Sentence examples for apparel unit from inspiring English sources

Intimate apparel unit sales fell 2.7percentt in the third quarter, while sportswear sales, which include jeans, dropped 19percentt.

Spiegel Inc., Downers Grove, Il., the bankrupt retailer and publisher of the Spiegel catalog, won court permission to auction its Newport News women's apparel unit.

The Sara Lee Corporation said yesterday that it expected to complete the spinoff of its Hanes, Playtex and Wonderbra apparel unit by September as it shed assets to focus on faster-growing businesses.

Before arriving at F.A.O. Schwarz, Mr. Eyler held various management positions in the May Department Stores from 1979 to 1983 before moving on to serve as chief executive of Mainstreet, a family apparel unit of Federated Department Stores, and then chief executive of the men's clothing division of Hartmarx Corporation.

(AP) Sara Lee in Talks to Sell European Apparel Unit The Sara Lee Corporation said yesterday that it was in talks with a private equity firm, Sun Capital Partners Inc. of Boca Raton, Fla., on the sale of its European branded apparel business, probably at a price less than it anticipated.

The $6.4 billion apparel unit accounts for 35% of total revenue and 38% of operating income (2003 earnings before interest and taxes).

The company agreed this month to sell its British clothing division and has sold its European apparel units.

Until four years ago, it provided incentives like tax exemptions and special interest rates to small apparel units, thus discouraging investment in large machinery and the creation of more capacity.

The Sara Lee Corporation, maker of Jimmy Dean sausages and Hanes underwear, said yesterday that profit might fall in the next fiscal year and that it would reorganize its domestic meat and hosiery businesses and European intimate apparel units in an attempt to cut costs and increase sales.

The company also hired a new head of apparel, long a struggling unit, earlier this year.

Net sales slipped to $2.15 billion from $2.22 billion in the first quarter a year ago, which included $214 million in sales from the company's third-party apparel sourcing business, a unit that was sold in November.