WestPoint Home, Inc., is a supplier of fashion and core home textile products. WestPoint Home is headquartered in New York City with manufacturing and distribution facilities in the United States and overseas. Their products include a diverse range of home fashion textile products including: towels, fashion bedding, sheets, comforters, blankets, mattress pads, pillows and more. Some brands that they offer include: Martex, Izod, Ralph Lauren, Hanes, Stay Bright, Vellux, Patrician, Lady Pepperell, and Utica Cotton Mills. Products from Westpoint Home are found in retail stores throughout the United States. WestPoint Home's goal of being the "preferred supplier of fashion and core home textile products" is backed by almost 200 years of textile history. WestPoint Home, Inc. as it is known today is the result of the mergers of three of the oldest companies in the textile industry: J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc., Pepperell Manufacturing Company, and West Point Manufacturing Company. The company was led by the Lanier family through the late 1980s. The Laniers originally incorporated the Westpoint Manufacturing Company in 1880. WestPoint Home, Inc. is now owned by Icahn Enterprises, L.P.
WestPoint Home is a conglomerate of three textile giants. WestPoint Manufacturing Company was formed in the south shortly after the end of the Civil War. J.P. Stevens & Co. and the Pepperell Manufacturing Co were two individual companies that were founded some years earlier in New England. WestPoint Home currently serves as a manufacturer of home fashion textiles.
The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union was a textile labor union that was founded in 1914. J.P. Stevens & Co had a famous run in with the union, which was documented in the film Norma Rae. The Academy Award-winning movie Norma Rae was based on the real-life story of Crystal Lee Sutton. Sutton, who was a mill worker in a J.P. Stevens mill in Roanoke Rapids, NC, was fired after trying to unionize employees. Shortly after Sutton's famous "stand", The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union began to represent workers at the plant on August 28, 1974.
