California Fashion Association - Fashion Company Profile
The California Fashion Association (CFA) is the trade association of the California apparel industry: a non-profit body that represents manufacturers, contractors, suppliers and service providers in the state's garment business, works on the trade, labour and sourcing questions that affect them, and speaks for the industry to government. It is based at the California Market Center in Los Angeles, the mart profiled elsewhere in this letter.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - California apparel industry trade association
- Type
- Non-profit trade association
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, California, United States - based at the California Market Center
Company Profile
The association's practical work - compliance guidance, sourcing connections through its California Fashion Manufacturing network, and industry advocacy - is why a directory of companies files it among the names: a brand or factory asking who represents California apparel manufacturing lands here. That work is described in the profile section below.
The mission statement, in the association(?:'|')s own words: 'The California Fashion Association (CFA) is a non-profit organization established to provide information for business expansion and growth to the apparel and textile industry of California.' The CFA has been the association for the apparel and textile community since that time - a trade-association filing, in other words, whose subject is not a product but an industry's collective voice, filed here among company names because that is where California apparel businesses look for it.
California Fashion Association History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
California Fashion Association History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
When and why was the California Fashion Association organised?
In 1995, as a non-profit public benefit 501(c)(6) corporation, as the outcome of a Fashion Industry Round Table hosted by Mayor Richard Riordan in response to the 'El Monte Sweatshop' labour-law incident, in the historical record.
What is the CFA's mission, as recorded?
To provide information for business expansion and growth to the apparel and textile industry of California; the CFA has been the association for the state's apparel and textile community since 1995.
What are the California Fashion Foundation and CFM?
The Foundation, created in 1999 from the heart of the CFA, is its fundraising arm, a non-profit (C-3) program for scholarships and allied charities. California Fashion Manufacturing (CFM) gathers and promotes information on the region's manufacturing, design and creative services, and is developed and managed by the CFA.
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