The
End of Quotas:
A Final Nail or
Much Ado About Nothing?
By
Jackie Rosselli
You’ve
probably seen the headlines or read the reports. “Panic
is spreading ahead of quota abolition,”; “Beware
Beijing when it’s freed from quotas cage,”;
or “China To Rule Textile Market after 2005,” are
just several titles to the literally hundreds of
articles and studies covering the impending lifting
of apparel and textile quotas come January, 2005.
As the headlines suggest, much of the content is
apocalyptic. Factories will close their doors,
thousands will lose their jobs, and the American
textile industry, like others before it, will vanish.
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Aramark
Leadership Sees Robust Uniform Future With New
Markets Opening Right Now
By
Rick Levine
PART
1 - New
Markets Opening Right Now
 No
one will disagree that the customer
driving the industrial laundry
for the past 100 years has
been the United States (U.S.)
manufacturer. Factory employees
were the ideal user for laundry
service. But over the last few
decades, the manufacturing base
in the U.S. has declined dramatically.
Companies such as Aramark faced
significant growth challenges.
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PART
2 - $23
Million Aramark Plant Brings 350 Jobs To Former
Site Of Chicago International Amphitheatre
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PART
3 - Aramark
Reports Strong Growth in Sales and Improved
Earnings for Third Quarter Fiscal 2004
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Why
Trust?
By
Joseph Greco
Why
focus on trust?
The very nature of our industry, the pursuit of supplying
and dressing employees in uniforms, is based upon building
confidence through the visual image. When our customer’s
customer encounters an employee in uniform, the perception
created is one of reliability and dependability. If you
check for synonyms you will also find the word “trustworthiness.”
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Websites
for the Uniform Industry: An Online Primer
By
Jackie Rosselli
It’s
an obvious statement, but there is no shortage
of information to be found on line. Whether
you’re looking to grow your business, track
industry trends or research a specific segment
of the uniform market, the answers are only mouse
clicks away for the veteran web surfer.
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