It has been one year since The Woolmark Company officially launched its Out of Vietnam project in a bid to help Vietnam become one of the world’s top five textile and clothing manufacturing countries by 2020. As the global authority ...
Tags: Wool Supply, Textile
Malaysia's re-elected Prime Minister Najib Razak announced yesterday that foreign investors and fund managers would be given five-year multiple entry visas, and that overseas corporations trading in oil and related products in the country ...
Tags: Najib Razak, Foreign Investors
Fears of a possible global slowdown as US money printing tapers off sent Asian markets into a tailspin yesterday, pulling the Australian equities market back towards a level that has all but wiped off the gains it has made this year. ...
Tags: Asian Markets
Euratex held its General Assembly the 29th May in Brussels in presence of industrialists, Textile and Clothing (T&C) experts and EU officials under the theme “Textile and Clothing Industry in a changing economic environment”. ...
Tags: Euratex, Economic Environment
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will oppose the proposed acquisition of Rafferty's Garden by Heinz. Heinz and Rafferty's Garden are the two largest suppliers of wet and dry infant food in Australia. A merged ...
Tags: Service
Aberdeen Group's new research study "Supply Chain Visibility: A Critical Strategy to Optimise Cost and Service" reveals 63% of 149 companies with predominant global supply chains have ranked supply chain visibility as a high priority for ...
Tags: Supply Chain, Service
The Hyderabad Jewellery, Pearl and Gem Fair (HJF), organized between 7th & 9th June, 2013 by UBM India ended with a satisfactory success note as expected. As we had mentioned two weeks back here that the prices of the gold in June still ...
THE Australian share market extended its losses today as investors continued to move their money offshore amid concerns about a weak global economy. The ASX closed lower for the 12th day in 16 trading sessions, representing a fall in ...
Tags: Share Market, Global Economy
The Australian dollar has closed firmer following an upbeat consumer sentiment reading and renewed pressure on the greenback. At 5pm today, the currency touched 94.63 US cents, up from 94.02 cents yesterday. Twenty minutes after ...
Tags: Australian Dollar, US Dollar
GOOGLE has announced a deal reported to worth more than $US1 billion ($1.06bn) for crowd-sourced map app Waze in a move to stay ahead of Apple and Facebook in lifestyles centred on smartphones and tablets. The US Internet search giant did ...
Iran’s contribution to the Middle East’s petrochemical output is expected to grow to about 41 percent by end of the sixth Five-Year Development Plan in 2020, according to an official of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC). ...
Tags: ME Petrochem Output, Textile
Interroll Group enlarges its subsidiaries country list with Italy. Located in Rho, Milan, Interroll will count on its own crew, headed by Maurizio Catino. The decision of the opening of an Italian site came with the certainty that the ...
Tags: Service
Australia’s leading wool company Woolmark has embarked on a plan to help Vietnam’s garment sector produce woolen products and thereby increase the sector’s competitiveness and profits. Speaking at a press conference in ...
Tags: Woolen Garments, Apparel
A delegation of company owners from Spanish community of Valencia will participate in a trade mission to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), from June 11-14, 2013. The trade mission is organized by the Internationalization and Textile ...
Tags: Textile
Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M Veerappa Moily has assured the weavers of Karnataka of full support from the Indian Government for the development of the sector and weavers' welfare. Speaking at the inauguration of golden ...
Tags: Textile