WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Gildan Activewear Inc. said it's agreed to acquire V.I. Prewett & Son Inc., an Alabama-based supplier of private-label socks sold via U.S. mass-market retailers with ...

T-shirt manufacturer Gildan Activewear Inc. hasn't wasted any time slipping into the North American retail sock business. A year ago, Montreal-based Gildan bought U.S. sock manufacturer Kentucky ...

Canada's Gildan said today it is phasing out its U.S. sock finishing operations in Fort Payne, eliminating 220 jobs and dealing another blow to a town that calls itself the "Sock Capital of the World.

Gildan Activewear Inc. is paying up to $135-million (U.S.) for U.S. sock maker V.I. Prewett & Son Inc. and boosting its annual profit forecast. The major Montreal-based maker of T-shirts and other ...

MONTREAL – Canadian-based sock manufacturer Gildan Activewear Inc. (TSX: GIL) says its plans to build a second sock factory in Honduras could be threatened in the event that the U.S. imposes ...

Gildan Activewear Inc. —best known for its ... Kentucky Derby Hosiery Co. makes stockings and socks for mass-market retailers in the United States. It has annual sales of $130 million.

Gildan Activewear Inc. said it will close two sock factories in North Carolina by the end of August, a move that will put 520 people out of work. Montreal-based Gildan has been shifting production ...