Monday, March 13, 2006

Fishboy Supplier Lakeshirts Hits 15 million Mark

Lakeshirts prints and distributes Fishboy branded garments.

Detroit Lakes, MN. Lakeshirts, the local screenprint and embroidery company with a nationwide reach, recently produced its 15 millionth garment. The garment was an embroidered piece produced for the up coming Twin Cities marathon. Since 1984, Lakeshirts has grown into a multi-million dollar company turning out screenprint and embroidered t-shirts, long sleeve shirts, hats, polos, fleece, denim, and loop
terry products for adults, teens, youth and toddlers for four different markets – golf, resort, college and custom. With 24 embroidery machines, 17 manual and 4 automatic screen print machines (capable of 8,000 shirts per day), Lakeshirts cranks out a garment every 3 seconds. Lakeshirts has their own dye works division which can wash and dye over 10,000 garments per day and over 250 employee’s and 66 sales reps nationwide, including the Caribbean, Alaska and Hawaii.

A Garment is produced every 3 seconds. Over 15 million garments since 1984. That’s enough to fill 4,433 semi trailers, like this one and stretch over 46 miles!

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