Apparel manufacturer and exporter, Pearl Global Industries Limited (PGIL) is undertaking capacity expansion in South India at a total investment of around Rs 17-20 crore, funded through internal accruals and a TUFS loan. PGIL plans to ...
The new wage structure for readymade garment workers would be announced after the Eid-ul-Fitr festival, Bangladesh Labour Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju has said. The Minimum Wages Commission, constituted by the Government, wants to ...
A Taiwanese firm will invest P 360 million (US$ 8.5 million) to set up its third project, a new garment manufacturing unit, in the Clark Freeport area of Pampanga province of the Philippines. Taiwan’s MSK Group Work, Inc. has signed ...
The garments factories located in Western and Eastern Java of Indonesia have opted for relocation to central Java because of its cheaper labour costs. Major reason cited for the relocation of garment factories to central Java is that the ...
Tags: Garment Units, Lower Labour Costs
In view of the recent incidents in Bangladesh, including last week’s fire at a readymade garment (RMG) manufacturing factory in Mirpur near Dhaka, the Savar building collapse and Tarzeen factory fire accident, which have together ...
The Union Minister for Commerce, Industry and Textiles, Shri Anand Sharma launched 21 New Textile Parks approved under Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP). These new parks take the total number to 61 parks as 40 Parks were sanctioned ...
Tags: Textile Parks, Textile
The High Court in Pietermaritzburg has ruled that small apparel manufacturing units, owned by families of Chinese and Taiwanese descent in Newcastle, in South Africa’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, are exempt from National ...
Tags: Apparel, South African, policy
The ‘1st Social and Environmental Excellence Awards 2012’ (SEE Awards 2012) have been given to few Bangladesh apparel manufacturing units for their achievement in social compliance and environmental protection. The awards ...
Tags: (SEE Awards 2012, apparel manufacturing units, social compliance
The textile and clothing chain within the ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) needs to be vertically integrated in order to ensure the competitiveness of the Asean apparel industry. This was echoed by various ...
Tags: apparel sector, textile, clothing
Myanmar apparel industry is expecting rapid export growth this year due to increasing demand for export orders from Japan and South Korea. Export orders for Myanmar clothing from Japan doubled from US$ 170 million in 2010 to US$ 350 ...
Tags: Myanmar, apparel industry, export growth
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
After the success of the Second edition of the Source Zone Fair, the Third Source Zone Fair 2012, opened up at Apparel House Gurgaon on 5th November 2012. Shri Suhir Sekhri commented that, “Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) is ...
Tags: AEPC, Source Zone, Apparel House, textiles
After the overwhelming success of the second edition of the Source Zone Fair the Third Source Zone Fair 2012,will be inaugurated by Dr.A Sakthivel,Chairman Apparel Export Promotion Council(AEPC),at Apparel House Gurgaon on 5th November ...
After the overwhelming success of the second edition of the Source Zone Fair the Third Source Zone Fair 2012,will be inaugurated by Dr.A Sakthivel,Chairman Apparel Export Promotion Council(AEPC),at Apparel House Gurgaon on 5th November ...
Tags: Third Source Zone Fair 2012, AEPC, platform, textiles