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

For Sri Lanka, exports to the US helped the garment industry – which directly employs some 350,000 people – earn $1.9bn last year, making it the country's third-largest foreign exchange earner.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

Since then, clients have hired him to name and shame employers and businesses in various fields — food service, the garment industry, construction workers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024

My father was drafted into the Navy, and Mama and my sisters all got jobs in the garment industry.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers