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Schenck receives Headrick award
Margaret Schenck, Executive Vice President of United Knitting LP has become a winner of the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce M.C. Headrick Award, presented by last year’s recipient, Steve Robinson of Cleveland Plywood. “A true visionary, she sought to survive in a diminishing textile industry by championing the changes necessary to take the company to a world-class leader of manufacturing highly technical fabrics,” Robinson said.
4th February 2014
Knitting Industry
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Cleveland, OH
Margaret Schenck, Executive Vice President of United Knitting LP has become a winner of the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce M.C. Headrick Award, presented by last year’s recipient, Steve Robinson of Cleveland Plywood.
“A true visionary, she sought to survive in a diminishing textile industry by championing the changes necessary to take the company to a world-class leader of manufacturing highly technical fabrics,” Robinson said.
Honoured
“It has been very difficult to stay in the textile industry in the last 20 years where everybody wants the cheapest and the quickest delivery,” Schenck said. “The way United Knitting has done that is that our employees have stepped up and they developed the very best fabrics.”
Schenck is the 34th recipient of the Headrick Award and only the fourth woman to receive it since its inception in 1981.
The highest and most prestigious award honours the memory of one of the most outstanding businessmen Cleveland/Bradley County has ever produced, who believed wholeheartedly in the fundamental concepts of the free enterprise system.
United Knitting
Schenck was one of five general partners and founders who pooled their resources in March 1982 to launch United Knitting. The partners installed specialised equipment in a rented building to produce gussets for hosiery. Four years later, United Knitting was the first factory to break ground for its current facility in the Cleveland/Bradley Industrial Park off APD 40.
In her 31-year career with United Knitting, Schenck has embraced every opportunity to expand her knowledge and expertise to champion changes and challenges to propel United Knitting to being the recognised world leader in manufacturing knitted technical fabrics.
Today the company focuses its vertical resources in developing technologically innovative fabric systems and producing high-performance technical fabrics for such leading brands as Tommy Copper, Under Armour and North Face fleece, as well as fabrics for the U.S. Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy.
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