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Industry Suppliers Halt Confederate Flag Sales
... Quinn Flags (asi/80228), Eder Flag Manufacturing Co. (asi/51678), Valley Forge Flag Co. (asi/93250) and Annin Flagmakers (asi/36256) are among the companies that have pulled Confederate flags from their stocks.“It’s morally and ethically appropriate to make this announcement showing that the historical symbolism of this flag needs to be just that – history,” Matthew Quinn, president of Hanover, PA-based Quinn Flags, said in a statement. Oak Creek, WI-based Eder Flag released a statement expressing similar sentiments.
Mary Repke, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Annin Flagmakers, says the Roseland, NJ-based company has halted all sales of the Confederate Battle and Confederate Field Artillery flags in all sizes and materials. “Flags are very powerful symbols, and these flags have come to represent a very negative aspect of our nation’s past,” she said ...
Overall, Confederate flags were a small portion of industry flag makers’ business ...
http://www.asicentral.com/news/magazines/stitches/september-2015/industry-suppliers-halt-confederate-flag-sales/