Dickies moving its headquarters from Texas to California
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Looks like the owner VF Corp is consolidating campuses and wanting Dickies to be collocated with Vans in Costa Mesa.
Dickies and Vans were and are both units of VF Corporation.[1][2] VF also owns The North Face and Timberland, and a bunch of other "lifestyle brands". They have headquarters all over the place. VF corporate HQ is Denver. Vans HQ is in Costa Mesa, CA. There's a HQ in Shanghai, which manages manufacturing. Timberland HQ is in New Hampshire. North Face HQ is in Denver. And for some reason, there's an IT unit in Greensboro, NC.
Too many HQs. Looks from their job listings like they're consolidating apparel in Costa Mesa, except for North Face and Timberland.
The consolidation probably means they'll just add most of the Dickies brand workload to the existing employees in Southern California rather than hire/transfer 120 workers there. So a net reduction in labor costs and elimination of real estate costs, despite moving to a higher CoL area.
Of the three the workwear maker is the only one I've never dealt with. The BBQ was pretty good several years ago, but I ended up just not going for a couple of years, then when I tried to the ones nearest me had all closed and the number a medium distance from me had greatly diminished and their ratings had tanked.
I've seen the band live twice and both had interesting interruptions. The first interruption there was a problem with an amp and they had to pause the show while it was fixed. The singer walked over to the keyboard and said that to entertain us while we waited he would play and named a Bach piece. I don't remember what piece it was other than it is one considered to be difficult piece, and he played it perfectly.
The second interrupted show was one where the crowd at the front of the stage was urging the singer to crowd dive. He asked them if he could piss on them instead. They shouted "YES!".
Big mistake. He then stopped singing, the stage crew quickly got a spotlight on his crotch, we got to see him unzip and whip it out...and he then proceeded to urinate on the people in front.
The show resumed but the people who had been pissed on kept trying to get onto stage, and security was having trouble keeping them back and the show had to be cut short.
Why would anyone be confused about this? The first sentence of the article reads:
"The workwear apparel brand Dickies is moving its headquarters from Texas to California."
coincidentally I have also been to a show where the lead started pissing on everyone -- but he didn't ask. (Mike V and the Rats)..
you'd think that would be uncommon, but maybe it's a so-cal punk band tradition. lol
[0]: (it was their band name in the style of a flaccid penis, https://i.etsystatic.com/7307138/r/il/58ab4b/3571084842/il_f... )
Says who? California is one of the most desirable places to live and work. It's a headline because moving the HQ of a huge established corporation is a daunting undertaking and rare event.
This particular headline is because KABC serves Los Angeles and Southern California, which is where this company is moving.
i recently bought made in usa undergarments and the quality was better than am undergarment i bought from abroad and the price was comparable
it's not a question of "want to pay $70", we'll want to pay the lowest price possible for the equal goods. if the cost of shirts doubled, you might buy less of them and wear them longer. i remember my dad probably had 5 nice dress shirts, two suits and a sport coat.
i'd rather have $70 (or $100) shirts and a functioning middle class.
Today, we have pretty low unemployment so jobs isn’t as big a concern as other times. BUT jobs are not evenly distributed across the nation. If you visit the rust belt, those cities and towns are losing population as they lose jobs. That makes for an angsty population - staying in your hometown means fighting over the shrinking job pool. No one really wants to be a coal-miner or factory worker, but when that was the last big employer in your shrinking town, you get nostalgic for “good days” of high employment numbers, and a growing population.
Garments aren’t coming back unless American shopping habits change. We’ve started spending a smaller % of income on clothes, while buying more units of clothing per year. That favors clothes made by fast fashion under terrible work conditions - which will never be local. Unless you want to buy a $200 pair of ethically made jeans, you’re not getting it American.
They are not leaving the US...?