"Retailers:  Delta sells its collections to the leading retailers and specialty stores in the world. We offer tailored designs to suit our customers' needs and positioning, which enable them to effectively target their consumers.

"Our customer list includes Marks & Spencer (www.marksandspencer.com), Target (www.target.com), Wal-Mart (www.walmart.com), Victoria's Secret (www.limited.com/about/vs), JC Penney (www.jcpenney.com), Hema (www.hema.nl) and others."...  www.deltagalil.com

From the Israeli embassy:

"Most of the cotton bras in Victoria's Secret and some of the cotton panties in Victoria's Secrets are made by Delta Galil Industries. To be on the safe side, look for a "Made In Israel" label." http://www.israelemb.org/sanfran/shop/clothes/delta.htm

From Israeli News Sources:

"Delta Galil is the nation's largest manufacturer and marketer of textiles and is one of the largest private-label underwear manufacturers in the world.

"The company was one of the first local firms to benefit from the peace process, as it moved manufacturing to neighboring countries with low labor costs. Delta currently manufactures in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Scotland.

"Dov Lautman, Delta's chairman and largest shareholder holds 56% of the company and Sara Lee, the world's largest clothing manufacturer, has some 30%. The remainder is traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange."

Jerusalem Post, March 1, 1999, http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/01.Mar.1999/Business/Article-0.html

Global Prosperity and Local Shutdown
by Assaf Adiv, Challenge 60

In the year 2000, Delta Galil, biggest of Israel's textile exporters, gradually laid off all 400 (Arab) workers of its plant in Nazareth, shutting it down forever. With a population of 63,000, Nazareth is the biggest Arab city in Israel, but the Delta textile plant was its only factory. Its closing is a major blow, therefore, to the local economy. Delta blames the shutdown on losses. Yet WAC (the Workers' Advice Center) has discovered that the year 2000 wasn't altogether bad for this big Israeli multi-national.

Despite its "losses", Delta managed to purchase three companies in North America, all based on the exploitation of cheap labor in East Asia and Latin America. [close intro] The new Intifada broke out on October 1, 2000 in Nazareth. (In the course of the demonstrations, the police killed three of the city's sons)....

http://www.odaction.org/challenge

MEFTA (Middle East Free Trade Agreement) and the Sub-contracting Scenario
by Efraim Davidi, research fellow at the International & Regional Studies Center of the Tel-Aviv University
 Friday May 19, 2006

The relocation of Israeli industries especially in the field of textile began in the last 10 years (after the Oslo Accords and the Jordan-Israel Peace Accord signed in 1995). One of the leading textile companies is "Delta-Galil," which owns industrial plants in Jordan and Egypt. In recent years, Delta has bought other plants, in Turkey, Central America, Thailand, and in Romania. The former CEO of "Delta-Galil," Arnon Tiberg, said that "the critiques that we are relocated in other countries and thus we contribute to the growing unemployment in Israel, are not fair. In Israel we employ 3,200 workers. In Jordan and Egypt we employ 3,000 workers. The plants in Jordan and Egypt make it possible to work on management in Israel as well as development, design and marketing -- all the capital intensive activities."

The owner of "Delta-Galil" Lautman said in an Israeli-Palestinian Businessmen Meeting held in Tel-Aviv in June 1999 under the title "Doing Business in Peace": "Jordan and Egypt are a strategic step for 'Delta'. The territories can become another such step. It's not easy to open a factory in France or in the United States, but it is much easier to open a factory in Gaza." Lautman in this meeting returned to his old idea and proposed to adopt the NAFTA model for the Middle East with Israel in the role of the United States and the Palestinians in that of Mexico. "Our mission is not to make peace. Our mission is to make money," emphasized Lautman. ...

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/112839.php

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