Ennis Incorporated - Fashion Company Profile
Ennis, Inc. is the Texas wholesale printing company founded in 1909 with one press salvaged from a newspaper fire - today one of the largest private-label printed business product suppliers in the United States, trading on the New York Stock Exchange as EBF. It belongs in a fashion directory for two chapters of its history: it began by printing cotton tags for the garment trade, and from 2004 to 2016 it owned the blank-apparel maker Alstyle Apparel.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - one of the largest private-label printed business product suppliers in the United States; its apparel chapter ended in May 2016, when it sold its apparel division, Alstyle Apparel, to Gildan Activewear for $110 million
- Type
- Public - NYSE: EBF
- Headquarters
- Midlothian, Texas, United States
- Founded
- 1909, in Ennis, Texas, by Garner Dunkerley, Sr., with one press salvaged from the Ennis Daily News fire
Company Profile
A distributor-model printing company carries no shop box. The century-long record below - cotton tags, business forms, the plant-by-plant expansion and the 2004 Alstyle acquisition that doubled the company - is summarised here and kept in full on the history page, with the 2016 sale of Alstyle to Gildan stated in the snapshot so the two-group description is read as the period record it is. Ennis today is a print company, headquartered in Midlothian, Texas.
The apparel half is concrete: they own Alstyle Apparel, and offer one of the most extensive selections of activewear, corporate, and golf apparel found anywhere, in sizes from 2T to 6XL in the most fashionable styles and colors - a line featuring a large selection of tees, fleece, polos, yoga pants, shorts and headwear. Alstyle's own short filing is preserved on its companion page in this letter; this page carries the century of printing history that stands behind it, because that history explains the distributor model both halves share: Ennis sells through distributors, not to the public, and its century of growth is a history of plants and acquisitions placed close to regional markets.
Ennis, Inc. 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- its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Ennis, Inc. History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
How was Ennis founded?
In 1909, when Garner Dunkerley, Sr. started the company in Ennis, Texas with one press salvaged from a fire that destroyed The Ennis Daily News; cotton tags were the primary business, Ennis being in the heart of the central Texas cotton region, in the historical record.
What are Ennis's two business groups?
Printing and Apparel, in the historical record: the printing side grew from tags and business forms, and the apparel side owns Alstyle Apparel, offering activewear, corporate and golf apparel in sizes from 2T to 6XL.
Why is a printing company in a fashion directory?
Because of Alstyle Apparel: Ennis's 2004 acquisition of the Anaheim apparel manufacturer doubled the company to more than $500 million in revenue and made apparel one of its two groups, in the historical record.
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