Our Mission
ATEXINC is a small, rapidly growing business that exclusively
serves the niche market of apparel and textile educators in industry and higher
education. Most of our customers are due to referral or are repeats who
like our quality products and friendly, knowledgeable staff. In business since
1989, we continue to strive to offer "one-stop-shopping" for your
apparel and textile teaching and training needs.
When you contact ATEXINC, you will be helped by someone who
understands how our products can meet your needs. And we make it our goal to
give excellent customer service and the best value for your money. If you are
happy with our products and service, please tell your colleagues. And if you
aren't happy, please tell us at feedback@atexinc.com.
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Our Customers
ATEXINC serves customers working in college and university education,
fashion design, product development, textile and apparel
manufacturing, fashion merchandising, retailing, marketing, management, quality
assurance, special events and promotion, display, wardrobe and image consulting, clothing
behavior, costume history, and interior design.
Click here to see a list of over
350 of our customers. This will give you an idea of the quality and quantity of colleges,
universities, and companies we have served. We hope to be able to add your name
to the list soon!
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Our People
Founder and
president
Patty Brown has been an educator for over 20 years. She achieved perfect
academic records while earning her undergraduate degree as a Pershing Scholar at
Truman State University, and her graduate degree as a Gregory Fellow at the
University of Missouri-Columbia.
Patty has taught part-time as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University
of Missouri-Columbia, full-time as an Instructor at Truman State University in
Kirksville, MO, and full-time and as an Assistant Professor at Texas Christian
University in Ft. Worth, TX. She also served as a full-time District Home Economist for Hancock
Fabrics in the Ft. Worth, TX area. From 1988 to 2001, she taught part-time as an Adjunct Instructor in the Fashion Merchandising and Marketing and
Management departments at Johnson County Community College
(JCCC), while writing and building ATEXINC. Patty is co-author with Janett Rice of the best-selling textbook, Ready-to-Wear
Apparel Analysis, a Prentice Hall publication now in its third edition.
Since founding ATEXINC in 1989, Patty has developed a number of
educational products for teaching textiles and apparel. She continues to
work in development of educational products in service to the field of textiles and apparel.
Paul Brown, Ph.D., is the other key staff member at ATEXINC. He is responsible for technical
support and
serves in an advisory capacity.
Paul and Patty Brown at ITAA meeting,
New York City, August, 2002
Several individuals and organizations have become integral to our organization's success. We wish to
thank Kathi Cook, Debbie Wilsdorf at Flagship Technologies, Inc., Russ and Mae Beth Wojtkiewicz at RBW, Inc., and Jan Gillespie and her staff at CSM, Inc. for their
contributions to our growth.
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Our Partners
We have many industry partners that
help make possible our wide product offerings. ATEXINC is an
authorized distributor for Berg Publishers, Cambridge Educational,
CEV Multimedia, D.E. Visuals, Delmar Publishers, Diamond Educational
Productions, Fairchild Books, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, iMAGINE THAT!,
International Fabricare Institute, JWA Video, Learning Seed, Living Soft, Merchandise
Testing Laboratories, Meridian Education, Prentice Hall, Retail Technologies
International, SDL Atlas, Textile Innovators Corporation, Union Special
Technical Training Center, and Working Wardrobes. If you or a company you know
of is interested in becoming one of our partners, please contact
us.
