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in the spotlight

A Rare Interaction with David Sack, the First President of
Interloop North America

David Sack has worked in the sock business for over 35 began a small operation in 2002 that included a contract
Years, of which 17 were spent with Interloop Limited. He is with L’Amour in Montreal and another company in New
retired now and living in Winston Salem, North Carolina, York. At that time, there were few companies in North
but occasionally consults for Interloop on various projects. America that considered doing business with a company in
David is fluent in English, Spanish and French, and speaks Pakistan. David and Musadaq traveled around the U.S.
other languages as well. He recently celebrated his 80th and Canada, educating both small and big companies
Birthday. Here are excerpts from a recent interview with about Interloop and what a great company it was to work
David: with. The business grew to be quite large. In 2007, David
was asked to become president of Interloop’s presence in
the US and Canada, and that’s how Interloop North
America (ILNA Inc.) was born.
Interviewer: Tell us about Interloop’s early successes.
David: We began to do very well in 2005. It was extremely
successful. We were beginning to become known as very
reliable and solid. Many of our US & Canadian customers
began to travel to Pakistan to see the company operations
and were impressed, very favorably impressed.
Interviewer: In those early years, what was it about
Interloop that set the company apart from other
Naveed, Musadaq & David during a lunch at Restaurante Tipico companies?
General Kuester with customers
Interviewer: Tell us a little bit about your experience prior David: The thing that makes Interloop special, and it did
to working for Interloop. when I went over there for the first time in 2002, is the
degree of integrity of the two brothers. Every time this is
David: I began working in the sock industry with the largest mentioned to Musadaq or Navid, they say, “Oh no, it’s our
companies; one was Chipman-Union which had the adidas employees; our employees are wonderful”. But to me, it all
license and Odor Eaters license. Chipman-Union was
quite powerful until it lost the adidas license. Then I went to
Renfro and worked there for six years. I was the
International person for Renfro. I speak a few languages
so that enabled me to get into International.

After working for 15 years in the sock industry with large
companies, David could see that the industry was
undergoing a shift, with many companies seeking to import
socks. He decided to strike out on his own in the
international sock market. He spent quite a lot of time and
money traveling back and forth from United States to
China and Vietnam in search of a factory partner. He was
not satisfied with the results and decided it was time to try
something different.
Interviewer: Tell us how you came to work with Interloop?
David: I found out from my wife Judith that Pakistan made
socks. I did not know this, which was not a good thing. So,
believe it or not, we typed the words “Socks & Pakistan”
into the computer and about 10 decent companies came
up; Interloop, Gulzar, Textilers, Dynamic and others. I
wrote to them. I got answers. I made appointments. I went
to Karachi and Lahore and saw three companies. The man
at Dynamic who was a friend of Musadaq and Navid said,
“You are really going to enjoy going to Interloop, it’s quite a
good company”.
David was impressed with Interloop’s modern facilities and
enjoyed meeting with Musadaq and Navid. Together, they David, Musadaq & Naveed amidst the Colorful Street Art of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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