UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

þ		ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

o		TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Commission file number: 001-32891

Hanesbrands Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Maryland (State of incorporation)		20-3552316 (I.R.S. employer identification no.)
1000 East Hanes Mill Road Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Address of principal executive office)		27105 (Zip code)

(336) 519-8080
(Registrant’s telephone number including area code)

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     Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference into Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. þ

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     As of July 2, 2010, the aggregate market value of the registrant’s common stock held by non-affiliates was approximately $2,307,420,788 (based on the closing price of the common stock of $24.30 per share on that date, as reported on the New York Stock Exchange and, for purposes of this computation only, the assumption that all of the registrant’s directors and executive officers are affiliates and that beneficial holders of 5% or more of the outstanding common stock are not affiliates).

     As of February 14, 2011, there were 96,367,197 shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding.

     Part III of this Form 10-K incorporates by reference to portions of the registrant’s proxy statement for its 2011 annual meeting of stockholders.

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

				Page
Forward-Looking Statements					2
Where You Can Find More Information					3
PART I
Item 1		Business			4
Item 1A		Risk Factors			17
Item 1B		Unresolved Staff Comments			30
Item 1C		Executive Officers of the Registrant			30
Item 2		Properties			31
Item 3		Legal Proceedings			33
Item 4		(Removed and Reserved)			33
PART II
Item 5		Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities			33
Item 6		Selected Financial Data			35
Item 7		Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations			37
Item 7A		Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk			81
Item 8		Financial Statements and Supplementary Data			82
Item 9		Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure			82
Item 9A		Controls and Procedures			82
Item 9B		Other Information			82
PART III
Item 10		Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance			83
Item 11		Executive Compensation			83
Item 12		Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters			83
Item 13		Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence			83
Item 14		Principal Accounting Fees and Services			83
PART IV
Item 15		Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules			84
Signatures					85
Index to Exhibits					E-1
Financial Statements					F-1
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Trademarks, Trade Names and Service Marks

     We own or have rights to use the trademarks, service marks and trade names that we use in conjunction with the operation of our business. Some of the more important trademarks that we own or have rights to use that may appear in this Annual Report on Form 10-K include the Hanes, Champion, C9 by Champion, Playtex, Bali, L’eggs, Just My Size, barely there, Wonderbra, Stedman, Outer Banks, Zorba, Rinbros, Duofold and Gear for Sports marks, which may be registered in the United States and other jurisdictions. We do not own any trademark, trade name or service mark of any other company appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

     This Annual Report on Form 10-K includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). Forward-looking statements include all statements that do not relate solely to historical or current facts, and can generally be identified by the use of words such as “may,” “believe,” “will,” “expect,” “project,” “estimate,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “continue” or similar expressions. In particular, information appearing under “Business,” “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements inherently involve many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in these statements. Where, in any forward-looking statement, we express an expectation or belief as to future results or events, such expectation or belief is based on the current plans and expectations of our management and expressed in good faith and believed to have a reasonable basis, but there can be no assurance that the expectation or belief will result or be achieved or accomplished. The following include some but not all of the factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated:

	•		our ability to successfully manage social, political, economic, legal and other conditions affecting our supply chain, such as disruption of markets, operational disruptions, changes in import and export laws, currency restrictions and currency exchange rate fluctuations;
	•		the impact of significant fluctuations and volatility in the price of various input costs, such as cotton and oil-related materials, utilities, freight and wages;
	•		the impact of natural disasters;
	•		the impact of the loss of one or more of our suppliers of finished goods or raw materials;
	•		our ability to effectively manage our inventory and reduce inventory reserves;
	•		our ability to optimize our global supply chain;
	•		current economic conditions;
	•		consumer spending levels;
	•		the risk of inflation or deflation;
	•		our ability to continue to effectively distribute our products through our distribution network;
	•		financial difficulties experienced by, or loss of or reduction in sales to, any of our top customers or groups of customers;
	•		gains and losses in the shelf space that our customers devote to our products;
	•		the highly competitive and evolving nature of the industry in which we compete;
	•		our ability to keep pace with changing consumer preferences;
	•		the impact of any inadequacy, interruption or failure with respect to our information technology or any data security breach;
	•		our debt and debt service requirements that restrict our operating and financial flexibility and impose interest and financing costs;

	•		the financial ratios that our debt instruments require us to maintain;
	•		future financial performance, including availability, terms and deployment of capital;
	•		our ability to comply with environmental and occupational health and safety laws and regulations;
	•		costs and adverse publicity from violations of labor or environmental laws by us or our suppliers;
	•		our ability to attract and retain key personnel;
	•		new litigation or developments in existing litigation; and
	•		possible terrorist attacks and ongoing military action in the Middle East and other parts of the world.

     There may be other factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Our actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, the forward-looking statements. We can give no assurances that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will occur or, if any of them do, what impact they will have on our results of operations and financial condition. You should carefully read the factors described in the “Risk Factors” section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a description of certain risks that could, among other things, cause our actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements.

     All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We undertake no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, other than as required by law.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

     We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). You can inspect, read and copy these reports, proxy statements and other information at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. You can obtain information regarding the operation of the SEC’s Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC also maintains a website at www.sec.gov that makes available reports, proxy statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically.

     We make available free of charge at www.hanesbrands.com (in the “Investors” section) copies of materials we file with, or furnish to, the SEC. By referring to our corporate website, www.hanesbrands.com, or any of our other websites we do not incorporate any such website or its contents into this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

PART I

Item 1.		Business

General

     We are a consumer goods company with a portfolio of leading apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali, L’eggs, Just My Size, barely there, Wonderbra, Stedman, Outer Banks, Zorba, Rinbros, Duofold and Gear for Sports. We design, manufacture, source and sell a broad range of basic apparel such as T-shirts, bras, panties, men’s underwear, kids’ underwear, casualwear, activewear, socks and hosiery.

     The basic apparel sector of the apparel industry is characterized by frequently replenished items, such as T-shirts, bras, panties, men’s underwear, kids’ underwear, socks and hosiery. Growth and sales in the basic apparel sector are not primarily driven by fashion, in contrast to other areas of the broader apparel industry. We focus on the core attributes of comfort, fit and value, while remaining current with regard to consumer trends. The majority of our core styles continue from year to year, with variations only in color, fabric or design details. Some products, however, such as intimate apparel, activewear and sheer hosiery, do have more of an emphasis on style and innovation. We continue to invest in our largest and strongest brands to achieve our long-term growth goals. In addition to designing and marketing basic apparel, we have a long history of operating a global supply chain that incorporates a mix of self-manufacturing, third-party contractors and third-party sourcing. On November 1, 2010, we completed our acquisition of GearCo, Inc., known as Gear for Sports, a leading seller of licensed logo apparel in collegiate bookstores and other channels.

     Our fiscal year ends on the Saturday closest to December 31. All references to “2010,” “2009” and “2008” relate to the 52 week fiscal years ended on January 1, 2011 and January 2, 2010 and the 53 week fiscal year ended on January 3, 2009, respectively.

     Our operations are managed and reported in five operating segments, each of which is a reportable segment for financial reporting purposes: Innerwear, Outerwear, Hosiery, Direct to Consumer and International. These segments are organized principally by product category, geographic location and distribution channel. Each segment has its own management that is responsible for the operations of the segment’s businesses but the segments share a common supply chain and media and marketing platforms. In October 2009, we completed the sale of our yarn operations and, as a result, we no longer have net sales in the Other segment, which was primarily comprised of sales of yarn to third parties. The following table summarizes our operating segments by category:

Segment		Primary Products		Primary Brands
Innerwear		Intimate apparel, such as bras, panties and shapewear		Hanes, Playtex, Bali, barely there, Just My Size, Wonderbra
		Men’s underwear and kids’ underwear		Hanes, Polo Ralph Lauren*
		Socks		Hanes, Champion
Outerwear		Activewear, such as performance		Champion, Duofold, Gear for Sports
		T-shirts and shorts, fleece, sports bras and thermals
		Casualwear, such as T-shirts, fleece and sport shirts		Hanes, Just My Size, Outer Banks, Champion, Hanes Beefy-T
Hosiery		Hosiery		L’eggs, Hanes, Donna Karan,* DKNY,* Just My Size

Segment		Primary Products		Primary Brands
Direct to Consumer		Activewear, men’s underwear, kids’ underwear, intimate apparel, socks, hosiery and casualwear		Bali, Hanes, Playtex, Champion, barely there, L’eggs, Just My Size
International		Activewear, men’s underwear, kids’ underwear, intimate apparel, socks, hosiery and casualwear		Hanes, Champion, Wonderbra,** Playtex,** Stedman, Zorba, Rinbros, Kendall,* Sol y Oro, Bali, Ritmo

     Our brands have a strong heritage in the basic apparel industry. According to The NPD Group/Consumer Tracking Service, or “NPD,” our brands held either the number one or number two U.S. market position by units sold in most product categories in which we compete, for the 12-month period ended December 31, 2010.

     Our products are sold through multiple distribution channels. During 2010, approximately 44% of our net sales were to mass merchants in the United States, 15% were to national chains and department stores in the United States, 12% were in our International segment, 9% were in our Direct to Consumer segment in the United States, and 20% were to other retail channels in the United States such as embellishers, specialty retailers, wholesale clubs and sporting goods stores. We have strong, long-term relationships with our top customers, including relationships of more than ten years with each of our top ten customers. The size and operational scale of the high-volume retailers with which we do business require extensive category and product knowledge and specialized services regarding the quantity, quality and planning of product orders. We have organized multifunctional customer management teams, which has allowed us to form strategic long-term relationships with these customers and efficiently focus resources on category, product and service expertise. We also have customer-specific programs such as the C9 by Champion products marketed and sold through Target stores and our Just My Size program at Wal-Mart stores.

     Our ability to react to changing customer needs and industry trends is key to our success. Our design, research and product development teams, in partnership with our marketing teams, drive our efforts to bring innovations to market. We seek to leverage our insights into consumer demand in the basic apparel industry to develop new products within our existing lines and to modify our existing core products in ways that make them more appealing, addressing changing customer needs and industry trends. Examples of our recent innovations include:

	•		Barely There Smart Sizes, a new bra sizing system that simplifies and streamlines the traditional bra sizing configuration from 16 sizes to just five sizes with innovative, “shape to fit” technology (2010).
	•		Wonderbra Secret Agent No Slip Fit Collection includes bras that feature shaping stay-in-place back and no slip straps that secretly work together to ensure everything stays comfortably in place all day (2010).
	•		Bali Comfort-U Bra with a feature that ensures that the straps and back stay in place, delivering the ultimate fit and comfort in a place most women don’t think to look—the back (2010).
	•		Hanes Comfort Flex Underwear feature a softer, more stretchable waistband that comfortably shifts without pinching or binding (2010).
	•		Hanes dyed V-neck underwear T-shirts in black, gray and navy colors (2009).
	•		Champion 360° Max Support sports bra that controls movement in all directions, scientifically tested on athletes to deliver 360° support (2009).

	•		Playtex 18 Hour Seamless Smoothing bra that features fused fabric to smooth sides and back (2009).
	•		Bali Natural Uplift bras that feature advanced lift for the bust without adding size (2009).
	•		Hanes No Ride Up panties, specially designed for a better fit that helps women stay “wedgie-free” (2008).
	•		Hanes Lay Flat Collar T-shirts and Hanes No Ride Up boxer briefs, an innovation in product comfort and fit (2008).
	•		Playtex 18 Hour Active Lifestyle bra that features active styling with wickable fabric (2008).
	•		Bali Concealers bras, with revolutionary concealing petals for complete modesty (2008).
	•		Hanes Concealing Petals bras (2008).

     We have restructured our supply chain over the past four years to create more efficient production clusters that utilize fewer, larger facilities and to balance our production capability between the Western Hemisphere and Asia. We have closed plant locations, reduced our workforce and relocated some of our manufacturing capacity to lower cost locations in Asia, Central America and the Caribbean Basin. With our global supply chain infrastructure in place, we are focused long-term on optimizing our supply chain to further enhance efficiency, improve working capital and asset turns and reduce costs through several initiatives, such as supplier-managed inventory for raw materials and sourced goods ownership arrangements. We commenced production at our textile production plant in Nanjing, China, which is our first company-owned textile facility in Asia, in the fourth quarter of 2009 and we ramped up production in 2010 to support our growth, with the expectation of ramping up to full capacity by the end of 2011. The Nanjing facility, along with our other textile facilities and arrangements with outside contractors, enables us to expand and leverage our production scale as we balance our supply chain across hemispheres to support our production capacity. We consolidated our distribution network by implementing new warehouse management systems and technology and adding new distribution centers and new third-party logistics providers to replace parts of our legacy distribution network, including relocating distribution capacity to our West Coast distribution facility in California in order to expand capacity for goods we source from Asia.

Our Brands

     Our portfolio of leading brands is designed to address the needs and wants of various consumer segments across a broad range of basic apparel products. Each of our brands has a particular consumer positioning that distinguishes it from its competitors and guides its advertising and product development. We discuss some of our most important brands in more detail below.

     Hanes is the largest and most widely recognized brand in our portfolio. The Hanes brand covers all of our product categories, including men’s underwear, kids’ underwear, bras, panties, socks, T-shirts, fleece and sheer hosiery. Hanes stands for outstanding comfort, style and value. According to Millward Brown Market Research, Hanes is found in 88% of the U.S. households that have purchased men’s or women’s casual clothing or underwear in the five-month period ended December 31, 2010.

     Champion is our second-largest brand. Specializing in athletic and other performance apparel, the Champion brand is designed for everyday athletes. We believe that Champion’s combination of comfort, fit and style provides athletes with mobility, durability and up-to-date styles, all product qualities that are important in the sale of athletic products. We also distribute C9 by Champion products exclusively through Target stores.

     Playtex, the third-largest brand within our portfolio, offers a line of bras, panties and shapewear, including products that offer solutions for hard to fit figures. Bali is the fourth-largest brand within our portfolio, offering a range of bras, panties and shapewear sold in the department store channel. Our brand portfolio also includes the following well-known brands: L’eggs, Just My Size, barely there, Wonderbra, Outer Banks, Duofold and Gear for

Sports. We entered into an agreement with Wal-Mart in 2009 that significantly expanded the presence of our Just My Size brand. These brands serve to round out our product offerings, allowing us to give consumers a variety of options to meet their diverse needs.

Our Segments

     Our operations are managed and reported in five operating segments, each of which is a reportable segment for financial reporting purposes: Innerwear, Outerwear, Hosiery, Direct to Consumer and International. These segments are organized principally by product category, geographic location and distribution channel. Each segment has its own management that is responsible for the operations of the segment’s businesses but the segments share a common supply chain and media and marketing platforms. In October 2009, we completed the sale of our yarn operations and, as a result, we no longer have net sales in the Other segment, which was primarily comprised of sales of yarn to third parties. For more information about our segments, see Note 18 to our financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Innerwear

     The Innerwear segment focuses on core apparel products, such as women’s intimate apparel, men’s underwear, kids’ underwear, and socks, marketed under well-known brands that are trusted by consumers. We are an intimate apparel category leader in the United States with our Hanes, Playtex, Bali, barely there, Just My Size and Wonderbra brands. We are also a leading manufacturer and marketer of men’s underwear and kids’ underwear under the Hanes and Polo Ralph Lauren brand names. During 2010, net sales from our Innerwear segment were $2.0 billion, representing approximately 46% of total net sales.

Outerwear

     We are a leader in the casualwear and activewear markets through our Hanes, Champion, Just My Size and Duofold brands, where we offer products such as T-shirts and fleece. Our casualwear lines offer a range of quality, comfortable clothing for men, women and children marketed under the Hanes and Just My Size brands. The Just My Size brand offers casual apparel designed exclusively to meet the needs of plus-size women. In 2009, we entered into a multi-year agreement to provide a women’s casualwear program with our Just My Size brand at Wal-Mart stores. In addition to activewear for men and women, Champion provides uniforms for athletic programs and includes an apparel program, C9 by Champion, at Target stores. We also license our Champion name for collegiate apparel and footwear. We also supply our T-shirts, sport shirts and fleece products, including brands such as Hanes, Champion, Outer Banks and Hanes Beefy-T, to customers, primarily wholesalers, who then resell to screen printers and embellishers. On November 1, 2010, we completed our acquisition of Gear for Sports, a leading seller of licensed logo apparel in collegiate bookstores and other channels, which significantly strengthens our strategy of creating stronger branded and defensible businesses in our Outerwear segment. The operating results of Gear for Sports are included in the Outerwear segment. During 2010, net sales from our Outerwear segment were $1.3 billion, representing approximately 29% of total net sales.

Hosiery

     We are the leading marketer of women’s sheer hosiery in the United States. We compete in the hosiery market by striving to offer superior values and executing integrated marketing activities, as well as focusing on the style of our hosiery products. We market hosiery products under our L’eggs, Hanes and Just My Size brands. During 2010, net sales from our Hosiery segment were $167 million, representing approximately 4% of total net sales. We expect the trend of declining hosiery sales to continue consistent with the overall decline in the industry and with shifts in consumer preferences.

Direct to Consumer

     Our Direct to Consumer operations include our value-based (“outlet”) stores and Internet operations which sell products from our portfolio of leading brands. We sell our branded products directly to consumers through our outlet stores, as well as our websites operating under the Hanes, One Hanes Place, Just My Size and Champion

names. Our Internet operations are supported by our catalogs. As of January 1, 2011 and January 2, 2010, we had 224 and 228 outlet stores, respectively. During 2010, net sales from our Direct to Consumer segment were $378 million, representing approximately 9% of total net sales.

International

     Our International segment includes products that span across the Innerwear, Outerwear and Hosiery reportable segments and are primarily marketed under the Hanes, Champion, Wonderbra, Playtex, Stedman, Zorba, Rinbros, Kendall, Sol y Oro, Bali and Ritmo brands. During 2010, net sales from our International segment were $509 million, representing approximately 12% of total net sales and included sales in Latin America, Asia, Canada, Europe and South America. Our largest international markets are Canada, Japan, Mexico, Europe and Brazil, and we also have sales offices in India and China.

Design, Research and Product Development

     At the core of our design, research and product development capabilities is an integrated team of over 325 professionals. A facility located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is the center of our research, technical design and product development efforts. We also employ creative design and product development personnel in our design center in New York City and design personnel at the Gear for Sports facility in Lenexa, Kansas. In 2010, 2009 and 2008, we spent approximately $47 million, $46 million and $46 million, respectively, on design, research and product development, including the development of new and improved products.

Customers

     In 2010, approximately 88% of our net sales were to customers in the United States and approximately 12% were to customers outside the United States. Domestically, almost 81% of our net sales were wholesale sales to retailers, 10% were direct to consumers and 9% were wholesale sales to wholesalers and third-party embellishers. We have well-established relationships with some of the largest apparel retailers in the world. Our largest customers are Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., or “Wal-Mart,” Target Corporation, or “Target,” and Kohl’s Corporation, or “Kohl’s,” accounting for 26%, 17% and 6%, respectively, of our total sales in 2010. As is common in the basic apparel industry, we generally do not have purchase agreements that obligate our customers to purchase our products. However, all of our key customer relationships have been in place for ten years or more. Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl’s and CVS Caremark, “CVS,” are our only customers with sales that exceed 10% of any individual segment’s sales. In our Innerwear segment, Wal-Mart accounted for 38% of sales, Target accounted for 16% of sales and Kohl’s accounted for 11% of sales during 2010. In our Outerwear segment, Target accounted for 31% of sales and Wal-Mart accounted for 20% of sales during 2010. In our Hosiery segment, Wal-Mart accounted for 25% of sales, Target accounted for 12% of sales and CVS accounted for 11% of sales during 2010.

