Apparel

HanesBrands, the apparel supplier based in Winston-Salem, N.C., announced today that it has negotiated an amendment to its revolving loan facility credit agreement that reduces borrowing costs and extends the revolver's maturity date.

Some of the coolest promotional products from the year's biggest comic convention.

The Midlothian Rotary Club heard a presentation from Ennis Inc. in Midlothian about the company's business and outlook on the future at its meeting July 10.

Ennis Inc. Vice President Ron Graham and Vice President of Marketing Steven Osterloh spoke to Rotarians about their apparel and printing wholesale company.

"When (U.S. Highway) 287 was just a two-lane road, Ennis Inc. moved out to Midlothian," Osterloh said. "In 1998 the company saw an explosion of growth through acquisitions, from 129 million to a 630 million run rate. Most of our products are recognized by other company names and brands that we have acquired."

Pork producers and fashion designers are unlikely allies. But that is exactly what they will be when negotiators from the United States join their counterparts from nine Asia-Pacific countries in San Diego next week to hammer out the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Specifically, when the negotiations get underway, observers from farms to fashion shows will be counting on U.S. negotiators' ability to make pigs fly, or more specifically, make American pork fly to Asian markets.

The TPP is a prospective regional free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States, Australia, Chile, Peru, Singapore, New Zealand, Brunei, Malaysia, Mexico and Vietnam.

Fall 2012 couture lines showed last week. Read on for the trends that will hit the promotional products industry in summer or fall 2013.

As technology evolves, chargeable options will become prevalent. Soon enough, we might be covered on our bodies from head to toe.

Yves Saint Laurent will change its name to "Saint Laurent Paris." What are the risks associated with rebranding?

How are boy bands influencing young men's fashion? Forget about thought-provoking lyrics, One Direction is bringing the fashion heat.

Throughout July, Philadelphia-based Bodek and Rhodes is teaming up with Gildan to offer a free iPad every business day of the month to the customer with the highest total online purchase.

Before it was prohibited to import from Myanmar, U.S. apparel companies brought in as much as $409 million a year in clothing from that Southeast Asian country, which lies northwest of Thailand.

That amount dropped to zero after U.S. import bans went into effect in 2003 to punish a military dictatorship charged with human rights and civil-liberties violations. But now with the United States naming a new ambassador to Myanmar (formerly Burma) and investment being allowed there, apparel companies are eager to renew their sourcing ties with a country where the average garment worker makes a about $80 a month.