Delta Apparel Shifts Production to Produce Cotton Face Masks to Help Fight Spread of COVID-19
April 14 2020 - 9:00AM
Delta Apparel, Inc. (NYSE American: DLA), a leading provider of
core activewear and lifestyle apparel products, today announced
that it will leverage its manufacturing facilities to begin
producing cotton face masks. The Company has joined a coalition of
iconic apparel brands that are responding to urgent calls for
companies to help produce face masks during the COVID-19 global
pandemic. Once fully ramped up, the coalition, inclusive of Delta
Apparel, expects to produce up to 10 million face masks per week in
the United States and in Central America.
Robert W. Humphreys, Delta Apparel, Inc.’s
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “We are extremely
proud to offer the resources we have available for the manufacture
of face masks to help support those hospitals and health care
workers on the front lines, as well as all Americans battling the
spread of COVID-19. We have already begun production of the face
masks in our sewing facility in North Carolina and expect to begin
production in Honduras this week.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control recently
issued recommendations on wearing cloth face coverings in public
settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to
maintain, such as grocery stores and pharmacies, and especially in
areas of significant community-based transmission. In addition to
the production of face masks with the coalition, Delta Apparel is
also producing and selling non-medical grade face coverings.
Mr. Humphreys concluded, “We are proud of our
dedicated workforce who wanted to participate in these efforts and
quickly took on the challenge to retool our production lines to
begin making these masks and face coverings. Of course, the
safety of our employee base is of utmost importance to us. We
are following the recommended protocols within our facilities,
including providing face masks for our employees to wear,
implementing social distancing protocols, and increasing sanitation
and cleanliness measures.”
About Delta Apparel, Inc. Delta
Apparel, Inc., along with its operating subsidiaries, DTG2Go, LLC,
Salt Life, LLC, and M.J. Soffe, LLC, is a vertically-integrated,
international apparel company that designs, manufactures, sources,
and markets a diverse portfolio of core activewear and lifestyle
apparel products under the primary brands of Salt Life®, COAST®,
Soffe®, and Delta. The Company is a market leader in the
direct-to-garment digital print and fulfillment industry, bringing
DTG2Go technology and innovation to the supply chain of its
customers. The Company specializes in selling casual and athletic
products through a variety of distribution channels and tiers,
including outdoor and sporting goods retailers, independent and
specialty stores, better department stores and mid-tier retailers,
mass merchants and e-retailers, the U.S. military, and through its
business-to-business e-commerce sites. The Company’s products are
also made available direct-to-consumer at its branded retail stores
and on its websites at www.saltlife.com, www.coastapparel.com,
www.soffe.com and www.deltaapparel.com as well as through its
branded retail stores. The Company’s operations are located
throughout the United States, Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico,
and it employs approximately 8,200 people worldwide. Additional
information about the Company is available at
www.deltaapparelinc.com.
Company Contact:
Deborah Merrill, 864-232-5200
x6620investor.relations@deltaapparel.com
Investor Relations and Media Contact: ICR, Inc.
Investors:Tom Filandro, 646-277-1235
Media:Jessica Liddell, 203-682-8208DLAPR@icrinc.com
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