Gherzi Americas: textile and apparel consulting for the Americas

We help textile and apparel companies evaluate investments, improve operating performance and develop sourcing strategies that hold up in practice. Gherzi Americas is part of the Gherzi organization, founded in Switzerland in 1929, with 120 consultants and 15 offices worldwide.

Services

Market Dashboard

A free textile and apparel market dashboard: cotton and fiber prices, freight, currency, US apparel imports, tariffs and industry indicators, with sources and reporting periods.

Research & commentary

Gherzi Perspectives articles and podcasts, and white papers including The Americas Textile and Apparel Complex, The Future of Denim and The Fiber Wars.

Contact

Robert Antoshak, Managing Partner: r.antoshak@gherzi.com
Americas · New York: David Uricoli, d.uricoli@gherzi.com · +1 646 918 4160

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Gherzi Americas | Textile & Apparel Consulting for the Americas

Textile & apparel consulting

Textile expertise.
Built around
your business.

We help textile and apparel companies evaluate investments, improve operating performance and develop sourcing strategies that hold up in practice.

BASED IN THE AMERICAS. CONNECTED WORLDWIDE.
A division ofGherzi Textile Organisation AG.
95+Years in business
120Expert consultants
8,000+Completed projects
15Global offices
Textile equipment and engineering drawings

From assessment to implementation

Advice that belongs
on the factory floor, too.

A sourcing decision affects the mill. A machinery investment depends on the market. We bring technical and commercial experience to the same conversation, with specialists who understand how the pieces fit.

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The Americas team

People you can work with.

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Robert Antoshak

Robert Antoshak

Managing Partner

Fiber markets, trade policy and sourcing strategy. More than three decades working across the textile and apparel supply chain.

Radhika Shrinivas

Radhika Shrinivas

Partner

Business strategy and financial analysis, with experience spanning manufacturing, retail and investment banking.

David Uricoli

David Uricoli

Partner

ESG, social compliance and supply-chain diligence. More than 35 years working on responsible sourcing.

Research & commentary

No spin.
Well, some spinning.

Our consultants write about the industry they work in. Read their assessments of sourcing, manufacturing and the economics behind the headlines.

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Free industry resource

The numbers behind
the decisions.

Fiber prices, trade flows and industry indicators, with units, sources and reporting periods beside each figure.

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Start a conversation

Tell us what you’re working on.

Bring us the business question. We’ll help define the work needed to answer it.

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Our services

Practical help with the decisions that shape your business.

From factory investments to sourcing reviews, we help clients assess their options and carry the work into operations. Each engagement starts with the business question you need answered.

Textile machinery, fabric and engineering plans
01

Investment & business planning

Before committing capital, understand the commercial and operating assumptions behind the project.

Feasibility studies · Financial analysis · Acquisition and partner research

Depending on the engagement

  • Feasibility and investment assessment
  • Comparison of business scenarios
  • Partner or acquisition shortlist
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02

Manufacturing & operations

Examine the constraints affecting output, quality and cost, then establish a practical improvement program.

Textile engineering · Mill feasibility studies · Plant planning · Operational benchmarking

Depending on the engagement

  • Plant and equipment assessment
  • Operating-performance benchmark
  • Prioritized implementation plan
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03

Markets & sourcing

Evaluate where to buy, where to sell and how changes in trade affect your position.

Market research · Sourcing strategy · Nearshoring · Trade and tariff analysis · Brand development

Depending on the engagement

  • Market-entry assessment
  • Sourcing-country comparison
  • Trade and tariff-exposure analysis
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04

Sustainability & supply-chain diligence

Establish what the evidence supports and where the business needs to improve.

Traceability · Environmental programs · Social compliance · UFLPA and forced-labor diligence · Circularity

Depending on the engagement

  • Supplier and evidence review
  • Environmental or compliance gap assessment
  • Costed improvement priorities
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Getting started

A clear scope.
A responsible project lead.

The first conversation establishes the decision you need to make, the information available and the timing. A proposed engagement would then set out the scope, deliverables, fees and project responsibility.

Specialists join where the work requires them. Implementation support is defined as part of the agreed assignment.

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Our people

Meet the people behind Gherzi Americas.

Our team brings experience from textile manufacturing, sourcing, finance and sustainability. We work with clients across the Americas, drawing on specialist expertise throughout the Gherzi organization.

Americas leadership

Robert Antoshak

Robert Antoshak

Managing Partner

Fiber markets, trade policy and sourcing strategy. More than three decades working across the textile and apparel supply chain.

