Delta Galil Industries

Delta Galil Industries Ltd. is the Israeli global manufacturer and marketer of branded and private-label apparel founded in 1975, headquartered in Caesarea, Israel and listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Built on a 'body-before-fabric' philosophy, Delta Galil develops seamless apparel, bras, shapewear and socks, women's intimate apparel, men's underwear and babywear, activewear, sleepwear and leisurewear, for its own brands — among them Schiesser, Eminence, Splendid, P.J. Salvage and 7 For All Mankind — and as private label for many of the world's largest retailers and brands. Because its listing is in Tel Aviv rather than on Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange, this profile carries no U.S. financial-information block.

Company Profile

The February 2019 summary in the record describes the range in full: innovative seamless apparel including bras, shapewear and socks; intimate apparel for women; branded men's underwear under Eminence, Athena and Liabel; babywear, activewear, sleepwear and leisurewear; and branded denim under 7 For All Mankind and women's apparel under Splendid and Ella Moss. The October 2013 summary lists the private-label customer base of that era — Wal-Mart, Target, Victoria's Secret, Marks & Spencer, J.C. Penney, Kohl's and brands from Nike and Calvin Klein to Tommy Hilfiger and Triumph.

Delta Galil's position is the manufacturer's version of scale: vertically integrated production across Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Bulgaria and Thailand, research centres for fabric innovation, and a portfolio that mixes its own European heritage brands with licensed and private-label volume. It is one of the few companies in this guide whose customers are principally the other companies in this guide.

The range behind the name is seamless apparel, intimate apparel, underwear, socks, babywear, activewear and denim. Its customers are its own brand customers and the world's largest retailers, as branded and private-label product. That combination — what is sold, and to whom — is the simplest way to place Delta Galil Industries in the industry: it explains the company's costs, its competitors and the kind of news that moved its shares when it had them. A change in either half of the combination, a new product category or a new customer, is usually the first sign that the business described in the older summaries is turning into something different.

Scale should be read from the dated summaries with their dates attached. Store counts, sales descriptions and market positions quoted there were the company's own account of itself in that year, and they are the right basis for comparing Delta Galil Industries with the other companies in this section — a component supplier against a retailer, or a catalogue house against a mall chain — as long as each figure is compared with figures from roughly the same period.

For current dealings, the snapshot at the top of this page is the place to start: it gives the company's present status — Operating — listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange; it has no Nasdaq or NYSE listing, so this page carries no U.S. exchange financial block — and links to the official website, which is where current product ranges, store information and investor or corporate contacts are maintained. Anything in the dated summaries that conflicts with the snapshot should be read as the older position: summaries describe the year they are dated, and the snapshot describes the company as it stands now.

Company summaries of this kind were the working tool of the apparel trade as much as of investors: a buyer, landlord or supplier checking Delta Galil Industries could see its scale, its headquarters and its own description of its business in a few paragraphs. Those dated descriptions are kept with their dates, because a store count from 2013 or a strategy statement from 2019 is evidence about that year, not about today. The current position is the one given in the snapshot: operating.