The exposure of apparel suppliers to the Campeau subsidiaries is said to be relatively small.

The program soon expanded to other vendors, including apparel suppliers, who entered their own "trading partnerships" with Wal-Mart.

In 2004 Orca was the official apparel supplier to the New Zealand Olympic team.

"We are the last major apparel supplier to move manufacturing out of the United States," said Sam Tucker, vice president for human resources.

Private-label products also relieve some of the tension that has existed between the stores and their apparel suppliers for years.

These key practices affect how apparel suppliers acquire and use information concerning demand at the SKU level.

The least innovative apparel suppliers are seeing their chances for survival dwindle every year.

In September 2012 It was announced that the Mariners had signed a 2 year deal with Kappa for them to be the official apparel supplier.

Meanwhile, modular production allows apparel suppliers to reduce the time required for a given product to move through the assembly process.

But we want to stress here that today's apparel supplier usually does not produce all of its own garments, from start to finish.