industry. The clothing industry in the US has been flourishing for a long time but due to the current economic situation sales in the last two years have not been very encouraging. In this paper the author analyzes the main factors that affected the industry such as dominance of foreign producers, inflation, and reduction in employment and wages. In addition, the writer gives an overview of the main players in this industry: apparel manufacturers, apparel merchandisers and retailers.

Executive Summary
Literature Review
Brief Overview of the Apparel Industry
Financial Position in Recent Years
The Apparel Industry-Chain of Actors
Current Trends in the Market
Problems of the Industry
References

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According to the American Apparel Manufactures Association, the industry for apparel goods in the country has been facing several problems, the most pressing among them being entrance of foreign producers. A U.S. Business Reporter outlined similar problems in his 2001 report on the apparel industry. The industry, which had been showing positive signs, before the slow down has been affected by the downturn in the economic situation in the country. This has been made worse by a reduction in the employment and wages due to offshore production and a declining profit margin.

Tags:fashion, wages, employees, retailers, merchandise, textile, goods

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This paper discusses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the textile and apparel industry. The paper discusses the goals of the NAFTA agreement and it looks at the numerous positive and negative implications of the agreement on various industries and sectors, including textile and apparel. The paper concludes that, overall, the agreement supported the development of the textile and apparel industry in the US, Canada and Mexico. The paper contains graphs.

Table of Contents:
Introduction to NAFTA
NAFTA's Effects on the Textile and Apparel Industry
Conclusions

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"Another major impact of NAFTA upon the textile and apparel industry was that it allowed American manufacturers to move their plants to Mexico. Here, they found cheap labor force and reduced governmental restrictions. The American companies established maquilas, or factories generally located near the border line. These factories mainly employed young women and paid them less than minimum wage. But regardless of the poor working conditions in these maquilas, fact remains that the industry grew and more jobs were created for the Mexicans. From this particular instance, the situation of the American workers in the textile industry was becoming critical. They began to lose their jobs as they were being replaced with cheaper workforce. As such, a paradox was created in which the U.S. textile and apparel industry was flourishing, but its workers were out of jobs and forced to re-specialize in different fields."

Tags:border, trade, manufacture, labor

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The paper discusses how communication barriers between distributors and suppliers caused overstocking and under-stocking that made the apparel industry lose millions of dollars in business. The paper looks at how the apparel industry has utilized technology to integrate sales forecasts with the supply-chain and establish a quick response system. The paper concludes that while there is always room for improvement, the apparel industry is much better off than it was 25 years ago and it will continue to get better as the advances in technology continue on in the future.

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"Over the past 25 years, the apparel industry has become much more competitive than it ever had been in the past. This is because it has become so over saturated with businesses that companies must be able to streamline their production and get the lowest possible shipping costs in order to be able to give lower prices, which will lead to a higher profit if done properly. Advances in technology have made it highly possible for business to effectively streamline this facet of the industry because response times are so much quick than they ever had been before. Now, it is possible for production to begin on additional units of a product before the supply has fallen too far. This has also allowed for a smaller amount of apparels to be required in stock, which leads to fewer markdowns to be necessary."

Tags:distributors, suppliers, sales, forecasts, supply-chain, e-commerce

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This paper discusses the American apparel industry, as well as looks into the international industry. It discusses the industry's dominant economic features in the United States. It then discusses the impact of the threat to apparel producers regarding the more common replacement of high quality materials with synthetic substitutes, as well as other threats that they face. The paper describes the strategies of some of the strongest and weakest companies in the apparel industry.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Industry's Dominant Economic Features
Porter's Five Forces
Drivers for Charge in the Broad Environment
Companies in the Strongest\Weakest Positions
Key Success Factors for Competitive Success (1, 2 pages)
Industry's Attractiveness and Prospects for Long-Term Profitability

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"The quality of the products is yet another significant KSF as it aids to increase customers' interest and continuous satisfaction with the manufacturers' products. The third highly important KSF is represented by resource availability. The resources required for a successful outcome are numerous, among which are financial resources, material resources and human resources."
"A yet unexploited success factor is technology. The role of hi-tech devices and procedures is expected to increase in the course of the following years. Using high technology, apparel manufactures will come to change the internal structure of materials and make them more comfortable and more environment-friendly. The latest trend in using hi-tech in the apparel industry is developing free-sweat clothing. For instance, using nanotechnology, the apparel manufacturer No Sweat Australia has already launched their products on the market."

Tags:quality, material, manufacturing, turnover

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This paper focuses on a particular American Apparel advertisement and discusses the ways in which it has a right to be created, distributed, and marketed within the United States. Even though some people might find the imagery included in the advertisement offensive, the company and its employees have the right to participate in making and circulating such imagery according to the US constitution.

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"American Apparel is a clothing company based in Los Angeles, California. Its CEO and President, Dov Charney, founded American Apparel in 1997. American Apparel has become a center of controversy in recent years due to its inconsistent position as a sweatshop-free manufacturer, its confrontations with unionization practices, and its highly sexualized advertisements (Dolan, 2006). Such advertisements will be the focus of this paper. They appear in newspapers, magazines, and billboards around the country and internationally. The imagery displayed in American Apparel's advertisements is generally one variation or another of a..."

Tags:advertisement, clothing, female

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Describes technological, social and economic influences on the retail apparel industry, particularly diversified branding, the online store and limitations of the current model.

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Describes technological, social, and economic influences on the retail apparel industry, particularly diversified branding, the online store, and limitations of the current model.

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This paper is a bulleted list of factors and figures on marketing Nike shoes in China.

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"Advertising strategies will emphasize television and Internet advertising that features collectivist benefits rather than individualistic benefits. (Zhang Neelankavil) In addition, culturally-congruent advertising appeals that fit well with the existing culture will work better in China than advertising strategies that run counter to the Chinese culture. Use of the current advertising campaign is discouraged as the Chinese market is quite different from..."

Tags:Nike, shoes, China, apparel, marketing