The National Retail Federation releases the statement from President and CEO Matthew Shay, praising the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety’s progress over the past year. NRF CEO Mathew Shay comments, “The National Retail ...
Tags: NRF, Apparel, Accessories
Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam, remained attractive for new investments in the garment and textile sector, and it received 70.62 percent of the total investment made in the city’s industrial zones in the first six ...
Tags: Ho Chi Minh, Investments, Textile
The Phu Hung textile plant, being constructed in Phu Bai Industrial Park, in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue, will commence operations in August this year, reports Viet Nam News. The Vietnam National Textile and ...
In his Budget speech for Nepali fiscal year 2014-15, that begins on July 16, 2014, Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat has proposed special waiver of value-added tax (VAT) for readymade garment (RMG) industries. The step is aimed at ...
Tags: Mahat, Apparel, Accessories
Taiwan-based Yu Yuang Textile Co. Ltd. has received investment license from the provincial People's Committee of Long An (Mekong Delta) for setting up a fabric weaving and dyeing project in the industrial area of Phuc Long in Bên Luke ...
Tags: Textile Plant, apparel
The exports of garments and textiles from Cambodia grew by 8.98 percent to US$ 1.173 billion in the first three months of the current year, compared to exports of $1.076 billion made during the same period last year, according to the ...
Clean Clothes Campaign has released a new report that uncovers the truth behind high-end fashion chains and the Eastern European and Turkish garment workers that make their clothes. "Stitched Up – Poverty wages for garment workers in ...
The Tirupur Exporters' Association (TEA) is in favour of extension of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to the garment sector. At a Pre-Budget consultations meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley ...
Although recent industrial accidents coupled with other issues have raced challenges for the Bangladesh textile industry, which is the second largest exporter of readymade garments (RMG), the Government of Bangladesh and the textile ...
The planning workshop on OSH (Occupational Safety and Health Awareness) was held with representatives of employers and workers organizations and other stakeholders from the Ready-Made Garment (RMG) sector aimed at in-depth analysis of ...
Tags: RMG Sector, ILO
The Spanish textile industry, including apparel, leather and footwear created 3,047 new jobs during the month of April, 2014, as per the membership in employment data of the Seguridad Social (Social Security) of Spain, modaes.es reports. ...
Tags: Textile Industry, apparel
The Spanish textiles Export Price Index (IPRIX), for the month of March 2014 showed a decline of 0.3 percent, compared to the same month in 2013, as per the data released by National Institute of Statistics in Spain. According to the INE ...
Tags: Textile Export, textiles
Domestic sales of apparel and textiles in the central South American country of Paraguay has declined by 40 percent last year, compared to 2012, owing to the massive influx of clothing from Argentina and China entering the country at ...
Tags: Paraguayan Clothing, apparel, textiles
Speakers at a high-level event to commemorate One Year after Rana Plaza, reiterated their commitment to working together to ensure safety and rights for workers in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. “It has been a ...
Tags: Garment Units
The Government of Uzbekistan has invited Bangladeshi entrepreneurs to invest in the textile sector in Uzbekistan. During a meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka, the visiting Uzbek Minister for Foreign Economic ...
Tags: Textile, woven garments, garments