WestPoint Home, Inc., is a supplier of fashion and core home textile products. WestPoint Home is headquartered in

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with manufacturing and distribution facilities in the United States and overseas."WestPoint Home to Shutter Greenville, Ala., Facility
Textile World
February 8, 2011, 11/17/11"WestPoint Stevens to Open Shanghai Office, Receives Filing Extension"
Textile World
June 2004, 11/17/11Brent Felgner"Why Icahn Needs Westpoint"
Home Textiles Today
March 6, 2008, 11/17/11 Their products include a diverse range of home fashion textile products including: towels, fashion bedding, sheets, comforters, blankets, mattress pads, pillows and more. Some brands that they offer include: Martex, Izod, Ralph Lauren, Hanes, Stay Bright, Vellux, Patrician, Lady Pepperell, and Utica Cotton Mills. Products from Westpoint Home are found in retail stores throughout the United States. WestPoint Home, Inc. as it is known today is the result of the mergers of three of the oldest companies in the textile industry: J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc. (est. 1813 in Massachusetts incorporated 1899), Pepperell Manufacturing Company (est. 1851 in Maine), and West Point Manufacturing Company (est. 1880 in Georgia).WestPoint Stevens, Inc. - Company Profile
Funding Universe, 11/17/11 The company was led by the Lanier family through the late 1980s. The Laniers originally incorporated the Westpoint Manufacturing Company in 1880. WestPoint Home, Inc. is now owned by

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History

WestPoint Home is a conglomerate of three textile giants. WestPoint Manufacturing Company was formed in the south shortly after the end of the Civil War. J.P. Stevens & Co. and the Pepperell Manufacturing Co were two individual companies that were founded some years earlier in New England. WestPoint Home currently serves as a manufacturer of home fashion textiles."WL Ross-Led Group Seeks to Acquire WestPoint Stevens"
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April 2005, 11/20/11 J.P. Stevens & Co had a dispute with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, a textile labor union that was founded in 1914.

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, a mill worker at a J.P. Stevens mill in Roanoke Rapids, NC, was fired after trying to unionize employees. Sutton's firing galvanized employees, and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) began to represent workers at the plant on August 28, 1974.

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