GREENSBORO, N.C. - Apparel maker VF Corp. is cutting about 13,000 jobs, or 18 percent of its...distribution center of VF Playwear Inc., a subsidiary of VF Corp. that specializes in children's and infant apparel bearing...
...of 310 jobs and a $25 million investment, officials announced Thursday. VF Playware Inc., whose parent company is VF Corp. of Greensboro, N.C., manufactures and distributes children's and infant apparel, bearing the Healthtex, Lee...
...American Corp., a Japanese wire-maker; and apparel giant VF Corp. South Carolina's Aiken County was the site of the metro...of tax breaks and other payoffs for creating new jobs. VF Corp., for example, picked Edgefield County as the site of...
...wear and specialty products such as tents, boat covers and awnings. Customers include leading apparel companies such as VF Corp. (maker of Lee and Wrangler jeans). EMPLOYEES: 3,100 in Augusta-Aiken metropolitan area (approximate), making...
...sector to provide their view of important trends for 2004. RETAIL: Mackey McDonald, chairman, CEO and president of VF Corp. Despite a rebounding economy, don't expect consumers to go on big shopping sprees in 2004, says McDonald, who runs...
...zipper into Wrangler jeans. At roughly $9.50 an hour, plus benefits, the job was good to Peavler, too. So when VF Corp. cut hours at its Okmulgee, Okla., jeans factory a few years ago, Peavler waited three months for business to bounce...
...the Edgefield County Industrial Park that was vacated by VF Corp. in November. Robert Long, the assistant director of...jobs, which will help offset the loss of 200 jobs from VF Corp.'s departure, Mr. Long said. Several former employees...
...shortly after Richmond County was ruled out as a location by VF Corp. for its $25 million distribution center because its...tax credit would have only offered about $500,000 to VF Corp., Mr. Shea said it might have kept negotiations open...
...keeps its nose out of its members' business. So why didn't the county join sooner, say, two years ago, before VF Corp. went shopping for incentives and moved its distribution center from south Augusta to Edgefield County? Or how about...
...people at the center it plans in India. Family Dollar has programmers in India modifying sales software. Greensboro's VF Corp., the maker of Wrangler jeans, has an Indian help desk for workers with computer problems. South Carolina utility SCANA...
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