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Three decades across fiber markets, trade policy, sourcing, manufacturing, sustainability, traceability, and retail supply chains, helping companies manage sourcing risk and make better decisions in a volatile industry.

A textile career shaped by trade and manufacturing

Robert P. Antoshak’s career has followed textiles from fiber markets into finished apparel, with trade policy running through much of that work. He has advised companies making sourcing decisions and represented industry interests in the negotiations that helped shape those decisions. That combination gives his industry commentary a grounding in both the rules governing trade and the work required to sell a product.

Antoshak began at the Fiber Economics Bureau in 1980, managing international research and publishing. He later established the international trade division at the American Fiber Manufacturers Association before moving to the American Textile Manufacturers Institute. Those Washington roles put him directly into bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations. His government advisory experience includes quota agreements and the development of trade arrangements involving NAFTA, the Multifiber Arrangement and the WTO.

He subsequently built businesses around trade analysis and market intelligence. After founding Trade Resources, he served as a vice president at Werner International, advising textile and apparel clients on market entry and operating performance. In 2001, he became president of Globecot, building the business from its start into multimillion-dollar sales. Following its acquisition, he managed commercial and operational functions for the fiber and textiles division at INTL FCStone.

His decade as managing director at Olah Inc. brought that market experience into cotton promotion and downstream textile development. He led consulting projects linking cotton interests with mills and apparel customers, including work on denim and sustainable sourcing. At Vidalia Mills, he helped develop the company’s marketing and communications around American-grown cotton and domestic denim manufacturing. These assignments required explaining a mill’s capabilities in terms that mattered to prospective buyers.

Later work with Gherzi and Grey Matter Concepts extended his involvement in manufacturing strategy and supplier development, with assignments ranging from investment feasibility and regional supply chains to sourcing men’s essentials. The common concern is whether a proposed strategy can work within the cost and production requirements of the business. His writing for industry publications, including just-style and Sourcing Journal, carries that concern into a broader public discussion.

With graduate study in history at Norwich University and undergraduate study in history and philosophy at Allegheny College, Antoshak also brings a longer perspective to industry change. His career spans the quota era and the sourcing systems that followed it. That history provides useful context when assessing how another change in trade policy may affect the people making and buying textiles.

Radhika Shrinivas

Radhika Shrinivas

Partner

Business strategy and financial analysis, with experience spanning manufacturing, retail and investment banking.

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A global strategy and finance professional spanning manufacturing, retail, investment banking, and consulting, pairing financial discipline with practical operating experience to help companies improve performance.

Connecting textile growth plans to operating results

Radhika Shrinivas has worked on textile growth from both the financial and operating sides of the business. Her experience includes evaluating manufacturing investments and managing the supply decisions that determine whether a product earns its expected margin. That range matters in an industry where a promising sales plan can become difficult to finance or execute once orders begin moving.

At Welspun, Shrinivas progressed through strategy roles in the managing director and chief executive’s office before becoming director of finance. She worked with senior management and the board on a multiyear $2 billion expansion strategy and evaluated more than $400 million in potential textile acquisitions. Her responsibilities included manufacturing assessments in the United States, India and Europe. She also helped digitize cost and production reporting, cutting the time required to close the monthly accounts by 40 percent.

Her subsequent role at Creative Home Ideas involved building the financial structure needed to support a home textiles business with more than $100 million in revenue. She led financial planning and cost control, negotiated a substantial credit facility and developed tools to assess how yarn and fiber prices affected product pricing. Those assignments brought financing decisions into direct contact with inventory and raw-material exposure.

From 2022 through April 2026, Shrinivas served as senior vice president of global supply chain, strategy and technology at Grey Matter Concepts. Her work included category expansion and the coordination of sourcing with retailer demand. The resulting commercial initiatives added $10 million in annual revenue, and changes in costing, pricing and supplier arrangements expanded margins by 6 percent. She also developed reporting that made inventory performance and production capacity more visible to management.

Shrinivas founded Threadpoint Advisors in May 2026 and joined Gherzi Americas as a partner in July. Her early advisory assignments include helping a home textiles client retain a $30 million customer while securing a 10 percent price increase to address margin pressure. Another involved a three-year growth plan supported by financial projections and capital expenditure requirements. These are specific business problems with consequences that extend well beyond a strategy presentation.

A Certified Management Accountant with an MBA in finance and operations, Shrinivas has also served on industry and corporate boards. Her background equips her to examine a growth proposal from the customer’s requirements through to its effect on cash and capacity. It is an approach shaped by responsibility for the numbers as well as the work behind them.