     Due to their size and operational scale, high-volume retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target require extensive category and product knowledge and specialized services regarding the quantity, quality and timing of product orders. We have organized multifunctional customer management teams, which has allowed us to form strategic long-term relationships with these customers and efficiently focus resources on category, product and service expertise. Smaller regional customers attracted to our leading brands and quality products also represent an important component of our distribution. Our organizational model provides for an efficient use of resources that delivers a high level of category and channel expertise and services to these customers.

     Sales to the mass merchant channel in the United States accounted for approximately 44% of our net sales in 2010. We sell all of our product categories in this channel primarily under our Hanes, Just My Size and Playtex brands. Mass merchants feature high-volume, low-cost sales of basic apparel items along with a diverse variety of consumer goods products, such as grocery and drug products and other hard lines, and are characterized by large retailers, such as Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart, which accounted for approximately 26% of our net sales in 2010, is our largest mass merchant customer.

     Sales to the national chains and department stores channel in the United States accounted for approximately 15% of our net sales in 2010. These retailers target a higher-income consumer than mass merchants, focus more of

their sales on apparel items rather than other consumer goods such as grocery and drug products, and are characterized by large retailers such as Kohl’s, JC Penney Company, Inc. and Sears Holdings Corporation. We sell all of our product categories in this channel. Traditional department stores target higher-income consumers and carry more high-end, fashion conscious products than national chains or mass merchants and tend to operate in higher-income areas and commercial centers. Traditional department stores are characterized by large retailers such as Macy’s and Dillard’s, Inc. We sell products in our intimate apparel, hosiery, socks, activewear and underwear categories through department stores.

     Sales in our Direct to Consumer segment in the United States accounted for approximately 9% of our net sales in 2010. We sell our branded products directly to consumers through our 224 outlet stores, as well as our websites operating under the Hanes, One Hanes Place, Just My Size and Champion names. Our outlet stores are value-based, offering the consumer a savings of 25% to 40% off suggested retail prices, and sell first-quality, excess, post-season, obsolete and slightly imperfect products. Our websites, supported by our catalogs, address the growing direct to consumer channel that operates in today’s 24/7 retail environment, and we have an active database of approximately four million consumers receiving our catalogs and emails. Our websites received over 20 million unique visitors in 2010.

     Sales in our International segment represented approximately 12% of our net sales in 2010, and included sales in Latin America, Asia, Canada, Europe and South America. Our largest international markets are Canada, Japan, Mexico, Europe and Brazil, and we also have sales offices in India and China. We operate in several locations in Latin America including Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Central America. From an export business perspective, we use distributors to service customers in the Middle East and Asia, and have a limited presence in Latin America. The brands that are the primary focus of the export business include Hanes and Champion socks, Champion activewear, Hanes underwear and Bali, Playtex, Wonderbra and barely there intimate apparel. As discussed below under “Intellectual Property,” we are not permitted to sell Wonderbra and Playtex branded products in the member states of the EU, several other European countries, and South Africa. For more information about our sales on a geographic basis, see Note 19 to our financial statements.

     Sales in other channels in the United States represented approximately 20% of our net sales in 2010. We sell T-shirts, golf and sport shirts and fleece sweatshirts to wholesalers and third-party embellishers primarily under our Hanes, Hanes Beefy-T and Outer Banks brands. Sales to wholesalers and third-party embellishers accounted for approximately 8% of our net sales in 2010. We also sell a significant range of our underwear, activewear and socks products under the Champion brand to wholesale clubs, such as Costco, and sporting goods stores, such as The Sports Authority, Inc. We sell primarily legwear and underwear products under the Hanes and L’eggs brands to food, drug and variety stores. We sell products that span across our Innerwear, Outerwear and Hosiery segments to the U.S. military for sale to servicemen and servicewomen.

Inventory

     Effective inventory management is a key component of our future success. Because our customers generally do not purchase our products under long-term supply contracts, but rather on a purchase order basis, effective inventory management requires close coordination with the customer base. Through Kanban, a multi-initiative effort that determines production quantities, and in doing so, facilitates just-in-time production and ordering systems, as well as inventory management, demand prioritization and related initiatives, we seek to ensure that products are available to meet customer demands while effectively managing inventory levels. We also employ various other types of inventory management techniques that include collaborative forecasting and planning, supplier-managed inventory, key event management and various forms of replenishment management processes. Our supplier-managed inventory initiative is intended to shift raw material ownership and management to our suppliers until consumption, freeing up cash and improving response time. We have demand management planners in our customer management group who work closely with customers to develop demand forecasts that are passed to the supply chain. We also have professionals within the customer management group who coordinate daily with our larger customers to help ensure that our customers’ planned inventory levels are in fact available at their individual retail outlets. Additionally, within our supply chain organization we have dedicated professionals who translate the demand forecast into our inventory strategy and specific production plans. These individuals work closely with our customer management team to balance inventory investment/exposure with customer service targets.

Seasonality

     Our operating results are subject to some variability due to seasonality and other factors. Generally, our diverse range of product offerings helps mitigate the impact of seasonal changes in demand for certain items. Sales are typically higher in the last two quarters (July to December) of each fiscal year. Socks, hosiery and fleece products generally have higher sales during this period as a result of cooler weather, back-to-school shopping and holidays. Sales levels in any period are also impacted by customers’ decisions to increase or decrease their inventory levels in response to anticipated consumer demand. Our customers may cancel orders, change delivery schedules or change the mix of products ordered with minimal notice to us. Media, advertising and promotion (“MAP”) expenses may vary from period to period during a fiscal year depending on the timing of our advertising campaigns for retail selling seasons and product introductions.

Marketing

     Our strategy is to bring consumer-driven innovation to market in a compelling way. Our approach is to build targeted, effective multimedia advertising and marketing campaigns to increase awareness of our key brands. Driving growth platforms across categories is a major element of our strategy as it enables us to meet key consumer needs and leverage advertising dollars. We believe that the strength of our consumer insights, our distinctive brand propositions and our focus on integrated marketing give us a competitive advantage in the fragmented apparel marketplace.

     In 2010, we launched a number of new advertising and marketing initiatives:

	•		Hanes launched a new men’s underwear marketing campaign starring Michael Jordan in a new television commercial that shows Hanes Lay Flat Collar undershirts will never suffer from wavy “bacon necks” like other shirts.
	•		Hanes announced a new national environmental advertising campaign, titled “For Future Generations.” The ad, which began airing in the Spring of 2010, takes a lighthearted approach to the brand’s environmental responsibility efforts, including eco-friendly products. Hanes also debuted a new consumer website (www.hanesgreen.com) where visitors can learn more about the brand’s environmental responsibility effort and watch the “Future Generations” ad.
	•		Champion introduced a sports bra blog designed to spur online dialogue around all things related to breast health and sports bras. The blog features comments and questions by women of all fitness levels from industry experts to first-time exercisers as well as the latest on emerging product innovations and style choices.
	•		Playtex began airing a series of web videos featuring 10 women who won a Playtex bra makeover trip to New York with style expert Allison Deyette.

     We also continued some of our existing advertising and marketing initiatives:

	•		We continued our television advertising campaign in support of Hanes Comfort Fit socks for the family.
	•		Champion continued its “What’s Your Everest” marketing campaign and online community to support people in reaching their personal aspirations and goals, as accomplished international mountaineer and motivational speaker Jamie Clarke led Expedition Hanesbrands to the top of Mount Everest, driving brand awareness for Champion and Duofold brands and showcasing our research and development innovation and textile science leadership.

	•		Hanes continued its role as the Official Apparel Sponsor of Passionately Pink for the Cure, a fund-raising program created by Susan G. Komen for the Cure that inspires breast cancer advocacy and honors those affected by the disease. Hanes also offers a special “pink collection” of panties, bras, socks and graphic tees, and has created a campaign website, www.hanespink.com, that features interactive content to inspire people to make a difference in the breast cancer support community.
	•		We continued our men’s underwear advertising featuring Michael Jordan, in support of Hanes Lay Flat Collar T-shirts and No Ride Up boxer briefs.
	•		We continued our “How You Play” national advertising campaign for Champion. The campaign includes print, out-of-home and online components and is designed to capture the everyday moments of fun and sport in a series of cool and hip lifestyle images.
	•		We continued the “Live Beautifully” campaign for our Bali brand. The print, television and online advertising campaign features Bali bras, panties and shapewear.
	•		We continued our innovative and expressive advertising and marketing campaign called “Girl Talk,” in which confident, everyday women talk about their breasts, in support of our Playtex 18 Hour and Playtex Secrets product lines.

Distribution

     As of January 1, 2011, we distributed our products from a total of 31 distribution centers. These facilities include 15 facilities located in the United States and 16 facilities located outside the United States in regions where we manufacture our products. We internally manage and operate 18 of these facilities, and we use third-party logistics providers who operate the other 13 facilities on our behalf. International distribution operations use a combination of third-party logistics providers, as well as owned and operated distribution operations, to distribute goods to our various international markets.

     We have reduced the number of distribution centers from the 48 that we maintained at the time we became an independent public company to 31 as of January 1, 2011. We consolidated our distribution network by implementing new warehouse management systems and technology and adding new distribution centers and new third-party logistics providers to replace parts of our legacy distribution network, including relocating distribution capacity to our West Coast distribution facility in California in order to expand capacity for goods we source from Asia.

Manufacturing and Sourcing

     During 2010, approximately 63% of our finished goods sold were manufactured through a combination of facilities we own and operate and facilities owned and operated by third-party contractors who perform some of the steps in the manufacturing process for us, such as cutting and/or sewing. We sourced the remainder of our finished goods from third-party manufacturers who supply us with finished products based on our designs. We believe that our balanced approach to product supply, which relies on a combination of owned, contracted and sourced manufacturing located across different geographic regions, increases the efficiency of our operations, reduces product costs and offers customers a reliable source of supply.

Finished Goods That Are Manufactured by Hanesbrands

     The manufacturing process for the finished goods that we manufacture begins with raw materials we obtain from suppliers. The principal raw materials in our product categories are cotton and synthetics. Our costs for cotton yarn and cotton-based textiles vary based upon the fluctuating cost of cotton, which is affected by, among other factors, weather, consumer demand, speculation on the commodities market, the relative valuations and fluctuations of the currencies of producer versus consumer countries and other factors that are generally unpredictable and beyond our control. We are able to lock in the cost of cotton reflected in the price we pay for yarn from our primary yarn suppliers in an attempt to protect us from severe market fluctuations in the wholesale prices

of cotton. In addition to cotton yarn and cotton-based textiles, we use thread, narrow elastic and trim for product identification, buttons, zippers, snaps and lace.

     Fluctuations in crude oil or petroleum prices may also influence the prices of items used in our business, such as chemicals, dyestuffs, polyester yarn and foam. Alternate sources of these materials and services are readily available. Cotton and synthetic materials are typically spun into yarn, which is then knitted into cotton, synthetic and blended fabrics. Although historically we have spun a significant portion of the yarn and knit a significant portion of the fabrics we use in our owned and operated facilities, in October 2009 we completed the sale of our yarn operations as a result of which we ceased making our own yarn and now source all of our yarn requirements from large-scale yarn suppliers. To a lesser extent, we purchase fabric from several domestic and international suppliers in conjunction with scheduled production. These fabrics are cut and sewn into finished products, either by us or by third-party contractors. Most of our cutting and sewing operations are strategically located in Asia, Central America and the Caribbean Basin.

     Rising fuel, energy and utility costs may have a significant impact on our manufacturing costs. These costs may fluctuate due to a number of factors outside our control, including government policy and regulation, foreign exchange rates and weather conditions.

     We continued to consolidate our manufacturing facilities and currently operate 43 manufacturing facilities, down from 70 at the time we became an independent public company. In making decisions about the location of manufacturing operations and third-party sources of supply, we consider a number of factors, including labor, local operating costs, quality, regional infrastructure, applicable quotas and duties, and freight costs. We commenced production at our textile production plant in Nanjing, China, which is our first company-owned textile facility in Asia, in the fourth quarter of 2009 and we ramped up production in 2010 to support our growth, with the expectation of ramping up to full capacity by the end of 2011. The Nanjing textile facility will enable us to expand and leverage our production scale in Asia as we balance our supply chain across hemispheres, thereby diversifying our production risks.

Finished Goods That Are Manufactured by Third Parties

     In addition to our manufacturing capabilities, we also source finished goods we design from third-party manufacturers, also referred to as “turnkey products.” Many of these turnkey products are sourced from international suppliers by our strategic sourcing hubs in Hong Kong and other locations in Asia.

     All contracted and sourced manufacturing must meet our high quality standards. Further, all contractors and third-party manufacturers must be preaudited and adhere to our strict supplier and business practices guidelines. These requirements provide strict standards covering hours of work, age of workers, health and safety conditions and conformity with local laws and Hanesbrands’ standards. Each new supplier must be inspected and agree to comprehensive compliance terms prior to performance of any production on our behalf. We audit compliance with these standards and maintain strict compliance performance records. In addition to our audit procedures, we require certain of our suppliers to be Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production, or “WRAP,” certified. WRAP is a recognized apparel certification program that independently monitors and certifies compliance with certain specified manufacturing standards that are intended to ensure that a given factory produces sewn goods under lawful, humane, and ethical conditions. WRAP uses third-party, independent certification firms and requires factory-by-factory certification.

Trade Regulation

     We are exposed to certain risks of doing business outside of the United States. We import goods from company-owned facilities in Asia, Central America, the Caribbean Basin and Mexico, and from suppliers in those areas and in Europe, South America, Africa and the Middle East. These import transactions are subject to customs, trade and other laws and regulations governing their entry into the United States and to tariffs applicable to such merchandise.

     In addition, much of the merchandise we import is subject to duty free entry into the United States under various trade preferences and/or free trade agreements provided the goods meet certain criteria and characteristics.

Compliance with these specific requirements as well as all other requirements is reviewed periodically by the United States Customs and Border Control and other governmental agencies.

     Finally, imported apparel merchandise may be subject to various restrictive trade actions initiated by the United States government, domestic industry, labor or other parties under various U.S. laws. Such actions could result in the U.S. government imposing quotas or additional tariffs against apparel under special safeguard actions applicable to China, other safeguard actions applicable to any country, or antidumping or countervailing duties applicable to specific products from specific countries. Currently there are no such actions, additional, special or safeguard duties or quotas imposed against products which we import. Our management evaluates the possible impact of these and similar actions on our ability to import products from China and other countries. If such safeguards or duties were to be imposed, we do not expect that these restraints would have a material impact on us.

     Our management monitors new developments and risks relating to duties, tariffs and quotas. Changes in these areas have the potential to harm or, in some cases, benefit our business. In response to the changing import environment management has chosen to continue its balanced approach to manufacturing and sourcing. We attempt to limit our sourcing exposure through geographic diversification with a mix of company-owned and contracted production, as well as shifts of production among countries and contractors. We will continue to manage our supply chain from a global perspective and adjust as needed to changes in the global production environment.

     We also monitor a number of international security risks. We are a member of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, or “C-TPAT,” a partnership between the government and private sector initiated after the events of September 11, 2001 to improve supply chain and border security. C-TPAT partners work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to protect their supply chains from concealment of terrorist weapons, including weapons of mass destruction. In exchange, U.S. Customs and Border Protection provides reduced inspections at the port of arrival and expedited processing at the border.

Competition

     The basic apparel market is highly competitive and rapidly evolving. Competition generally is based upon brand name recognition, price, product quality, selection, service and purchasing convenience. Our businesses face competition today from other large corporations and foreign manufacturers. Fruit of the Loom, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., competes with us across most of our segments through its own offerings and those of its Russell Corporation and Vanity Fair Intimates offerings. Other competitors in our Innerwear segment include Limited Brands, Inc.’s Victoria’s Secret brand, Jockey International, Inc., Warnaco Group Inc. and Maidenform Brands, Inc. Other competitors in our Outerwear segment include various private label and controlled brands sold by many of our customers, Gildan Activewear, Inc. and Gap Inc. We also compete with many small manufacturers across all of our business segments, including our International segment. Additionally, department stores and other retailers, including many of our customers, market and sell basic apparel products under private labels that compete directly with our brands.

     Our competitive strengths include our strong brands with leading market positions, our high-volume, core products focus, our significant scale of operations, our global supply chain and our strong customer relationships.

	•		Strong brands with leading market positions. According to NPD, our brands held either the number one or number two U.S. market position by units sold in most product categories in which we compete, for the 12-month period ended December 31, 2010. According to NPD, our largest brand, Hanes, was the top-selling apparel brand in the United States by units sold, for the 12-month period ended December 31, 2010.
	•		High-volume, core products. We sell high-volume, frequently replenished basic apparel products. The majority of our core styles continue from year to year, with variations only in color, fabric or design details, and are frequently replenished by consumers. We believe that our status as a high-volume seller of core basic apparel products creates a more stable and predictable revenue base and reduces our exposure to dramatic fashion shifts often observed in the general apparel industry.
	•		Significant scale of operations. According to NPD, we are the largest seller of basic apparel in the United States as measured by units sold for the 12-month period ended December 31, 2010. Most of our products

			are sold to large retailers that have high-volume demands. We believe that we are able to leverage our significant scale of operations to provide us with greater manufacturing efficiencies, purchasing power and product design, marketing and customer management resources than our smaller competitors.
	•		Global supply chain. We have restructured our supply chain over the past four years to create more efficient production clusters that utilize fewer, larger facilities and to balance our production capability between the Western Hemisphere and Asia. With our global supply chain infrastructure in place, we are focused long-term on optimizing our supply chain to further enhance efficiency, improve working capital and asset turns and reduce costs through several initiatives, such as supplier-managed inventory for raw materials and sourced goods ownership arrangements.
	•		Strong customer relationships. We sell our products primarily through large, high-volume retailers, including mass merchants, department stores and national chains. We have strong, long-term relationships with our top customers, including relationships of more than ten years with each of our top ten customers. We have aligned significant parts of our organization with corresponding parts of our customers’ organizations. We also have entered into customer-specific programs such as the C9 by Champion products marketed and sold through Target stores and our Just My Size program at Wal-Mart.

Intellectual Property

Overview

     We market our products under hundreds of trademarks and service marks in the United States and other countries around the world, the most widely recognized of which are Hanes, Champion, C9 by Champion, Playtex, Bali, L’eggs, Just My Size, barely there, Wonderbra, Stedman, Outer Banks, Zorba, Rinbros, Duofold and Gear for Sports. Some of our products are sold under trademarks that have been licensed from third parties, such as Polo Ralph Lauren men’s underwear, and we also hold licenses from various toy and media companies that give us the right to use certain of their proprietary characters, names and trademarks.

     Some of our own trademarks are licensed to third parties, such as Champion for athletic-oriented accessories. In the United States, the Playtex trademark is owned by Playtex Marketing Corporation, of which we own a 50% interest and which grants to us a perpetual royalty-free license to the Playtex trademark on and in connection with the sale of apparel in the United States and Canada. The other 50% interest in Playtex Marketing Corporation is owned by Playtex Products, Inc., an unrelated third-party, who has a perpetual royalty-free license to the Playtex trademark on and in connection with the sale of non-apparel products in the United States. Outside the United States and Canada, we own the Playtex trademark and perpetually license such trademark to Playtex Products, Inc. for non-apparel products. In addition, as described below, as part of Sara Lee’s sale in February 2006 of its European branded apparel business, an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, Inc., or “Sun Capital,” has an exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to manufacture, sell and distribute apparel products under the Wonderbra and Playtex trademarks in the member states of the EU, as well as several other European nations and South Africa. We also own a number of copyrights. Our trademarks and copyrights are important to our marketing efforts and have substantial value. We aggressively protect these trademarks and copyrights from infringement and dilution through appropriate measures, including court actions and administrative proceedings.

