Large Retailers and Design Steering U.S. Textile Industry

NEW YORK - The U.S. textile companies that survive the ever-tightening industry will become distributors - not manufacturers of their products - by outsourcing their manufacturing process offshore, said James Richman, president of Richloom Fabrics Group. The 46-year-old home furnishings fabric company was one of the first leading American textile firms to send manufacturing processes overseas five years ago to...