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| Formerly | WestPoint Manufacturing Company |
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| Company type | Private |
| Industry | bedding, bath |
| Founded | 1880 |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
| Products | bed sheets, blankets, pillows, organic cotton, bath towels, beach towels, egyptian cotton, comforters, mattress pads |
| Parent | Icahn Enterprises |
| Website | https://www.westpointhome.com |
WestPoint Home, Inc., is a supplier of fashion and core home textile products. WestPoint Home is headquartered in New York City with manufacturing and distribution facilities in the United States and overseas.[1][2][3] Their products include a diverse range of home fashion textile products including: towels, fashion bedding, sheets, comforters, blankets, mattress pads, pillows and more. Some brands that they offer include: Martex, Izod, Ralph Lauren, Hanes, Stay Bright, Vellux, Patrician, Lady Pepperell, and Utica Cotton Mills. Products from Westpoint Home are found in retail stores throughout the United States.
WestPoint Home, Inc. as it is known today is the result of the mergers of three of the oldest companies in the textile industry: J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc. (est. 1813 in Massachusetts incorporated 1899), Pepperell Manufacturing Company (est. 1851 in Maine), and West Point Manufacturing Company (est. 1880 in Georgia).[4]
The company was led by the Lanier family through the late 1980s. The Laniers originally incorporated the Westpoint Manufacturing Company in 1880.[4] WestPoint Home, Inc. is now owned by Icahn Enterprises, L.P.[3]
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- ^ "WestPoint Stevens to Open Shanghai Office, Receives Filing Extension", Textile World, June 2004, 11/17/11
- ^ a b Brent Felgner"Why Icahn Needs Westpoint", Home Textiles Today, March 6, 2008, 11/17/11
- ^ a b WestPoint Stevens, Inc. - Company Profile, Funding Universe, 11/17/11