Apparel

Ash City USA has hired Shawna Tickle and Peter Strob as dedicated sales representatives. Tickle will be responsible for Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado, and Strob will be responsible for North Carolina, South Carolina and Southwest Virginia.

Photos from one of Philadelphia's more popular museum gift shops.

What can a distributor do to make "pajamas" mean "profits"? Read through our list of seven ways to sell robes and spa wear and you'll find out.

Carolina Made has partnered with Dri Duck Traders to add the high-quality outdoor apparel and headwear to its current product offering. The collaboration will take place in the fall of 2012. 

Ennis Inc. has reported financial results for the three and six months ended August 31, 2012. Overall sales for the second quarter were up 6.1 percent, at $138.3 million, and up 2.7 percent for the six-month period, at $273.6 million.

Scare up some fall weather sales with jackets.

Philly Fashion Week offers new ideas for adding color and accessories to spring looks.

American Apparel, the Los Angeles-based apparel supplier and retailer, recently signed a new lease on a 220,000 square foot warehouse. The company's lease for the building, located in La Miranda, Calif., is for five years.

Ennis Inc., a manufacturer of business forms and apparel headquartered in Midlothian, Texas, has announced its quarterly cash dividend. The board of directors has declared a cash dividend of 17.5 cents a share on its common stock. The dividend is payable on October 30, 2012 to shareholders of record on October 8, 2012.

It's hard to compete with workers willing to take pay as low as 23 cents an hour. Do we mean workers in Mexico or China? No. We mean Americans in federal prisons.

An Alabama clothing-maker recently found out just how hard, according to the Myrtle Beach Sun-News: American Apparel of Selma had to lay off 225 workers after it lost a contract for U.S. Army jackets to UNICOR, a $900 million behemoth with 89 factories around the U.S. Its workforce consists entirely of convicts.

If you thought prisoners made only license plates, think again.