David Uricoli

David Uricoli

Partner

ESG, social compliance and supply-chain diligence. More than 35 years working on responsible sourcing.

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More than 35 years in ESG, social compliance, due diligence, and responsible sourcing, building stronger programs that protect the environment and support workers across global supply chains.

Responsible sourcing built on experience in apparel production

David Uricoli came to human rights work through the business of making clothes. Before overseeing global human rights at Ralph Lauren, he worked in pre-production and sample-room management, followed by sourcing and product development. That experience gave him a practical understanding of the factories and commercial relationships that a responsible sourcing program has to address.

His career began at Winer Industries in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1984. At Ralph Lauren, he became senior director of global human rights in 2000 and vice president in 2013, serving in that position through 2020. Over those years, his responsibilities moved well beyond the quality and delivery of a garment to the conditions under which it was produced. The work took him into sourcing markets across Asia, the Americas and Europe.

Uricoli’s subsequent consulting assignments show how that experience applies further up the supply chain. With the Responsible Sourcing Network’s YESS initiative, he facilitated five working groups developing an industry program intended to eliminate cotton produced with forced labor from yarn supply chains. At Club Monaco, he developed and managed a supplier compliance and traceability program. An assignment with SHI International extended his work into sustainable procurement and vendor due diligence outside apparel.

He joined Gherzi in 2022, bringing this operating background to consulting work that includes manufacturing feasibility and sustainability. One assignment examined the proposed construction of a whole-garment knitting factory in the United States for Nest Evolution Labs. His Gherzi work has also included analysis of apparel tariffs and presentations on changing trade conditions, placing sourcing decisions within their wider commercial setting.

His education includes menswear design and marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology and study of freedom of association and collective bargaining at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He also serves on the executive advisory board of FIT’s International Trade and Marketing Department. Across those activities, Uricoli brings an understanding of how buying decisions reach the factory floor. For companies trying to make responsible sourcing part of daily operations, that connection is essential.

Specialist experience.
Shared industry knowledge.

Uday Gill

Uday Gill

Partner · Gherzi Textile Organisation AG

Global manufacturing leadership, investment and business transformation.

Andrew Olah

Andrew Olah

Consultant

Denim industry expertise and founder of the Kingpins Show and Transformers Foundation.

Courtney Caneer-Williams

Courtney Caneer-Williams

Consultant

Global sourcing, manufacturing, product development and sustainable innovation.

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A global sourcing and manufacturing executive in fiber, textiles, and apparel, leading products from concept to consumer with expertise in sustainable innovation, operational excellence, and regulatory compliance.

Taking textile technology across borders and into production

Moving a textile technology from one country to another involves much more than finding a mill with available capacity. The process has to be reproduced, suppliers need clear requirements, and the commercial team needs product when customers expect it. Courtney Caneer-Williams has worked directly on those problems, including bringing brrr° technology from Taiwan into production in North Carolina.

As vice president of operations and product planning at brrr° from January 2020 through April 2026, Caneer-Williams oversaw international sourcing and product development. Her responsibilities extended from masterbatch execution into knitted and woven textiles for apparel and interior applications. She managed budgets exceeding $12 million and led an international team of nine, achieving cost savings of more than 8 percent through supplier improvements and changes in operating processes.

The company’s international structure made coordination a substantial part of the job. Caneer-Williams reorganized operating procedures across the United States, Europe and Asia, using a projection model with teams in Taiwan and China to align raw-material availability with the sales pipeline. She also helped bring a collaboration with CiCLO to market. These assignments required material development to stay connected to purchasing and delivery commitments.

Her earlier work at Everest Textile USA combined American textile production with garment manufacturing in Haiti. She developed products to customer specifications and worked on full-package supply arrangements that generated approximately $4 million in annual revenue. Before that, she spent nearly five years with HerMin Textile and Weavism in Taiwan, working in woven-fabric development and marketing. An earlier consulting role in Ningbo involved building a network of more than 50 Chinese manufacturers.

That experience is supported by language skills and formal study of international trade. Caneer-Williams works in English, Mandarin Chinese, French and Spanish, and holds an MBA focused on international textile and garment trade policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. She also holds a degree in clothing, textiles and design from the University of Idaho. Her professional activities include chairing AATCC’s RA112 Thermal committee, consistent with her work in temperature-regulating textiles.

