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Westpoint Stevens Inc. (WSPT Q) is in the Manufacturing Industry
- Market Cap
- Sep 02 2008
- $24.9K
Latest News and Analysis
People Briefs.
By Staff Maley Joins Park B. Smith Staff Veteran home textiles executive Margaret "Mickey" Maley has joined Park B. Smith Inc. in the newly created position of director of sales and business development....
Four Premier Bankruptcy Partners Join Cadwalader's Restructuring Team
NEW YORK -- Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, one of the world's leading international law firms, announced today that Deryck A. Palmer, John J. Rapisardi, George A. Davis, and Andrew M. Troop will join the firm as partners in the Financial Restructuring Department, based in New York....
CMI Names Bradshaw, Woll to New Posts.
By Staff Pawtucket, R.I. -- Braided texture area and accent rug company cmi has promoted and hired two executives. John Bradshaw has moved up to vp, national sales manager, and Robin Woll has been...
CMI Names Bradshaw, Woll to New Posts (Home Textiles Today)
Pawtucket, R.I. -- Braided texture area and accent rug company CMI has promoted and hired two executives. John Bradshaw has moved up to vp, national sales manager, and Robin Woll has been appointed EDI Electronic Data Interchange specialist. ...
WestPoint Stevens.(EASTERN)
WAGRAM -- WestPoint Stevens will close a towel factory and distribution center here by April, letting go about 800 workers. Company executives blamed foreign competition. The West Point, Ga.-based maker of bedding and bathroom products has been operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since...
Industry Vets Form Hatchery Partners.(Waverly Lifestyle Group )(Tommy Hilfiger Home)(Dale Williams )(Lily Zane )(Brief article)
By Staff New York - Three industry veterans have joined to create Hatchery Partners, a design and product development consultancy. Hatchery Partners president Dale Williams was most recently president of Waverly Lifestyle Group and has held...
Gehm Joins Dan River (Home Textiles Today)
New York -- Laying the cornerstone of a refocused global home fashions business, Dan River Inc. has hired major mill veteran Bob Gehm, one-time president of sales at the former WestPoint Stevens, as senior vp of sales and marketing, retail and institutional. Gehm joins...
Gehm Joins Dan River.(Bob Gehm)(Dan River Inc. )
By Don Hogsett New York -- Laying the cornerstone of a refocused global home fashions business, Dan River Inc. has hired major mill veteran Bob Gehm, one-time president of sales at the former WestPoint Stevens, as senior vp of...
Second-Lien Financing: Part V: Who Gets What?
In our past four articles in this series,3 we have explored the relationship between first- and second-lien lenders and how the structure of that relationship, often embodied in the intercreditor agreement, has impacted the course of a reorganization of the borrower. Further, we have discussed the tensions between the contractual...
Identify the Attitudes, Needs and Behaviors of Bed and Bath Linen Consumers in the US
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c38327) has announced the addition of Bed and Bath Linens in the United States to their offering. This report clearly identifies the principal external factors driving or curtailing growth in the bed and bath linen market. While the bed...
Connolly retires; led Lenox towel division of Bardwil.(News)(Meg Connolly)(Brief article)
New York -- Bardwil Linens said goodbye to Meg Connolly last week after she announced her decision to retire. She was vp of the company's Lenox towel division, which she helped launch for Bardwil two years ago when she joined the company. ...
Robert Allen Group Promotes Tarver to EVP (Home Textiles Today)
New York -- The Robert Allen Group, a designer and marketer of decorative fabrics and furnishings to the interior design trade, has promoted Greg Tarver to Executive VP, manufacturing and operations. In this newly created position, reporting to President Jeff Cordover, Tarver will supervise operations and will continue to manage...
Robert Allen Group promotes Tarver to EVP.(Greg Tarver, executive vice president)(Brief Article)
NEW YORK -- The Robert Allen Group, a designer and marketer of decorative fabrics and furnishings to the interior design trade, has promoted Greg Tarver to executive vp, manufacturing and operations. In this newly created position, reporting to President Jeff Cordover, Tarver will supervise operations and...
WP wrangling continues.(News)(WestPoint Stevens Inc.)(Brief Article)
NEW YORK -- The continuing contest over the sale terms of WestPoint Stevens to affiliates of Carl Icahn will resume in a federal bankruptcy courtroom Tuesday even as its successor, WestPoint Home, apparently continues to downsize its operations, including at its New York offices. ...
Transition at the top: dynamic activity in 2005 for HTT's top 5 supplier giants.(SUPPLIER GIANTS 2005)
NEW YORK -- In the face of competitive pressures from retailer-direct programs and a corps of emerging off-shore manufacturers, the leading U.S. home textiles suppliers produced just slightly more gainers than decliners in 2005. Among the 88 rankings for which year-over-year...
Leading juvenile textile producers.(By the Numbers)
Greensboro, N.C. -- From big manufacturers that make their mark with licensed collections to more upscale crib bedding specialists, the companies profiled in Kids Today's leading textile producers run the gamut in styles and price points. From Thomas the Tank Engine to...
Leading juvenile textile producers.
By Jane Kitchen Greensboro, N.C.- From big manufacturers that make their mark with licensed collections to more upscale crib bedding specialists, the companies profiled in Kids Today's leading textile producers run the gamut in styles and price points. From...
WestPoint Stevens.(IN THE NEWS)
CHIPLEY -- Carl Icahn-affiliated American Real Estate Partners has bought WestPoint Stevens, which has manufacturing plants in Chipley and Marianna. The plants, now part of operating company WestPoint Home, make top-of-bed accessories. Combined employment, now 955, could increase by 50, manager Terry Ellis says....
LI & FUNG APPOINTS SALES VP FOR HOME.(Li & Fung USA, Jeffrey Kambak, vice president)(Brief Article)
NEW YORK-Li & Fung USA named Jeffrey Kambak as vice president of sales for the Home Brands Group, a new post. He will report directly to Jack Toolan, executive vice president of the Home Brands Group. In his new role, Kambak will be responsible...
Li & Fung hires vp of sales.(appointment of Jeffrey Kambak as vice president)(Li & Fung Trading Ltd.,)(Home Brands Group)(Brief Article)
NEW YORK -- Li & Fung USA, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based global sourcing group Li & Fung Trading Ltd., has hired Jeffrey Kambak as vice president of sales for the Home Brands Group. He will be responsible for building separate national sales...
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- Incorporated: 1987
Westpoint Stevens Inc. Company Info
Board of Directors
M. L. Fontenot
Joseph R. Gladden Jr.
M. Katherine Dwyer
John F. Sorte
Hugh M. Chapman
J. Hicks Lanier
Contact Information
507 West Tenth Street
West Point, GA
http://www.westpointstevens.com
706 645-4000
NAICS Code
Other Household Textile Product Mills: 314129
