Capital Mercury Apparel - Fashion Company Profile
Capital Mercury Apparel was an American maker and wholesaler of men's dress and sport shirts, supplying branded and private-label shirts - including Bill Blass lines - to department stores and mass retailers from its Arkansas and Missouri shirt plants. In 2009 it sold its operating business, and court records describe the company afterwards winding down its affairs and moving out of the apparel business. This page is kept as the record of that filing; there is no current company website.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Wound down - the company sold its operating shirt business in 2009 and, according to court records in its employee stock plan case, then transitioned out of the apparel business and expected to cease operations as the sale royalties expired
- Type
- Men's shirt manufacturer and wholesaler (historical)
Company Profile
The range covers the full wearable wardrobe a distributor needs: from outerwear to wovens, sweaters to sportshirts, Capital Mercury has it, and they distribute both men's apparel and women's apparel. The mission statement, as recorded: to design, manufacture, and bring to the ASI/promotional Products market value priced, high quality apparel in both Branded and Private Label categories through industry suppliers. ASI is the promotional products channel - the world of logoed corporate and event apparel - and this filing is the directory's window into that wholesale layer of the industry, a layer most consumer-facing directories never record.
Brands, Fabrics and Private Label
The three house brands are focused, in the company(?:'|')s words, on better fabrics with innovative fabrications to yield the highest quality apparel in the industry: mercerized yarns in knits, wrinkle-free wovens, Teflon coated fabrics for stain and soil repellency, and micro-fiber blends give their brands distinction and a reason to exist in today's crowded wearables market. Bill Blass Premium carries a designer licence name into the promotional channel; Arnold Palmer carries a sporting name; NYNE is the company's own label. Alongside the brands, Capital Mercury also manufactures knits and wovens for some of the industry's top private label brands - the unbranded side of the same factories.
The operating footprint is stated with unusual completeness for a filing of this size, and it is kept whole: a 45-year-old ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) company, founded in 1960, headquartered in New York City, with two 300,000-square-foot warehouses in Northwest Arkansas. They have traditionally serviced their customer base through domestic and global manufacturing; in the early 1980's they expanded their overseas offices to include Hong Kong, Seoul, Korea, and Dhaka, Bangladesh. They own and operate three manufacturing facilities in Mexico, one facility in Central America, and five overseas offices in Asia, and state a commitment to exceeding social and human rights compliance in all of their worldwide facilities.
Common Questions
What brands did Capital Mercury build?
NYNE, Bill Blass Premium and Arnold Palmer, made as durable, high quality apparel at competitive prices for the ASI/promotional products market, in the historical record.
Where was Capital Mercury based, and what facilities did it report?
Headquartered at 1359 Broadway, New York; two 300,000-square-foot warehouses in Northwest Arkansas, three manufacturing facilities in Mexico, one in Central America and five overseas offices in Asia.
When was the company founded, and how is it owned?
Founded in 1960 and described as a 45-year-old ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) company.
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