     Although the laws vary by jurisdiction, trademarks generally remain valid as long as they are in use and/or their registrations are properly maintained. Most of the trademarks in our portfolio, including our core brands, are covered by trademark registrations in the countries of the world in which we do business, with registration periods generally ranging between seven and 10 years depending on the country. Generally, trademark registrations can be renewed indefinitely as long as the trademarks are in use. We have an active program designed to ensure that our trademarks are registered, renewed, protected and maintained. We plan to continue to use all of our core trademarks and plan to renew the registrations for such trademarks as needed. Most of our copyrights are unregistered, although we have a sizable portfolio of copyrighted lace designs that are the subject of a number of registrations at the U.S. Copyright Office.

     We place high importance on product innovation and design, and a number of these innovations and designs are the subject of patents. However, we do not regard any segment of our business as being dependent upon any single

patent or group of related patents. In addition, we own proprietary trade secrets, technology, and know-how that we have not patented.

Shared Trademark Relationship with Sun Capital

     In February 2006, Sara Lee sold its European branded apparel business to an affiliate of Sun Capital. In connection with the sale, Sun Capital received an exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to manufacture, sell and distribute apparel products under the Wonderbra and Playtex trademarks in the member states of the EU, as well as Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Morocco, Norway, Russia, Serbia-Montenegro, South Africa, Switzerland, Ukraine, Andorra, Albania, Channel Islands, Lichtenstein, Monaco, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion and French Guyana, which we refer to as the “Covered Nations.” We are not permitted to sell Wonderbra and Playtex branded products in the Covered Nations, and Sun Capital is not permitted to sell Wonderbra and Playtex branded products outside of the Covered Nations. In connection with the sale, we also have received an exclusive, perpetual royalty-free license to sell DIM and UNNO branded products in Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United States, Canada and, for DIM products, Japan. We are not permitted to sell DIM or UNNO branded apparel products outside of these countries and Sun Capital is not permitted to sell DIM or UNNO branded apparel products inside these countries. In addition, the rights to certain European-originated brands previously part of Sara Lee’s branded apparel portfolio were transferred to Sun Capital and are not included in our brand portfolio.

Corporate Social Responsibility

     We have a formal corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) program that consists of five core initiatives: a global ethics program for all employees worldwide; a facility compliance program that seeks to ensure company and supplier plants meet our labor and social compliance standards; a product safety program; a global environmental management system that seeks to reduce the environmental impact of our operations; and a commitment to corporate philanthropy which seeks to meet the “fundamental needs” of the communities in which we live and work. We employ over 15 full-time CSR personnel across the world to manage our program.

     In February 2008, we joined the Fair Labor Association (the “FLA”) and recently completed its two-year accreditation process of our internal global social compliance program. We are now a fully accredited member of the FLA. The FLA works with industry, civil society organizations and colleges and universities to protect workers’ rights and improve working conditions in factories around the world. Participating companies in the FLA are required to fulfill 10 company obligations, including conducting internal monitoring of facilities, submitting to independent monitoring audits and verification, and managing and reporting information on their compliance efforts. The FLA conducts unannounced independent external monitoring audits of a sample of a participating company’s plants and suppliers and publishes the results of those audits for the public to review. In November 2010, As You Sow, a San Francisco-based shareholder advocacy organization, issued a report on apparel supply chain compliance programs and rated Hanesbrands’ program with the third-highest grade of companies studied.

     We are committed to reducing our greenhouse gas footprint, and we have implemented a comprehensive corporate energy policy. We manage this commitment by reducing our energy consumption as much as possible, exploring better supply chain management to reduce our use of energy-intensive transportation, adopting cleaner technologies where possible, and actively tracking our energy metrics. Currently, over 30% of our total worldwide energy use comes from renewable resources. We have reduced our CO² emissions per unit manufactured by over 12% since 2007. We have also worked closely with Energy Star, a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that helps save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices. Hanesbrands earned the U.S. EPA Energy Star partner of the year award in 2010 for energy efficiency progress. In October 2010, Newsweek magazine issued its annual list of the 500 greenest companies in America. Hanesbrands ranks No. 91.

     We also incorporate Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or “LEED”-based practices into many remodeling and new construction projects for our facilities around the world. We have earned the U.S. Green Building Council’s sustainability certification for our Bentonville, Arkansas, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, sales offices and our Perris, California distribution center. Sustainable features of the Perris facility include reduction of

energy usage through extensive use of natural skylighting, motion-detection lighting, a design that does not require heating or air conditioning for a comfortable working environment, reduction of water usage compared with typical warehouses of its size through low-water bathroom fixtures and low-water landscaping, innovative site grading techniques and use of locally produced concrete. We are also currently working on LEED certification of manufacturing facilities in El Salvador, Vietnam and China, as well as one of our corporate headquarters buildings in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

     Our corporate philanthropic efforts are focused on meeting the “fundamental needs” of the communities in which we live and work. In 2010, we were again the largest corporate giver to our local United Way in Forsyth County, North Carolina, with our corporate and employee gifts totaling over $2 million. In Central America and the Caribbean Basin, we have instituted a unique Green For Good program (Viviendo Verde), in which we use the proceeds from recycling waste materials in our manufacturing operations for community improvement projects, such as school and health-clinic renovations. For more detail on the full range of our CSR efforts, including our commitment to and work in our communities, go to www.hanesbrandsCSR.com.

Environmental Matters

     We have a well-developed environmental program that focuses heavily on energy use (in particular the use of renewable energy), water use and wastewater treatment, and the use of chemicals that comply with our restricted substances list. We are subject to various federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations that govern our activities, operations and products that may have adverse environmental, health and safety effects, including laws and regulations relating to generating emissions, water discharges, waste, product and packaging content and workplace safety. Noncompliance with these laws and regulations may result in substantial monetary penalties and criminal sanctions. We are aware of hazardous substances or petroleum releases at a few of our facilities and are working with the relevant environmental authorities to investigate and address such releases. We also have been identified as a “potentially responsible party” at a few waste disposal sites undergoing investigation and cleanup under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (commonly known as Superfund) or state Superfund equivalent programs. Where we have determined that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can reasonably be estimated, we have accrued amounts in our balance sheet for losses related to these sites. Compliance with environmental laws and regulations and our remedial environmental obligations historically have not had a material impact on our operations, and we are not aware of any proposed regulations or remedial obligations that could trigger significant costs or capital expenditures in order to comply.

Governmental Regulation

     We are subject to U.S. federal, state and local laws and regulations that could affect our business, including those promulgated under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, the Flammable Fabrics Act, the Textile Fiber Product Identification Act, the rules and regulations of the Consumer Products Safety Commission and various environmental laws and regulations. While we have had a product safety program in place for many years focused heavily on children’s products, we have reinforced our product safety team and technological capabilities to ensure that we are fully in compliance with the new Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act. Our international businesses are subject to similar laws and regulations in the countries in which they operate. Our operations also are subject to various international trade agreements and regulations. See “— Trade Regulation.” While we believe that we are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable governmental regulations, current governmental regulations may change or become more stringent or unforeseen events may occur, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our financial position or results of operations.

Employees

     As of January 1, 2011, we had approximately 55,500 employees, approximately 8,400 of whom were located in the United States. Of the employees located in the United States, approximately 2,400 were full or part-time employees in our stores within our direct to consumer channel. As of January 1, 2011, in the United States, approximately 25 employees were covered by collective bargaining agreements. Some of our international employees were also covered by collective bargaining agreements. We believe our relationships with our employees are good.

Item 1A.		Risk Factors

     This section describes circumstances or events that could have a negative effect on our financial results or operations or that could change, for the worse, existing trends in our businesses. The occurrence of one or more of the circumstances or events described below could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows or on the trading prices of our common stock. The risks and uncertainties described in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are not the only ones facing us. Additional risks and uncertainties that currently are not known to us or that we currently believe are immaterial also may adversely affect our businesses and operations.

Any disruption to our supply chain or adverse impact on its extensive network of operations may adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

     We have an extensive global supply chain. A significant portion of our products are manufactured in or sourced from locations in Asia, Central America, the Caribbean Basin and Mexico and we are continuing to add new manufacturing capacity in various locations. Potential events that may disrupt our supply chain operations include:

	•		political instability and acts of war or terrorism or other international events resulting in the disruption of trade;
	•		other security risks;
	•		operational disruptions;
	•		disruptions in shipping and freight forwarding services;
	•		increases in oil prices, which would increase the cost of shipping;
	•		interruptions in the availability of basic services and infrastructure, including power shortages;
	•		fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates resulting in uncertainty as to future asset and liability values, cost of goods and results of operations that are denominated in foreign currencies;
	•		extraordinary weather conditions or natural disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods or fires; and
	•		the occurrence of an epidemic, the spread of which may impact our ability to obtain products on a timely basis.

     Disruptions in our supply chain could negatively impact our business by interrupting production, increasing our cost of sales, disrupting merchandise deliveries, delaying receipt of products into the United States or preventing us from sourcing our products at all. Depending on timing, these events could also result in lost sales, cancellation charges or excessive markdowns. In addition, as we have restructured our supply chain over the past four years to create more efficient production clusters that utilize fewer, larger facilities, such an event at a particular facility could have a larger impact on us. All of the foregoing can have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

Significant fluctuations and volatility in the price of various input costs, such as cotton and oil-related materials, utilities, freight and wages, may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

     The economic environment in which we are operating continues to be uncertain and volatile, which could have unanticipated adverse effects on our business during 2011 and beyond. We are seeing a sustained increase in various input costs, such as cotton and oil-related materials, utilities, freight and wages. Rising demand for cotton resulting from the economic recovery, weather-related supply disruptions, significant declines in U.S. inventory and a sharp rise in the futures market for cotton caused cotton prices to surge upward during 2010 and early 2011. Inflation can have a long-term impact on us because increasing costs of materials and labor may impact our ability to maintain satisfactory margins. For example, the cost of the materials that are used in our manufacturing process, such as oil-related commodity prices and other raw materials, such as dyes and chemicals, and other costs, such as fuel, energy and utility costs, can fluctuate as a result of inflation and other factors. Similarly, a significant portion of our products are manufactured in other countries and declines in the value of the U.S. dollar may result in higher manufacturing costs. Increases in inflation may not be matched by rises in income, which also could have a negative impact on spending.

     Although we have sold our yarn operations and nearly 40% of our business, such as bras, sheer hosiery and portions of our activewear categories, is not cotton-based, we are still exposed to fluctuations in the cost of cotton. During 2010, cotton prices hit their highest levels in 140 years. Increases in the cost of cotton can result in higher costs in the price we pay for yarn from our large-scale yarn suppliers. Our costs for cotton yarn and cotton-based textiles vary based upon the fluctuating cost of cotton, which is affected by, among other things, weather, consumer demand, speculation on the commodities market, the relative valuations and fluctuations of the currencies of producer versus consumer countries and other factors that are generally unpredictable and beyond our control. We are able to lock in the cost of cotton that is reflected in the price we pay for yarn from our primary yarn suppliers in an attempt to protect our business from the volatility of the market price of cotton. However, our business can be affected by dramatic movements in cotton prices. Although the cost of cotton used in goods manufactured by us has historically represented only 6% of our cost of sales, it has risen to around 10% primarily as a result of the cost of inflation. Costs incurred for materials and labor are capitalized into inventory and impact our results as the inventory is sold. After taking into consideration the cotton costs currently in our finished goods inventory and cotton prices we have locked in through October, we expect an average for cotton of at least $1.00 per pound in 2011 for purchases of cotton used in goods manufactured by us, which would have a negative impact ranging from $100 to $125 million when compared to 2010. The first and second quarters of 2011 should reflect an average cost of 83 cents per pound, the third quarter of 2011 should reflect an average cost of 89 cents per pound and the fourth quarter is not locked in at this time. These estimates do not include the cotton impact on the cost of sourced goods.

     We are not always successful in our efforts to protect our business from the volatility of the market price of cotton, and our business can be adversely affected by dramatic movements in cotton prices. For example, we estimate that a change of $0.01 per pound in cotton prices at current levels of production would affect our annual cost of sales by $4 million related to finished goods manufactured internally in our manufacturing facilities and $1 million related to finished goods sourced from third parties. The ultimate effect of this change on our earnings cannot be quantified, as the effect of movements in cotton prices on industry selling prices are uncertain, but any dramatic increase in the price of cotton would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

     In addition, oil-related commodity prices and the costs of other raw materials used in our products, such as dyes and chemicals, and other costs, such as fuel, energy and utility costs, may fluctuate due to a number of factors outside our control, including government policy and regulation and weather conditions. For example, we estimate that a change of $10.00 per barrel in the price of oil would affect our freight costs by approximately $5 million, at current levels of usage.

     In response to the cost increases described above, particularly for cotton, energy and labor, we expect to take price increases as warranted by cost inflation, including multiple increases already put in place through late summer of 2011. The timing and frequency of price increases will vary by product category, channel of trade, and country, with some increases as frequently as quarterly. The magnitude of price increases will also vary by product category. If, however, we incur increased costs for materials, including cotton, and labor that we are unable to recoup through price increases or improved efficiencies, or if consumer spending declines, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows may be adversely affected.

The loss of one or more of our suppliers of finished goods or raw materials may interrupt our supplies and materially harm our business.

     We purchase all of the raw materials used in our products and approximately 37% of the apparel designed by us from a limited number of third-party suppliers and manufacturers. Our ability to meet our customers’ needs depends on our ability to maintain an uninterrupted supply of raw materials and finished products from our third-party

suppliers and manufacturers. Our business, financial condition or results of operations could be adversely affected if any of our principal third-party suppliers or manufacturers experience financial difficulties that they are not able to overcome resulting from worldwide economic conditions, production problems, difficulties in sourcing raw materials, lack of capacity or transportation disruptions, or if for these or other reasons they raise the prices of the raw materials or finished products we purchase from them. The magnitude of this risk depends upon the timing of any interruptions, the materials or products that the third-party manufacturers provide and the volume of production.

     Our dependence on third parties for raw materials and finished products subjects us to the risk of supplier failure and customer dissatisfaction with the quality of our products. Quality failures by our third-party manufacturers or changes in their financial or business condition that affect their production could disrupt our ability to supply quality products to our customers and thereby materially harm our business.

If we fail to manage our inventory effectively, we may be required to establish additional inventory reserves or we may not carry enough inventory to meet customer demands, causing us to suffer lower margins or losses.

     We are faced with the constant challenge of balancing our inventory with our ability to meet marketplace needs. We continually monitor our inventory levels to best balance current supply and demand with potential future demand that typically surges when consumers no longer postpone purchases in our product categories, and we are continuing to implement strategies such as supplier-managed inventory. Inventory reserves can result from the complexity of our supply chain, a long manufacturing process and the seasonal nature of certain products. Increases in inventory levels may also be needed to service our business as we continue to optimize our supply chain to further enhance efficiency, improve working capital and asset turns and reduce costs. As a result, we could be subject to high levels of obsolescence and excess stock. Based on discussions with our customers and internally generated projections, we produce, purchase and/or store raw material and finished goods inventory to meet our expected demand for delivery. However, we sell a large number of our products to a small number of customers, and these customers generally are not required by contract to purchase our goods. If, after producing and storing inventory in anticipation of deliveries, demand is lower than expected, we may have to hold inventory for extended periods or sell excess inventory at reduced prices, in some cases below our cost. There are inherent uncertainties related to the recoverability of inventory, and it is possible that market factors and other conditions underlying the valuation of inventory may change in the future and result in further reserve requirements. Excess inventory charges can reduce gross margins or result in operating losses, lowered plant and equipment utilization and lowered fixed operating cost absorption, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.

     Conversely, we also are exposed to lost business opportunities if we underestimate market demand and produce too little inventory for any particular period. Because sales of our products are generally not made under contract, if we do not carry enough inventory to satisfy our customers’ demands for our products within an acceptable time frame, they may seek to fulfill their demands from one or several of our competitors and may reduce the amount of business they do with us. Any such action could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

Economic conditions may adversely impact demand for our products, reduce access to credit and cause our customers and others with which we do business to suffer financial hardship, all of which could adversely impact our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

     Although the majority of our products are replenishment in nature and tend to be purchased by consumers on a planned, rather than on an impulse, basis, our sales are impacted by discretionary spending by consumers. Discretionary spending is affected by many factors, including, among others, general business conditions, interest rates, inflation, consumer debt levels, consumers’ uncertainty about financial conditions, the availability of consumer credit, currency exchange rates, taxation, electricity power rates, gasoline prices, unemployment trends and other matters that influence consumer confidence and spending. Many of these factors are outside our control. During the past several years, various retailers, including some of our largest customers, have experienced significant difficulties, including restructurings, bankruptcies and liquidations, and the inability of retailers to overcome these difficulties may increase due to worldwide economic conditions. This could adversely affect us because our customers generally pay us after goods are delivered. Adverse changes in a customer’s financial position could cause us to limit or discontinue business with that customer, require us to assume more credit risk

relating to that customer’s future purchases or limit our ability to collect accounts receivable relating to previous purchases by that customer. Our customers’ purchases of discretionary items, including our products, could decline during periods when disposable income is lower, when prices increase in response to rising costs, or in periods of actual or perceived unfavorable economic conditions. Any of these occurrences could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

     Our product costs may also increase, and these increases may not be offset by comparable rises in the income of consumers of our products. These consumers may choose to purchase fewer of our products or lower-priced products of our competitors in response to higher prices for our products, or may choose not to purchase our products at prices that reflect our price increases that become effective from time to time. If any of these events occur, or if unfavorable economic conditions continue to challenge the consumer environment, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.

     In addition, economic conditions, including decreased access to credit, may result in financial difficulties leading to restructurings, bankruptcies, liquidations and other unfavorable events for our customers, suppliers of raw materials and finished goods, logistics and other service providers and financial institutions which are counterparties to our credit facilities and derivatives transactions. In addition, the inability of these third parties to overcome these difficulties may increase. For example, several customers filed for bankruptcy in the last few years. If third parties on which we rely for raw materials, finished goods or services are unable to overcome financial difficulties and provide us with the materials and services we need, or if counterparties to our credit facilities or derivatives transactions do not perform their obligations, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.

We may not be able to achieve the benefits we are seeking through optimizing our supply chain, which could impair our ability to further enhance efficiency, improve working capital and asset turns and reduce costs.

     We have restructured our supply chain over the past four years to create more efficient production clusters that utilize fewer, larger facilities and to balance our production capability between the Western Hemisphere and Asia. We consolidated our distribution network by implementing new warehouse management systems and technology and adding new distribution centers and new third-party logistics providers to replace parts of our legacy distribution network. With our global supply chain infrastructure in place, we are focused long-term on optimizing our supply chain to further enhance efficiency, improve working capital and asset turns and reduce costs through several initiatives, such as supplier-managed inventory for raw materials and sourced goods ownership arrangements. If we are not able to optimize our supply chain, we may not be successful at improving working capital and asset turns and reducing costs.

Our business could be harmed if we are unable to deliver our products to the market due to problems with our distribution network.

