Sentence examples for private clothing from inspiring English sources

Anthony Thompson, formerly in charge of Asda's "George" brand of clothes, left to join Fat Face, a private clothing company, rejoicing that: "I no longer have to slavishly adhere to corporate nonsense and overbearing governance".

A new management team brought in by Mr. Baker has revitalized Hudson Bay's private clothing labels and brought in several high-end designer lines.

Founded in 1976, Beams is both a private clothing label and department store, as well as a major force within the Japanese retail scene.

In contrast private clothing retailer New Look is understood to have seen a 1.5% rise in same-store sales in the seven weeks to the end of the year.

The quotas tend to be issued predominantly to the state textile firms, who then sell off their surplus quota allocations to private clothing manufacturers.The distortions that were caused by this system have become evident since the ending of quotas at the end of 2004.

Among Wiese's best-known investments are a 15% stake in publicly traded Shoprite Holdings, which controls supermarkets, furniture stores and fast food outlets in 15 countries across Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands, and a controlling interest in Pepkor, a private clothing and footwear giant with nearly 32,000 employees.

Since then it has boosted weekly volume from $1.5 million to $2.2 million by adding such merchandise as $1,000 diamond rings and ASDA's George line of cheap-as-dirt private label clothing which, it claims, has become the second-largest clothing brand, by volume, in the U.K. ASDA also packed in an optical center, a health and beauty department and a film-processing station.

Consumers may be more wary of unbranded goods like private label clothing that they have never seen, felt or tried on.

"I saw the challenges of being at the mercy of the large department stores," said Mr. Guttman, 33, whose family spent more than 60 years supplying department stores with private label clothing through a company based in Montreal, Paris Star.

Outside of consumer products, Amazon has also invested in fashion, having quietly launched over a half dozen private label clothing brands earlier this year, including Franklin & Freeman, Franklin Tailored, James & Erin, Lark & Ro, North Eleven, Scout + Ro, and Society New York.

(Figures include private-label clothing, which the stores commission).