L.A. firm to buy Fruit of the Loom screen print operation, more jobs promised

Workers at the Focus Factory were all smiles Monday after it was announced that the plant had been purchased and that the workers there would be able to retain their jobs as Aprinta LLC plans to bring much of its multi-million promotional printing business to Alexander City.

 Kenneth S. Boone

The Fruit of the Loom www.fruit.com garment decoration and screen print operation, located in the Old Russell Plant 9, is being sold to Los Angeles-based Aprinta Group LLC. –  a giant in the promotional products printing industry.

While news of corporate sales hasn’t always been reason to smile, this one appears to be. Aprinta Chief Executive Officer Billy Dolan said not only will the 60 or so current employees working there now keep their jobs, as many as 500 new jobs could be created here by 2018