     We distribute our products from facilities that we operate as well as facilities that are operated by third-party logistics providers. These facilities include a combination of owned, leased and contracted distribution centers. We have reduced the number of distribution centers from the 48 that we maintained at the time we became an independent public company to 31 as of January 1, 2011. We consolidated our distribution network by implementing new warehouse management systems and technology and adding new distribution centers and new third-party logistics providers to replace parts of our legacy distribution network, including relocating distribution capacity to our West Coast distribution facility in California in order to expand capacity for goods we source from Asia. In 2009, we began shipping products from this new 1.3 million square foot distribution center in Perris, California. Because substantially all of our products are distributed from a relatively small number of locations, our operations could also be interrupted by extraordinary weather conditions or natural disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods or fires near our distribution centers. We maintain business interruption insurance, but it may not adequately protect us from the adverse effects that could be caused by significant disruptions to our distribution network. In addition, our distribution network is dependent on the timely performance of services by third parties, including the transportation of product to and from our distribution facilities. If we are unable to successfully operate our distribution network, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.

Due to the extensive nature of our foreign operations, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates could negatively impact our results of operations.

     We sell a majority of our products in transactions denominated in U.S. dollars; however, we purchase many of our raw materials, pay a portion of our wages and make other payments in our supply chain in foreign currencies. As a result, when the U.S. dollar weakens against any of these currencies, our cost of sales could increase substantially. Outside the United States, we may pay for materials or finished products in U.S. dollars, and in some cases a strengthening of the U.S. dollar could effectively increase our costs where we use foreign currency to purchase the U.S. dollars we need to make such payments. We use foreign exchange forward and option contracts to hedge material exposure to adverse changes in foreign exchange rates. We are also exposed to gains and losses resulting from the effect that fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates have on the reported results in our financial statements due to the translation of operating results and financial position of our foreign subsidiaries.

We rely on a relatively small number of customers for a significant portion of our sales, and the loss of or material reduction in sales to any of our top customers would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

     In 2010, our top ten customers accounted for 65% of our net sales and our top customers, Wal-Mart and Target, accounted for 26% and 17% of our net sales, respectively. We expect that these customers will continue to represent a significant portion of our net sales in the future. In addition, our top customers are the largest market participants in our primary distribution channels across all of our product lines. Any loss of or material reduction in sales to any of our top ten customers, especially Wal-Mart and Target, would be difficult to recapture, and would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

Sales to our customers could be reduced if they devote less selling space to apparel products, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

     Over time, some of our customers that sell a variety of goods may devote less selling space to apparel products. If any of our customers devote less selling space to apparel products, our sales to those customers could be reduced even if we maintain our share of their apparel business. Any material reduction in sales resulting from reductions in apparel selling space could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

We generally do not sell our products under contracts, and as a result, our customers are generally not contractually obligated to purchase our products, which causes some uncertainty as to future sales and inventory levels.

     We generally do not enter into purchase agreements that obligate our customers to purchase our products, and as a result, most of our sales are made on a purchase order basis. If any of our customers experiences a significant downturn in its business, or fails to remain committed to our products or brands, the customer is generally under no contractual obligation to purchase our products and, consequently, may reduce or discontinue purchases from us. In the past, such actions have resulted in a decrease in sales and an increase in our inventory and have had an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows. If such actions occur again in the future, our business, results of operations and financial condition will likely be similarly affected.

Our existing customers may require products on an exclusive basis, forms of economic support and other changes that could be harmful to our business.

     Customers increasingly may require us to provide them with some of our products on an exclusive basis, which could cause an increase in the number of stock keeping units, or “SKUs,” we must carry and, consequently, increase our inventory levels and working capital requirements. Moreover, our customers may increasingly seek markdown allowances, incentives and other forms of economic support which reduce our gross margins and affect our profitability. Our financial performance is negatively affected by these pricing pressures when we are forced to reduce our prices without being able to correspondingly reduce our production costs.

We operate in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving market, and our market share and results of operations could be adversely affected if we fail to compete effectively in the future.

     The basic apparel market is highly competitive and evolving rapidly. Competition is generally based upon brand name recognition, price, product quality, selection, service and purchasing convenience. Our businesses face competition today from other large corporations and foreign manufacturers. Fruit of the Loom, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., competes with us across most of our segments through its own offerings and those of its Russell Corporation and Vanity Fair Intimates offerings. Other competitors in our Innerwear segment include Limited Brands, Inc.’s Victoria’s Secret brand, Jockey International, Inc., Warnaco Group Inc. and Maidenform Brands, Inc. Other competitors in our Outerwear segment include various private label and controlled brands sold by many of our customers, Gildan Activewear, Inc. and Gap Inc. We also compete with many small manufacturers across all of our business segments, including our International segment. Additionally, department stores and other retailers, including many of our customers, market and sell basic apparel products under private labels that compete directly with our brands. These customers may buy goods that are manufactured by others, which represents a lost business opportunity for us, or they may sell private label products manufactured by us, which have significantly lower gross margins than our branded products. Increased competition may result in a loss of or a reduction in shelf space and promotional support and reduced prices, in each case decreasing our cash flows, operating margins and profitability. Our ability to remain competitive in the areas of brand recognition, price, quality, research and product development, manufacturing and distribution will, in large part, determine our future success. If we fail to compete successfully, our market share, results of operations and financial condition will be materially and adversely affected.

Sales of and demand for our products may decrease if we fail to keep pace with evolving consumer preferences and trends, which could have an adverse effect on net sales and profitability.

     Our success depends on our ability to anticipate and respond effectively to evolving consumer preferences and trends and to translate these preferences and trends into marketable product offerings. If we are unable to successfully anticipate, identify or react to changing styles or trends or misjudge the market for our products, our sales may be lower than expected and we may be faced with a significant amount of unsold finished goods inventory. In response, we may be forced to increase our marketing promotions, provide markdown allowances to our customers or liquidate excess merchandise, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our net sales and profitability. Our brand image may also suffer if customers believe that we are no longer able to offer innovative products, respond to consumer preferences or maintain the quality of our products.

Any inadequacy, interruption, integration failure or security failure with respect to our information technology could harm our ability to effectively operate our business.

     Our ability to effectively manage and operate our business depends significantly on our information technology systems. As part of our efforts to consolidate our operations, we also expect to continue to incur costs associated with the integration of our information technology systems across our company over the next several years. This process involves the consolidation or possible replacement of technology platforms so that our business functions are served by fewer platforms, and has resulted in operational inefficiencies and in some cases increased our costs. We are subject to the risk that we will not be able to absorb the level of systems change, commit the necessary resources or focus the management attention necessary for the implementation to succeed. Many key strategic initiatives of major business functions, such as our supply chain and our finance operations, depend on advanced capabilities enabled by the new systems and if we fail to properly execute or if we miss critical deadlines in the implementation of this initiative, we could experience serious disruption and harm to our business. The failure of these systems to operate effectively, problems with transitioning to upgraded or replacement systems, difficulty in integrating new systems or systems of acquired businesses or a breach in security of these systems could adversely impact the operations of our business.

If we experience a data security breach and confidential customer information is disclosed, we may be subject to penalties and experience negative publicity, which could affect our customer relationships and have a material adverse effect on our business.

     We and our customers could suffer harm if customer information were accessed by third parties due to a security failure in our systems. The collection of data and processing of transactions through our direct to consumer operations require us to receive and store a large amount of personally identifiable data. This type of data is subject to legislation and regulation in various jurisdictions. Data security breaches suffered by well-known companies and institutions have attracted a substantial amount of media attention, prompting state and federal legislative proposals addressing data privacy and security. If some of the current proposals are adopted, we may be subject to more extensive requirements to protect the customer information that we process in connection with the purchases of our products. We may become exposed to potential liabilities with respect to the data that we collect, manage and process, and may incur legal costs if our information security policies and procedures are not effective or if we are required to defend our methods of collection, processing and storage of personal data. Future investigations, lawsuits or adverse publicity relating to our methods of handling personal data could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows due to the costs and negative market reaction relating to such developments.

Our substantial indebtedness subjects us to various restrictions and could decrease our profitability and otherwise adversely affect our business.

     We have a substantial amount of indebtedness. As described in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Liquidity and Capital Resources,” our indebtedness includes the $600 million revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Loan Facility”) under our senior secured credit facility that we entered into in 2006 and amended and restated in December 2009 (as amended and restated, the “2009 Senior Secured Credit Facility”), our $500 million Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2014 (the “Floating Rate Senior Notes”), our $500 million 8.000% Senior Notes due 2016 (the “8% Senior Notes”), our $1 billion 6.375% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “6.375% Senior Notes”) and the $150 million accounts receivable securitization facility that we entered into in November 2007 (the “Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility”). The 2009 Senior Secured Credit Facility and the indentures governing the Floating Rate Senior Notes, the 8% Senior Notes and the 6.375% Senior Notes contain restrictions that affect, and in some cases significantly limit or prohibit, among other things, our ability to borrow funds, pay dividends or make other distributions, make investments, engage in transactions with affiliates, or create liens on our assets.

     Our leverage also could put us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our competitors that are less leveraged. These competitors could have greater financial flexibility to pursue strategic acquisitions, secure additional financing for their operations by incurring additional debt, expend capital to expand their manufacturing and production operations to lower-cost areas and apply pricing pressure on us. In addition, because many of our customers rely on us to fulfill a substantial portion of their basic apparel demand, any concern these customers may have regarding our financial condition may cause them to reduce the amount of products they purchase from us. Our leverage could also impede our ability to withstand downturns in our industry or the economy.

If we are unable to maintain financial ratios associated with our indebtedness, such failure could cause the acceleration of the maturity of such indebtedness which would adversely affect our business.

     Covenants in the 2009 Senior Secured Credit Facility and the Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility require us to maintain a minimum interest coverage ratio and a maximum total debt to EBITDA (earnings before income taxes, depreciation expense and amortization), or leverage ratio. Economic conditions could impact our ability to maintain the financial ratios contained in these agreements. If we fail to maintain these financial ratios, that failure could result in a default that accelerates the maturity of the indebtedness under such facilities, which could require that we repay such indebtedness in full, together with accrued and unpaid interest, unless we are able to negotiate new financial ratios or waivers of our current ratios with our lenders. Even if we are able to negotiate new financial ratios or waivers of our current financial ratios, we may be required to pay fees or make other concessions that may adversely impact our business. Any one of these options could result in significantly higher interest expense in 2011 and beyond. For information regarding our compliance with these covenants, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Liquidity and Capital Resources — Trends and Uncertainties Affecting Liquidity.”

If we fail to meet our payment or other obligations, the lenders could foreclose on, and acquire control of, substantially all of our assets.

     The lenders under the 2009 Senior Secured Credit Facility have received a pledge of substantially all of our existing and future direct and indirect subsidiaries, with certain customary or agreed-upon exceptions for foreign subsidiaries and certain other subsidiaries. Additionally, these lenders generally have a lien on substantially all of our assets and the assets of our subsidiaries, with certain exceptions. The financial institutions that are party to the Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility have a lien on certain of our domestic accounts receivables. As a result of these pledges and liens, if we fail to meet our payment or other obligations under the 2009 Senior Secured Credit Facility or the Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility, the lenders under those facilities will be entitled to foreclose on substantially all of our assets and, at their option, liquidate these assets.

Our indebtedness restricts our ability to obtain additional capital in the future.

     The restrictions contained in the 2009 Senior Secured Credit Facility and in the indentures governing the Floating Rate Senior Notes, the 8% Senior Notes and the 6.375% Senior Notes could limit our ability to obtain additional capital in the future to fund capital expenditures or acquisitions, meet our debt payment obligations and capital commitments, fund any operating losses or future development of our business affiliates, obtain lower borrowing costs that are available from secured lenders or engage in advantageous transactions that monetize our assets, or conduct other necessary or prudent corporate activities.

     If we need to incur additional debt or issue equity in order to fund working capital and capital expenditures or to make acquisitions and other investments, debt or equity financing may not be available to us on acceptable terms or at all. If we are not able to obtain sufficient financing, we may be unable to maintain or expand our business. If we raise funds through the issuance of debt or equity, any debt securities or preferred stock issued will have rights, preferences and privileges senior to those of holders of our common stock in the event of a liquidation, and the terms of the debt securities may impose restrictions on our operations. If we raise funds through the issuance of equity, the issuance would dilute the ownership interest of our stockholders.

Market returns could have a negative impact on the return on plan assets for our pension and other postemployment plans, which may require significant funding.

     The plan assets of our pension plans and other postemployment plans, which had increases in values of approximately 4% and 8% during 2010 and 2009, respectively, are invested in domestic and international equity and bond markets. We are unable to predict the variations in asset values or the severity or duration of any disruptions in the financial markets or adverse economic conditions in the United States, Europe and Asia. The funded status of these plans, and the related cost reflected in our financial statements, are affected by various factors that are subject to an inherent degree of uncertainty, particularly in the current economic environment. Under the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (the “Pension Protection Act”), continued losses of asset values may necessitate increased funding of the plans in the future to meet minimum federal government requirements. Downward pressure on the asset values of these plans may require us to fund obligations earlier than we had originally planned, which would have a negative impact on cash flows from operations.

Our balance sheet includes a significant amount of intangible assets and goodwill. A decline in the estimated fair value of an intangible asset or of a business unit could result in an asset impairment charge, which would be recorded as an operating expense in our Consolidated Statement of Income.

     Under current accounting standards, we estimate the fair value of acquired assets, including intangible assets, and assumed liabilities arising from a business acquisition. The excess, if any, of the cost of the acquired business over the fair value of net tangible assets acquired is goodwill. The goodwill is then assigned to a business unit (“reporting unit”), after considering whether the acquired business will be operated as a separate business unit or integrated into an existing business unit.

     As of January 1, 2011, we had approximately $179 million of trademarks and other identifiable intangibles and

$430 million of goodwill on our balance sheet. Our trademarks are subject to amortization while goodwill is not required to be amortized under current accounting rules. The combined amounts represent 16% of our total assets.

     Goodwill must be tested for impairment at least annually. No impairment was identified as a result of the testing conducted in 2010. The impairment test requires us to estimate the fair value of our reporting units, primarily using discounted cash flow methodologies based on projected revenues and cash flows that will be derived from a reporting unit. Intangible assets that are being amortized must be tested for impairment whenever events or circumstances indicate that their carrying value might not be recoverable.

     The fair value of a reporting unit could decline if projected revenues or cash flows were to be lower in the future due to effects of the global economy or other causes. If the carrying value of intangible assets or of goodwill were to exceed its fair value, the asset would be written down to its fair value, with the impairment loss recognized as a noncash charge in the Consolidated Statement of Income. We have not had any impairment charges in the last three years. However, changes in the future outlook of a reporting unit could result in an impairment loss, which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

To service our debt obligations, we may need to increase the portion of the income of our foreign subsidiaries that is expected to be remitted to the United States, which could increase our income tax expense.

     The amount of the income of our foreign subsidiaries that we expect to remit to the United States may significantly impact our U.S. federal income tax expense. We pay U.S. federal income taxes on that portion of the income of our foreign subsidiaries that is expected to be remitted to the United States and be taxable. In order to service our debt obligations, we may need to increase the portion of the income of our foreign subsidiaries that we expect to remit to the United States, which may significantly increase our income tax expense. Consequently, our strategic initiative to enhance our global supply chain by optimizing lower-cost manufacturing capacity and to support our commercial operations outside the United States may result in capital investments outside the United States that impact our income tax expense.

Unanticipated changes in our tax rates or exposure to additional income tax liabilities could increase our income taxes and decrease our net income.

     We are subject to income taxes in both the United States and numerous foreign jurisdictions. Significant judgment is required in determining our worldwide provision for income taxes and, in the ordinary course of business, there are many transactions and calculations for which the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. Our effective tax rates could be adversely affected by changes in the mix of earnings in countries with differing statutory tax rates, changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities, the resolution of issues arising from tax audits with various tax authorities, changes in tax laws, adjustments to income taxes upon finalization of various tax returns and other factors. Our tax determinations are regularly subject to audit by tax authorities and developments in those audits could adversely affect our income tax provision. Although we believe that our tax estimates are reasonable, any significant increase in our future effective tax rates could adversely impact our net income for future periods.

Our balance sheet includes a significant amount of deferred tax assets. We must generate sufficient future taxable income to realize the deferred tax benefits.

     As of January 1, 2011, we had approximately $469 million of net deferred tax assets on our balance sheet, which represents 12% of our total assets. Deferred tax assets relate to temporary differences (differences between the assets and liabilities in the consolidated financial statements and the assets and liabilities in the calculation of taxable income). The recognition of deferred tax assets is reduced by a valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that the tax benefits associated with the deferred tax benefits will not be realized. If we are unable to generate sufficient future taxable income in certain jurisdictions, or if there is a significant change in the actual effective tax rates or the time period within which the underlying temporary differences become taxable or deductible, we could be required to increase the valuation allowances against our deferred tax assets, which would cause an increase in our effective tax rate. A significant increase in our effective tax rate could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations.

Compliance with environmental and other regulations could require significant expenditures.

     We are subject to various federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations that govern our activities, operations and products that may have adverse environmental, health and safety effects, including laws and regulations relating to generating emissions, water discharges, waste, product and packaging content and workplace safety. Noncompliance with these laws and regulations may result in substantial monetary penalties and criminal sanctions. Future events that could give rise to manufacturing interruptions or environmental remediation include changes in existing laws and regulations, the enactment of new laws and regulations, a release of hazardous substances on or from our properties or any associated offsite disposal location, or the discovery of contamination from current or prior activities at any of our properties. While we are not aware of any proposed regulations or remedial obligations that could trigger significant costs or capital expenditures in order to comply, any such regulations or obligations could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

International trade regulations may increase our costs or limit the amount of products that we can import from suppliers in a particular country, which could have an adverse effect on our business.

     Because a significant amount of our manufacturing and production operations are located, or our products are sourced from, outside the United States, we are subject to international trade regulations. The international trade regulations to which we are subject or may become subject include tariffs, safeguards or quotas. These regulations could limit the countries in which we produce or from which we source our products or significantly increase the cost of operating in or obtaining materials originating from certain countries. Restrictions imposed by international trade regulations can have a particular impact on our business when, after we have moved our operations to a particular location, new unfavorable regulations are enacted in that area or favorable regulations currently in effect are changed. The countries in which our products are manufactured or into which or from they are imported may from time to time impose additional new regulations, or modify existing regulations, including:

	•		additional duties, taxes, tariffs and other charges on imports, including retaliatory duties or other trade sanctions, which may or may not be based on WTO rules, and which would increase the cost of products produced in such countries;
	•		limitations on the quantity of goods which may be imported into the United States from a particular country, including the imposition of further “safeguard” mechanisms by the U.S. government or governments in other jurisdictions, limiting our ability to import goods from particular countries, such as China;
	•		changes in the classification and/or valuation of products that could result in higher duty rates than we have historically paid;
	•		modification of the trading status of certain countries;
	•		requirements as to where products are manufactured;
	•		creation of export licensing requirements, imposition of restrictions on export quantities or specification of minimum export pricing; or
	•		creation of other restrictions on imports.

     Adverse international trade regulations, including those listed above, would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

We had approximately 55,500 employees worldwide as of January 1, 2011, and our business operations and financial performance could be adversely affected by changes in our relationship with our employees or changes to U.S. or foreign employment regulations.

     We had approximately 55,500 employees worldwide as of January 1, 2011. This means we have a significant exposure to changes in domestic and foreign laws governing our relationships with our employees, including wage and hour laws and regulations, fair labor standards, minimum wage requirements, overtime pay, unemployment tax rates, workers’ compensation rates, citizenship requirements and payroll taxes, which likely would have a direct impact on our operating costs. Approximately 47,100 of those employees were outside of the United States. A significant increase in minimum wage or overtime rates in countries where we have employees could have a significant impact on our operating costs and may require that we relocate those operations or take other steps to mitigate such increases, all of which may cause us to incur additional costs, expend resources responding to such increases and lower our margins.

