Gildan Activewear Inc.
600 de Maisonneuve West, 33rd floor
Montréal, Québec
H3A 3J2, Canada
Phone: (514) 735-2023
Fax: (514) 738-6810
Sector name:Consumer cyclical Industry name:Apparel/Accessories Employees:more than 28,000 (December 2010)
Glenn J. Chamandy President & Chief Executive Officer
Laurence G. Sellyn Executive Vice-President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Transfer Agent Computershare Investor Services Inc.
Gildan is a vertically-integrated marketer and globally low-cost manufacturer of quality branded basis apparel
Gildan® is the leading activewear brand in the screenprint market in the U.S. and Canada. The brand is continuing to grow in Europe, Mexico and the Asia-Pacific region. The Company sells T-shirts, sport shirts and fleece as undecorated “blanks”, which are subsequently decorated by screenprinters with designs and logos. The Company is also one of the world’s largest suppliers of branded and private label athletic, casual and dress socks sold to a broad spectrum of retailers in the U.S. Gildan markets its sock products under a diversified portfolio of company-owned brands, including Gold Toe®, PowerSox®, SilverToe®, Auro®, All Pro®, GT®, and the Gildan® brand. The Company is also the exclusive U.S. sock licensee to the Under Armour® and New Balance® brands. In addition to socks, the Company is increasingly becoming a significant supplier of underwear and undecorated activewear products in the retail channel. Gildan owns and operates highly efficient, large-scale, environmentally and socially responsible facilities in Central America and the Caribbean Basin and has begun the development of a manufacturing hub in Bangladesh to support its planned growth in Asia and Europe.
Gildan's corporate head office is located in Montreal, Canada, and we have more than 29,000 employees worldwide. Our shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
Closing price (TSX)
Fiscal
2010
Fiscal
2009
Fiscal
2008
Fiscal
2007
High
$33.26
$ 29.55
$ 44.55
$ 40.43
Low
$17.86
$ 7.35
$ 22.09
$ 26.75
Year-end
$28.55
$20.10
$ 23.45
$ 39.39
Year volume
100,155,300
162,810,100
170,983,000
88,105,400
Shares outstanding
121,351,998
120,963,028
120,536,501
120,419,461
Market capitalization
$3,464.6 M
$ 2,431.4 M
$ 2,826.6 M
$ 4,743.3 M
(1) Source: Yahoo Finance, adjusted for May 2007 2-for-1 stock split.
