Tesco announced the launch an Apparel Skills Foundation to support the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry.The Skills Foundation's objective is to equip the industry with training,expertise and tools to improve productivity while ...
Tags: Tesco, Apparel Skills Foundation, ready-made garment, DFID
Global apparel buying firms are exploring alternative destinations to source their garments,owing to rising cost of production in China,and Bangladesh has emerged as priority for these companies to source apparels. After convening a ...
Tags: rising cost, Source Apparels, Global Buyers Prioritize, BGMEA
In its effort to explore new apparel export destinations,Bangladesh would participate in the"Asian International Apparel Sourcing Show 2012"slated to kick off at Sands Expo and Convention Centre,Marina Bay Sands,Singapore,from December ...
Tags: apparel export, Asian International Apparel Sourcing Show, BGBA, BGFFMEA
Lawrence, Mass.-based Polartec LLC — manufacturer of Polartec® performance fabrics for consumer and military apparel — has introduced a man-made fiber insulation for puffy-style apparel that provides improved breathability ...
Tags: Polartec performance fabrics, military apparel, man-made fiber
After 4 months of struggle and the insistent campaigning of Texim workers, the union's key demands for recognition of fundamental workers' rights and reinstatement have been accepted. On 2 November after negotiation with Texim management, ...
Tags: textile, Pierre Cardin, Hugo Boss, clothing, union, Knitting
Leading contract logistics specialist DHL Supply Chain has officially opened its logistics center in Mönchengladbach for its customer Primark.The facility launched operations with 150 employees.This number is expected to increase to ...
To avert occurrence of any unfortunate accident incidents like the one at Karachi's Baldia-based Ali Enterprise,which caused 300 workers to loose their lives,representatives of several labour and civil society organizations'in Pakistan ...
Tags: accident, Ali Enterprise, workers, garment workers
The US election result has evoked a mixed reaction from the South Asian textile and apparel exporters. While, most of the textile and garment exporters in the region have welcomed the victory of Mr. Barack Obama, Pakistani exporters ...
Tags: textile exporter, apparel exporter, textile, EAB, RMG, FNCCI
The readymade garments(RMG)industry,the main export revenue earner for Bangladesh has been excluded by the US Department of Labor from the list of the sectors suspected of producing goods with child labor. The 11th edition of the ...
Tags: RMG, child labor, leather, footwear
Indian textile and apparel exporters hope that the re-election of Barack Obama as the US President will be good for the Indian textile industry and will improve the relationships between the two countries. Mr. M Rafeeque Ahmed, ...
Tags: textile exporters, apparel exporters, textile, textile industry
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association's(BGMEA)University of Fashion&Technology(BUFT)and United Nations Industrial Development Organization(UNIDO)-Better Work in Textiles and Garments(BWTG)jointly organized a ...
Textile and apparel production in Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan declined by 21 percent year-on-year during the initial three quarters of the current year, Trend reported citing Kyrtag, the Kyrgyz news agency. The fall in Kyrgyz ...
Tags: Textile production, Central Asian Republic, Russian exports
FESPA Fabric and FESPA 2013 will take the business to new destinations – covering the most state-of-the-art machinery, techniques, applications and solutions for garment decoration, and textile printing industries at the award winning ...
Tags: FESPA Fabric, garment decoration, textile printing, ExCeL
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: Blouses, Casual Wear, Denim Wear, Infants'Wear, Knitwear, Shorts
Campaigners welcomed the news that more British companies are committing to paying UK workers a living wage, but said it was scandalous that firms are not forced to ensure a living wage in their overseas supply chains. The call for a ...
Tags: living wage, overseas, supply chains, fashion industry, garments