As anti-Chinese riots rage in Vietnam, with resulting fatalities and burned down factories, Wall Street Journal reporter Kathy Chu examines how the anti-Chinese sentiment is affecting Vietnam’s attractiveness for Hong Kong-based manufacturers In the article “Vietnam Factory Riots: The View From Hong Kong,” dated May 16, 2014. Willy Lin, the deputy chairman of the Federation … Read more
Lever Style Chairman and CEO Stanley Szeto received the Quality Supplier Award from Uniqlo’s Chairman Tadashi Yanai. Uniqlo has one of the world’s most stringent quality standards, and Yanai-san wrote that Lever Style “consistently provides [Uniqlo] with products of the highest caliber.”
World Wildlife Fund (“WWF”), the world’s leading conservation organization with operations in 100 countries and 5 million members globally, invited Lever Style to be one of three pilot companies in the world to take part in its Low Carbon Manufacturing Program (“LCMP”). Lever Style is the only apparel company selected. As part of the LCMP … Read more
Gap Inc. declared in an official statement that Lever Style’s social compliance standard is a “model for others to follow.” Gap also noted that Lever Style is accredited by SA8000, “a premier set of global labor standards.” Gap was responding to a report by human rights activist group China Labor Watch (“CLW”), which classified Lever … Read more
On April 22, 2008, Earth Day, twelve leading apparel and textile firms from Hong Kong formed the Sustainable Fashion Business Consortium (“SFBC”) to promote environmentally-friendly manufacturing and sustainability in the fashion industry. Lever Style is one of the twelve founding members. The twelve founding members are recognized by the industry as pioneering, forward-thinking companies that … Read more
Below is an excerpt from pages 256-281 in Fugitive Denim by Rachel Louise Snyder: I had no illusions about being taken to a factory with sub-par conditions, but what I found was even beyond the best I’d seen in Cambodia. Later, I learned it was one of Gap’s model factories (managers accuse Gap of having … Read more
Now that its products capabilities extend beyond shirts and blouses with the Trinity acquisition, Lever Shirt is re-branding itself as Lever Style. This new corporate identity signifies the company’s transformation to a multi-product category company, yet stresses its total focus on the company’s vision – manufacturing garments for the world’s top fashion brands.
Lever Shirt acquired the PRC outerwear and tailoring manufacturing arm of Trinity on April 1, 2007. Founded almost 40 years ago, Trinity has been considered one of the top constructed suit makers in Asia, with clients including many haute couture labels such as Armani Collezioni, Hugo Boss, and Paul Smith. Its factories in Shenzhen, China, … Read more
Auto Industry Efficiency Inspires Apparel MakerLever Shirt is using Toyota’s successful production line methods to boost shirt production.By Philip S. Blackman Producing millions of shirts and blouses each year Lever Shirt the manufacturing power behind many of the world’s top brands including Banana Republic, Armani Exchange, Calvin Klein, Ann Taylor, John Varvatos, and Yves Saint … Read more
Roger Tredre, WGSN, October 25, 2005 Many Hong Kong-based companies have positioned themselves carefully to withstand this year’s quota uncertainty. WGSN spoke with Stanley Szeto, CEO of Lever Shirt, a shirt specialist that supplies clients such as Banana Republic, Ann Taylor and Tommy Hilfiger. Summary Hong Kong-based Lever Shirt has two factories in Shenzhen that … Read more
