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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Textile, clothing |
| Founded | 1984 |
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| Headquarters | , Canada |
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| Revenue |  US$3.27 billion (2024)[1] |
 US$618 million (2024)[1] | |
| US$401 million (2024)[1] | |
| Total assets | US$3.72 billion (2024)[1] |
| Total equity | US$1.46 billion (2024)[1] |
Number of employees | 50,000 (2024)[2] |
| Subsidiaries | American Apparel (online retailer) |
| Website | gildan |
Gildan Activewear Inc. (/ˈɡɪldən/) is a Canadian manufacturer of branded clothing, including undecorated blank activewear such as t-shirts, sport shirts and fleeces, which are subsequently decorated by screen printing companies with designs and logos. The company also supplies branded and private label athletic, casual, and dress socks to retail companies in the United States[3] including Gold Toe Brands, PowerSox, SilverToe, Auro, All Pro, and the Gildan brand.[4] The company also manufactures and distributes Under Armour and New Balance brand socks.[5] The company has approximately 50,000 employees worldwide,[1] and owns and operates manufacturing facilities in Rio Nance, Honduras[6] and the Caribbean.
Glenn and Greg Chamandy founded Gildan in 1984 with the acquisition of a knitting mill in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,[7] to make fabric to supply Harley Inc., the childrenswear business already owned by the family. It later expanded to sell t-shirts made of 100% cotton to wholesalers, which resold them to United States and Canadian screen-printers, to be decorated with designs and logos. By 1994, Harley was closed in order to focus on the expansion of what had become Gildan Activewear.[8]
Gildan has factories in low-wage countries like Honduras and Haiti, which has allowed Gildan to lower its price per shirt to below that of Chinese manufacturers as of 2006.[9]
- ^ a b c d e f "2024 Consolidated Financial Statements". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 19 February 2025.
- ^ "2024 Annual Information Form". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 19 February 2025.
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- ^ "Leading Apparel Manufacturer Turns To DeVito/Verdi To Develop Retail Brand And Refresh Iconic Gold Toe Brand". Free Online Library.[permanent dead link]
- ^ 2011 Annual Report
- ^ "Gildan Will Build New Textile Plant at Rio Nance".
- ^ "Gildan Activewear Inc". 10 August 2023.
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- ^ "Beat China On Cost: Gildan taps other labour pool and trade pacts". 9 January 2006. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2016.