Through K2K Industries and K2K Transportation, she now advises brands and manufacturers on sourcing and product development while maintaining an involvement in logistics. Her consulting includes circularity planning and helping manufacturers reach new customers. Having worked within Asian mills and American commercial organizations, she understands the coordination required between them. Her experience is especially useful when a product has moved beyond the sample stage and needs a dependable route into production.

Christine Tymkiw

Christine Tymkiw

Consultant

Fabric research, sourcing strategy and product innovation for apparel brands.

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A fashion executive with more than 20 years leading fabric research and development, sourcing strategy, and product innovation for brands including Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Nautica, and Walmart, advising on product development from trends to tariffs.

Making fabric development work from concept through production

A fabric can look right in a design meeting and still create problems months later. The price may be wrong, the minimum order too large, or the finished material unable to meet the required quality standard. Christine Tymkiw has spent her career working through those questions early enough to give a collection a better chance of reaching production as intended.

Her background includes fabric leadership positions at Tommy Hilfiger and Walmart, followed by work with Ralph Lauren and other major apparel businesses. At Tommy Hilfiger, where she worked from 1997 through 2010, her responsibilities grew from children’s fabrics across eight divisions to senior roles in women’s and men’s development. She worked with mills in Europe and Asia as well as domestic suppliers, carrying fabric concepts through costing and bulk delivery. An assignment with the European women’s division also required coordination between New York and Amsterdam.

At Walmart, the scale changed considerably. As director of raw materials across apparel divisions, Tymkiw coordinated core fabric purchases involving millions of yards. She brought the fabric team into earlier concept discussions and introduced earlier testing with overseas offices to identify quality problems before production. During the cotton pricing crisis, she researched futures and kept management informed, adding market context to decisions about fabric cost.

Her later roles continued to combine material knowledge with improvements in how teams worked together. At Nautica, she led fabric, trim and color for the men’s and women’s divisions and organized mill weeks that gave designers more direct access to suppliers. At One Jeanswear Group, she consolidated similar fabrics across brands to improve purchasing terms. At Maurices, she helped merchants gain earlier visibility into product styling and cost while developing processes that carried designs into bulk production.

Through Tymkiw Consulting, she has advised on fabric research, sustainability and development strategy. Her 2024–2025 project management assignment at Ralph Lauren involved establishing processes across major categories, from inception through bulk production and quality. Her work reflects a detailed understanding of the decisions hidden inside a finished garment. It also shows why fabric development belongs in the commercial discussion from the beginning, when there is still time to change a specification or choose a better source.

Colleen Ahalt-Eagle

Colleen Ahalt-Eagle

Consultant

Materials development, manufacturing and biodegradation research.

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A textile and manufacturing consultant with more than 20 years across materials development, biodegradation R&D, and multi-country sourcing, advising brands including Under Armour, Adidas, Target, and Reebok on which manufacturing decisions actually carry consequence.

Testing material ideas against manufacturing reality

Colleen M. Ahalt-Eagle’s work often begins where a promising material meets the demands of production. A new yarn or finish still has to perform consistently, and a sustainability claim needs testing that addresses the conditions behind it. Her career combines hands-on material development with experience building the sourcing and testing arrangements needed to make those decisions.

At Target, where she served as global materials development manager, Ahalt-Eagle developed more than 200 piqué and fleece-equivalent fabric options through mills operating across five countries, a sourcing effort that delivered approximately $150 million in savings. The assignment required attention to equivalent quality across different production locations, a recurring concern in her later consulting work. A material specification is only useful if suppliers can reproduce it.

Her subsequent work moved further into performance materials. At Reebok, she developed technical fabrics and trims, including a cooling fabric based on a new yarn formulation and human testing protocols. She also worked with Huntsman on moisture-management chemistry. At HanesBrands, she founded a technical think tank that brought polymer chemistry and industrialization expertise into fabric development.

At Kathmandu in New Zealand, Ahalt-Eagle helped take Archroma’s Earth Colours dye technology from concept through product launch and negotiated a two-year exclusivity agreement for Australasia. She also secured $1.2 million in material cost savings through supplier negotiations. These projects joined material innovation with the purchasing and commercial arrangements necessary to bring it to market. The technical work and the business terms had to advance together.

She established CAE Sustainable Innovation in 2017 and later founded The Blue Lab, which developed material-testing methods in partnership with Under Armour. Her work there included designing equipment and protocols for investigating material behavior, with a particular interest in biodegradation. Through her consultancy, she has also assessed research operations for commercial readiness and advised clients on manufacturing decisions. Her clients range from major sportswear companies to smaller product businesses.