     In addition, some of our employees are members of labor organizations or are covered by collective bargaining agreements. If there were a significant increase in the number of our employees who are members of labor organizations or become parties to collective bargaining agreements, we would become vulnerable to a strike, work stoppage or other labor action by these employees that could have an adverse effect on our business.

We may suffer negative publicity if we or our third-party manufacturers violate labor laws or engage in practices that are viewed as unethical or illegal, which could cause a loss of business.

     We cannot fully control the business and labor practices of our third-party manufacturers, the majority of whom are located in Asia, Central America and the Caribbean Basin. If one of our own manufacturing operations or one of our third-party manufacturers violates or is accused of violating local or international labor laws or other applicable regulations, or engages in labor or other practices that would be viewed in any market in which our products are sold as unethical, we could suffer negative publicity, which could tarnish our brands’ image or result in a loss of sales. In addition, if such negative publicity affected one of our customers, it could result in a loss of business for us.

The success of our business is tied to the strength and reputation of our brands, including brands that we license to other parties. If other parties take actions that weaken, harm the reputation of or cause confusion with our brands, our business, and consequently our sales, results of operations and cash flows, may be adversely affected.

     We license some of our important trademarks to third parties. For example, we license Champion to third parties for athletic-oriented accessories. Although we make concerted efforts to protect our brands through quality control mechanisms and contractual obligations imposed on our licensees, there is a risk that some licensees may not be in full compliance with those mechanisms and obligations. In that event, or if a licensee engages in behavior with respect to the licensed marks that would cause us reputational harm, we could experience a significant downturn in that brand’s business, adversely affecting our sales and results of operations. Similarly, any misuse of the Wonderbra or Playtex brands by Sun Capital could result in negative publicity and a loss of sales for our products under these brands, any of which may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.

We design, manufacture, source and sell products under trademarks that are licensed from third parties. If any licensor takes actions related to their trademarks that would cause their brands or our company reputational harm, our business may be adversely affected.

     We design, manufacture, source and sell a number of our products under trademarks that are licensed from third parties such as our Polo Ralph Lauren men’s underwear. Because we do not control the brands licensed to us, our licensors could make changes to their brands or business models that could result in a significant downturn in a brand’s business, adversely affecting our sales and results of operations. If any licensor engages in behavior with respect to the licensed marks that would cause us reputational harm, or if any of the brands licensed to us violates the trademark rights of another or are deemed to be invalid or unenforceable, we could experience a significant downturn in that brand’s business, adversely affecting our sales and results of operations, and we may be required to expend significant amounts on public relations, advertising and, possibly, legal fees.

We are prohibited from selling our Wonderbra and Playtex intimate apparel products in the EU, as well as certain other countries in Europe and South Africa, and therefore are unable to take advantage of business opportunities that may arise in such countries.

     Sun Capital has an exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to manufacture, sell and distribute apparel products under the Wonderbra and Playtex trademarks in the member states of the EU, as well as Russia, South Africa, Switzerland and certain other nations in Europe. Due to the exclusive license, we are not permitted to sell Wonderbra and Playtex branded products in these nations and Sun Capital is not permitted to sell Wonderbra and Playtex branded products outside of these nations. Consequently, we will not be able to take advantage of business opportunities that may arise relating to the sale of Wonderbra and Playtex products in these nations. For more information on these sales restrictions see “Business — Intellectual Property.”

If we are unable to protect our intellectual property rights, our business may be adversely affected.

     Our trademarks and copyrights are important to our marketing efforts and have substantial value. We aggressively protect these trademarks and copyrights from infringement and dilution through appropriate measures, including court actions and administrative proceedings. We are susceptible to others imitating our products and infringing our intellectual property rights. Infringement or counterfeiting of our products could diminish the value of our brands or otherwise adversely affect our business. Actions we have taken to establish and protect our intellectual property rights may not be adequate to prevent imitation of our products by others or to prevent others from seeking to invalidate our trademarks or block sales of our products as a violation of the trademarks and intellectual property rights of others. In addition, unilateral actions in the United States or other countries, such as changes to or the repeal of laws recognizing trademark or other intellectual property rights, could have an impact on our ability to enforce those rights.

     The value of our intellectual property could diminish if others assert rights in, or ownership of, our trademarks and other intellectual property rights. We may be unable to successfully resolve these types of conflicts to our satisfaction. In some cases, there may be trademark owners who have prior rights to our trademarks because the laws of certain foreign countries may not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States. In other cases, there may be holders who have prior rights to similar trademarks. We are from time to time involved in opposition and cancellation proceedings with respect to some items of our intellectual property.

Our business depends on our senior management team and other key personnel.

     Our success depends upon the continued contributions of our senior management team and other key personnel, some of whom have unique talents and experience and would be difficult to replace. The loss or interruption of the services of a member of our senior management team or other key personnel could have a material adverse effect on our business during the transitional period that would be required for a successor to assume the responsibilities of the position. Our future success will also depend on our ability to attract and retain key managers, sales people and others. We may not be able to attract or retain these employees, which could adversely affect our business.

Businesses that we may acquire may fail to perform to expectations, and we may be unable to successfully integrate acquired businesses with our existing business.

     From time to time, we may evaluate potential acquisition opportunities to support and strengthen our business. We may not be able to realize all or a substantial portion of the anticipated benefits of acquisitions that we may consummate. Newly acquired businesses may not achieve expected results of operations, including expected levels of revenues, and may require unanticipated costs and expenditures. Acquired businesses may also subject us to liabilities that we were unable to discover in the course of our due diligence, and our rights to indemnification from the sellers of such businesses, even if obtained, may not be sufficient to offset the relevant liabilities. In addition, the integration of newly acquired businesses may be expensive and time-consuming and may not be entirely successful. Integration of the acquired businesses may also place additional pressures on our systems of internal control over financial reporting. If we are unable to successfully integrate newly acquired businesses or if acquired businesses fail to produce targeted results, it could have an adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition.

If the IRS determines that our spin off from Sara Lee does not qualify as a “tax-free” distribution or a “tax-free” reorganization, we may be subject to substantial liability.

     Sara Lee has received a private letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, or the “IRS,” to the effect that, among other things, the spin off qualifies as a tax-free distribution for U.S. federal income tax purposes under Section 355 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the “Internal Revenue Code,” and as part of a tax-free reorganization under Section 368(a)(1)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code, and the transfer to us of assets and the assumption by us of liabilities in connection with the spin off will not result in the recognition of any gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes to Sara Lee.

     Although the private letter ruling relating to the qualification of the spin off under Sections 355 and 368(a)(1)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code generally is binding on the IRS, the continuing validity of the ruling is subject to the accuracy of factual representations and assumptions made in connection with obtaining such private letter ruling. Also, as part of the IRS’s general policy with respect to rulings on spin off transactions under Section 355 of the Internal Revenue Code, the private letter ruling obtained by Sara Lee is based upon representations by Sara Lee that certain conditions which are necessary to obtain tax-free treatment under Section 355 and Section 368(a)(1)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code have been satisfied, rather than a determination by the IRS that these conditions have been satisfied. Any inaccuracy in these representations could invalidate the ruling.

     If the spin off does not qualify for tax-free treatment for U.S. federal income tax purposes, then, in general, Sara Lee would be subject to tax as if it has sold the common stock of our company in a taxable sale for its fair market value. Sara Lee’s stockholders would be subject to tax as if they had received a taxable distribution equal to the fair market value of our common stock that was distributed to them, taxed as a dividend (without reduction for any portion of a Sara Lee’s stockholder’s basis in its shares of Sara Lee common stock) for U.S. federal income tax purposes and possibly for purposes of state and local tax law, to the extent of a Sara Lee’s stockholder’s pro rata share of Sara Lee’s current and accumulated earnings and profits (including any arising from the taxable gain to Sara Lee with respect to the spin off). It is expected that the amount of any such taxes to Sara Lee’s stockholders and to Sara Lee would be substantial.

     Pursuant to a tax sharing agreement we entered into with Sara Lee in connection with the spin off, we agreed to indemnify Sara Lee and its affiliates for any liability for taxes of Sara Lee resulting from: (1) any action or failure to act by us or any of our affiliates following the completion of the spin off that would be inconsistent with or prohibit the spin off from qualifying as a tax-free transaction to Sara Lee and to Sara Lee’s stockholders under Sections 355 and 368(a)(1)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code, or (2) any action or failure to act by us or any of our affiliates following the completion of the spin off that would be inconsistent with or cause to be untrue any material, information, covenant or representation made in connection with the private letter ruling obtained by Sara Lee from the IRS relating to, among other things, the qualification of the spin off as a tax-free transaction described under Sections 355 and 368(a)(1)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our indemnification obligations to Sara Lee and its affiliates are not limited in amount or subject to any cap. We expect that the amount of any such taxes to Sara Lee would be substantial.

Anti-takeover provisions of our charter and bylaws, as well as Maryland law and our stockholder rights agreement, may reduce the likelihood of any potential change of control or unsolicited acquisition proposal that you might consider favorable.

     Our charter permits our board of directors, without stockholder approval, to amend the charter to increase or decrease the aggregate number of shares of stock or the number of shares of stock of any class or series that we have the authority to issue. In addition, our board of directors may classify or reclassify any unissued shares of common stock or preferred stock and may set the preferences, conversion or other rights, voting powers and other terms of the classified or reclassified shares. Our board of directors could establish a series of preferred stock that could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a transaction or a change in control that might involve a premium price for our common stock or otherwise be in the best interest of our stockholders. Under Maryland law, our board of directors also is permitted, without stockholder approval, to implement a classified board structure at any time.

     Our bylaws, which only can be amended by our board of directors, provide that nominations of persons for election to our board of directors and the proposal of business to be considered at a stockholders meeting may be made only in the notice of the meeting, by or at the direction of our board of directors or by a stockholder who is entitled to vote at the meeting and has complied with the advance notice procedures of our bylaws. Also, under Maryland law, business combinations between us and an interested stockholder or an affiliate of an interested stockholder, including mergers, consolidations, share exchanges or, in circumstances specified in the statute, asset transfers or issuances or reclassifications of equity securities, are prohibited for five years after the most recent date on which the interested stockholder becomes an interested stockholder. An interested stockholder includes any person who beneficially owns 10% or more of the voting power of our shares or any affiliate or associate of ours who, at any time within the two-year period prior to the date in question, was the beneficial owner of 10% or more of the voting power of our stock. A person is not an interested stockholder under the statute if our board of directors approved in advance the transaction by which he otherwise would have become an interested stockholder. However, in approving a transaction, our board of directors may provide that its approval is subject to compliance, at or after the time of approval, with any terms and conditions determined by our board. After the five-year prohibition, any business combination between us and an interested stockholder generally must be recommended by our board of directors and approved by two supermajority votes or our common stockholders must receive a minimum price, as defined under Maryland law, for their shares. The statute permits various exemptions from its provisions, including business combinations that are exempted by our board of directors prior to the time that the interested stockholder becomes an interested stockholder.

     In addition, we have adopted a stockholder rights agreement which provides that in the event of an acquisition of or tender offer for 15% of our outstanding common stock, our stockholders, other than the acquirer, shall be granted rights to purchase our common stock at a certain price. The stockholder rights agreement could make it more difficult for a third-party to acquire our common stock without the approval of our board of directors.

     These and other provisions of Maryland law or our charter and bylaws could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a transaction or a change in control that might involve a premium price for our common stock or otherwise be considered favorably by our stockholders.

Item 1B.		Unresolved Staff Comments

     Not applicable.

Item 1C.		Executive Officers of the Registrant

     The chart below lists our executive officers and is followed by biographic information about them. No family relationship exists between any of our directors or executive officers.

Name		Age				Positions
Richard A. Noll			53			Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Gerald W. Evans Jr.			51			Co-operating Officer, President International
William J. Nictakis			50			Co-operating Officer, President U.S.
Joia M. Johnson			51			Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Kevin W. Oliver			53			Chief Human Resources Officer
E. Lee Wyatt Jr.			58			Chief Financial Officer

     Richard A. Noll has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since January 2009, as our Chief Executive Officer since April 2006 and as a director since our formation in September 2005. From December 2002 until September 2006, he also served as a Senior Vice President of Sara Lee. From July 2005 to April 2006, Mr. Noll served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Sara Lee Branded Apparel. Mr. Noll served as Chief Executive Officer of Sara Lee Bakery Group from July 2003 to July 2005 and as the Chief Operating Officer of Sara Lee Bakery Group from July 2002 to July 2003. From July 2001 to July 2002, Mr. Noll was Chief Executive Officer of

Sara Lee Legwear, Sara Lee Direct and Sara Lee Mexico. Mr. Noll joined Sara Lee in 1992 and held a number of management positions with increasing responsibilities while employed by Sara Lee.

     Gerald W. Evans Jr. has served as our Co-operating Officer, President International, since November 2010. From February 2009 until November 2010, he was our President, International Business and Global Supply Chain. From February 2008 until February 2009, he served as our President, Global Supply Chain and Asia Business Development. From September 2006 until February 2008, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer. From July 2005 until September 2006, Mr. Evans served as a Vice President of Sara Lee and as Chief Supply Chain Officer of Sara Lee Branded Apparel. Mr. Evans served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sara Lee Sportswear and Underwear from March 2003 until June 2005 and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sara Lee Sportswear from March 1999 to February 2003.

     William J. Nictakis has served as our Co-operating Officer, President U.S., since November 2010. From November 2007 until November 2010, he was our President, Chief Commercial Officer. From June 2003 until November 2007, Mr. Nictakis served as President of the Sara Lee Bakery Group. From May 1999 through June 2003, Mr. Nictakis was Vice President, Sales, of Frito-Lay, Inc., a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc. that manufactures, markets, sells and distributes branded snacks.

     Joia M. Johnson has served as our Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since January 2007, a position previously known as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. From May 2000 until January 2007, Ms. Johnson served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of RARE Hospitality International, Inc., an owner, operator and franchisor of national chain restaurants. Ms. Johnson currently serves on the board of Crawford & Company, the world’s largest independent provider of claims management solutions to the risk management and insurance industry.

     Kevin W. Oliver has served as our Chief Human Resources Officer since September 2006, a position previously known as Executive Vice President, Human Resources. From January 2006 until September 2006, Mr. Oliver served as a Vice President of Sara Lee and as Senior Vice President, Human Resources of Sara Lee Branded Apparel. From February 2005 to December 2005, Mr. Oliver served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Sara Lee Food and Beverage and from August 2001 to January 2005 as Vice President, Human Resources for the Sara Lee Bakery Group.

     E. Lee Wyatt Jr. has served as our Chief Financial Officer since September 2006, a position previously known as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. From September 2005 until September 2006, Mr. Wyatt served as a Vice President of Sara Lee and as Chief Financial Officer of Sara Lee Branded Apparel. Prior to joining Sara Lee, Mr. Wyatt was Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Sonic Automotive, Inc. from April 2003 to September 2005, and Vice President of Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Sealy Corporation from September 1998 to February 2003.

Item 2. Properties

     We own and lease properties supporting our administrative, manufacturing, distribution and direct outlet activities. We own our approximately 470,000 square-foot headquarters located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which houses our various sales, marketing and corporate business functions. Research and development as well as certain product-design functions also are located in Winston-Salem, while other design functions are located in New York City and Lenexa, Kansas. Our products are manufactured through a combination of facilities we own and operate and facilities owned and operated by third-party contractors who perform some of the steps in the manufacturing process for us, such as cutting and/or sewing. We source the remainder of our finished goods from third-party manufacturers who supply us with finished products based on our designs.

     As of January 1, 2011, we owned and leased properties in 23 countries, including 43 manufacturing facilities and 31 distribution centers, as well as office facilities. The leases for these properties expire between 2011 and 2022, with the exception of some seasonal warehouses that we lease on a month-by-month basis.

     As of January 1, 2011, we also operated 224 direct outlet stores in 40 states, most of which are leased under five-year, renewable lease agreements and several of which are leased under ten year agreements. We believe that our facilities, as well as equipment, are in good condition and meet our current business needs.

     The following table summarizes our properties by country as of January 1, 2011:

		Owned				Leased
Properties by Country (1)		Square Feet				Square Feet				Total
United States			3,171,576				7,666,324				10,837,900
Non-U.S. facilities:
El Salvador			1,426,866				307,327				1,734,193
Honduras			356,279				916,520				1,272,799
China			1,070,912				47,734				1,118,646
Dominican Republic			835,240				178,033				1,013,273
Mexico			75,255				341,974				417,229
Canada			289,480				105,675				395,155
Vietnam			251,337				240,365				491,702
Costa Rica			168,282				—				168,282
Thailand			277,733				14,142				291,875
Belgium			—				165,398				165,398
Brazil			—				164,548				164,548
Argentina			125,289				—				125,289
10 other countries			—				77,428				77,428
Total non-U.S. facilities			4,876,673				2,559,144				7,435,817
Totals			8,048,249				10,225,468				18,273,717

     The following table summarizes the properties primarily used by our segments as of January 1, 2011:

		Owned				Leased
Properties by Segment (1)		Square Feet				Square Feet				Total
Innerwear			3,319,699				4,019,584				7,339,283
Outerwear			2,294,310				2,655,156				4,949,466
Hosiery			303,445				39,000				342,445
Direct to Consumer			—				1,840,969				1,840,969
International			481,273				818,903				1,300,176
Totals			6,398,727				9,373,612				15,772,339

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

     Although we are subject to various claims and legal actions that occur from time to time in the ordinary course of our business, we are not party to any pending legal proceedings that we believe could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.

Item 4. (Removed and Reserved)

PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Market for our Common Stock

     Our common stock currently is traded on the New York Stock Exchange, or the “NYSE,” under the symbol “HBI.” A “when-issued” trading market for our common stock on the NYSE began on August 16, 2006, and “regular way” trading of our common stock began on September 6, 2006. Prior to August 16, 2006, there was no public market for our common stock. Each share of our common stock has attached to it one preferred stock purchase right. These rights initially will be transferable with and only with the transfer of the underlying share of common stock. We have not made any unregistered sales of our equity securities.

     The following table sets forth the high and low sales prices for our common stock for the indicated periods:

		High				Low
2009
Quarter ended April 4, 2009		$	13.66			$	5.14
Quarter ended July 4, 2009		$	19.07			$	10.76
Quarter ended October 3, 2009		$	22.96			$	13.07
Quarter ended January 2, 2010		$	26.61			$	21.02
2010
Quarter ended April 3, 2010		$	28.40			$	20.95
Quarter ended July 3, 2010		$	31.45			$	23.44
Quarter ended October 2, 2010		$	27.88			$	23.28
Quarter ended January 1, 2011		$	28.42			$	23.94

Holders of Record

     On February 14, 2011, there were 40,861 holders of record of our common stock. Because many of the shares of our common stock are held by brokers and other institutions on behalf of stockholders, we are unable to determine the exact number of beneficial stockholders represented by these record holders, but we believe that there were approximately 73,300 beneficial owners of our common stock as of February 1, 2011.

Dividends

     We currently do not pay regular dividends on our outstanding stock. The declaration of any future dividends and, if declared, the amount of any such dividends, will be subject to our actual future earnings, capital

requirements, regulatory restrictions, debt covenants, other contractual restrictions and to the discretion of our board of directors. Our board of directors may take into account such matters as general business conditions, our financial condition and results of operations, our capital requirements, our prospects and such other factors as our board of directors may deem relevant.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

     There were no purchases by Hanesbrands during the quarter or year ended January 1, 2011 of equity securities that are registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act.

