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Article: Gastonia, N.C., Yarn Maker Keeps Tabs on International Competition.

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By Sharon E. White, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 16--GASTONIA, N.C.--Parkdale President and CEO Andy Warlick has traveled to Colombia six times in the past year. Last week he was in Vietnam.

Warlick is searching for ways to keep Parkdale, a Gastonia-based yarn maker, competitive in a global marketplace in which U.S.

textile companies seem to falter daily.

"If you don't know what's going on in the world, you get blindsided," said the 46-year-old executive. "I know they're building yarn mills over there (in Vietnam) and I ask why."

Parkdale, one of the world's leading cotton yarn ...

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