Thread regarding Hartmarx Corp. layoffs

"The Chicago store has the largest year-over-year sales increase of all three of our stores," including one in New York and a second in San Francisco, said Doug Williams, president and CEO of HMX Group, Inc., the company that took over much of the assets of Chicago-based Hartmarx Corp. last August. Hartmarx had 1,800 employees prior to the change of control; HMX now employs 1,780, including 45 jobs added to the Des Plaines factory at a new pants-sewing shop, Williams said.