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:30,000 (February 2012)
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 marketer and globally low-cost vertically-integrated manufacturer of quality branded basic 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 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. In addition, the Company supplies selective national retailer brands. The Company is also the exclusive U.S. sock licensee for the Under Armour® and New Balance® brands. In addition to socks, the Company is pursuing a strategy to grow its sales of branded underwear and activewear products in the U.S. retail market. With approximately 30,000 employees worldwide, Gildan owns and operates highly efficient, large-scale, environmentally and socially responsible manufacturing 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. Our shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
Closing price (TSX)
Fiscal
2011
Fiscal
2010
Fiscal
2009
Fiscal
2008
High
$36.47
$33.26
$ 29.55
$ 44.55
Low
$23.80
$17.86
$ 7.35
$ 22.09
Year-end
$27.20
$28.55
$20.10
$ 23.45
Year volume
113,634,800
100,155,300
162,810,100
170,983,000
Shares outstanding
121,330,544
121,351,998
120,963,028
120,536,501
Market capitalization
$3,300.2 M
$3,464.6 M
$ 2,431.4 M
$ 2,826.6 M
(1) Source: Yahoo Finance, adjusted for May 2007 2-for-1 stock split.