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something local. so we decided to come back home. it may have take an few years but rachel weekes can proudly say that her entire line of high. end collegiate apparel is now made in the usa. >> we do everything from fitted t-shirts to tailored hoodies, yoga pants, a cute lounge set that's women's underwear and tank to tops, a varsity cardigan, which was one of the first real fashion items we introduced to the college market. but the founder of schoolhouse admits that fulfilling her in addition bring production stateside hasn't been easy. >> a lot of the factories that are here are not what they were 20 years ago pap lot of the technology that's here is in some ways behind the technology that i encountered in sri lanka. >> that's where schoolhouse used to manufacture all its clothing at a living wage garment factory. in the end, the distance proved to be too much, and that's why weekes and her chief operations officer, susan williams, decided
to find and partner with local factories. >> i was part of a generation ta took it away from this country and didn't know what that would do really to our economy, and here i am now 20 years later having an opportunity to bring it back. >> weekes, who has schools like duke, yale, the university of nebraska and the university of cincinnati among her clients says she's done plen i of legwork. >> finding a big factory partner is extraordinarily difficult. it was a lot of getting in the car and getting on the phone. we'd been travel across the state of north carolina uncovering these cut-and-sew facilities and meeting with fabric vendors and finding cardboard box manufacturers who are still here. >> since so many north carolina textile factories shut down, the search was intense. >> reviving an industry that was booming 20 years ago and it really took a nap. so with schoolhouse we are
taking them out of the rip van winkle stage of the nap and bringing them back to life. >> if there was a door to knock on, schoolhouse was there. >> at least 120 doors to narrow it down to five. it's been a real hunt. >> as a small business owner weekes learned that face to face meetings were a must. >> one of first things we look for when we're talking not only to management but to actual employees of factories are people with an open mind and people with passion and drive. >> once factory owners see school house's designs, weekes and williams get a sense pretty quickly as to whether or not a relationship will work. >> when you walk into a factory that has been doing the same boxed t-shirts for the past 20 years and the management has, you know, no interest in doing anything else, you know that's not a fit for school house. >> our goods are full of craftsmanship. they're very detailed. they're not just a basic t-shirt. you have to have a desire to
had a line of garments we would like for you guys to look at producing any or all of that that you can and more importantly we want to provide you with a consistent line. we sewed up a couple prototypes and were able to come up with a ballpark cost that fell in line with what schoolhouse needed. >> bennett was glad to hear about school house's long-term commitment to his company. that's part of the reason why the factory updated its equipment and adapted it work flow. it's a partnership that will continue to evolve as long as it's a good fit for both sides. >> eventually that will transition over to where we're going to do a full package for them, which i think is a perk for them. they want us to be able to handle the manufacturing entirely. >> as school pz house grows, inevitably weekes and williams will have to find additional factories. >> you always need to have a few factories in kind of your bag of tricks because you want to make sure that you even out their production, but it also metes
the needs of your production. >> not every factory visit results in a partnership, but weekes is committed to products made in the usa. she wants local manufacturers to know they'll be knocking and they should be ready and tlog listen. we're looking for creativity and partnership and flexibility and that's all it takes, a sort of new generation of leadership that see what is we're trying to do, wants to be a part of it, and is willing to make changes and dust off old machinery and make it happen. >> looking to boost customer loyalty with a modern-day version of a traditional punch card? check out our website of the week. it lets you award points for customer purposes that eventually add up to a free item or store credit. customers just need to enter their phone number or scan the qr code on the receipt. the surveillance provides analytics so you can better measure your marketing performance and see who your