Glen Raven, Inc is recognized around the world as one of the premiere fabric and textile producing businesses in the textile industry. Originally founded as a simple cotton mill serving the state of North Carolina in 1880 by John Q. Gant, it has spread its business across the globe and has a 190,000 square foot factory and China and is preparing to open additional factories in Brazil as well. Since John Q Gant stepped down from his position, it has continued to be run by the Gant family after four generations as a family owned, for-profit company which is a huge reason as to why the company is so successful. The Gant family has established very high standards for the company’s services and workers which are embraced throughout the company. The company’s mission statement is “enhancing life for global consumers with the world’s most innovative fabric-based, market-driven solutions” and with this always in mind the Glen Raven produces top-quality materials for a wide range of businesses in various industries. The company is divided into three different divisions; Custom Fabrics Worldwide, Trivantage, and Technical Fabrics Worldwide, which helps the leaders of Glen Raven manage the overall company more successfully. Glen Raven is a general name for Glen Raven Inc because the entire business incorporates over one hundred twenty different companies in its daily operations and these spread all over the world. These companies are part of a wide range of services that Glen Raven performs for its customers which vary from the U.S. Military to car companies such as Ford and Honda to MineMesh which is involved in supplying mining companies material which supports tunneling operations. Despite the wide range of companies that it has to oversee, the upper-management at Glen Raven is able to efficiently maintain constant control over its operations because of themes that it stresses to its employees. The two major themes that are stressed are teamwork and creativity, because together they can provide tons of innovation and new ideas which will keep Glen Raven ahead of its competitors and on top of the markets. In addition, Glen Raven is very careful about maintaining excellent levels of sustainability by making sure it produces as little waste as possible from its factories and properly disposing of the waste that it does produce. While its factories in countries such as India and China have much lower pollution standards there than they do in the U.S., Glen Raven makes sure that they abide by U.S. standards no matter where one of their businesses is located.
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