garment industry

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After a successful career in the garment industry, he waded into the media business following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

He grew up in a middle-class Jewish home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to immigrant parents who worked in the garment industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

David Baltimore was born March 7, 1938, in New York City, the son of a garment industry merchant, Richard Baltimore, and Gertrude Lipschitz-Baltimore.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

The textile and garment industry is Lesotho's largest private sector employer providing, at its peak, around 50,000 jobs, out of a population of just over two million.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025

“The conditions in the garment industry were every bit as bad,” Soyer goes on.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell