BNET Industries

Cone Mills Corp.

is in the Manufacturing Industry

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$300.0M

Private

Dow Jones Description

Established in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1891 by brothers Moses and Ceasar Cone, Cone Denim has been a leading supplier of fabric to top denim apparel brands for over 100 years. Throughout the century, Cone Denim has been synonymous with authenticity and innovation. Today, the same entrepreneurial spirit, expertise and advanced capability continues to service and inspire the global market. Cone Denim currently operates in the U.S., Mexico and Turkey with expansion initiatives underway in China and Nicaragua.

President

John Bakane

Number of Employees 2,999

Contact Information

www.cone.com

Peer Companies

NAICS Code Broadwoven Fabric Mills: 313210

News & Analysis

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Cone goes hungry on a high-fiber diet. (Cone Mills Corp.)

- 1997-04-01

The 1990s have not been kind to Greensboro-based Cone Mills Corp., the world's largest maker of denim. When Cone (COE-NYSE) returned to the public market in 1992 after eight years in private hands, it enjoyed record earnings. Net income hit $1.59 a share, then rose to ...

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Cone goes hungry on a high-fiber diet. (Cone Mills Corp.)

- 1997-04-01

The 1990s have not been kind to Greensboro-based Cone Mills Corp., the world's largest maker of denim. When Cone (COE-NYSE) returned to the public market in 1992 after eight years in private hands, it enjoyed record earnings. Net income hit $1.59 a share, then rose to ...

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Cone slashes corduroy biz. (Cones Mills Corp. to cut back on corduroy manufacturing)

- 1992-02-11

NEW YORK -- In a move that surprised the domestic bottomweight business, Cone Mills, up until now the country's largest producer of corduroy, has begun "an orderly withdrawal from the continuous piece-dyed corduroy and piece-dyed flat fabrics business." The withdrawal is expected to...

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio)	Position
John Bakane	President
Mark D. Collins
Thomas McKenna	Marketing Executive

Organization	Position	Status
Cone Mills Corporation	President	Current

Mark D. Collins is a director of Richards, Layton & Finger, where he is Chair of the firm's Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. Mr. Collins concentrates his practice in the areas of bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors' rights, with particular experience representing debtors, institutional lenders, creditors' committees and acquirers in national Chapter 11 cases. Mr. Collins has served as counsel to numerous chapter 11 debtors, with recent representations including Teleglobe Communications Corporation, Tower Records, FAO Inc. and Armstrong World Industries. Mr. Collins also has an active secured lender practice, with recent representations including the senior lenders in Federal-Mogul Corporation, Thaxton Industries, Cone Mills Corporation and Owens Corning.