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American Apparel (Los Angeles, California), the major US apparel manufacturer
and distributor, announced that it would acquire a dyeing plant to bring all
of its dyeing volume in-house.
The company has purchased a dyeing plant from US Dyeing & Finishing in
Garden Grove, California for $3.8 million, and will keep its employees (about
140). Among the assets purchased are equipment such as dyeing machinery, washers,
compressors and boilers. The company will take over the lease on two adjacent
buildings as well (about 145,000m2). US Dyeing & Finishing has operated this
facility for contract work of dyeing and finishing for American Apparel products
for approximately ten years. American Apparel is a brand with 185 stores in 15
countries with about 7,000 employees around the world (as of May 2008). Besides
the US, the company has stores in Canada, Mexico, the UK, Belgium, France, Germany,
Italy, Holland, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel, Australia, Japan and Korea. It has
an online-shop to sell casual wear like T-shirts as well. |