Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), together with South-Asia Enterprise Development Facility (SEDF), has presented environmental compliance awards to 25 garment manufacturing firms. The recipient ...
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Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Karel De Gucht, Commissioner for Trade made following statement: “We are deeply saddened to learn of the deaths of young workers from a ...
Global retail giant Walmart Stores Inc has adopted a ‘zero tolerance policy’ towards suppliers and it would soon end contracts with the suppliers who are subcontracting work to factories without any intimation to the retailer. ...
TradeCard, Inc., the supply chain collaboration and global trade platform used by more than 10,000 retailers, brands, manufacturers and service providers, will showcase the power of RFID Scan & Pack at the factory during the National Retail ...
Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) wants a separate ‘Ministry of Apparel’ in the Bangladesh Government that is exclusively dedicated to the country’s readymade garment (RMG) sector. A ...
Tags: Apparel, Garments Manufacturers, garment sector, garment industry
Fire safety in garment factories has been at the forefront of many people's minds lately, especially in the minds of those connected to factories in Bangladesh. The recent tragedy at the Tazreen Fashion factory served as a stark reminder of ...
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Garments Shramik Sangram Parishad (GSSP), a body representing Bangladesh’s garment factory workers, has urged for reopening of Hall-Mark readymade garment (RMG) manufacturing units under the Government supervision. The garment ...
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Building upon more than ten years of advocacy by Cividep-India, Fair Labor Association (FLA) commissioned this study into the provision and quality of legally mandated childcare in Bangalore's garment factories. The study was ...
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More than 120 people are reported killed in a fire accident at an eight-storey garment factory, located to the northwest of the Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. According to reports, the fire started from the warehouse on the ground ...
Myanmar's UMH Garment Industries has for the first time established a garment factory in Kayin state based Hpa-an township's industrial zone. The move is expected to reduce pressure on industrial zones in Yangon and generate several ...
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Tesco announced the launch an Apparel Skills Foundation to support the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry.The Skills Foundation's objective is to equip the industry with training,expertise and tools to improve productivity while ...
Tags: Tesco, Apparel Skills Foundation, ready-made garment, DFID
The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) calls on the German textile discounter KIK to pay a fair and just compensation for all the victims of the garment factory fire at Ali Enterprises in Pakistan. The immediate relief payments that KIK promised ...
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The International Labour Organization (ILO) has pledged to support the families of the victims of the Karachi garment factory fire and announced a plan to strengthen workplace safety, to prevent a similar tragedy from happening in the ...
Tags: garment factory, ILO, Pakistani, workplace safety