Apparel Companies E

Welcome to the E section of the Apparel Search Fashion Company Names directory. The chip grid below is this letter's table of contents: 12 company profiles, one chip each, in alphabetical order. It is a letter of travellers and makers: two VF travel-and-bags divisions open it, a Cairo sourcing fair and a Fujian embroidery house stand in the middle, and two American marketplaces - Revolve's curated retail and Etsy's handmade community - close it beside a global lifestyle brand born in a California station wagon. That mixture is the point of a names directory: it files the fashion industry under the names people actually look up, whether the name belongs to a manufacturer, a retailer, a trade fair or a marketplace.

Two reading notes belong on this hub. First, Alstyle Apparel and Ennis Incorporated are filed as two profiles: Ennis carries the 1909 printing-to-apparel group history, Alstyle carries the Anaheim activewear manufacturer's own short record, and the pair cross-reference each other. The grid above lists each page once, so both Ennis filings are one click away. Second, several names here belong to history as much as to the present: Elder-Beerman's profile ends with its 2003 acquisition by The Bon-Ton, and Eddie Bauer's timeline ends with the June 2009 Chapter 11 announcement. The directory keeps those records dated and honest rather than silently updating them.

Reading the E Profiles: Gear, Stores, Fairs and Marketplaces

The letter divides naturally into four kinds of company. Gear and bags: Eagle Creek, travel products backed by a lifetime guarantee, and Eastpak, packs and bags famed for collaborations with Ozzy Osbourne, The Prodigy and Raf Simons - both divisions of VF, whose own profile is filed in V. Stores: Eddie Bauer, the 1920 Seattle outdoor retailer with its patented down jacket and Everest outfitting in the timeline; Elder-Beerman, the Dayton department store chain built from an 1883 dry goods store; Esprit, the 1968 California lifestyle brand run from Dusseldorf and Hong Kong; and Express, the sixth largest US specialty retailer of women's and men's apparel in its filing. Each store profile gives its own facts, from store counts to occasion lists.

A note on dates: several E filings are snapshots, and this hub flags them rather than smoothing them over. Esprit's figures are its 2006/2007 business year; Express's store count is its 2011 frame; Etsy's scale is dated December 31, 2018, with its Depop acquisition announced in June 2021; Embroidery Creation's service record was posted in July 2007; and Egytex's exhibitor record describes the 2008 edition, with a flashback to 2005 and 2006. Each profile states its own date frame in its text, so a researcher citing a number from this letter can cite the year that belongs to it.

Trade and making: Egytex, the Cairo International Apparel and Home Textile Sourcing Trade Fair held since 1997, with its 2006 record of 130 exhibitors and 476 buyers; Embroidery Creation, the Fujian digitizing house specialising since 1984 with a 12-hour turnaround; and the Ennis pair, a wholesale printing giant that began with cotton tags in 1909 and doubled itself by buying Alstyle's blank apparel business in 2004. Marketplaces: Eminent, Inc., the Cerritos company behind Revolve, founded in 2003, and Etsy, founded in a Brooklyn apartment in 2005 and grown, by its filing's dated snapshot, to 60 million items and 39.4 million buyers. If you know of an important fashion company beginning with E that is not listed here, you are welcome to make suggestions.