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Delta Woodside

Company Profile

  • Company out of business

  • Founded in 1950.

  • In October 2000 Delta Woodside Industries filed for bankruptcy protection and announced its intention to shut operations. Its Delta Mills subsidiary manufactured fabric for Levi Strauss, Lee, the Gap and the U.S. military. The Fountain Inn, South Carolina company cited foreign competition and "overcapacity in the domestic textile business" as principle factors.

    According to a company spokesman, the company suffered its final blow in August when the U.S. Defense Department reduced its orders from apparel manufacturers that used Delta Mills' fabrics. This segment of the business represented "a primary source of the entire Delta Mills' profit margin," said the spokesman.

    At it closing the company employed 600 people and operated two factories in South Carolina.

    In October 2004, the company revealed plans to close its spinning and weaving mill in Piedmont, South Carolina, eliminating 361 jobs, or about 25 percent of its workforce.

    [Source: WWD.com Tuesday, October 17, 2006.]

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