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Headquarters: Fayetteville, NC
Annual Revenue, 2001: $101 million
Nominated by: SEAMS
Little-known Fact: M.J. Soffe delivers to 700 Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine and Coast Guard units and exchanges worldwide.
With sales of more than 6,000 SKUs, including more than 700,000 pairs of cheerleading shorts last year, M.J. Soffe Co. has success on the brain. M.J. Soffe is a 56-year-old privately held vertical manufacturer providing apparel in jersey, fleece, pique and dri-release fabric. The company currently has four factories and one cut-goods distribution center in North Carolina as well as three company-owned factories in Costa Rica at which approximately 25 percent of its production takes place. The company's facilities in North Carolina have state-of-the-art equipment for knitting, dyeing, finishing, cutting, assembly, embellishments and all tagging, bagging and hanging requirements of its customers.
One part of Soffe's success lies in its niche market orientation. Along with traditional retail outlets, the company supplies sportswear to the armed forces, collegiate stores and resorts. "We have...