Performance Graph

     The following graph compares the cumulative total stockholder return on our common stock with the comparable cumulative return of the S&P MidCap 400 Index and the S&P 1500 Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods Index. The graph assumes that $100 was invested in our common stock and each index on August 11, 2006, the effective date of the registration of our common stock under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, although a “when-issued” trading market for our common stock did not begin until August 16, 2006, and “regular way” trading did not begin until September 6, 2006. The stock price performance on the following graph is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.

Equity Compensation Plan Information

     The following table provides information about our equity compensation plans as of January 1, 2011.

		Number of Securities to				Weighted Average
		be Issued Upon Exercise				Exercise Price of				Number of Securities
		of Outstanding Options,				Outstanding Options,				Remaining Available for
Plan Category		Warrants and Rights				Warrants and Rights				Future Issuance (1)
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders			7,751,336			$	22.34				3,945,486
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders			—				—				—
Total			7,751,336			$	22.34				3,945,486

Item 6.		Selected Financial Data

     The following table presents our selected historical financial data. The statement of income data for the years ended January 1, 2011, January 2, 2010 and January 3, 2009 and the balance sheet data as of January 1, 2011 and January 2, 2010 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The statement of income data for the year ended December 29, 2007, the six-month period ended December 30, 2006 and the year ended July 1, 2006 and the balance sheet data as of January 3, 2009, December 29, 2007, December 30, 2006 and July 1, 2006 has been derived from our financial statements not included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

     In October 2006, our Board of Directors approved a change in our fiscal year end from the Saturday closest to June 30 to the Saturday closest to December 31. As a result of this change, the table below includes presentation of the transition period beginning on July 2, 2006 and ending on December 30, 2006.

     Our historical financial data for periods prior to our spin off from Sara Lee on September 5, 2006 is not necessarily indicative of our future performance or what our financial position and results of operations would have been if we had operated as a separate, stand alone entity during all of the periods shown. The data should be read in conjunction with our historical financial statements and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

																		Six Months
		Years Ended																Ended				Year Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				January 3,				December 29,				December 30,				July 1,
		2011				2010				2009				2007				2006				2006
		(amounts in thousands, except per share data)
Statement of Income Data:
Net sales		$	4,326,713			$	3,891,275			$	4,248,770			$	4,474,537			$	2,250,473			$	4,472,832
Cost of sales			2,911,944				2,626,001				2,871,420				3,033,627				1,530,119				2,987,500
Gross profit			1,414,769				1,265,274				1,377,350				1,440,910				720,354				1,485,332
Selling, general and administrative expenses			1,010,581				940,530				1,009,607				1,040,754				547,469				1,051,833
Gain on curtailment of postretirement benefits			—				—				—				(32,144	)			(28,467	)			—
Restructuring			—				53,888				50,263				43,731				11,278				(101	)
Operating profit			404,188				270,856				317,480				388,569				190,074				433,600
Other expense (income)			20,221				49,301				(634	)			5,235				7,401				—
Interest expense, net			150,236				163,279				155,077				199,208				70,753				17,280
Income before income tax expense			233,731				58,276				163,037				184,126				111,920				416,320
Income tax expense			22,438				6,993				35,868				57,999				37,781				93,827
Net income		$	211,293			$	51,283			$	127,169			$	126,127			$	74,139			$	322,493
Earnings per share — basic(1)		$	2.19			$	0.54			$	1.35			$	1.31			$	0.77			$	3.35
Earnings per share — diluted(2)		$	2.16			$	0.54			$	1.34			$	1.30			$	0.77			$	3.35
Weighted average shares — basic(1)			96,500				95,158				94,171				95,936				96,309				96,306
Weighted average shares — diluted(2)			97,774				95,668				95,164				96,741				96,620				96,306

		January 1,				January 2,				January 3,				December 29,				December 30,				July 1,
		2011				2010				2009				2007				2006				2006
		(in thousands)
Balance Sheet Data:
Cash and cash equivalents		$	43,671			$	38,943			$	67,342			$	174,236			$	155,973			$	298,252
Total assets			3,790,002				3,326,564				3,534,049				3,439,483				3,435,620				4,903,886
Noncurrent liabilities:
Long-term debt			1,990,735				1,727,547				2,130,907				2,315,250				2,484,000				—
Other noncurrent liabilities			407,243				385,323				469,703				146,347				271,168				49,987
Total noncurrent liabilities			2,397,978				2,112,870				2,600,610				2,461,597				2,755,168				49,987
Total stockholders’ or parent companies’ equity			562,674				334,719				185,155				288,904				69,271				3,229,134

Item 7.		Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

     This management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations, or MD&A, contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Please see “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Risk Factors” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of the uncertainties, risks and assumptions associated with these statements. This discussion should be read in conjunction with our historical financial statements and related notes thereto and the other disclosures contained elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The results of operations for the periods reflected herein are not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for future periods, and our actual results may differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including but not limited to those listed under “Risk Factors” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

     MD&A is a supplement to our financial statements and notes thereto included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and is provided to enhance your understanding of our results of operations and financial condition. Our MD&A is organized as follows:

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Overview. This section provides a general description of our company and operating segments, business and industry trends, our key business strategies and background information on other matters discussed in this MD&A.

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Components of Net Sales and Expenses. This section provides an overview of the components of our net sales and expenses that are key to an understanding of our results of operations.

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2010 Highlights. This section discusses some of the highlights of our performance and activities during 2010.

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Consolidated Results of Operations and Operating Results by Business Segment. These sections provide our analysis and outlook for the significant line items on our statements of income, as well as other information that we deem meaningful to an understanding of our results of operations on both a consolidated basis and a business segment basis.

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Liquidity and Capital Resources. This section provides an analysis of trends and uncertainties affecting liquidity, cash requirements for our business, sources and uses of our cash and our financing arrangements.

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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates. This section discusses the accounting policies that we consider important to the evaluation and reporting of our financial condition and results of operations, and whose application requires significant judgments or a complex estimation process.

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Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements. This section provides a summary of the most recent authoritative accounting pronouncements that we will be required to adopt in a future period.

Overview

Our Company

     We are a consumer goods company with a portfolio of leading apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali, L’eggs, Just My Size, barely there, Wonderbra, Stedman, Outer Banks, Zorba, Rinbros, Duofold and Gear for Sports. We design, manufacture, source and sell a broad range of basic apparel such as T-shirts, bras, panties, men’s underwear, kids’ underwear, casualwear, activewear, socks and hosiery. According to NPD, our brands held either the number one or number two U.S. market position by units sold in most product categories in which we compete, for the 12 month period ended December 31, 2010.

     Our distribution channels include direct to consumer sales at our outlet stores, national chains and department stores and warehouse clubs, mass-merchandise outlets and international sales. During 2010, approximately 44% of our net sales were to mass merchants in the United States, 15% were to national chains and department stores in the United States, 12% were in our International segment, 9% were in our Direct to Consumer segment in the United States, and 20% were to other retail channels in the United States such as embellishers, specialty retailers, wholesale clubs, sporting goods stores and collegiate bookstores.

Our Segments

     Our operations are managed and reported in five operating segments, each of which is a reportable segment for financial reporting purposes: Innerwear, Outerwear, Hosiery, Direct to Consumer and International. These segments are organized principally by product category, geographic location and distribution channel. Each segment has its own management that is responsible for the operations of the segment’s businesses but the segments share a common supply chain and media and marketing platforms. In October 2009, we completed the sale of our yarn operations and, as a result, we no longer have net sales in the Other segment, which was primarily comprised of sales of yarn to third parties.

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Innerwear. The Innerwear segment focuses on core basic apparel, and consists of products such as women’s intimate apparel, men’s underwear, kids’ underwear, and socks, marketed under well-known brands that are trusted by consumers. We are an intimate apparel category leader in the United States with our Hanes, Playtex, Bali, barely there, Just My Size and Wonderbra brands. We are also a leading manufacturer and marketer of men’s underwear and kids’ underwear under the Hanes and Polo Ralph Lauren brand names. During 2010, net sales from our Innerwear segment were $2.0 billion, representing approximately 46% of total net sales.

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Outerwear. We are a leader in the casualwear and activewear markets through our Hanes, Champion, Just My Size, Duofold and Gear for Sports brands, where we offer products such as T-shirts and fleece. Our casualwear lines offer a range of quality, comfortable clothing for men, women and children marketed under the Hanes and Just My Size brands. The Just My Size brand offers casual apparel designed exclusively to meet the needs of plus-size women. In 2009, we entered into a multi-year agreement to provide a women’s casualwear program with our Just My Size brand at Wal-Mart stores. In addition to activewear for men and women, Champion provides uniforms for athletic programs and includes an apparel program, C9 by Champion, at Target stores. We also license our Champion name for collegiate apparel and footwear. We also supply our T-shirts, sport shirts and fleece products, including brands such as Hanes, Champion, Outer Banks and Hanes Beefy-T, to customers, primarily wholesalers, who then resell to screen printers and embellishers. On November 1, 2010, we completed our acquisition of Gear for Sports, a leading seller of licensed logo apparel in collegiate bookstores and other channels, which significantly strengthens our strategy of creating stronger branded and defensible businesses in our Outerwear segment. The operating results of Gear for Sports are included in the Outerwear segment. During 2010, net sales from our Outerwear segment were $1.3 billion, representing approximately 29% of total net sales.

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Hosiery. We are the leading marketer of women’s sheer hosiery in the United States. We compete in the hosiery market by striving to offer superior values and executing integrated marketing activities, as well as focusing on the style of our hosiery products. We market hosiery products under our L’eggs, Hanes and Just My Size brands. During 2010, net sales from our Hosiery segment were $167 million, representing approximately 4% of total net sales. We expect the trend of declining hosiery sales to continue consistent with the overall decline in the industry and with shifts in consumer preferences.

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Direct to Consumer. Our Direct to Consumer operations include our value-based (“outlet”) stores and Internet operations which sell products from our portfolio of leading brands. We sell our branded products directly to consumers through our outlet stores as well as our websites operating under the Hanes, One Hanes Place, Just My Size and Champion names. Our Internet operations are supported by our catalogs. As of January 1, 2011 and January 2, 2010, we had 224 and 228 outlet stores, respectively. During 2010, net sales from our Direct to Consumer segment were $378 million, representing approximately 9% of total net sales.

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International. International includes products that span across the Innerwear, Outerwear and Hosiery reportable segments and are primarily marketed under the Hanes, Champion, Wonderbra, Playtex, Stedman, Zorba, Rinbros, Kendall, Sol y Oro, Bali and Ritmo brands. During 2010, net sales from our International segment were $509 million, representing approximately 12% of total net sales and included sales in Latin America, Asia, Canada, Europe and South America. Our largest international markets are Canada, Japan, Mexico, Europe and Brazil, and we also have sales offices in India and China.

Outlook for 2011

     After a strong performance in 2010 in an uncertain and volatile economic environment, we expect continued double-digit growth in 2011 with projected net sales of approximately $4.85 billion to $5.0 billion compared to $4.33 billion in 2010. The primary drivers of this growth are expected to be price increases, partially offset by demand elasticity, a full year of the Gear for Sports acquisition contributing approximately five points of growth, and net shelf-space gains and increases in consumer spending each contributing another one to two points of growth in net sales.

     Because of expected systemic cost inflation in 2011 as described below, particularly for cotton, energy and labor, we expect to take price increases throughout the year as warranted by cost inflation, including multiple increases already put in place through late summer. The timing and frequency of price increases will vary by product category, channel of trade, and country, with some increases as frequently as quarterly. The magnitude of price increases also will vary by product category. Demand elasticity effects, which could be significant for higher double-digit price increases implemented later in 2011, should be manageable and will have a muted impact in 2011.

     For the first three quarters of 2011, we believe we know the majority of our costs, with cotton prices locked in through October. Our current 2011 earnings expectations assume we will continue to realize efficiency savings from our supply chain optimization of approximately $40 million and eliminate the majority of excess 2010 costs to service the strong sales growth of $25 to $30 million; continued investment in trade and media spending consistent with our historical rate of $90 to $100 million; stable interest expense; and a higher full-year tax rate that could range from a percentage in the teens to the low 20s.

     As a result of the cost inflation and higher product pricing, we expect higher working capital, in particular higher accounts receivable and inventories, partially offset by higher inventory turns which will negatively impact our cash flow. We typically use cash for the first half of the year and generate most of our cash flow in the second half of the year.

Business and Industry Trends

     Inflation and Changing Prices

     The economic environment in which we are operating continues to be uncertain and volatile, which could have unanticipated adverse effects on our business during 2011 and beyond. We are seeing a sustained increase in various input costs, such as cotton and oil-related materials, utilities, freight and wages, which impacted our results in 2010 and will continue to do so throughout 2011. The estimated impact of cost inflation could be in the range of $250 to $300 million higher in 2011 over 2010. Rising demand for cotton resulting from the economic recovery, weather-related supply disruptions, significant declines in U.S. inventory and a sharp rise in the futures market for cotton caused cotton prices to surge upward during 2010 and early 2011. After taking into consideration the cotton costs currently in our finished goods inventory and cotton prices we have locked in through October, we expect an average for cotton of at least $1.00 per pound in 2011 for purchases of cotton used in goods manufactured by us, which would have a negative impact of ranging from $100 to $125 million when compared to 2010. The first and second quarters of 2011 should reflect an average cost of 83 cents per pound, the third quarter of 2011 should reflect an average cost of 89 cents per pound and the fourth quarter is not locked in at this time. These estimates do not include the cotton impact on the cost of sourced goods.

     Although we have sold our yarn operations and nearly 40% of our business, such as bras, sheer hosiery and portions of our activewear categories, is not cotton-based, we are still exposed to fluctuations in the cost of cotton. During 2010, cotton prices hit their highest levels in 140 years. Increases in the cost of cotton can result in higher costs in the price we pay for yarn from our large-scale yarn suppliers. Our costs for cotton yarn and cotton-based textiles vary based upon the fluctuating cost of cotton, which is affected by, among other factors, weather, consumer demand, speculation on the commodities market, the relative valuations and fluctuations of the currencies of producer versus consumer countries and other factors that are generally unpredictable and beyond our control. We are able to lock in the cost of cotton reflected in the price we pay for yarn from our primary yarn suppliers in an attempt to protect our business from the volatility of the market price of cotton. However, our business can be affected by dramatic movements in cotton prices. Although the cost of cotton used in goods manufactured by us has historically represented only 6% of our cost of sales, it has risen to around 10%

primarily as a result of cost inflation. Costs incurred for materials and labor are capitalized into inventory and impact our results as the inventory is sold.

     Inflation can have a long-term impact on us because increasing costs of materials and labor may impact our ability to maintain satisfactory margins. For example, the cost of the materials that are used in our manufacturing process, such as oil-related commodities and other raw materials, such as dyes and chemicals, and other costs, such as fuel, energy and utility costs, can fluctuate as a result of inflation and other factors. Similarly, a significant portion of our products are manufactured in other countries and declines in the value of the U.S. dollar may result in higher manufacturing costs. Increases in inflation may not be matched by rises in income, which also could have a negative impact on spending.

     If we incur increased costs for materials, including cotton, and labor that we are unable to recoup through price increases or improved efficiencies, or if consumer spending declines, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows may be adversely affected.

      Given the systemic cost inflation that the apparel industry is currently experiencing, most apparel retailers and manufacturers have announced they will be implementing price increases in 2011 in order to maintain satisfactory margins. Higher raw material costs, including cotton, and higher labor costs overseas are the primary reasons that price increases are needed to manage the inflated costs.

Other Business and Industry Trends

     The basic apparel market is highly competitive and evolving rapidly. Competition is generally based upon brand name recognition, price, product quality, selection, service and purchasing convenience. The majority of our core styles continue from year to year, with variations only in color, fabric or design details. Some products, however, such as intimate apparel, activewear and sheer hosiery, do have more of an emphasis on style and innovation. Our businesses face competition today from other large corporations and foreign manufacturers, as well as smaller companies, department stores, specialty stores and other retailers that market and sell basic apparel products under private labels that compete directly with our brands.

     Our top ten customers accounted for 65% of our net sales and our top customer, Wal-Mart, accounted for over $1 billion of our sales in 2010. Our largest customers in 2010 were Wal-Mart, Target and Kohl’s, which accounted for 26%, 17% and 6% of total sales, respectively. The growth in retailers can create pricing pressures as our customers grow larger and seek to have greater concessions in their purchase of our products, while they can be increasingly demanding that we provide them with some of our products on an exclusive basis. To counteract these effects, it has become increasingly important to leverage our national brands through investment in our largest and strongest brands as our customers strive to maximize their performance especially in today’s challenging economic environment. In addition, during the past several years, various retailers, including some of our largest customers, have experienced significant difficulties, including restructurings, bankruptcies and liquidations, and the ability of retailers to overcome these difficulties may increase due to worldwide economic conditions. Brands are important in our core categories to drive traffic and project required quality and value.

     Anticipating changes in and managing our operations in response to consumer preferences remains an important element of our business. In recent years, we have experienced changes in our net sales, revenues and cash flows in accordance with changes in consumer preferences and trends. For example, we expect the trend of declining hosiery sales to continue consistent with the overall decline in the industry and with shifts in consumer preferences. The Hosiery segment only comprised 4% of our net sales in 2010 however, and as a result, the decline in the Hosiery segment has not had a significant impact on our net sales, revenues or cash flows. Generally, we manage the Hosiery segment for cash, placing an emphasis on reducing our cost structure and managing cash efficiently.

Growth Platform

     We have built a powerful three-plank growth platform designed to use big brands to increase sales domestically and internationally, use a low-cost worldwide supply chain to expand margins, and use strong cash flow to support multiple strategies to create value.

     The first plank of our growth platform is the size and power of our brands. We have made significant investment in our consumer insights capability, innovative product development, and marketing. We have very large U.S. share positions, with the No. 1 share in all our innerwear categories and strong positions in outerwear categories, but we have ample opportunities to further build share. Internationally, our commercial markets include Mexico, Canada, Japan, India, Brazil and China, where a substantial amount of gross domestic product growth outside the United States will be concentrated over the next decade.

     The second plank of our growth platform is the low-cost global supply chain that we have just built. Our low-cost, high-scale supply chain spans both the Western and Eastern hemispheres and creates a competitive advantage for us around the globe. Our supply chain has generated significant cost savings, margin expansion and contributions to cash flow and will continue to do so as we further optimize our size, scale and production capability. To support our growth, we have increased our production capacity such as in our Nanjing textile facility, which we expect will ramp up to full capacity by the end of 2011.

     The third plank of our growth platform is our ability to consistently generate strong cash flow. We have the potential to increase cash flow, and our flexible long-term capital structure allows us to use cash in executing multiple strategies for earnings growth, including debt reduction and selective tactical acquisitions.

Our Key Business Strategies

     Sell more, spend less and generate cash are our broad strategies to build our brands, reduce our costs and generate cash.

Sell More

     Through our “sell more” strategy, we seek to drive profitable growth by consistently offering consumers brands they love and trust and products with unsurpassed value. Key initiatives we are employing to implement this strategy include:

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Build big, strong brands in big core categories with innovative key items. Our ability to react to changing customer needs and industry trends is key to our success. Our design, research and product development teams, in partnership with our marketing teams, drive our efforts to bring innovations to market. We seek to leverage our insights into consumer demand in the basic apparel industry to develop new products within our existing lines and to modify our existing core products in ways that make them more appealing, addressing changing customer needs and industry trends. We also support our key brands with targeted, effective advertising and marketing campaigns.