Ahalt-Eagle’s route into textiles included fine art, museum conservation work and technical training in welding. She holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an associate degree in textile development and marketing from FIT. That background helps explain the breadth of her practical work with physical materials. Across manufacturing and research assignments, she examines the details that determine whether an idea can survive repeated production and use.

Amrin Sachathep

Amrin Sachathep

Consultant

Manufacturing turnarounds, spinning, technical textiles and advanced polymers.

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A manufacturing turnaround leader with more than 20 years in spinning, technical textiles, and advanced polymers, having grown a Thai mill from $10M to $150M and advising boards and private equity sponsors on operations, capital efficiency, and EU and US compliance.

Manufacturing growth grounded in mill operations

Amrin Sachathep’s manufacturing experience was built over more than two decades at Atlantic Mills in Thailand. As managing director, he was responsible for global sales and mill operations, with technical product development also under his direction. During his tenure, annual sales grew from $10 million to more than $150 million, and the company came to employ more than 800 people.

The scale of that business gave Sachathep experience with the practical demands of serving international brands. Atlantic Mills operated through a network of 20 international offices and agents, while its manufacturing work included changes to raw-material sourcing and environmental management. His responsibilities required connecting customer expectations with the capabilities of the plant. They also placed workforce management alongside decisions about production and investment.

As a director of AMC Spinning from 2014 to 2023, he oversaw a yarn operation exceeding $60 million, with more than 500 employees. That work included global cotton procurement and the development of technical yarns, along with projects involving recycled garment feedstock and the commercialization of dual-core stretch technology. Together, those assignments gave him experience evaluating material innovation under the conditions of industrial production.

Sachathep also worked closer to the consumer through businesses he co-founded. Flying Horse, based in London, focused on premium denim and natural indigo applications. Boyish, based in Los Angeles, developed women’s apparel with an emphasis on lower-impact production. In Laos, he established East Indigo, an automated garment and laundry facility incorporating water recycling. These ventures extended his involvement from spinning and fabric production into garments and branded products.

His more recent consulting work addresses manufacturing turnarounds and restructuring across textiles, rubber polymers and other industrial businesses. His assignments have included reducing material waste and reviewing factory layouts, alongside financial and environmental assessments. Work with glove manufacturers also brought him into polymer development and production requirements beyond textiles. He combines that operating experience with engineering studies at Duke University and an executive MBA from Quantic.

Sachathep’s background is particularly relevant to manufacturers considering substantial changes to their plants or product mix. He has managed established operations while also financing and developing new businesses. That experience provides a basis for examining whether an investment can be manufactured consistently, sold to a defined customer and supported by the company’s finances. The question is concrete: what will it take to make the proposed business work on the factory floor?

Connected worldwide

A regional team.
A global organization.

Founded in Switzerland in 1929, Gherzi brings engineering and business consulting experience to the textile industry worldwide. Gherzi Americas connects regional clients with that broader network.

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Sustainability & supply-chain diligence

Make sustainability work in your business.

We help textile and apparel companies assess environmental performance, examine supply-chain evidence and put practical improvements into operation. Recommendations account for cost, technical feasibility and customer requirements.

Recovered fibers, yarn and textile supply-chain activity

Start with the evidence

What does your business need to resolve?

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Traceability

Can the information behind your product be verified? Review supplier records and gaps in the chain of evidence.

02

Environmental performance

Which changes deserve priority? Examine energy, water and emissions in the context of the operation.

03

Social compliance

Where are the weaknesses in your sourcing program? Assess requirements and the evidence used to demonstrate compliance.

04

Circularity

Can the proposed system work commercially? Consider material quality, recovery routes and end-market demand.

What the work produces

A basis for action,
with the economics included.

An assessment should identify the evidence gaps and establish priorities. The implementation plan needs to reflect the resources and operating constraints of the business.

Findings you can examine

A documented assessment of available information, limitations and areas requiring further investigation.

Priorities you can budget

Recommended actions with the resources and technical work needed to evaluate them.

Responsibility for implementation

An agreed plan identifying who owns each action and how progress will be reviewed.

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Tell us about the customer requirement, operational issue or supply-chain question you need to address.

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Research & commentary

A closer look at the textile business.

Research and commentary from Gherzi Americas on the forces affecting textile and apparel companies. Written by people who work in the industry and have opinions about where it’s heading.

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The Global Textile & Apparel Report

A representative excerpt of the market intelligence Gherzi produces for clients across the supply chain, from fiber economics to sourcing strategy and the sustainability outlook.

