Collins & Aikman

G. L. Kelty, a precursor to the Collins & Aikman Corporation, was founded in 1843 by Gibbons Kelty. The firm originally sold window shades in New York and gradually added home furnishing lines, operating a textile factory in Astoria, New York. After Kelty's death, his nephew Charles Aikman founded C. M. Aikman & Co., which eventually incorporated a weaving manufacture located in Philadelphia in 1891 under the name of Collins & Aikman Company. The firm became the first American producer of jacquard velvet in 1898. It then became an automotive manufacturer in the 1920s. The company went public in 1926 and was reincorporated as Collins & Aikman Corporation in 1927. Collins & Aikman diversified in the... more.

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