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Strong Suit Clothing Company Dressed for Success With Million-Dollar Investment

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Did you know a Little Rock company that designs and makes tailored suits for men recently raised $1 million and will soon have its line in Nordstrom?

And that’s just part of the good news for Strong Suit Clothing LLC, which was formed a year ago.

It also plans to start its own e-commerce website that will be headed by the Arkansas online sales guru John James, a founder of Innovate Arkansas client firm Acumen Holdings of Fayetteville, which has launched branded online stores for consumer-specific markets such as Western wear, CountryOutfitter.com; medical uniforms, ScrubShopper.com; and work wear, ToughWeld.com.

Jamie Davidson, the executive officer of Strong Suit, said some of the money raised from the offering will go for more inventory.

“We need to make a lot more,” he said. “It’s been part of our problem as a growing business is that we haven’t had enough inventory to satisfy the demand for the stores that we’ve got.”

Strong Suit is in about 30 specialty stores around the country. And in September the company’s line will be sold in Nordstrom stores in Dallas, Atlanta, Austin, Chicago and Nashville. The suits will be available from the upscale retailer’s website as well.

Davidson, 43, said he started the company because he noticed “there was a big white space in the entry-level suit market.”

He said the business has taken off, but he declined to release revenue figures.

“One, it’s a great value,” Davidson said, referring to the reason for the company’s success. “But it’s also aimed at your opening suit buyer, the guy between 25 and 35, and that’s a customer that all of these stores desperately need to get.”

Strong Suit currently has five employees.

“I think we’ve got a chance to build something really special, and to be able to do it from Little Rock,” Davidson said. “I’m really genuinely excited about that.”

The filing at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission showed Strong Suit’s first sale of shares was March 11. Other directors of the company are Joseph Wingfield; William Dillard III, a vice president at Dillard’s Inc. of Little Rock; and Dan Gould.

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