The Future of Textiles & Apparel Starts with Insight — Strategic Outlook 2026–2030
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The Americas Textile and Apparel Complex — Gherzi Americas white paper
The Future of Denim: Fiber, Trade and the Cost of Being Wrong — Gherzi Americas white paper
The Fiber Wars: Cotton and Synthetics in the Next Decade — Gherzi Americas white paper
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The Americas Textile and Apparel Complex

Where it stands in mid-2026, and what it could still become. A Gherzi Americas assessment of the Western Hemisphere supply chain, from fiber and trade policy to nearshoring and investment.

Robert P. Antoshak · Radhika Shrinivas · David Uricoli July 2026 26 pages · PDF

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The Future of Denim: Fiber, Trade and the Cost of Being Wrong

Materials, markets, trade and the remaking of a global industry. How denim's fiber base, cost structure and trade routes are being redrawn, and what it costs to bet on the wrong one.

Andrew Olah & Robert Antoshak September 2026 30 pages · PDF

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The Fiber Wars: Cotton and Synthetics in the Next Decade

Cotton has spent twenty years losing a war it prefers to describe as a misunderstanding. A Gherzi Americas assessment of where cotton and polyester stand, what is shifting in trade, recycling and sourcing, and how the next decade could play out.

Robert Antoshak · Radhika Shrinivas October 2026 32 pages · PDF

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Gherzi Perspectives

Our Consultants' Take on the Industry

Gherzi Perspectives collects first-hand reporting and analysis from Gherzi Americas consultants in the field. Views are the author's.

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No. 09 · Color

What’s in your Color?

Fiber has a paper trail. Color has a feeling, unknown pricing, and timelines that end with "Best Can Do." But the real question is simpler: what is in the color?

Colleen Ahalt-Eagle
Colleen Ahalt-Eagle
Consultant, Gherzi Americas
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No. 08 · Denim

Forty Years of Denim

Cotton, memory and the shifting map of Southeast Asia. A personal account of how Thai denim mills learned from Japan, came through 1997 and found their place in global sourcing.

Amrin Sachathep
Amrin Sachathep
Consultant, Gherzi Americas
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No. 07 · Trade Policy

The Potential Implications of the Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act

An analysis of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, and what its secondary tariff mechanism means for apparel and textile sourcing.

Radhika Shrinivas
Radhika Shrinivas
Partner, Gherzi Americas
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No. 06 · Commentary

We Built Too Much

Overcapacity across the textile value chain. Chinese textile utilization ran 74.9 percent in the second quarter of 2026, US mills averaged 69.5 percent through 2025, and the expansion announcements keep coming. Capacity is easy to announce and almost impossible to retire.

Robert Antoshak
Robert Antoshak
Managing Partner, Gherzi Americas
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No. 05 · Commentary

Can an Industry Improve If People Can't Read?

For fifteen years, our industry has told itself that knowledge will transform the supply chain. More reports, more transparency, more regulation — thousands of pages of PDFs. Somebody has to read the things. Adapted from the Jeansland podcast.

Andrew Olah
Andrew Olah
Consultant, Gherzi Americas
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No. 04 · Trade

Impact of Tariffs on the Textile Value Chain

Between 2024 and 2025 the average tariff rate on US apparel imports more than doubled, yet import unit prices rose 2% and retail prices 0.6%. A look at where the difference went as it moved through the value chain.

Radhika Shrinivas
Radhika Shrinivas
Partner, Gherzi Americas
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No. 03 · Regulation

The Digital Product Passport Begins with the Product

The EU is leading the development of Digital Product Passports, and U.S. apparel companies selling into the EU will have to comply. The central question is not which platform stores the information, but where it originated and what evidence establishes that it is accurate.

David Uricoli
David Uricoli
Partner, Gherzi Americas
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No. 02 · Analysis

Trends to Tariffs: Where the Stability Lives

Trend, price, sustainability, wages, oil, cotton, polyester, compliance, customer expectation — none of these live in separate rooms anymore, even though most of our organizations still build separate rooms for them.

Christine Tymkiw
Christine Tymkiw
Tymkiw Consulting · Project Consultant
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No. 01 · Show Report

Innovation Was the Word. Risk Was the Problem.

The word innovation got a workout in Raleigh last week. Budget for it, less so. Field notes from Techtextil North America, Raleigh, August 4–6, 2026.

Courtney Caneer-Williams
Courtney Caneer-Williams
Consultant, Gherzi Americas
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