Many of the people who cannot continue their studies after school join these mills and the knitwear companies of Tirupur.
Using the government's enterprise grant of £40 per week, they gamely decided to set up a knitwear company.
Her mother is the owner and designer of Shirin Cashmere, a knitwear company in London.
It is here that American Apparel, a "sweat-shop free" knitwear company, opened two months ago at No. 104.
The couple, celebrating the 40th anniversary of their knitwear company with a retrospective at the Palazzo della Permanente museum here, added some playful young styles.
The bride owns a knitwear company in New York that bears her name.
She made a brief comeback as a consultant to a knitwear company but spent most of her time working on her memoirs.
She owned coat and knitwear companies from the 1970's to the 90's, until she grew weary of her business responsibilities.
He started his career at DuPont in its textile and fiber manufacturing divisions and then joined a knitwear company.