October 2013 Summary: Talon International,
Inc., incorporated in 1997, specializes in the manufacturing and distribution
of a range of apparel accessories, including zippers and trim items to manufacturers
of fashion apparel, specialty retailers and mass merchandisers. The Company
manufactures and distributes zippers under its Talon brand name to manufacturers
for apparel brands and retailers, such as Abercrombie & Fitch, JC Penney,
Wal-Mart, Kohl's, Juicy Couture and Phillips-Van Heusen, among others. IT
also provides service outsourced trim design, sourcing and management services
and supply specified trim items for manufacturers of fashion apparel, such
as Victoria's Secret, Tom Tailor, Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle,
Polo Ralph Lauren, New York and Company, Express, and others. Under its Tekfit brand, the Company develops and sells a stretch waistband that utilizes
a patented technology. The Company operates its business within three product
groups, Talon, Trim and Tekfit. In the Company's Talon group, the Company
designs, engineer, test and distributes zippers under its Talon trademark
and trade names to apparel brands and manufacturers. The Company provides
a range of zippers, including a specialty zipper for kids clothing, for
distribution to apparels manufacturers worldwide, including principally
Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, the European Union,
Mexico and Central America. In the Company's Trim products group, the Company
acts as a fully integrated single-source supplier, designer and sourcing
agent for a range of trim items for manufacturers of fashion apparel. The
Company's business focuses on servicing all of the trim requirements of
the Company's customers at the manufacturing and retail brand level of the
fashion apparel industry. Trim items include labels, buttons, rivets, printed
marketing material, polybasic, packing cartons and hangers. Under the Company's
Tekfit brand the Company supplies apparels manufacturers advanced, patented
fabric technologies to produce a stretchable waistband for their garments.
This technology allows the fabric to be altered through the addition of
stretch characteristics resulting fit and comfort. It serves as a specified
supplier in its zipper, trim and waistband products for a range of major
retail brand and private-label oriented companies.
In 1996 Tag-It Pacific,
Inc. acquired Talon, and in 2007 Tag-It Pacific changed its corporate name
to Talon International, Inc.
September
2007 Summary: The company was founded in 1980. It was formerly known as
Tag-It Pacific, Inc. and changed its name to Talon International, Inc. in
July 2007. The company is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California.
Talon International, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution
of a range of apparel accessories primarily in the United States. It offers
zippers and trim items to manufacturers of fashion apparel, specialty
retailers, and mass merchandisers. The company offers a line of metal and
synthetic zippers under the TALON brand name; provides customized woven,
leather, synthetic, embroidered, and novelty labels and tapes, as well as
buttons, rivets, printed marketing material, polybasic, packing cartons, and
hangers under the brand, TRIM; and distributes a proprietary stretch
waistband under the TEKFIT name. It also sells its products in Asia, Mexico,
the Dominican Republic, and Central and South America.
November 2004 Summary:
Tag-It Pacific, Inc(now
called Talon International)is a unique company offering a wide array of apparel
component products and services around the globe. Tag-It Pacific is a
publicly traded company listed on the American Stock Exchange. Founded in
the early 1980's in Los Angeles, CA, where we are still headquartered,
Tag-It Pacific has grown into a truly global company, with facilities from
Hong Kong to New York to Mexico. Tag-It Pacific pioneered the creation and
implementation of complex trim outsourcing programs for large apparel
manufacturers. Under our Managed Trim Solution TM, garment manufacturers can
order complete trim packages, consisting of woven & printed labels, buttons
& rivets, printed marketing, zippers, thread as well as any other type of
trim or accessory product. These packages are ordered and delivered by
garment style, with a single price per garment. In addition, Tag-It offers
cut-by-cut delivery directly to sewing and finishing plants around the
globe. The Managed Trim Solution is coordinated through a state-of-the-art
e-commerce system that gives our customers complete visibility to all
aspects of trim development, ordering, and delivery. Talon Brand zippers and
Coats Brand thread are two of the high-quality components sold inside our
trim packages.
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