These issues will be discussed in this section.
Retail companies are the biggest players in the garment industry.
However the manufacturers of their clothing are not owned by these large retail companies. The clothing is mostly produced by subcontractors. In the clothing manufacturing industry itself there are also a few very powerful manufacturers. Just think of jeans and you think of the manufacturer, Levi Strauss. These kinds of companies often maintain a few of their own manufacturing plants, but they also do a lot of subcontracting.