The Antigua Group, Inc., which makes golf and sports licensed apparel under the Antigua and Slazenger brands, has added 19 new embroidery machines to bolster its production capacity for Spring 2011. Antigua looks to growth in hat and e-commerce business as well increased general productivity.
Antigua's said it increased production capacity to its in-house embroidery facility as they continue to take over market share in four of their business positions; golf, corporate, licensed sports and e-commerce apparel and hats. The state of the art in house embroidery facility makes up 35,000 square feet of its 110,000 square foot corporate headquarters located just west of Phoenix in Peoria, AZ and seamlessly runs two shifts a day, seven days a week at peak season.
“We decided to decommission 13 Barudan six-head machines and replace them with 13 brand new Barudan models that run at greater speeds, are more efficient and hat capable. We've also added six single-needle Barudan machines to increase our capacity for our growing e-commerce fulfillment business for the major sports related web sites,” said Ron McPherson, president and CEO of the Antigua Group. “With this capital investment, we will be able to continue our industry leading order turn-around time, increase our ability to serve cap and hat orders and handle the growth trend and short lead times of e-commerce orders.”
