Fashion Business Inc. History

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The Company Description of Its Time

This profile is a historical record, and the historical record says so at the top: after helping start-up and growing apparel companies for nearly two decades, the Fashion Business Inc. closed operations in the later half of 2017, and the following is for historical purposes. The directory keeps the profile exactly on those terms. The Fashion Business, Inc. was a 501(c)(3) that provided the fashion industry with the resources and training to turn businesses into a profitable reality. Through FBI Resource Centers, its website and its business partners, it offered members business education, technical training, sourcing, networking, marketing and consulting services - services meant, in the filing's words, to promote the success of FBI members and insure the future vibrancy of America's fashion industry.

Training, Seminars and the Article Trail

The training model is specific: most modules were developed to provide two to three hours of industry specific business development information, taught by working industry professionals who fully understand the needs of today's fast changing global apparel industry. The seminar titles in the historical service list show the curriculum's practical bent - How To Start an Apparel Business, Getting Ready For Market, Operational Management, The Rules of Engagement, The Name of the Game is Profit, How To Build a Trunk Show Business, The Art of Selling in the Apparel Industry, How To Recruit and Develop Your Sales Team, and How To Create a Well Drafted Sales Rep Agreement. Profit, selling and sales-rep agreements: this was training for owners, not for hobbyists.

The historical record also carries a long trail of Apparel Search articles about FBI activity between 2008 and 2011, and every one of those editorial links is carried on this page: a Retail Math Webinar in July 2011, a Designer Launchpad Runway Show in June 2010, pieces on trunk show businesses, fast supply chains, free apparel job skills training, Los Angeles Textile Week and MAGIC Marketplace seminar series, an Adobe Illustrator workshop for textile designers, textile science and retail math seminars in 2008, and news items on Samsung executives and Kellwood training at FBI. The filed address was 110 East 9th Street, Suite C798, Los Angeles, CA 90079 - in the heart of the Los Angeles fashion district the organisation served.

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