The Ministry of Trade and Industry of Ghana will begin the task of restructuring the apparel industry to attract investors, and build a sustainable source of foreign exchange inflows. As a part of the revamping process, the Ministry plans ...
Tags: Apparel Industry, apparel
The latest report on working conditions in Cambodia’s garment factories, compiled by the International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia Programme (ILO-BFC), has found a slight improvement in factories’ ...
Tags: garment manufacture, BFC, footwear, apparel, clothing
The campaign for safety in the Bangladeshi readymade garment sector has received a boost with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, announcing a wide-ranging safety programme by providing $50 million ...
Tags: fshionable garment, IFC, garment
Two years after global garment brands and retailers and two global unions and their national readymade garments (RMG) affiliates signed an unprecedented agreement to make garment factories safe in Bangladesh, all 1500-plus factories covered ...
Tags: Garment Industry, garment brands
Jordan is facing a crisis of worker shortage in its garment factories, as local Jordanians are shunning the sector, as benefits offered to them are not attractive vis-à-vis those offered to foreign workers. The Jordanian garment ...
Tags: textile industry, work environment, Apparel
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded that German apparel and footwear brands should promote workers’ rights in their global operations by publicly disclosing names of factories producing their products. “Supply chain ...
Representatives of nine top Myanmar based apparel factories went to Paris and Berlin last month in order to get a better understanding of European markets and European buyers’ requirements. “The participants were able to gain ...
US envoy to Bangladesh, Marcia Bernicat said her country would support the vision of the Bangladesh apparel export sector to reach US$ 50 billion in exports by 2021. "We will continue to work with Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and ...
Tags: RMG Exports, apparel export
Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Limited (KCI), leading manufacturer of chemical intermediates in India, has opened Kanoria African Textiles Plc, a subsidiary and a denim fabric production unit in Ethiopia’s Bishoftu town of Oromiya ...
Favourable government policies, low wages, shorter sea route and growing garment exports make Myanmar an attractive option for Indian textile entrepreneurs, says Rajesh Kumar Shah The garment sector in Myanmar has grown enormously since ...
Tags: garment exports, Textile
The exports of garments and textiles from Cambodia grew marginally by 1.07 per cent to US$ 4.521 billion in the first eleven months of 2014, compared to exports of $4.473 billion made during the same period of 2013, according to the ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Textile Exports
In response to a Hong Kong based NGO alleging inappropriate working conditions at factories from where it outsources garments, Japanese apparel retailer, Fast Retailing said it has initiated its own independent investigations, which ...
Tags: air quality, temperature, Apparel
The 12th Dhaka International Textile & Garment Machinery Exhibition (DTG2015), jointly organised by Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA), Chan Chao Int’l Co., Ltd., and Yorkers Trade & Marketing Service Co., Ltd, will be held ...
Tags: weaving, knitting, dyeing-printing-finishing, Textile
A latest report from Better Work Vietnam reveals that fire safety initiatives in garment factories in the Southern region of Vietnam are yet to meet national and global standards, despite certain progress. Major garment factories in the ...
VF Corporation, a leading apparel supplier chain company, and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, have provided loans to three Bangladeshi garment factories under a new program for funding fire and building safety improvements. Through ...