Textile and apparel exports from the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia are set to benefit as the Malaysia-Turkey Free Trade Agreement (MTFTA) will come into effect on August 1, 2015, according to Malaysian media reports. The MTFTA ...
Tags: textile manufacture, apparel and clothing, MTFTA, apparel exports
The three-day International Textiles, Weaving Machinery and Accessories Expo held in Erode in Tamil Nadu generated business of over Rs 200 crore, according to media reports. In a press release, M A Rayappan, chairman of Hi-Tech ...
Tags: International Textiles, textile manufcture, weaving machinery
Premium apparel brand Monte Carlo is continuing to expand aggressively in south India. After opening its exclusive brand outlet in Hyderabad about a fortnight ago, the brand has now opened a store in Coimbatore, taking the total number ...
Tags: Premium apparel, Apparel
In a change of course just six months after announcing an end to subsidies for its cotton farmers, Egypt has stopped all cotton imports in a bid to assist the production and marketing of the local crop, according to media reports. Egypt ...
Tags: cotton manufacture, cotton imports
Financial services company India Nivesh has warned that when the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) comes into effect, India would be negatively impacted to a major extent; though India would not be the only country at disadvantage. China, ...
The commerce ministry is considering interest subsidy benefits for textile sector including garments to arrest falling exports, according to media reports. The interest subvention scheme of 3 per cent ended on March 31, last year. Under ...
Tags: Textiles Sector, subsidy benefits
After e-commerce, it is now the turn of omni-channel in India. The country’s retail market will primarily be driven by omni-channel as brick-and-mortar retailers enter e-commerce to support their stores, says media reports. ...
Tags: fashionable cloth accessories, e-commerce, brick and mortar retailers
Bhandari Hosiery Exports (BHE), an exporter and supplier of garments, plans to invest Rs 15 crore in machineries for yarn dyeing and sewing threads units at its existing facility at Ludhiana, according to media reports. BHE chairman ...
Hosiery and knitwear brand Dollar Industries which is is headquartered in Kolkata, will invest Rs 25 crore to set up a new facility at Ludhiana, according to media reports. The company has manufacturing facilities at Kolkata, Tirupur ...
Tags: Dollar Industries, Apparel
Fisker Automotive and Technology Group (FATG), which was purchased by China-based Wanxiang last year following its bankruptcy, will come up with a manufacturing unit in California, US, to revive its Karma hybrid electric car. The new ...
Tags: Electric Car, Fisker Automotive and Technology Group, Karma Electric Car
Keen to cash in on the online shopping boom, sports footwear and apparel major Adidas will soon roll out omni-channel model, a new mode of technology, at its retail outlets in Punjab, according to media reports. The company aims to ...
The cotton textiles export promotion council (TEXPROCIL) has said that the removal of benefits on exports to African countries in the new foreign trade policy will affect shipments of value added products like cotton dyed and printed ...
Tags: cotton textiles, Textile
Indian automobile major Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is gearing up to unveil a light commercial vehicle Jeeto by June-end. In what has been inferred as a bid to compete with minitruck Ace Zip, manufactured by Indian automotive giant Tata ...
Tags: light commercial vehicle, Jeeto
There is some good news for garment factory workers. G7 leaders meeting in Bavaria have agreed to establish a new fund to help improve the global supply chain in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh in 2013 in which 1,137 ...
Tags: Garment Industry, Insurance Fund
Chinese Internet services firm Baidu is planning to enter the driverless car segment later this year with its own version, marrying computer technology with artificial intelligence. The self-driving car, with which the web behemoth ...
Tags: Baidu, Driverless Cars