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Special Reports
Textiles and Apparel in the USA: Restructuring for the 1990s

Published in July 1992

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  • 2.1 Textile industry indicators, 1986-91
  • 2.2 Mill consumption of textile fibres by fibre type and end use, 1986-90
  • 2.3 Mill consumption of US produced fibres for apparel end uses, 1986-90
  • 2.4 Mill consumption of US produced fibres by end use and fabric construction, 1986-90
  • 2.5 Mill consumption of US produced fibres by apparel end use classification and fabric type, 1986-90
  • 2.6 Mill consumption of US produced fibres for men's, youths' and boys' apparel, 1986-90
  • 2.7 Mill consumption of US produced fibres for women's, misses' and juniors' apparel. 1986-90
  • 2.8 Mill consumption of US produced fibres for girls, children and infants' apparel, 1986-90
  • 2.9 Value of exports, imports and trade imbalances, textile yarns and fabrics, 1990
  • 2.10 Value of exports, imports and trade imbalances, apparel products, 1990
  • 2.11 Value of exports, imports and trade imbalances by major countries' selected apparel categories most affected by large trade imbalances, 1990
  • 3.1 Sales, employment and labour productivity by industry sectors, 1990
  • 3.2 Major Textile fibre producers, 1975
  • 3.3 Major publicly-held textile and multi-industry companies, 1975
  • 3.4 Major publicly-held apparel and multi-industry companies, 1975
  • 3.5 Major retailing companies, 1975
  • 4.1 Share of world population of man-made fibres by region, 1984 and 1988
  • 4.2 Textile fibre families and members
  • 4.3 Fibre brand names and trademarks
  • 4.4 US fibre producers and their fibre families, 1990
  • 4.5 Fibre producers ranked by annual sales, cellulosic man-made fibres (SIC 2823), 1990
  • 4.6 Fibre producers ranked by annual sales, non-cellulosic fibres (SIC 2824), 1990
  • 4.7 Textile fibre company ownership changes, 1987-91
  • 5.1 Textile mill products, clothing end uses, 1990
  • 5.2 Financial performance of major publicly-held US textile companies, 1980 and 1989-1990
  • 5.3 Multi-industry companies, 1991
  • 5.4 Major merger partners, 1987-91
  • 5.5 Acquisitions by domestic textile companies, 1985-91
  • 5.6 Textile mill closures, 1989-91
  • 5.7 Number of converters by state, 1990
  • 5.8 Selected major US converters, 1990
  • 6.1 Sales and number of employers by apparel category, 1989
  • 6.2 US apparel companies with operations in Puerto Rico, 1990
  • 6.3 Apparel plant closures, 1989-90
  • 6.4 Mergers and acquisitions in the US apparel industry, 1985-92
  • 6.5 Selected major publicly-held apparel companies ranked by net profit range, 1991
  • 6.6 Financial performance of major publicly-held apparel companies, 1980 and 1989-90
  • 7.1 Retail store categories, apparel dominant, ranked by sales value, 1989/90
  • 7.2 largest US retail companies, 1987, showing divestitures to 1991
  • 7.3 Sawgrass Mills retail outlet mall, Sunrise, Florida, 1991
  • 7.4 Financial performance summary of apparel retail companies, 1980 and 1989-90
  • 8.1 Acquisitions of textile companies by non-textile interests, 1985-91
  • 8.2 Foreign-owned US textile companies by country, 1990
  • 8.3 Selected recent US textile investments in foreign countries, 1992
  • 9.1 High tech, high performance microfibre fabrics for apparel, 1990
  • 10.1 Technological evolution in textile machinery, 1960-2000
  • 10.2 Texturising processes
  • 10.3 Textile labour cost comparisons, 1989-90
  • 11.1 Announced capital investment programmes, 1991
  • 11.2 Shipments of spinning machinery into world regions, 1989
  • 11.3 Installed spinning capacities by world regions, 1989
  • 11.4 Shipments of weaving machinery into world regions, 1989
  • 11.5 Installed weaving machine capacities and shipments by world regions, 1988-89
  • 12.1 Forward and backward integration within industry sectors in the USA, 1985-91
  • 12.2 Percentage of store sales covered by QR programmes, 1991
  • 13.1 Caribbean Basin countries' contribution to 807 programme, 1990
  • 14.1 US apparel makers, designers and store brand names, 1991
  • 16.1 Apparel industry workforce, 1980 and 1990
  • 17.1 US textile and apparel education institutions
  • 17.2 Selected domestic and international trade publications
  • 18.1 US factors, 1990-91
  • 19.1 Major stock brokerage firms with security analysts covering the textile and apparel industries, 1991
  • 19.2 Stock price comparisons, 1990-91
  • 20.1 North American free trade area, 1989 data