India has become an attractive destination for apparel sourcing due to its fairly high level of complaint factories engaged in apparel manufacturing and exports, Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) chairman A Sakthivel told mediamen in ...
Tags: Apparel Sourcing, garment exports
People from rural Gazipur and remote North Bengal, Bangladesh’s poorest region, are now being employed in the readymade garments sector after completing a 3-month skills training programme. The project is a partnership between East ...
Apple may be forced to drop the Lightning connector for charging the iPad and iPhone in Europe. A European Parliament’s consumer protection committee has voted to standardise smartphone connectors in a move to reduce waste. As a ...
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The garment industry of India is expected to achieve the target of US$ 17 billion in exports for the current fiscal year as the outbound shipments of apparel have already touched US$ 5 billion during the first four months of 2013-14, ...
Tags: Apparel Exports, garment industry
Marel Stork, an Icelandic supplier of poultry processing equipment, is set to introduce a new high frequency Water Bath Stunner. The Water Bath Stunner complies with EU legislation standards.It allows poultry processors to meet the ...
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued the new IFRS 11 Standard in May 2011. This standard has been adopted by the European Union in April 2013, for application as from 01 January 2014 at the latest. On 30 September ...
The All Pakistan cAssociation (APTMA) has said that it would soon unveil ‘Vision APTMA 2020’ aimed at boosting textile exports from the current US$ 13 billion to US$ 26 billion by 2020. Talking to media after assuming ...
Tags: Textile Exports
China's Ministry of Finance announced on Sunday that it will offer tax breaks to manufacturers of solar power products, in the country's latest effort to encourage the use of the green energy. From Oct. 1, 2013 to Dec. 31, 2015, vendors ...
Tags: Solar Power Products, PV Products
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants has analyzed the role of banks in the internationalization of European small and medium enterprises in its new study: "What role can banks play in the internationalization process of European SMEs?". ...
Xylem Water Solutions UK has launched its e-HM series; a new energy-efficient range of stainless steel, horizontal and multi-stage pumps ideally suited for commercial, OEM, industrial and residential applications. The new industrial e-HM ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components, Multi-Stage Pump, Pump
Massive opportunities are about to open up for Pakistan to at least double its share in the global textile and clothing trade of $800 billion, from slightly above 1.5 per cent to three per cent over the next two to three years. But, ...
Tags: Clothing Trade, Textile Export
Google seems to have relented in its long-running battle with the European Union over changing its search engine to more accurately reflect rival companies and services. The EU's commissioner responsible for competition, Joaquin Almunia, ...
Tags: google, Computer Products
Europe's top consumer watchdog received complaints from 11 different countries about Apple's advertising of product warranties. As a result of these consumer group complaints,Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has asked Consumer ...
Italy has backed Vietnam’s efforts to develop comprehensive relations with the European Union, including early conclusion of Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA), during Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai’s ...
Tags: Free Trade Agreement
The exports from Venezuela’s state-owned oil and natural gas company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), especially of methanol, would be affected severely in 2014, owing to the application of tariff increase by the European Union (EU). ...
Tags: EU Tariff, Methanol Exports