apparel market

But retailers also showed signs of life in the moribund apparel market.

That was a very small fraction - about 0.05 percent - of the American apparel market that year.

Most experts expect that China, left unimpeded, will gain almost half the global apparel market.

Imported leather goods account for more than 95 percent of the entire American leather apparel market.

By 1998 Victoria's Secret's market share of the intimate apparel market was 14 percent.

By the end of 2005, according to a World Bank study, China is expected to control 47 percent of the world's apparel market.

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It is all part of a turnaround effort as Levi Strauss struggles in a lukewarm apparel market.

Liquid Force now counts as one of the leading manufacturers in the wakeboard related products and apparel market.

Wal-Mart may even take advantage of other retailers' troubles to cut prices more and capture a greater share of the apparel market, some analysts said.

The Christian apparel market, virtually nonexistent only two years ago, has expanded from its T-shirt roots into fashionable clothes.

While trunk shows represent too tiny a share of the $9.6 billion-a-year children's apparel market to measure, they seem poised for growth.

Indeed, this part of the apparel market was largely ignored in the 1980's as national chains rushed to serve a more affluent shopper.

Women's and girls' apparel, the sector of the apparel market that has experienced the strongest consumer demand, showed the greatest price rises in the period.

Increased profits from the company's Lycra spandex fibers were partly offset by lower demand for nylon in apparel markets.

In the $108 billion women's apparel market alone, specialty retailers now have about 15 percent market share, compared with the department stores' 28 percent.

Apparel Marketing makes, decorates and distributes outerwear and active wear for men, women and children.

It also sells into the collegiate apparel market and in 2005, commenced a consumer-direct catalogue and e-commerce site.

In 1987-88 there was a downturn in the women's apparel market because the fashions grew dramatically younger as the demographics of the consumer grew older.

With just 71 outlets and $392 million in annual sales, Loehmann's commands less than 4 percent of the very competitive off-price apparel market.

But there is growing sentiment that, once these areas are ironed out, Tencel can become a big player in the better home furnishings and apparel markets.

A slow down in the retail apparel market and ill-conceived merchandising rollouts are cited for causing the company tailspin.

Two are designed to meet a growing demand for commercial condo space among the largely Korean businesspeople who make up the lower end of the wholesale apparel market.

Crucifixes have long been worn as a badge of belief, but the religion-theme apparel market today offers an expanded, more Gap-like selection of merchandise.

Imports control 60 percent of the United States textile and apparel market, and footwear imports control 80 percent.