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jlume 45, Number 1
April 1989
1/14 Reach Million‘Safe Hours’
Employees at Adams-Millis
ant 4/14 in Kernersville have
hieved a coveted safety miles-
ae — a million safe working
iurs.
“This is an excellent accomp-
ihment which has been
hieved only through the
forts of every employee to do
eir jobs safely and efficiently,”
id President Robert M. Bundy
during a victory luncheon of
aployees and company officials
i April 12.
Plant 4/14 is the fourth
iams-Millis facility to achieve
a million safe working hours, |
which means that no employee |
lost time from work due to an '
accident at work. j
The record began in April 1989
and the million hours was
reached in February this year.
For reaching this goal the
Plant 4/14 employees earned the
safety awards from Adams-
Millis Corporation, the N.C.
Department of Labor and Aetna
Life & Casualty Insurance
Company, the company’s insu
rance carrier.
(Continued On Page 7)
President Bundy, center, presents shirts to Kernersville Mayor Roger Swisher, left, and
Kernersville Chamber of Commerce President Larry Cain
Silver Knit Carves
Nitch; Enjoys
Fine Reputation
Welch, Mason,
Anthony Win
Scholarships
George Burfeind, Bill Millis
From its beginnings in the
Depression, Silver Knit has
carved a nitch and earned an
excellent reputation in the
hosiery industry. Now it is
entering a new phase of
accelerated growth and develop
ment.
“Our marketing plan is to
service the smaller runs of
unique yarns for products that
reach the higher end market,”
said Silver Knit President
George Burfeind. “And quality is
of the utmost in every phases of
the company from manufactur
ing through presentation and
selling.
“Silver Knit enjoys a special
position and reputation in the
marketplace,” he added. “It’s in
the top five in the nation.”
Hosiery that is sold under the
labels of Weekender, Jockey
International, Yves St. Laurent,
Colours by Alexander Julian and
Ruff Hewn is the result of Silver
Knit employees’ work.
The company’s production
(about half Men’s and half
Karen Ruth Welch, Anthony
Rex Mason and Brian Richard
Kelly have won James H. and
Jesse E. Millis Scholarships to
High Point College for the 1989-
90 school year.
The winners are chosen on the
basis of academic achievement
and financial need. The scholar
ship competition is open to all
Adams-Millis employees and
their dependents.
The $400 scholarships are for
students attending or who plan
to attend High Point College.
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Weiss Retiring After 36 Years
In his 36 years in the hosiery
'usiness, Norman Weiss has
ept a keen lookout for vulnera-
lility in his competitors and it
las paid off.
“We always looked for that
nd when we saw a need that
^^as not being filled we tried to
neet it,” said Weiss who plans to
etire at the end of April.
“We saw a lack of service at
he store level and organized a
orce of service people to provide
t,” he explained. “That new
oncept of service gave us a foot-
lold in the industry.”
His “foothold” led to many
)igger and better things. He was
lamed president of Maro Hosi
ery in 1969 and a year later he
bought the company. After nur
turing the company for sixteen
years, he sold it to Adams-Millis
in 1986.
After graduating from Temple
University with a degree in
accounting, he became a hosiery
salesman in the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
area. In 1955 he began commut
ing to New York selling hosiery.
He moved there in 1960 and later
became a merchandiser with
Spartan Industries of which ’
Maro Hosiery was a division.
“The hosiery industry has
been an industry of many
changes since I became involved
with it,” Weiss said.
He has sold to such stores as
Arlon’s, Atlantic, Corvettes and
Mangels and has moved through
brand names like BVD, Marl
boro, Big Yank, Bill Blass,
Wrangler, Lanvin, Disney and
Dunlop, among others.
Weiss helped Maro to become
the largest privatley-owned hos
iery company in the country.
“We were one of the first com
panies to concentrate on the
mass merchandisers,” he
explained.
Weiss also noted that Adams-
Millis President Robert M.
Bundy Jr. helped to build Maro
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Norman Weiss
It is the fourth time Welch has
won the Millis Scholarship. She
is the daughter of Louise Smith,
a technician in the Adams-Millis
Print Shop. Welch is a rising
senior majoring in home fur
nishings marketing and busi
ness administration.
Mason of High Point is the son
of William Rex Mason, a knitting
superintendent at Silver Knit.
He will be a rising sophomore at
High Point College where he is
majoring in business adminis
tration and economics. He is a
graduate of Southern Guilford
High School.
Kelly of Woodbury Heights,
N.J., is the son of Joseph P. Kelly,
an account executive in Adams-
Millis Sales Office in New York
City. After graduation from
Gloucester Catholic High School
in New Jersey he plans to seek
bachelors and masters degrees
for a career in secondary educa
tion guidance.
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