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Foster strategic partnerships with key retailers via “team selling.” We foster relationships with key retailers by applying our extensive category and product knowledge, leveraging our use of multi-functional customer management teams and developing new customer-specific programs such as C9 by Champion for Target and our Just My Size program at Wal-Mart. Our goal is to strengthen and deepen our existing strategic relationships with retailers and develop new strategic relationships.

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Use Kanban concepts to have the right products available in the right quantities at the right time. Through Kanban, a multi-initiative effort that determines production quantities, and in doing so, facilitates just-in-time production and ordering systems, we seek to ensure that products are available to meet customer demands while effectively managing inventory levels.

Spend Less

     Through our “spend less” strategy, we seek to become an integrated organization that leverages its size and global reach to reduce costs, improve flexibility and provide a high level of service. Key initiatives we are employing to implement this strategy include:

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Optimizing our global supply chain to improve our cost-competitiveness and operating flexibility. We have restructured our supply chain over the past four years to create more efficient production clusters that utilize fewer, larger facilities and to balance our production capability between the Western Hemisphere and Asia. With our global supply chain infrastructure in place, we are focused long-term on optimizing our supply chain to further enhance efficiency, improve working capital and asset turns and reduce costs through several initiatives, such as supplier-managed inventory for raw materials and sourced goods ownership arrangements. We commenced production at our textile production plant in Nanjing, China, which is our first company-owned textile facility in Asia, in the fourth quarter of 2009 and we ramped up production in 2010 to support our growth, with the expectation of ramping up to full capacity by the end of 2011. The Nanjing facility, along with our other textile facilities and arrangements with outside contractors, enables us to expand and leverage our production scale as we balance our supply chain across

hemispheres to support our production capacity. We consolidated our distribution network by implementing new warehouse management systems and technology and adding new distribution centers and new third-party logistics providers to replace parts of our legacy distribution network, including relocating distribution capacity to our West Coast distribution facility in California in order to expand capacity for goods we source from Asia.

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Leverage our global purchasing and manufacturing scale. Historically, we have had a decentralized operating structure with many distinct operating units. We are in the process of consolidating purchasing, manufacturing and sourcing across all of our product categories in the United States. We believe that these initiatives will streamline our operations, improve our inventory management, reduce costs and standardize processes.

Generate Cash

     Through our “generate cash” strategy, we seek to effectively generate and invest cash at or above our weighted average cost of capital to provide superior returns for both our equity and debt investors. Key initiatives we are employing to implement this strategy include:

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Optimizing our capital structure to take advantage of our business model’s strong and consistent cash flows. Maintaining appropriate debt leverage and utilizing excess cash to, for example, pay down debt, invest in our own stock and selectively pursue strategic acquisitions are keys to building a stronger business and generating additional value for investors. In November 2010, we completed a $1.0 billion senior notes offering and debt refinancing that strengthened and added flexibility to our capital structure by fixing a significant percentage of our debt at favorable interest rates at longer maturities.

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Continuing to improve turns for accounts receivables, inventory, accounts payable and fixed assets. Our ability to generate cash is enhanced through more efficient management of accounts receivables, inventory, accounts payable and fixed assets through several initiatives, such as supplier-managed inventory for raw materials, sourced goods ownership arrangements and other efforts.

Global Supply Chain

     We have restructured our supply chain over the past four years to create more efficient production clusters that utilize fewer, larger facilities and to balance our production capability between the Western Hemisphere and Asia. We have closed plant locations, reduced our workforce and relocated some of our manufacturing capacity to lower cost locations in Asia, Central America and the Caribbean Basin. With our global supply chain infrastructure in place, we are focused long-term on optimizing our supply chain to further enhance efficiency, improve working capital and asset turns and reduce costs through several initiatives, such as supplier-managed inventory for raw materials and sourced goods ownership arrangements. We commenced production at our textile production plant in Nanjing, China, which is our first company-owned textile facility in Asia, in the fourth quarter of 2009 and we ramped up production in 2010 to support our growth, with the expectation of ramping up to full capacity by the end of 2011. The Nanjing facility, along with our other textile facilities and arrangements with outside contractors, enables us to expand and leverage our production scale as we balance our supply chain across hemispheres to support our production capacity. We consolidated our distribution network by implementing new warehouse management systems and technology and adding new distribution centers and new third-party logistics providers to replace parts of our legacy distribution network, including relocating distribution capacity to our West Coast distribution facility in California in order to expand capacity for goods we source from Asia.

Seasonality and Other Factors

     Our operating results are subject to some variability due to seasonality and other factors. Generally, our diverse range of product offerings helps mitigate the impact of seasonal changes in demand for certain items. Sales are typically higher in the last two quarters (July to December) of each fiscal year. Socks, hosiery and fleece products generally have higher sales during this period as a result of cooler weather, back-to-school shopping and holidays. Sales levels in any period are also impacted by customers’ decisions to increase or decrease their inventory levels in response to anticipated consumer demand. Our customers may cancel orders, change delivery schedules or change the mix of products ordered with minimal notice to us. Media, advertising and promotion expenses may vary from

period to period during a fiscal year depending on the timing of our advertising campaigns for retail selling seasons and product introductions.

     Although the majority of our products are replenishment in nature and tend to be purchased by consumers on a planned, rather than on an impulse, basis, our sales are impacted by discretionary spending by consumers. Discretionary spending is affected by many factors, including, among others, general business conditions, interest rates, inflation, consumer debt levels, the availability of consumer credit, currency exchange rates, taxation, electricity power rates, gasoline prices, unemployment trends and other matters that influence consumer confidence and spending. Many of these factors are outside our control. Consumers’ purchases of discretionary items, including our products, could decline during periods when disposable income is lower, when prices increase in response to rising costs, or in periods of actual or perceived unfavorable economic conditions. These consumers may choose to purchase fewer of our products or to purchase lower-priced products of our competitors in response to higher prices for our products, or may choose not to purchase our products at prices that reflect our price increases that become effective from time to time.

Components of Net Sales and Expenses

Net sales

     We generate net sales by selling basic apparel products such as T-shirts, bras, panties, men’s underwear, kids’ underwear, socks, hosiery, casualwear and activewear. Our net sales are recognized net of discounts, coupons, rebates, volume-based incentives and cooperative advertising costs. We recognize revenue when (i) there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement, (ii) the sales price is fixed or determinable, (iii) title and the risks of ownership have been transferred to the customer and (iv) collection of the receivable is reasonably assured, which occurs primarily upon shipment. Net sales include an estimate for returns and allowances based upon historical return experience. We also offer a variety of sales incentives to resellers and consumers that are recorded as reductions to net sales. Royalty income from license agreements with manufacturers of other consumer products that incorporate our brands is also included in net sales.

Cost of sales

     Our cost of sales includes the cost of manufacturing finished goods, which consists of labor, raw materials such as cotton and petroleum-based products and overhead costs such as depreciation on owned facilities and equipment. Our cost of sales also includes finished goods sourced from third-party manufacturers that supply us with products based on our designs as well as charges for slow moving or obsolete inventories. Rebates, discounts and other cash consideration received from a vendor related to inventory purchases are reflected in cost of sales when the related inventory item is sold. Our costs of sales do not include shipping costs, comprised of payments to third party shippers, or handling costs, comprised of warehousing costs in our distribution facilities, and thus our gross margins may not be comparable to those of other entities that include such costs in cost of sales.

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     Our selling, general and administrative expenses include selling, advertising, costs of shipping, handling and distribution to our customers, research and development, rent on leased facilities, depreciation on owned facilities and equipment and other general and administrative expenses. Selling, general and administrative expenses also include management payroll, benefits, travel, information systems, accounting, insurance and legal expenses.

Restructuring

     We have from time to time closed facilities and reduced headcount, including in connection with previously announced restructuring and business transformation plans. We refer to these activities as restructuring actions. When we decide to close facilities or reduce headcount, we take estimated charges for such restructuring, including charges for exited non-cancelable leases and other contractual obligations, as well as severance and benefits. If the actual charge is different from the original estimate, an adjustment is recognized in the period such change in estimate is identified.

Other expense (income)

     Our other expense (income) include charges such as losses on early extinguishment of debt, costs to amend and restate our credit facilities, fees associated with sales of certain trade accounts receivable to financial institutions, and charges related to the termination of certain interest rate hedging arrangements.

Interest expense, net

     Our interest expense is net of interest income. Interest income is the return we earned on our cash and cash equivalents. Our cash and cash equivalents are invested in highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less.

Income tax expense

     Our effective income tax rate fluctuates from period to period and can be materially impacted by, among other things:

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changes in the mix of our earnings from the various jurisdictions in which we operate;

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the tax characteristics of our earnings;

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the timing and amount of earnings of foreign subsidiaries that we repatriate to the United States, which may increase our tax expense and taxes paid; and

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the timing and results of any reviews of our income tax filing positions in the jurisdictions in which we transact business.

Highlights from the year ended January 1, 2011

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Total net sales in 2010 were $4.33 billion, compared with $3.89 billion in 2009, representing an 11% increase.

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Operating profit was $404 million in 2010 compared with $271 million in 2009, representing a 49% increase. As a percent of sales, operating profit was 9.3% in 2010 compared to 7.0% in 2009.

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Diluted earnings per share were $2.16 in 2010, compared with $0.54 in 2009.

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Gross capital expenditures were $106 million in 2010, compared to $127 million in 2009. Proceeds from sales of assets were $46 million in 2010 and $38 million in 2009.

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In November 2010, we completed the acquisition of GearCo, Inc., known as Gear for Sports, a leading seller of licensed logo apparel in collegiate bookstores. Gear for Sports, which sells embellished licensed apparel under several brand names, including our Champion label, had sales of approximately $225 million and an operating profit margin of more than 11% of sales in its fiscal year ended in June 2010. The Gear for Sports acquisition supports our strategy of creating stronger branded and defensible businesses in our Outerwear segment, which has included building our Champion activewear brand and increasing sales of higher-margin graphic apparel. We have significant growth synergies in both the collegiate bookstore channel and our existing retail channels and opportunities to take advantage of our low-cost global supply chain. After giving effect to the acquisition, graphic apparel sales constitute approximately 20% to 25% of the Outerwear Segment net sales. The purchase price was $55 million in cash for shareholders’ equity plus payment at closing of approximately $172 million of debt of the privately held company.

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In November 2010, we completed a senior notes offering and debt refinancing that strengthened and added flexibility to our capital structure by fixing a significant percentage of our debt at favorable interest rates at longer maturities. The refinancing consisted of the sale of $1.0 billion 6.375% Senior Notes with a 10-year maturity. The proceeds from the sale of the 6.375% Senior Notes were used to retire early the entire $691 million outstanding under the $750 million floating-rate term loan facility (the “Term Loan Facility”) under the 2009 Senior Secured Credit Facility and reduce the outstanding borrowings under the Revolving Loan Facility, and to pay fees and expenses related to the transaction.

Consolidated Results of Operations — Year Ended January 1, 2011 (“2010”) Compared with Year Ended January 2, 2010 (“2009”)

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
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Net sales		$	4,326,713			$	3,891,275			$	435,438				11.2	%
Cost of sales			2,911,944				2,626,001				285,943				10.9
Gross profit			1,414,769				1,265,274				149,495				11.8
Selling, general and administrative expenses			1,010,581				940,530				70,051				7.4
Restructuring			—				53,888				(53,888	)			(100.0	)
Operating profit			404,188				270,856				133,332				49.2
Other expenses			20,221				49,301				(29,080	)			(59.0	)
Interest expense, net			150,236				163,279				(13,043	)			(8.0	)
Income before income tax expense			233,731				58,276				175,455				301.1
Income tax expense			22,438				6,993				15,445				220.9
Net income		$	211,293			$	51,283			$	160,010				312.0	%

Net Sales

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Net sales		$	4,326,713			$	3,891,275			$	435,438				11.2	%

     Consolidated net sales were higher by $435 million or 11% in 2010 compared to 2009, reflecting significant space and distribution gains at retailers, positive retail sell-through and inventory restocking at retail. Our significant space and distribution gains at retailers contributed approximately 6% of sales growth, while approximately 4% of growth was driven by increased retail sell-through, retailer inventory restocking and foreign currency exchange rates. Early in the fourth quarter of 2010 we completed the acquisition of Gear for Sports which accounted for 1% of our higher net sales. All three of our largest segments delivered double digit sales growth in 2010, with the Outerwear segment achieving 20% sales growth.

     Innerwear, Outerwear and International segment net sales were higher by $179 million (10%), $208 million (20%) and $71 million (16%), respectively, in 2010 compared to 2009. Direct to Consumer segment net sales were higher by $8 million (2%), while Hosiery and Other segment net sales were lower by $19 million (10%) and $13 million, respectively, in 2010 compared to 2009. Outerwear’s segment net sales include the acquisition of Gear for Sports during the fourth quarter of 2010 which contributed 4% of the segment’s growth for the year.

     International segment net sales were higher by 16% in 2010 compared to 2009, which reflected a favorable impact of $22 million related to foreign currency exchange rates due to the strengthening of the Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, Brazilian real and Mexican peso compared to the U.S. dollar, partially offset by the strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to the Euro. International segment net sales were higher by 11% in 2010 compared to 2009 after excluding the impact of foreign exchange rates on currency.

Gross Profit

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Gross profit		$	1,414,769			$	1,265,274			$	149,495				11.8	%

     As a percent of net sales, our gross profit was 32.7% in 2010 compared to 32.5% in 2009, increasing as a result of the items described below. Our results in 2010 primarily benefited from higher sales volumes and savings from cost reduction initiatives and were negatively impacted by higher cotton costs and higher service costs.

     Our gross profit was higher by $149 million in 2010 compared to 2009 due primarily to higher sales volume of $203 million, savings from our prior restructuring actions of $29 million, vendor price reductions of $27 million, lower start-up and shut-down costs of $16 million associated with the consolidation and globalization of our supply chain, a $10 million favorable impact related to foreign currency exchange rates and lower accelerated depreciation of $5 million. The favorable impact of foreign currency exchange rates in our International segment was primarily due to the strengthening of the Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, Brazilian real and Mexican peso compared to the U.S. dollar, partially offset by the strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to the Euro.

     Our gross profit was negatively impacted by an unfavorable product sales mix of $54 million, higher sales incentives of $34 million, higher cotton costs of $33 million, lower product pricing of $12 million, primarily in the first half of 2010, higher other manufacturing costs of $6 million and higher production costs of $4 million. The higher production costs were primarily attributable to $25 million of incremental costs to service higher demand, partially offset by lower energy and oil-related costs of $21 million. Our 2010 sales incentives were higher due to higher sales volumes and, as a percentage of sales, sales incentives were flat compared to 2009.

     We incurred one-time restructuring related write-offs of $4 million in 2009 for stranded raw materials and work in process inventory determined not to be salvageable or cost-effective to relocate, which did not recur in 2010.

     The cotton prices reflected in our results were 69 cents per pound in 2010 compared to 55 cents per pound in 2009. We continue to see higher prices for cotton and oil-related materials in the market.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Selling, general and administrative expenses		$	1,010,581			$	940,530			$	70,051				7.4	%

     Our selling, general and administrative expenses were $70 million higher in 2010 compared to 2009. As a percent of net sales our selling, general and administrative expenses were 23.4% in 2010 compared to 24.2% in 2009.

     Our non-media related MAP expenses and media related MAP expenses were higher by $12 million and $5 million, respectively, during 2010 compared to 2009 when we reduced spending due to the recession. MAP expenses may vary from period to period during a fiscal year depending on the timing of our advertising campaigns for retail selling seasons and product introductions. For example, during the second quarter of 2010 we launched new television advertising featuring new Hanes men’s underwear products Comfort Flex waistband and Lay Flat Collar T-shirts, we introduced new advertising supporting Playtex 18 Hour cooling products and we launched new advertising supporting the new barely there Smart sizes bra sizing system.

     We also incurred higher distribution expenses of $28 million, higher selling and other marketing expenses of $17 million and higher consulting expenses of $7 million. The higher distribution expenses were primarily due to higher sales volumes and $10 million of incremental costs to service higher demand such as overtime and rework expenses in our distribution centers while the higher selling and other marketing expenses were primarily due to higher sales volumes. In addition, we recognized an $8 million gain related to the sale of our yarn operations to Parkdale America, LLC (“Parkdale America”) in 2009 that did not recur in 2010.

     We also incurred higher expenses of $7 million in 2010 compared to 2009 as a result of opening new retail stores or expanding existing stores. We opened five retail stores during 2010.

     These higher expenses were partially offset by lower pension expense of $7 million, savings of $4 million from our prior restructuring actions, lower accelerated depreciation of $3 million and lower stock compensation and certain other benefit expenses of $2 million in 2010 compared to 2009.

     Changes due to foreign currency exchange rates, which are included in the impact of the changes discussed above, resulted in higher selling, general and administrative expenses of $7 million in 2010 compared to 2009.

Restructuring

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Restructuring		$	—			$	53,888			$	(53,888	)			(100.0	)%

     During 2009, we incurred $54 million in restructuring charges, which primarily related to employee termination and other benefits, charges related to contract obligations, other exit costs associated with facility closures approved during that period and fixed asset impairment charges that did not recur in 2010.

Operating Profit

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Operating profit		$	404,188			$	270,856			$	133,332				49.2	%

     Operating profit was higher in 2010 compared to 2009 as a result of higher gross profit of $149 million and lower restructuring charges of $54 million, partially offset by higher selling, general and administrative expenses of $70 million. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates had a favorable impact on operating profit of $3 million in 2010 compared to 2009.

Other Expenses

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Other expenses		$	20,221			$	49,301			$	(29,080	)			(59.0	)%

     In November 2010, we completed the sale of our 6.375% Senior Notes. The proceeds from the sale of the 6.375% Senior Notes were used to retire early the entire $691 million outstanding under the floating-rate Term Loan Facility and reduce the outstanding borrowings under the Revolving Loan Facility, and to pay fees and expenses related to the transaction. In connection with this transaction, we recognized a loss on early extinguishment of debt of $14 million related to unamortized debt issuance costs and the associated fees and expenses.

     In addition, during 2010 we wrote off unamortized debt issuance costs and incurred charges for funding fees associated with the sales of certain trade accounts receivable to financial institutions, which combined totaled $6 million. The write-off related to unamortized debt issuance costs resulted from the repayment of $57 million of principal under the 2009 Senior Secured Credit Facility and from a reduction in borrowing capacity available under the Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility from $250 million to $150 million that we effected in recognition of our lower trade accounts receivable balance resulting from the sales of certain trade accounts receivable to a financial institution outside the Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility.

     During 2009, we recognized a loss on early extinguishment of debt of $17 million related to unamortized debt issuance costs and fees paid in connection with the execution of the 2009 Senior Secured Credit Facility and the issuance of the 8% Senior Notes. As a result of the refinancing of our outstanding borrowings under the 2006 Senior Secured Credit Facility and repayment of the outstanding borrowings under our $450 million second lien credit facility that we entered into in 2006 (the “Second Lien Credit Facility”), we recognized a loss of $26 million in 2009 related to termination of certain interest rate hedging arrangements. In addition, in 2009 we incurred a $2 million loss on early extinguishment of debt related to unamortized debt issuance costs resulting from the prepayment of $140 million of principal under the 2006 Senior Secured Credit Facility and we incurred costs of $4 million to amend the 2006 Senior Secured Credit Facility and the Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility.

