Indian Textiles Minister K. Sambasiva Rao has urged apparel manufacturers in the country to increase their export target to US$ 20 billion for the current financial year 2013-14. The Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has raised ...
Tags: Apparel
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
The Export Price Index (IPRIX) of Spanish textile industry showed an increase of 0.6 percent year-on-year in May 2013, according to the data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE). The 0.6 percent increase in May is the ...
Tags: Textile Export, Price Index
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 ...
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 ...
While the Indian textile industry is an important component of the domestic economy, the global importance of the Indian textile sector is steadily growing. And individual companies are quite capable of achieving global success and ...
Tags: India, Textile, Rayon Products
The average retail prices in clothing and textile sector of Brazil have shown a positive change of 10.2 percent year-on-year in April 2013, according to a report released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The ...
Tags: Apparel&Accessories, Brazil, Clothing
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 ...
Peruvian small and medium enterprises (SMEs), including the clothing sector, would benefit due to the implementation of the free trade agreement (FTA) between Peru and Costa Rica, which came into effect from June 1, 2013, according to ...
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Clothing and clothing accessories constitute a major item in the growing Spanish luxury market, and it accounted for a sale of €545 million, according to a market trend study published by a Spanish company DBK. The study titled 'DBK ...
Tags: Luxury Market, Clothing, Apparel
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
The textile and apparel exports of Botswana, a landlocked country located in Southern Africa, may continue to decline due to the withdrawal of tax incentives by the US and the EU under the Financial Assistance Policy (FAP) as the country is ...
Tags: Botswana, Textile, Tax Incentives