Alstyle Apparel - Fashion Company Profile
Alstyle Apparel is the Anaheim blank-apparel maker whose t-shirts and fleece are sold to screen printers, embellishers and mass marketers - a printwear brand now owned by Gildan Activewear, which bought it from Ennis, Inc. in 2016. Ennis had owned it since 2004, when the acquisition doubled Ennis's size and made apparel one of its two business groups.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating as a brand of Gildan Activewear, which acquired Alstyle Apparel from Ennis, Inc. in May 2016 for $110 million
- Type
- Brand of Gildan Activewear Inc. (NYSE / TSX: GIL); an Ennis, Inc. division, 2004-2016
- Base
- Anaheim, California, United States (as filed)
- Record
- Acquired by Ennis in 2004 - the purchase that doubled Ennis to more than $500 million in revenue; sold by Ennis to Gildan in 2016
Company Profile
A blank-apparel brand sold through the print trade carries no consumer shop box here. The short filing below is Alstyle's record as an Ennis company - its distributed range of adult, ladies/juniors and youth tees, fleece, pants, shorts, headwear and closeouts - kept on this single page, with the 2016 Gildan sale stated in the snapshot so the Ennis-era description is not mistaken for its ownership today. Its parent of that era is filed beside it as Ennis Incorporated.
What Alstyle itself does is stated in its trading name and one distribution sentence: Alstyle Apparel & Activewear distributes adult t-shirts, ladies / juniors clothing, Youth T-shirts, Fleece Clothing, Pants, Shorts, Headwear, Closeouts, and more. That is a blank-apparel catalogue - the undecorated garments that printers, promoters and corporate apparel programmes buy in bulk and then brand. The categories are the decorator's staples: tees in adult, ladies/juniors and youth cuts, fleece for colder work, pants and shorts, headwear, and a closeouts line for price-driven buyers.
Why Blank Apparel Is Its Own Industry
A page about blank garments can look plain next to a designer profile, but the business it describes sits underneath a large part of the fashion industry. Every printed band tee, staff polo, school sweatshirt and promotional cap starts as somebody's blank, and the blank supplier's virtues are consistency of sizing and colour, depth of stock, and fabric that takes print well. Alstyle's filed range should be read with that customer in mind: the Ennis page in this letter describes the combined apparel line as featuring sizes from 2T to 6XL in the most fashionable styles and colors, with tees, fleece, polos, yoga pants, shorts and headwear - the corporate, golf and activewear programmes Alstyle feeds are filed there, and the two pages are designed to be read together.
The corporate apparel connection is explicit in both filings' preserved routes: both the Alstyle and Ennis originals link to the Apparel Search corporate apparel page, because decorated workwear and event clothing are the end market for much of this catalogue. Anaheim matters too: a California manufacturing and distribution base put Alstyle close to the West Coast garment and print trade, complementing the parent company's printing plants spread across the country, whose geography is detailed on the Ennis page.
Common Questions
What is Alstyle Apparel?
An Anaheim based apparel manufacturer - Alstyle Apparel & Activewear - distributing adult t-shirts, ladies/juniors clothing, youth t-shirts, fleece clothing, pants, shorts, headwear, closeouts and more, in the historical record.
When did Ennis acquire Alstyle, and why does it matter?
In 2004; the acquisition doubled the size of Ennis to more than $500 million in revenue, in the historical record - it was the purchase that made apparel one of Ennis's two business groups.
Who buys blank apparel like Alstyle's?
The filings point to the corporate apparel market: both originals link to the Apparel Search corporate apparel page, and the Ennis filing describes the apparel line's tees, fleece, polos, yoga pants, shorts and headwear in sizes from 2T to 6XL.
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