Interest Expense, net

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Interest expense, net		$	150,236			$	163,279			$	(13,043	)			(8.0	)%

     Interest expense, net was lower by $13 million in 2010 compared to 2009. The lower interest expense was primarily attributable to lower outstanding debt balances that reduced interest expense by $12 million. In addition, the refinancing of our debt structure in December 2009, which included the amendment and restatement of the 2006 Senior Secured Credit Facility into the 2009 Senior Secured Credit Facility, the issuance of the 8% Senior Notes and the settlement of certain outstanding interest rate hedging instruments, and the refinancing of our debt structure in November 2010, which included the sale of our 6.375% Senior Notes, combined with a lower London Interbank Offered Rate, or “LIBOR,” and federal funds rate, caused a net decrease in interest expense in 2010 compared to 2009 of $1 million.

     Our weighted average interest rate on our outstanding debt was 5.91% during 2010 compared to 6.86% in 2009.

Income Tax Expense

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Income tax expense		$	22,438			$	6,993			$	15,445				220.9	%

     Our effective income tax rate was 10% in 2010 compared to 12% in 2009. The effective income tax rate of 10% for 2010 was primarily attributable to a discrete, non-recurring income tax benefit of approximately $20 million. The income tax benefit resulted from a change in estimate associated with the remeasurement of unrecognized tax benefit accruals and the determination that certain tax positions had been effectively settled following the finalization of tax reviews and audits for amounts that were less than originally anticipated. This non-recurring income tax benefit was partially offset by a lower proportion of our earnings attributed to foreign subsidiaries than in 2009 which are taxed at rates lower than the U.S. statutory rate.

     Our strategic initiative to enhance our global supply chain by optimizing lower-cost manufacturing capacity and to support our commercial operations outside the United States resulted in capital investments outside the United States in 2009 and 2010 that impacted our effective tax rate.

Net Income

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Net income		$	211,293			$	51,283			$	160,010				312.0	%

     Net income for 2010 was higher than 2009 primarily due to higher operating profit of $133 million, lower other expenses of $29 million and lower interest expense of $13 million, which was partially offset by higher income tax expense of $15 million.

Operating Results by Business Segment — Year Ended January 1, 2011 (“2010”) Compared with Year Ended January 2, 2010 (“2009”)

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Net sales:
Innerwear		$	2,012,922			$	1,833,616			$	179,306				9.8	%
Outerwear			1,259,935				1,051,735				208,200				19.8
Hosiery			166,780				185,710				(18,930	)			(10.2	)
Direct to Consumer			377,847				369,739				8,108				2.2
International			509,229				437,804				71,425				16.3
Other			—				12,671				(12,671	)			(100.0	)
Total net sales		$	4,326,713			$	3,891,275			$	435,438				11.2	%
Segment operating profit (loss):
Innerwear		$	263,368			$	234,352			$	29,016				12.4	%
Outerwear			77,656				53,050				24,606				46.4
Hosiery			53,583				61,070				(7,487	)			(12.3	)
Direct to Consumer			25,880				37,178				(11,298	)			(30.4	)
International			59,368				44,688				14,680				32.8
Other			—				(2,164	)			2,164				100.0
Total segment operating profit			479,855				428,174				51,681				12.1
Items not included in segment operating profit:
General corporate expenses			(63,158	)			(75,127	)			(11,969	)			(15.9	)
Amortization of trademarks and other intangibles			(12,509	)			(12,443	)			66				0.5
Restructuring			—				(53,888	)			(53,888	)			(100.0	)
Inventory write-off included in cost of sales			—				(4,135	)			(4,135	)			(100.0	)
Accelerated depreciation included in cost of sales			—				(8,641	)			(8,641	)			(100.0	)
Accelerated depreciation included in selling, general and administrative expenses			—				(3,084	)			(3,084	)			(100.0	)
Total operating profit			404,188				270,856				133,332				49.2
Other expenses			(20,221	)			(49,301	)			(29,080	)			(59.0	)
Interest expense, net			(150,236	)			(163,279	)			(13,043	)			(8.0	)
Income before income tax expense		$	233,731			$	58,276			$	175,455				301.1	%

     A significant portion of the selling, general and administrative expenses in each segment is an allocation of our consolidated selling, general and administrative expenses, however certain expenses that are specifically identifiable to a segment are charged directly to such segment. The allocation methodology for the consolidated selling, general and administrative expenses for 2010 is consistent with 2009. Our consolidated selling, general and administrative expenses before segment allocations were $70 million higher in 2010 compared to 2009.

Innerwear

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Net sales		$	2,012,922			$	1,833,616			$	179,306				9.8	%
Segment operating profit			263,368				234,352				29,016				12.4

     Overall net sales in the Innerwear segment were higher by $179 million or 10% in 2010 compared to 2009, primarily due to space and distribution gains, stronger sales at retail and retailer inventory restocking. We have achieved space and distributions gains by leveraging our scale and consumer insight. Our strong brands across all distribution channels and our innovation processes allow us to take advantage of long-term consumer trends.

     Net sales in our male underwear product category were 19% or $146 million higher in 2010 compared to 2009, which reflect higher net sales in our Hanes brand of $135 million primarily due to distribution gains related to a new customer in the discount retail channel, space gains in the mass merchant and department store channels and increased retail sell through. Our male underwear product category continues to benefit from the increased media support for our Hanes brand and from our identification of key long-term megatrends such as comfort and dyed and color products. We have developed innovations to capitalize on these trends such as the Hanes Lay Flat Collar T-shirts and Hanes Comfortsoft waist band briefs and boxers.

     Intimate apparel net sales were $22 million higher in 2010 compared to 2009. Our bra category net sales were $13 million higher in the average figure sizes driven primarily by space and distribution gains. Our panties category net sales were higher by $9 million primarily due to distribution gains related to a new customer in the discount retail channel. From a brand perspective, our net sales were higher in our smaller brands (barely there, Just My Size and Wonderbra) by $21 million, in our Hanes brand by $8 million and in our Bali brand by $3 million, partially offset by lower net sales in our Playtex brand of $6 million and lower private label net sales of $4 million.

     Higher net sales of $12 million in our socks product category reflect higher Hanes brand net sales of $26 million, partially offset by lower Champion brand net sales of $14 million in 2010 compared to 2009. The higher Hanes brand net sales were primarily due to space gains in the mass merchant channel and increased retail sell through and the lower Champion brand net sales were primarily due to lower net sales in the wholesale club channel.

     Innerwear segment gross profit was higher by $45 million in 2010 compared to 2009. The higher gross profit was primarily due to higher sales volume of $101 million, savings from our prior restructuring actions of $21 million, vendor price reductions of $15 million and higher product pricing of $3 million before increased sales incentives. These lower costs were partially offset by higher sales incentives of $43 million due to higher sales volumes and investments made with retailers, unfavorable product sales mix of $22 million, higher cotton costs of $13 million, higher production costs of $11 million and higher other manufacturing costs of $5 million. The higher production costs were due to incremental costs to service higher demand, partially offset by lower energy and oil-related costs.

     As a percent of segment net sales, gross profit in the Innerwear segment was 31.6% in 2010 compared to 32.3% in 2009.

     Innerwear segment operating profit was higher in 2010 compared to 2009 primarily as a result of higher gross profit and savings of $2 million from prior restructuring actions primarily for compensation and related benefits, partially offset by higher media related MAP expenses of $7 million, higher distribution expenses of $7 million and higher non-media related MAP expenses of $4 million.

Outerwear

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Net sales		$	1,259,935			$	1,051,735			$	208,200				19.8	%
Segment operating profit			77,656				53,050				24,606				46.4

     Outerwear segment net sales, which benefited from space and distribution gains and stronger sales at retail, were higher by $208 million or 20% in 2010 compared to 2009. Our casualwear category net sales were higher in both the wholesale and retail channels by $64 million and $59 million, respectively. The higher net sales in the wholesale casualwear channel of 22% were primarily due to stronger sales at retail and replenishment timing of inventory levels by third-party embellishers and wholesalers. The higher net sales in the retail casualwear channel of 21% reflect space gains primarily from an exclusive long-term agreement entered into with Wal-Mart in April 2009 that significantly expanded the presence of our Just My Size brand. This integrated program with Wal-Mart develops, sources, and merchandises a line of women’s clothing designed to meet the needs of plus size women.

     Our Champion brand activewear net sales, which continue to be positively impacted by our marketing investment in the brand, were higher by $49 million or 10% due to stronger sales at retail and space gains in the sporting goods channel. Our Champion brand has achieved consistent growth by focusing on the fast growing active demographic with a unique moderate price positioning.

     The acquisition of Gear for Sports in early November 2010 added an incremental $36 million of net sales for the year. The Gear for Sports business includes sales of licensed logo apparel in collegiate bookstores and other channels.

     Outerwear segment gross profit was higher by $48 million in 2010 compared to 2009. The higher gross profit was primarily due to higher sales volume of $70 million, lower sales incentives of $15 million, savings of $7 million from our cost reduction initiatives and prior restructuring actions, lower production costs of $5 million related to lower energy and oil-related costs, vendor price reductions of $5 million, lower other manufacturing costs of $3 million and lower on-going excess and obsolete inventory costs of $2 million. These lower costs were partially offset by lower product pricing of $22 million primarily in the first half of 2010, higher cotton costs of $20 million and unfavorable product sales mix of $15 million.

     As a percent of segment net sales, gross profit in the Outerwear segment was 22.1% in 2010 compared to 21.9% in 2009, increasing as a result of the items described above.

     Outerwear segment operating profit was higher in 2010 compared to 2009 primarily as a result of higher gross profit and lower media related MAP expenses of $3 million, partially offset by higher distribution expenses of $15 million, higher selling and other marketing expenses of $7 million and higher non-media related MAP expenses of $4 million.

Hosiery

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Net sales		$	166,780			$	185,710			$	(18,930	)			(10.2	)%
Segment operating profit			53,583				61,070				(7,487	)			(12.3	)

     Net sales in the Hosiery segment declined by $19 million or 10%, which was primarily due to lower net sales of our L’eggs brand to mass retailers and food and drug stores and our Hanes brand to national chains and department stores. The hosiery category has been in a state of consistent decline for the past decade, as the trend toward casual dress reduced demand for sheer hosiery. Generally, we manage the Hosiery segment for cash, placing an emphasis on reducing our cost structure and managing cash efficiently.

     Hosiery segment gross profit was lower by $9 million in 2010 compared to 2009. The lower gross profit for 2010 compared to 2009 was primarily the result of lower sales volume of $11 million and higher on-going excess and obsolete inventory costs of $2 million, partially offset by lower production costs of $2 million and vendor price reductions of $1 million.

     As a percent of segment net sales, gross profit in the Hosiery segment was 50.2% in 2010 compared to 49.8% in 2009.

     Hosiery segment operating profit was lower in 2010 compared to 2009 primarily as a result of lower gross profit and higher media related MAP expenses of $2 million, partially offset by lower distribution expenses of $2 million.

Direct to Consumer

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Net sales		$	377,847			$	369,739			$	8,108				2.2	%
Segment operating profit			25,880				37,178				(11,298	)			(30.4	)

     Direct to Consumer segment net sales were $8 million or 2% higher in 2010 compared to 2009 primarily due to higher net sales in our outlet stores attributable to new stores opened after 2009 and higher net sales related to our Internet operations. Comparable store sales in 2010 were flat compared to 2009.

     Direct to Consumer segment gross profit was slightly higher in 2010 compared to 2009. The higher gross profit was primarily due to higher sales volume of $4 million and higher product pricing of $2 million which was offset by higher other product costs of $5 million.

     As a percent of segment net sales, gross profit in the Direct to Consumer segment was 61.1% in 2010 compared to 62.4% in 2009.

     Direct to Consumer segment operating profit was lower in 2010 compared to 2009 primarily as a result of higher expenses of $7 million as a result of opening new retail stores or expanding existing stores and higher non-media related MAP expenses of $3 million.

International

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Net sales		$	509,229			$	437,804			$	71,425				16.3	%
Segment operating profit			59,368				44,688				14,680				32.8

     Overall net sales in the International segment were higher by $71 million or 16% in 2010 compared to 2009, primarily as a result of stronger net sales in Canada, Europe, Mexico, Brazil, China, India and Argentina, which reflects space and distribution gains and stronger sales at retail, and a favorable impact of $22 million related to foreign currency exchange rates, partially offset by lower sales in Japan.

     Excluding the impact of foreign exchange rates on currency, International segment net sales increased by 11% in 2010 compared to 2009. The favorable impact of foreign currency exchange rates in our International segment was primarily due to the strengthening of the Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, Brazilian real, and Mexican peso compared to the U.S. dollar, partially offset by the strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to the Euro.

     During 2010, we experienced higher net sales, in each case excluding the impact of foreign currency exchange rates, in our activewear, intimate apparel and male underwear businesses in Canada of $11 million, in our

casualwear business in Europe of $11 million, in our intimate apparel business in Mexico of $7 million, in our male underwear and hosiery businesses in Brazil of $7 million, in our thermals and male underwear businesses in China of $5 million, in our male underwear business in India of $3 million, in our intimate apparel business in Argentina of $3 million and higher net sales of $6 million in all other regions, partially offset by lower net sales in our activewear and male underwear businesses in Japan of $4 million. Our innerwear businesses in Canada and Mexico have continued to produce strong sales growth as we hold leading positions with strong market shares in intimate apparel and male underwear product categories. In certain international markets we are focusing on adopting global designs for some product categories to quickly launch new styles to expand our market position. The higher net sales reflect our successful efforts to improve our strong positions.

     International segment gross profit was higher by $37 million in 2010 compared to 2009. The higher gross profit was primarily a result of higher sales volume of $22 million, a favorable impact related to foreign currency exchange rates of $10 million, vendor price reductions of $6 million and higher product pricing of $5 million, partially offset by higher sales incentives of $6 million.

     As a percent of segment net sales, gross profit in the International segment was 38.8% in 2010 compared to 36.7% in 2009, increasing as a result of the items described above.

     International segment operating profit was higher in 2010 compared to 2009 primarily as a result of the higher gross profit, partially offset by higher selling and other marketing expenses of $9 million, higher distribution expenses of $7 million, higher non-media related MAP expenses of $3 million and higher consulting expenses of $2 million.

     The changes in foreign currency exchange rates, which are included in the impact on gross profit above, had a favorable impact on operating profit of $3 million in 2010 compared to 2009.

Other

		Years Ended
		January 1,				January 2,				Higher				Percent
		2011				2010				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Net sales		$	—			$	12,671			$	(12,671	)			(100.0	)%
Segment operating profit (loss)			—				(2,164	)			2,164				100.0

     Sales in our Other segment primarily consisted of sales of yarn to third parties, which were intended to maintain asset utilization at certain manufacturing facilities and generate approximate break even margins. In October 2009, we completed the sale of our yarn operations as a result of which we ceased making our own yarn and now source all of our yarn requirements from large-scale yarn suppliers. As a result of the sale of our yarn operations, we no longer have net sales in our Other segment.

General Corporate Expenses

     General corporate expenses were $12 million lower in 2010 compared to 2009 primarily due to lower start-up and shut-down costs of $16 million associated with the consolidation and globalization of our supply chain, lower pension expense of $7 million and lower stock compensation and certain other benefits of $5 million, partially offset by lower gains on sales of assets of $12 million and higher other expenses of $4 million.

Consolidated Results of Operations — Year Ended January 2, 2010 (“2009”) Compared with Year Ended January 3, 2009 (“2008”)

		Years Ended
		January 2,				January 3,				Higher				Percent
		2010				2009				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Net sales		$	3,891,275			$	4,248,770			$	(357,495	)			(8.4	)%
Cost of sales			2,626,001				2,871,420				(245,419	)			(8.5	)
Gross profit			1,265,274				1,377,350				(112,076	)			(8.1	)
Selling, general and administrative expenses			940,530				1,009,607				(69,077	)			(6.8	)
Restructuring			53,888				50,263				3,625				7.2
Operating profit			270,856				317,480				(46,624	)			(14.7	)
Other expense (income)			49,301				(634	)			49,935			NM
Interest expense, net			163,279				155,077				8,202				5.3
Income before income tax expense			58,276				163,037				(104,761	)			(64.3	)
Income tax expense			6,993				35,868				(28,875	)			(80.5	)
Net income		$	51,283			$	127,169			$	(75,886	)			(59.7	)%

Net Sales

		Years Ended
		January 2,				January 3,				Higher				Percent
		2010				2009				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Net sales		$	3,891,275			$	4,248,770			$	(357,495	)			(8.4	)%

     Consolidated net sales were lower by $357 million or 8% in 2009 compared to 2008. Net sales were lower by $303 million or 7% in 2009 compared to 2008 after excluding the impact of the 53^rd week in 2008. In 2009, we did not see a sustained rebound in consumer spending in our categories but rather mixed results. Overall retail sales for apparel continued to decline during 2009 at most of our larger customers as the continuing recession constrained consumer spending. Our sales incentives were higher in 2009 compared to 2008 as we made significant investments, especially in back-to-school and holiday programs and promotions, in the recessionary environment to support retailers and position ourselves for future sales opportunities. We also made significant investments with key retailers to obtain incremental shelf space for 2010 and beyond.

     Innerwear, Outerwear, Hosiery and International segment net sales were lower by $114 million (6%), $144 million (12%), $32 million (15%) and $58 million (12%), respectively, in 2009 compared to 2008. Our Direct to Consumer segment sales were flat in 2009 compared to 2008. Our Other segment net sales were lower, as expected, by $9 million in 2009 compared to 2008.

     Innerwear segment net sales were lower (6%) in 2009 compared to 2008, primarily due to lower net sales of intimate apparel (12%) and socks (10%) as a result of continued weak sales at retail in the difficult economic environment, partially offset by higher net sales of male underwear (4%). Innerwear segment net sales were lower by $87 million or 5% in 2009 compared to 2008 after excluding the impact of the 53^rd week in 2008.

     Outerwear segment net sales were lower (12%) in 2009 compared to 2008, primarily due to the lower casualwear net sales (24%) in the wholesale channel, which has been highly price competitive especially in the recessionary environment, and lower casualwear net sales (19%) in the retail channel. The lower casualwear net sales in both channels were partially offset by higher net sales (4%) of our Champion brand activewear. The results for the first half of 2009 were negatively impacted by losses of seasonal programs in the retail casualwear channel. Outerwear segment net sales were lower by $130 million or 11% in 2009 compared to 2008 after excluding the impact of the 53^rd week in 2008.

     Hosiery segment net sales were lower (15%) in 2009 compared to 2008. The net sales decline rate steadily

improved over three consecutive quarters ending with the fourth quarter of 2009. Hosiery segment net sales were lower by $28 million or 13% in 2009 compared to 2008 after excluding the impact of the 53^rd week in 2008.

     Direct to Consumer segment net sales were flat in 2009 compared to 2008 primarily due to higher net sales in our outlet stores attributable to new store openings offset by lower comparable store sales driven by lower traffic. The higher net sales in our outlet stores were partially offset by lower net sales related to our Internet operations. Direct to Consumer segment net sales were higher by $7 million or 2% in 2009 compared to 2008 after excluding the impact of the 53^rd week in 2008.

     International segment net sales were lower (12%) in 2009 compared to 2008, primarily attributable to an unfavorable impact of $22 million related to foreign currency exchange rates and weak demand globally primarily in Europe, Japan and Canada, which experienced recessionary environments similar to that in the United States. International segment net sales declined by 7% in 2009 compared to 2008 after excluding the impact of foreign exchange rates on currency. International segment net sales were lower by $56 million or 11% in 2009 compared to 2008 after excluding the impact of the 53^rd week in 2008.

Gross Profit

		Years Ended
		January 2,				January 3,				Higher				Percent
		2010				2009				(Lower)				Change
		(dollars in thousands)
Gross profit		$	1,265,274			$	1,377,350			$	(112,076	)			(8.1	)%