TRLA Group looks like a small California apparel office. Follow the paperwork, however, and it becomes the front door to mills, garment factories and technical fabrics spread across several continents.
Massive Prints built a large apparel operation around a small domestic annoyance: the shirt that changes shape after the first wash. Its answer is part chemistry, part choreography, and a useful lesson in making the boring step the business.
Ananta Group does not put its name on the waistband. It built a $450 million business by mastering everything behind it - from trend boards and 3D samples to laser finishing and recycled wash water.
Alexander Tschopp is the co-founder and CEO of Tailored Industry, a Brooklyn-based on-demand knitwear manufacturer and software platform that uses Shima Seiki WHOLEGARMENT 3D knitting machines to produce luxury sweaters with zero minimum order quantities and 3-to-6-day turnaround. A Cornell Dyson School graduate who hooked into business after reading an Andrew Carnegie biography at age 12, he started selling college-branded products to hundreds of retailers as an undergrad before setting out to revive American knitwear manufacturing - eliminating overproduction by matching supply precisely to demand.