Consumers in India prefer cleanliness as the most important factor for visiting shopping centers, along with personal safety and security. Value retail is also a favored category for the price conscious Indian consumer. Convenience – ...
Tags: Indian retail market, Economy
Indian food safety regulators have filed a lawsuit against Nestle India for selling Maggi noodles in the country with unsafe levels of lead. The complaint was filed at a local court in the state of Uttar Pradesh after the local Food ...
Tags: Food, Food Safety, Nestle
Fashion Connect, a new trade show for apparel and accessories will be held from June 4-6, 2015 at the Trade Centre, KTPO, Whitefield in Bengaluru. Fashion Connect will see over 50 exhibitors from across India, who will showcase ...
Tags: Fashion Connect, apparel
The 30th India Carpet Expo will be held from October 11 to October 14 this year in Sampurnanand Sanskrit University Ground, at Varanasi, the textiles ministry said in a statement. The expo is being organized by carpet export promotion ...
Tags: India Carpet Expo, Carpet
BASF has opened a new Agricultural Research Station in Loni Kand, Pune, India. This new research and development (R&D) center will focus on global agricultural research on herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, as well as on solutions ...
Chiripal Group company and India’s second biggest denim fabric producer, Nandan Denim Limited posted revenue growth of 22.7 per cent year over year in the fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2015. In a press release, Nandan Denim ...
Tags: denim fabric, Textile
As of date 12 Indian companies have confirmed their attendance at the next Apparel Sourcing Paris trade show which runs from September 14-17, 2015. “Of these, 11 are returning to Apparel Sourcing Paris for the second time and will ...
Tags: Apparel Sourcing Paris, Apparel
Sustainability - we often hear about this, but what does it really mean? It means changing the way we think about how we use our resources and make small changes that have a big impact on nature and community. To this cause and with a ...
Tags: Birla Cellulose, Textile
Luxembourg based steel and mining company ArcelorMittal has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Steel Authority of India (SAIL) to build an automotive steel manufacturing facility in India. As per the MoU, both the ...
Tags: ArcelorMittal, Automotive Steel
Once implemented, the Goods & Service Tax (GST) may in particular, impact Indian ecommerce retailers, who may witness their costs going up. Costs may move northwards for online retailers or their vendors as they would be liable to pay ...
Tags: Indian Ecommerce Players, Apparel
Bangladesh may emerge as an unlikely saviour for the Indian cotton sector that has been left reeling in the face of low Chinese imports. Indian cotton export is expected to fall to a six-year low as China continues to cut imports. According ...
Tags: Cotton Imports, Cotton
India recorded the highest index score in consumer confidence in Asia-Pacific of 130, a one-point increase from the previous quarter and a level that has not been reached since 2011. Confidence in India has been on the rise for six ...
Tags: Nielsen Consumer, Textile
The Union Cabinet has given its approval to review of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy on investments by non-resident Indians (NRIs), persons of Indian origin (PIOs) and overseas citizens of India (OCIs), according to an official ...
Tags: FDI Policy, Union Cabinet
USDA said it has initially projected the 2015/16 global cotton crop at 111.3 million bales, 7 per cent or 8 million bales below the 2014/15 estimate. In a report, USDA said area reductions in many countries are expected to account for ...
Tags: Cotton Crop, cotton
“The booming Indian retail sector will need around 56 million workforce by 2022,” says a report from the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). “The sector will also have one of the highest incremental human ...