UK retail sales values were up 1.8% on a like-for-like basis from August 2012, when they had decreased 0.4% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were up 3.6%, against a 1.6% increase in August 2012. While the growth was ...
Tags: Retail Sales, Textile
The curtains on Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2013 came down with one of the most stunning Grand Finales. Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s magnificent range, inspired by the limited edition Lakmé Absolute Royal collection, had ...
A new textile park would be coming up in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Union Textile Minister K Sambasiva Rao has said. Speaking at the National Textile Summit 2013 held in Indore, the Minister said a textile park would be ...
At the end of July 2013, the Swabian knitted fabrics manufacturer, Mattes & Ammann GmbH & Co. KG, became the first textile company in Germany and the EU economic area to be awarded the OEKO-TEX Sustainable Textile Production (STeP) ...
Tags: STeP Certificate, Mattes&Ammann
The representatives of Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Chile have concluded trade negotiations for Pacific Alliance, at the Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the Pacific Alliance, held in Mexico last month. Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade ...
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The Wool Lab from Woolmark has released seven inspirational themes for Autumn/Winter 2014/15. One of which is Highlands The mood was inspired by two trends becoming more and more evident: the coming back of the jacket and of tweed or ...
Tags: knitwear, jacket, tweed-look fabrics
SATO, a leader in barcode printing, labeling and EPC/RFID solutions, announced the launch of the next-generation compact CW408 printer that has been designed to fulfill ticketing and labeling needs especially for industries such as ...
Tags: Label Printer, RFID solutions
Following its successful showing at the ENKVEGAS show in August, SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD. of Wakayama, Japan together with its U.S. subsidiary SHIMA SEIKI U.S.A. INC. will participate in the Coterie exhibition in New York this month. On ...
Tags: knitwear line, ENKVEGAS show
India Market Days is a project approved by Ministry of Textiles and is funded under the Market Access Initiative (MAI) Scheme of Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India for inviting overseas buyers and buying agents under ...
Tags: India Market, Apparel
The exports of textiles, excluding apparel, from Turkey increased by 7.9 percent year-on-year during the first seven months of 2013, according to the data compiled by the Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporters' Association (ITKIB). ...
Tags: Textile Exports, apparel
Huntsman Textile Effects is leading the way by proactively engaging textile mills and brands in Bangladesh to reduce environmental footprint and to drive sustainable excellence to compete in the global market. Raking in $20 billion ...
Arkema is showcasing one of the coating industry’s broadest technology and business offerings at ABRAFATI 2013, September 16-17-18, 2013 (stand 3-F-2). On display will be products spanning almost every aspect of coating formulation, ...
Tags: coating industry, wall paints
Apolena a producer of decorative textiles and accessories opened a showroom in Russia and also unveiled an ecommerce portal. Available in both - the internet store and show room are decorative pillows, covers and plaids, bed linen, ...
Tags: Textile Fabrics, Aplolena
The sales of Estonian textile industry rose only marginally in 2012, but the volume of production at constant prices remained almost unchanged compared with the previous year. During the year, the number of employees in the Estonian ...
Tags: Textile Industry, blankets
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently published in the Federal Register a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking on proposed changes to the guaranty provisions of the Fur Rules under the Fur Products Labeling Act. These ...
Tags: Fur Rules, Textile Products