Sentence examples for textile empire from inspiring English sources

Loro Piana, a family-owned textile empire, is headquartered in northeastern Italy, near Biella, which is considered the high-end textile center of Italy.

The tomb belonged to the von Kramst family, German owners of a Silesian textile empire, and was rumored to be full of treasure.

The self-effacing billionaire boss of Spain's Intidex textile empire, Amancio Ortega, who founded the Zara fashion chain, is taking a dramatic change of direction by creating a global alternative energy network.

In a sequence of incredible events described here (and also in Lately Thomas's authoritative "Astor Orphans: A Pride of Lions"), he separated painfully from Amélie, wrote voluminously and histrionically about his pain and then embarked on a risky venture: creating the entire town of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., as part of a projected textile empire.

Law Kar Po's early fortune traces to his father's textile empire.

When the French government was casting about for someone to take over the bankrupt textile empire of Boussac, Bernheim backed Arnault.

Take, for example, the wealthy industrialist Samuel Courtauld, scion of the Courtauld textile empire, whose collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings assembled during the 1920s and 30s helped permanently establish their importance in the post-war period.

He owns an estate, several townhouses and a lucrative steel, sugar, textile and paper empire.