Sistema Moda Italia (SMI or Italian Fashion System) has released the 2012 figures related to the Italian textile and apparel sector. According to the data, the turnover of Italian textile and clothing sector registered €51.09 ...
Tags: Textile, Apparel Data
Croatia, a country in Central Europe, could witness trigger in its textile and clothing investments as it is planning to utilize the financial and industrial development assistance by the EU to strengthen its manufacturing sector, including ...
Tags: Croatian Textiles
In recent years there has been a sharp drop in the number of people employed in Zimbabwe’s textile and clothing sector, and the Government is now introducing a cluster based concept to put the industry back on track. Around ...
Tags: Cluster-Based Concept, Textile, Zimbabwe
Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BOI) has disbursed about 60 percent of the N100 billion Textile Revival Fund, according to the bank’s managing director Evelyn Oputu. Ms. Oputu, who is currently attending the 20th Anniversary ...
Spanish textile and clothing exports surged 32.3 percent year-on-year in April 2013, compared to overall 18.6 percent growth in total exports made by Spain during the month. Spain’s textile and garment imports grew by 20.2 ...
Tags: Spain, Textile, Exports&Imports
Dutch textile and clothing sector bodies Inretail, VGT and MODINT have prepared a joint plan of action for further sustainability of the apparel sector. The action plan was presented to the Netherlands’ Minister of Foreign Trade and ...
Riding on the back of marginal rise in demand from the US and European markets, textile and clothing exports from Pakistan grew by 5.3 percent to US$ 1.187 million in May this year, as compared to US$ 1.128 million in May 2012, ...
Tags: Pakistan, Textile, production capacities
The exports of clothing and textiles from various export processing zones (EPZs) in Dominican Republic amounted to US$ 1.278 billion, according to the statistics released by the National Free Zones Council (CNZFE). As per the data, ...
OEKO-TEX presented the first Sustainability Award to five companies from the textile and clothing industry during an evening event in Frankfurt/Germany. The winners in the different categories are: - Sung Hing Industries Holding ...
Tags: OEKO-TEX, Sustainability Award
It has been one year since The Woolmark Company officially launched its Out of Vietnam project in a bid to help Vietnam become one of the world’s top five textile and clothing manufacturing countries by 2020. As the global authority ...
Tags: Wool Supply, Textile
Euratex held its General Assembly the 29th May in Brussels in presence of industrialists, Textile and Clothing (T&C) experts and EU officials under the theme “Textile and Clothing Industry in a changing economic environment”. ...
Tags: Euratex, Economic Environment
The production in Spanish textile and apparel sector increased at an annual rate of 17.6 percent in April 2013, on the Industrial Production Index (IPI) released by the National Statistics Institute (INE). The sharp increase in the ...
The Government of Mexico and representatives of Mexican textile and apparel associations have expressed confidence that they would be able to resolve the ongoing trade dispute with China in three months time, in view of the agreements ...
Tags: Textile
The imports of textiles and apparels by Brazil grew by 25.4 percent year-on-year in value and 17.3 percent year-on-year in volume, amounting to 104,800 tons in April 2013, according to the latest data. In the clothing sub-sector, ...
The Spanish Intertextil Council (ICE) and textile federations CCOO and UGT have reached an agreement, which will be signed in the coming days, related to wage increase for the period January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2013. The agreement has ...
Tags: Textile Sector, ICE