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.
James G. Sterchi James Gilbert Sterchi (June 23, 1867 – December 9, 1932) was an American businessman, best known as the cofounder and head of the furniture wholesaler, Sterchi Brothers Furniture Company. At its height, Sterchi Brothers was the world's largest furniture store chain, with sixty-five stores across the southeastern United States and a worldwide customer base. In 1946, the company became the first Knoxville-based firm to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The company's ten-story headquarters, now called Sterchi Lofts, stands prominently along Knoxville's skyline, and Sterchi's home in northern Knoxville, Stratford Mansion, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.