In regards to the international clothing brand founded in 1949 in New Haven, Connecticut, who was a former businessman who passed in 2016?
Eliot Gant Elliot Gant (March 21, 1926 – March 12, 2016) was an American garment businessman, and an executive for the retailer Gant.
Benjamin Knight Benjamin Brayton Knight (1813–1898) was a New England industrialist and philanthropist, who was a partner with his brother Robert Knight in the B. B. & R. Knight Company and was one of the largest textile manufacturers in the world when he died in 1898. Knight co-founded the large and famous brand, Fruit of the Loom.