Redwood Classics, Canada’s leading boutique manufacturer of promotional and retail apparel, has teamed up with iconic Canadian clothing brand Preloved for a second year in a row to save hundreds of thousands of sweaters, shirts and unused promotional stock from landfills.
At the highly anticipated Counselor Awards banquet, held on the evening of July 13, during the ASI Show in Chicago, ASI gave two of its prestigious annual awards to Canadian natives. Kathy Cheng, the founder and president of Toronto-based Redwood Classics Apparel (asi/81627), was named this year’s Supplier Woman of Distinction. For the full article, click here for the link
CHICAGO, IL –Kathy Cheng, our fearless leader and champion of North American manufacturing, has been selected as the recipient of the ASI Counselor 2016 Supplier Woman of Distinction Award. The winners, voted by ASI members and editors of ASI's Counselor magazine, recognize outstanding individuals and companies in seven categories. The winners represent the top entrepreneurs, small-business leaders and CEOs in the $21.5 billion advertising specialty industry.“This business has given our family and extended family of craftspeople so much,” said Kathy Cheng, Founder and President of Redwood Classics Apparel. “Receiving an award like this – alongside our industry’s best and brightest – is incredibly motivating. My team and I will continue to break the glass ceiling and work toward levelling the playing field...
In the recent Strategy to Support the Enhancement of Trade and Export Development, International Alliances and Foreign Direct Investment in Toronto, Councillor Michael Thompson, Chair of Toronto's Economic Development and Culture Committee, had a lot to say about our city’s role on the international manufacturing stage.
